Scavenging in WotLD
Interesting discussion on the forum. Your opinion?
http://forum.worldofthelivingdead.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2247
With the reset approaching, we decided to do a retrospective on the infocards which have been available during closed beta. Infocards are an essential tool for making sure your survivors are as powerful as possible. Most give a hefty bonus to combat or survival skills. Others even confer a bonus on all survivors. First in the series is Infocard #9 “Stay hydrated to live”, which highlights how important it is to find liquids in World of the Living Dead.
We’ll be revealing some new infocards at random in this series, so stay tuned!
December 8 Update
Hunger and thirst deaths are back, but the two of us have done extensive testing to make sure there won’t be a repeat of the widespread carnage that resulted last time. We’ve also made some other small tweaks and changes to other areas based on our tests - including missions, the tutorial and visibility - and tried to deal with the main bugs that have been interfering with play.
To cushion the hardship of survivors again facing death from starvation and dehydration, we’re resetting all health (injury points) to max and also resetting Hunger and Thirst levels to zero. This gives everyone a chance to find supplies and assess the situation.
- Survivors will suffer an injury point loss after 24 hours at max Thirst, or 96 hours at max Hunger.
- Hunger and Thirst will no longer penalize injury recovery rate, but being at max Hunger or max Thirst will completely prevent injury recovery. The error which was making Fatigue and Fear not recover due to max Hunger or Thirst has already been removed.
- Only a single notification will display when one or more of your characters is at max Hunger and/or Thirst and you click to check recovery status.
- Test subject delivery missions are now only specific as to the Blood Type required by NECRA researchers.
- Scavenge location visibility has been increased to 750 meters for all users.
- Only one scavenge location - the Red Cross Tent - is created for the tutorial. This now has its own map marker and the yellow exclamation marks are no longer used.
- A bug which was generating NECRA missions at excessive distances has been fixed - however, some missions are still being generated with errors and we’ll try to deal with these soon.
- New player squad icons are hidden from the map until they are level 5 (at which time they can be attacked). Lower level players can see squads belonging to players over level 5.
- An existing route on map load was showing incorrect end marker - a standard Google maps marker. This should be fixed.
- Armor filter should now work on the manage inventory pages.
- PvP attacks should now generate a notification as well as incrementing the attacks count and adding the yellow border if no existing attacks.
- All membership options removed and replaced with “SCUGS Upgrade”.
After listening to your feedback, we took the decision to remove the three membership options. We agreed that the SP boost and other features of the membership packages were too powerful so have replaced them with a single SCUGS Upgrade option which lasts 30 days.
The SCUGS Upgrade can be bought with NC. This makes it possible for players who complete offers to get the most important aspects of the interface upgrades. Thanks to everyone who supports development of WotLD by buying NECRA Credits - we really couldn’t have made it this far without you!
You can comment on the changes over at
NECRA infocard #32 Improvise your defense
The humble crowbar is very useful for crushing skulls in http://worldofthelivingdead.com/
National Emergency Control & Relief Agency (NECRA) infocard of the day.
#16 Watch for the signs
National Emergency Control & Relief Agency (NECRA) infocard of the day.
#35 Stick together or die
NECRA is the last hope for humanity in the online game World of the Living Dead. The WotLD closed beta is set in a Los Angeles County filled with over 9 million zombies. Before the outbreak reached critical levels, NECRA distributed infocards to help citizens deal with the living dead.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently set out guidelines on how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse.
There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.
Assistant Surgeon General Ali S. Khan issued the following advice to US citizens: ”sit down with your family and come up with an emergency plan. This includes where you would go and who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your door step”.
“Plan where you would go and multiple routes you would take ahead of time so that the flesh eaters don’t have a chance!”
The CDC is obviously trying to get people to think about any emergency, but it’s great to see that preparations have been made for the rise of the living dead.
If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak. CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or international partners dealing with a zombie infestation. This assistance might include consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient management and care, tracking of contacts, and infection control (including isolation and quarantine). It’s likely that an investigation of this scenario would seek to accomplish several goals: determine the cause of the illness, the source of the infection/virus/toxin, learn how it is transmitted and how readily it is spread, how to break the cycle of transmission and thus prevent further cases, and how patients can best be treated. Not only would scientists be working to identify the cause and cure of the zombie outbreak, but CDC and other federal agencies would send medical teams and first responders to help those in affected areas (I will be volunteering the young nameless disease detectives for the field work).
But it’s also clear that the CDC is far behind the National Emergency Control and Relief Agency (NECRA) in World of the Living Dead, which has much more drastic measures in place for ensuring the survival of humanity…
NECRA infocard of the day from World of the Living Dead.
#21 Chop ‘til they drop suggests the use of a fire axe as an improvised weapon for killing zombies.
