Posts by Crispy Bacon

Sadly I totally missed yesterday's event (in Scotland atm, didn't check website) but I will make sure to have some free time next saturday

looks nice Albydo! might be a nice external chatroom

hmm, guess I'll check this out once the college year ends

a nice time you set there!

many still play in the evening hours of CET time, but if you are far away from that timezone then yeah, not much players

Quote from Sexy Soul Hunter

when zem got my bunker invaded i went ham on those zombies with the bowie knife and bone shivs xD and still the only thing that killed me that day were the mines and explosives of zem

such sad you had to miss the fun of Zem going rampage cause he locked you up in your own basement first xD

any news on the server?

Quote from Laurens

It was a lot of fun nonetheless. My "Trump" wall did work against the waves of invading Mexican zombies!

Until Zem Helms-Deeped it that is

starring:
Zem as the Flame-bearer
Laurens as Aragon
Zacherino as Legolas
Bacon as Theoden
Zassho as The Man Next to Theoden
Feng as Gimli
Spidey as The Flying Man (at 0.33)
Drakasin as The Old Scared Lady
Zombies as The Uruk-Hai

so,

Even though my login to the dedi sadly expired, which means I couldn't refresh the server and it became a great laggparty, I would say the event was a great succes!

A few stats:

between 2.200 and 2.300 zombies have been killed.
121 player-placed blocks have been destroyed by zombies.
822 player-placed blocks have been destroyed by other players.
41 playerkills have been made.
Zombies accounted for 7 of those playerkills.
309 player-placed blocks have been destroyed by explosions.

Most zombies were killed by: Spike_22
Most damage was dealth by: Spike_411
Most special zombies were killed by: Laurens
most bears were killed by: Zacherino
Most players were killed by: Zem*
Most playerdeaths: Zacherino*

*many players died on mines. The console doesn't tell to who the mines belonged, so those deaths are counted as playerdeaths but not as playerkills.

Most building materials were used by: Laurens
Most wasted building materials: Laurens
Most wood used: Laurens
Most Iron used: Zacherino
Most cobblestone used: Feng Mao
Most SOD used: Zassho (Sexy Soul Hunter)
most steel used: Feng Mao
Highest building: Crispy Bacon (22 blocks from sea level)
Lowest building: Zem (31 blocks below sea level)
Most daring structure: Drakasin
Smallest building: Spiderman
most spikes placed by: Zacherino
Most spikes upgraded: Crispy Bacon

Duration of the event: 8 hours.

Quote from Psycho Punk

Your talking about what? 7days?

wel yeah, this is the 7 days subforum after all

Dear survivors,

As most of you have probably seen, the new Alpha 15 is out.
To celebrate this, I'd like to host a little event to say goodbye to A14 and go to A15 in a good mood.

So, here's the deal.
Tomorrow, in the afternoon, I'll host a build-and-survive event on the old A14.7 server, where those that come shall both together and against one another try to survive the buggy zombs and nubish survivors of the 14th Alpha.
In the early evening, we'll go on a tour of rampage and destruction on a map that we'll probably never again play on.
Then, in the evening, we'll together open the 15th alpha of the game on a brand new map, with the epicness of finding one another and crafting that first damn stoneaxe before night falls.

During the A14 games, I'll give away 'prices' for A15 which could help people start up, or take them down in the case of a certain 999+_deaths player.

I know this is a rather short notice, but that is because I know players would like to play on A15 as soon as possible, so I cannot just postpone the server-update 2 weeks without being lynched

I hope to see you tomorrow, and if not I'm sure to meet you on the new alpha!

Post Scriptum:
In order to set your game back to alpha 14.7 go to Steam Library -> rightklick 7 Days to Die -> Properties (lowest option) -> Bêta's -> Alpha 14.7 Stable

Not sure when I'll start yet, probably between 15.00 and 16.00 CET (GMT+1)
I'll be hosting till late in the evening, so you can always join later (though you might miss out on prizes & fun!)

