Capturing parts of the map

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@Killcontrol

• building faster in this area
• needing less food / water
• slightly faster movement speed in this area

I really don’t understand the point behind this; the reason players would capture parts of the map is to have a place that is easily defendable and/or offer unique advantages. (Farms have better soil, Powerplants provide electricty, Military outposts are easily defendable, etc)

@Killcontrol

There could be different objectives like killing an npc or capturing an smaller area by standing inside it

I’ve already made a post about this, but capturing places on the map should not be an easy fear, killing an NPC or standing in a capture circle will not do and is too easily exploitable. Instead players should have to complete a Horde beacon at the location to remove spawns from that location.

Yarr Summarized it pretty well

@Yarrrr

When you clear all spawners, you can have the option to restore the place with a special type of generator. However it will act as a horde beacon from the previous game; Setting one up and turning it on will initiate a ‘Wave survival’ kind of battle where enemies will go to your location constantly, losing if you get killed or the generator is destroyed. You win after 2 minutes of surviving the place (Maybe more for larger locations?)

When the process is finished, the location will completely cease all enemy spawns and the growths will slowly disappear. However that does not mean the stragglers that survived will perish as well. You gotta clear them all.

You can only claim 1 location and have it free of enemy spawns. You can place another in a different location, but only one of them will be active. Switching on a newer one on will disable the previous generator and that place will be infected once again (Any placeables will remain there and prone to damage from the Turned if near).

@Killcontrol

Maybe there could be an option where you can hire NPC’s which will defend the area

While a cool idea, programming that would be complete nightmare, it would just be better to stick with Sentries and other defenses anyways.