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What's your Apocalypse plan?
Topic Started: Jul 21 2010, 02:23 PM (12,809 Views)
Zoroaster
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Feb 20 2011, 08:14 AM
Swords- as long as they cna cut things it doesn't matter what type they are.
Actually, it does. You want them to keep going for a long time.

Anyway, you probably want a thick one. Like a longsword. But not too heavy that it's exhausting.
if they were "bio" zombies - you'd want a good durable hazmat suit with a full hood too - a single splat of blood in your eye or up your nostril and you're probably infected...
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I would care if London burnt. :(

Anyway, do zombies drown?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Maybe not, considering how rotten there lungs probably are. But then again, drowning is usually caused by swallowing water and then sinking.
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I reckon that the picture lamna posted of that soldier would probably end up the best rolemodel for a soldier in the zombie apocalypse. The bolt action rifle would force the soldier to pace his shots and conserve ammo, also ammo for a gun such as a springfield is pretty plentiful. THe Dao would be extremely useful as well. Also for protection you could probably layer thick cotton and wool coats on, although i guess this would only work if the weather is cold.
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I'm all for it ....

Zombies would love the South Eastern Seaboard of Australia - be very difficult to keep their numbers down...

Would have to cut off everything from Newcastle to the South, and everything from Adelaide to the East...

And stop them at the dog fence, the rabbit fence -

heck, just nuke the eastern seaboard, I don't care - it's 3500 km away from me...

Which is why you'd be a hated warlord and I'd be Duke of all the West.

You would not want a hazmat suit, they are heavy and restrictive, a face mask and goggles would probably be enough.

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Which is why you'd be a hated warlord and I'd be Duke of all the West.


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The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.

It's not a popularity contest :OD: - I don't mind being universally hated, as long as I am universally feared, and I can gather some bossoms into mine... :OD:

I'll grant you your position of Duke of the West...
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That's sort of one of the reasons I stopped playing Spore...

When planets became unruly, I'd just nuke the mothers - the whole planet - and then all my allies would desert me - then the Grox would attack with a fleet of 8 ships or so, and I'd only have little old me, one space ship - WHAT A crap game, can I never get a fleet of just my loyal (but very frightened) sub-servient minions? No! Never!

That is what sucked about Spore - how come the Grox can have 50,000,000 attack ships, but my pan-planetary empire can only ever have one single boring spaceship... WRONG!

I wanted my Spore galaxy to bend to my will, not some Hippy "awww man, why can't we all just get along" crap! When I found pre-sapient organisms on a planet, I'd hunt them down till I could settle it with one of my colonies... If I could be that nasty, what's so wrong with nuking whole planets?
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Anyway, I thought it was VERY chauvinistic of Spores developers to impose their morality on me, the customer!
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Yeah i tried to make a race on spore with an aim of wiping out all sapients it comes across... it didnt end well
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I never had that problem because the space stage would only work for about 20 minutes.

And fear is not a very good way to hold onto power. Well, not internal fear. Fear of the zombies/raiders/cultists/octodogs/refugees is handy for pushing people towards you, but a reign of terror rarely ends well. That way you are just setting yourself up for a coup, someone will always be ready to stab you in the back and the people will support it, because hey, he can't be worse than you right?

And after the end it's not like you can just empty the treasury and fly off somewhere that will give you asylum. You're on your own when the betrayal comes, and you'll end up hanging from a lamppost.

You need some carrot as well as stick, especially when you're dealing with people who're used to real democracy and other luxuries.
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I think Spore's way of doing it is realistic. Who wants to be friends with the guys who nuke their own people, especially if they don't rely on that friendship for protection/trade?

Aside from the Grox
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I didn't nuke people, i did that gravity thing where you destroy all civilisation on a planet, i think it looked cooler.
And yeah i tried to be evil in spore, i basicly eventuallly got wiped out by the goddam Grox.
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So we're doing alien invasions now?

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In Spore? before it stopped working?

I made friends and chose enemies depending on how nice they were in first contact. My allies tended to die.
So i went around missiling Grox.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I waste money and lives on trying to make the milita guys my friends.
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