Quote from Z-zachary

Meele damage? Not to be rude or anything, but i think it is unnecessary to increase it, due to the fact that if you are good with meele, you do not need extra damage.
It is op enough as it is with or without upgrades. It pretty much just makes the ones with the highest upgrade level even more op and un-killable.

since the HP-regen timeout has been nullified an increase in melee-damage is nessesary to not render it utterly useless. Sure, you might still decapitate a zombie with 1 sledgehit, but when hammering a zombie with a plank or racket when that zombie regenerates 40hp/sec you aren't gonna make it far.

if we are derailing anyways:

We are very well aware that the system itself is not entirely balanced and advanced players can get so advanced the are more than overpowered.
This is also why we have issued resets in the past and also modified the mods several times. However, with a system based on EXP gain you'll always hold this problem.
That is also why I can ensure you that in the future a new reset will take place. When, I cannot say, but it will simply because that's the way we've managed the servers all these times.
A problem with frequent resets is however, that you will quickly loose the interest of the people playing it. After all, what is the use of a game when there is nothing to gain with it? Especially now that less and less people play zps and thus the amount of new members our community gets is dwindling, we prefer to make some edits and keep the regulars rather than forcing a reset in the hope of attracting new players on a dying game.

Now, I know there will be people that say "but when they whine over a reset they aren't true members anyways", and I guess they have the right to say that, but it is just their opinion, not a fact. People can be teamplayers, good talking company, active on the forums etc, but yet leave after a reset. Why? Because they simply don't feel like playing the game again. Not nessecarily because they lost everything, but also because they don't feel like starting anew. Does that suddenly make them egocentrical rulebreakers? no. They simply don't play the game any more, and eventually leave the community because they loose contact with most of the members. One of the very reasons we have hopped over to other games isn't to attract new people on those games, but to give players that are already a member a chance to still play with SoD people on SoD servers without needing to force themselves to play ZPS every time. The most important reasons these people eventually get closed out is not because they stop playing, but because other people regard them as 'leavers'. After all, non of the members that left after the last reset suddenly dropped their membership and stated they never wanted to see us again, but they slided towards inactivity when time passed by.

These are my five cents in this. If you don't like the second part, read it as the opinion of zps player Mikeforall instead of a statement from SoD Community Manager Crispy Bacon.

hello.
Ofcourse you can, just visit the bugtracker and post it there

the problem isn't as much the regendelay itself, but the combination of the regen and the high max-hp generation.
Perhaps split it into 2 upgrades, if possible: One that gives direct hp regen (and thus is very expensive and gives a low regen/sec) and one that gives a regen after the zombie hasn't been hit for an x-amount of seconds.

Alternitively we can nerve the regen itself or even reverse the change.

what state is the map currently in? some screenshots would help

Edit: Sankyu for the screens

So All Love Telephone?

I think everyone here knows where you are comming from Bizerco.
As Xerox stated, doing something over a long period of time will eventually get boring. Many people here, including myself, have put zps activity on a minimum or even taken long breaks for a couple of months in the past.
It isn't rly a 'taboo' as you state, it is simply that people don't rly talk about it on the open forums. If you look at the inactivity reports in the membersection however, it becomes clear that many people have experienced this.

About what you state regarding the ranking: it depends wether you mean the actual ranklist or the mods.
Most people I often play with don't care much for their rank and just play to have fun with their friends. Having a ranking system might help enhance the fun, but isn't nessesary.
as for the SoD-mods: wel, many of our members don't play much on other servers, which probably says enouph. Without the mod, quite some peeps here would probably stop with zps or put activity on a minimum.

Preparing for the first wave

Preparing for the final wave

The event was a huge succes. Many zombies, hornets and players found their dead, the latter sometimes by their own teammates.
I'll post some screenies later on, and perhaps the others have some too

The top-5 is as follows:

1: Zac-Ireno
2: Leo
3: Acy
4: Zach
5: Kaisaschnitt

Congratz, the 5 of you will recieve a small boost on the A15 map when it comes out

A honourable mention to Zem, who got killed by zeds before he could even reach the event terrain
And ofcourse also a mention for Spidey and Silentposeidon, who might have been overshadowed by the top, but still did a great job