Post by Specialist290 on Feb 28, 2007 16:27:34 GMT -5
iamrisen said:
There are 210 NTs in Malton.There are also 15,000 zombies in Malton.
We get a third of those zombies, we can pack about 23 zombies into each NT. The other ten thousand zombies can continue to run around smashing cades and generally killing harmanz. Except those harmanz won't be getting revived.
I've already done the math. It works. Especially when you factor in alts. Assuming 70 Shackers in Urban Dead, if each one writes three alts, that's one zombie per NT. But we're going to have about a dozen or so alts each. In theory, the most alts a single player can operate is 25, to keep them far away enough from each other to prevent zerging. 70 players x 25 alts = 1750 zombies. 1750 zombies / 210 NTs = a little over 8 zombies per NT.
That's with just one group.
How many of those zombies are ferals? How many zombies are going to actually get the message? How many zombie players are actually going to be interested in such a plan? How many of those "zombies" are merely dead humans waiting for a revive?
There are also 15,000 survivors in Malton, so in theory we could crowd the same number of humans into an NT as well. Furthermore, assuming 15 dedicated revivers per building and otherwise ideal conditions (each survivor finds 3 needles in 15 AP and revives 3 humans, using the remaining AP to get to and from the RP), you could in theory revive almost 9,500 humans per day--more than half of the total survivor population. Even assuming a 1.1:1 ratio of revives/revivers (what I used for "realistic" figures when working on CERN), that's still 3,465 revives a day.
Also, if the humans concentrate on holding only half of those NTs (i.e. abandoning non-critical ones in the area), then it will double the concentration at those NTs while still providing the same rate of revivification.
Furthermore there's the psychological aspect of it. How many people do you know who are going to want to have dozens of characters stand in one place for an ephemeral advantage that does not directly provide them with any immediate benefit?