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I started playing zs because I had no life after moving across the pacific 5 years ago. I kept playing because this is one very few game mode that I was willing to specialize in; due to the fact a lot of ttt and jailbreak servers were infested with power-hungry 15 year old admins and abuses. Though I departed from hg zs last december because I grew extremely tired of people waiting for high tier guns and do absolutely nothing - which obviously included hauling props and spawn camping. Why am I still checking the forum then? Maybe I still care about the server that I once had fun in. heh.

This post reminds me the cruel reality that ever since king crab received his reduced hitbox buff, they jump through like 7/10 of my older designed cades. Lots of fun seeing myself and 3 other players die with the entire cade intact and basically unscratched, because kings are beefy and (since the buff) hard to land consistent hits. Think I should apply for an official shitcade license from idk where caz I just can't make my shitcades crab proof.

Nicely detailed post. Firewall should learn from this guy. I haven't been playing too much these days because of those 5 pages essays and public speech non-sense. However at a glimpse I also found the difficulty system kind of broken. Yes I certainly did not try out everything due to time constraints, but I will still whip down my 2 cents here. ----- Porter already illustrated the situation properly so I will simply add what I think can use some attention. High Win Rate =/= Should be more Difficult As much as the system might make sense, I would like to point out the server is certainly not always full. There are a handful of factors that contribute to late games being easy, which inflates win rate. [spoiler=TLDR prevention spoiler tab] -Even if human:zombie ratio remain constant to say 2:1, it is much less intimidating to see 4 zombies charging than 20. The ZS instinct already sealed in our mind (at least for me 4 years) trained us that we should turn around and run if we feel overwhelmed. Which lead to poor defense in high population compared to low population. -Props hp are not scaled means low population = 3 zombies vs 1000hp shelf; compared to high popluation = 20 zombies vs 1000hp shelf. If repairer and shooter are at constant ratio, then low population is certainly easier. -Less incentive to afk for wave 4 weapons because individual performance is more important in low population. -4 zombies feel weaker than 20; discouraging those who were picked as initial zombie from playing. AFK time bois! -Low skilled kids and squeakers are in bed, deflating player population compared to skill level. Some of these factors are not something we can fix (like ZS instinct to run away from large amount of zombies despite there are also more humans around), therefore low population will continue to inflate win rate; hence contribute to the fact the difficulty system is currently flawed because it does not seem to take time and population, as well as the immeasurable skill level to consideration. I am not sure about if point rate changes when higher difficulty is inflicted against humans; but from what I heard human deal less damage in high difficulty. Which certainly can bring back to the topic on some weapons being under powered and too hard to profit off of. [spoiler=TLDR prevention spoiler tab] So yeah that's what I think about the difficulty system. The system is currently flawed and will certainly help killing the server if human get wrecked even more than all these poor games we are already having. The new generation players simply won't handle this well.

Lord Atro illustrated the problem with weapon quota when I suggested it in 4th September, 2015. Replace boomstick with Photon in the sentence and you will (pretty much) hear his wise words on this issue. lol And I agree with him btw

This idea is not without merit; as it can help those numskull zombies who cannot listen to know what props their team is focusing on. However do we need that much more smart zombies when humans are already losing a majority of games?

While the idea is potentially interesting, please notice health is a very strong asset for human that should really cost more. (e.g. facerolling a nightmare; pushing out etc.) I am not opposing neat ideas like this one, but free zero price hp handout is probably too strong. Make humans fill it up or something is perhaps more balanced. On the another hand, there are often idiots people picking up med power without the medkit refusing to give them out while the team is dying; this can be a good way to suck them back out too. It's just like when you pick up smg ammo without a smg, you fill the ammo to a turrent and benefit yourself + the owner.

With nail price decreased to 1/5 of what we had (and resupply actually gives you nail), nobody really should have problem quad nailing by themselves provided you played more than half a game or participated in just one ze map session. Days when I and many other caders go like -300 for buying hammers over and over are gone.

144k; meanwhile my buddy who needs serious convincing to even get on for a round or two still asks me to share points such that we have the same number. And yes I always give him free points so he kinda sticks around lol "communism is good" - that leeching dude