A Long Time Coming

Noah is spot on when he says the game has changed. I stopped following the Mall Tour after about 3 malls this year because it was pointless (as a zombie btw). Any amount of coordination on the zombie side is enough to take down a mall in days. Humans charging into battle is absolutely retarded now. About all you can do is rebuild. The second thing to look at is numbers. Look at the total Malton population now: 26,000. There are 13,000 standing survivors, so that's 130 survivors per suburb. Compare that to the RRF or the MOB. You would have to cram the statistical average of an entire suburb into one building just to have equal numbers to what an organized zombie group can bring to the table. Zombie groups have done a much better job maintaining membership levels during this long slow decline than human groups have. So you are left without the kind of organized, nomadic human groups that can make a real difference in a siege. 25 Rangers reinforcing a mall with 90 total inhabitants won't make a real big difference in a defense against the MOB or RRF. It wouldn't even make much difference if barricade blocking was removed completely. So what would Kevin need to do to fix this and restore some semblance of the "Glory Days"? First would be to nerf cade blocking, make it start at 10 zombies and slowly increase effectiveness from there. Second would be much more drastic. I think he should eliminate several rows of suburbs, shrinking Malton to 8x8. This crunch would force fill suburbs that would then provide additional mass that may allow some suburbs to offer resistance against zombie groups. Another option would be to somehow bring user levels back up to 45,000, but I don't see that happening. I hope Kevin has something else lined up to pay his bills, because UD doesn't have much life to it, maybe another year.


That was really retarded sounding.