Makeshift safezones

[AtomSplinter]

Your post reminds me very well of this:

@AtomSplinter

Claiming areas should only work via base building, whether in already existing structures or from bare zero on the wild. To claim and area and avoid zombie spawning, players would just settle their utility and barricade buildables depending on the structure size and needs. E.g. to claim a house in a town, player(s) would need enough barricades for all doors and windows, and some utility storages/buildables, since they’d need a generator to power lights and existing utilities in the house (fridges, stoves, beds, sinks, etc., are already existant in most houses, meaning that structures that doesn’t have any of these would need at least 1 of those to be claimed).

Like this, any single structure could be a potential base. However, to avoid players of having +3 bases in any place they want, turned hordes should periodically attack bases and settlements according on it’s size or activity level; the bigger the base, the more activity it has (players living there, active utilities), and as a result, there’s more possibilites to be attacked by a horde.

Activity level is meant to prevent turned from offline raiding (abandoned bases might rather be reclaimed by someone else), and also it would be pretty hard or impossible to a single player to claim a big building, besides horde size should depend on turned population of the nearest towns/cities, so there’s pretty good balance.

All this said, there could be an advantage on taking a building as a base, but at the expense of having to protect it more often from the turned than if you built your own structure in the woods.

Anyway… I’m saying it again, just like I did back then: your idea of clearing out and securing buildings or towns with the help of NPC’s would be really neat in singleplayer, but exploitable and then unnecessary in multiplayer.

It has been talked about NPC settlements similar to the Coalition’s ship, as there can be different factions (max 3 or 4 per map imo) which the players could do progression with to attain reputation and gain some benefits from them in the latter, being these more trades, discounts, maybe daily free low-tier stuff, calling paid supply drops, med evacs, maybe combat assistance and even airstrikes. Said this, it’s good to remark that if apart from that we have stray NPC’s as companions that shows up when we clear up and secure a building, then the previous feature would be nearly pointless, would make even big maps be cluttered with so many characters and would allow almost everyone to go zerg with the half or even a third of the required players and effort, lol.

That’s why I’d like to see NPC partners just in singleplayer, which would be a really good addition to make it better. Teaming up, securing houses, buildings or even entire towns in multiplayer should be totally up to players.

@Aj_Gaming

Before it can become an actual safezone, it needs to have survived a horde without zombies breaking through. There are 2 ways to do this. Get a natural horde, or get a horde beacon/ sound maker to attract a horde.

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Now seriously, luring a horde on purpose to claim a building doesn’t seem intuitive, and it’s so 3.x imo. It’d be better if you just clear the building within and a certain area around it before claiming, as barricading and building all the utilities needed to do so will make some noise and attract more of the turned anyway.

@Aj_Gaming

Horde attacks on the safezone. So after the first horde, occasionaly there will be more hordes, which progressively get larger until the town falls. During a horde players can equip and use weapons to defend.

Proggressive horde growth is nice for games which have as base mechanic holding an outpost against incoming hordes. But for Unturned there will be already a horde mode implemented to comply that function, so I suggested it to work based on settlement size and player activity on default survival maps, so it’s ok if you don’t want to build that much for the sake of not having to face bigger and bigger hordes totally alone. You never know when you can f*ck up and neglect something important to keep your base, so the usual 10 zombies that raids you every day finally gets on your base, lul.

DISCLAIMER: only way I’d agree with hordes of turned attacking buildings once a day is making these last longer. Otherwise, it’d be annoying, so I suggest smart hordes periods or something alike.