New game mode: last person standing

[aeou]

Awesome game, but sometimes I wish I could try to rid the city of all zombies and make it safe again. Unfortunately, this is currently not possible, because there is no way to limit the influx of zombies.

Therefore I suggest a new mode that puts the city in total quarantine:
- 0% daily zombie increase.
- No refugees, gangs, bikers, national guard, "Those guys", etc. showing up at any point other than the very beginning (I imagine the first few days will be mayhem with all these groups fighting zombies and each other .
- No supply drops (maybe or maybe not - not sure about this).
- 100% starting zombie population.
- A counter that shows remaining zombies (either for the whole game, or for the district you are in.)

(Instead of a game mode, these could also be configurable in the game options.)

This mode has clear winning and losing conditions (you kill all the zombies or you die) and would open up some strategic considerations. Do you hide until you are stronger before you start killing zombies or start immediately? If you wait, they will be stronger (if you use evolution) or they will be more (other people dying). And if you wait too long you will die of starvation before killing all of them, because there is finite food in the city. Do you hide food and supplies for your own use at the risk of other people dying and becoming zombies, or do you share them so the living can help you by killing zombies?

I think it would be fun: try to be the last person standing in a safe but desolate city, or get some followers and pretend you will be repopulating the world.

[nope]

No

This isn't a Arcade game, besides, it isn't exciting to know that you can kill a certain number of zombies to win the game

Another factor, is that the zombies are made to be strong in NUMBERS, and slaughtering zombies are ridiculously easy, grab a shotgun(Rifle, if you like), fill your backpack with Bullets and go around town shooting everything not human, if you have enough ammo you can pretty much kill every zombie in town, it's the Reinforcements that keep the horde going, cut the line off and the entire town will become a zombie-less place very soon

And besides, how do we not know that the entire world is in turmoil? with nearly every single town on earth quarantined(Perhaps military bases like A-51 might become their base of operations?), it won't be that hard for things to break the quarantine

[thebobster]

I think this is a great idea. I honestly had a similar idea for a game like that where no new characters would be added, and you could clear out all the zombies. As an addition to this idea (and an idea from my own game), I would recommend that after 4 or so weeks (programmable in options), the National Guard would come to help clear the rest of the zombies (and possibly rescue the humans).

However I realize there's one major problem in that NPC's never travel between districts (without the player), so one district could be full of zombies and the one next to it ruled by humans with no one noticing. Therefore, having NPC's move between districts would have to be added first.