Yeah I'm still kind of experimenting with building forms. Those "cages" made entirely of bars are a pain to snap correctly. It's far easier if you make the corners, at least, be the solid blocks, but that limits line of sight. The bars are relatively expensive, too.
There should also probably be an outer wall and an inner keep... maybe make the outer wall out of stone with the idea being that as they breach it, the breaches become kill zones with fire from the inner keep, and it won't be costly to make the wall out of cobblestone. I was going for:
Big enough that the boomers won't blow up too much of the structure too easily
Less "cage" and more "box with windows" to lower the cost and make it easier to build
Tall enough that someone standing on an upper floor hopefully won't die or lose their floor to boomers
Also have to figure out the strength vs cost aspects of some of these building materials. You can build metal and then upgrade it to concrete but I think you can also just make the iron rebar blocks and put the concrete on that and I think it's the same end result? Might be a big waste of time and resources doing iron blocks, especially if you're going to upgrade them to concrete (although iron is easier to mass build).
Also really need large flat areas to build on. In some future build it might actually be worth just knocking down an existing building and taking over that flat spot. I guess you could use the cement mixer to create gravel blocks or whatever to make a flat area but I'd bet demolition is faster. You could use an auger and probably chop any normal structure down in a few minutes just by going around the base and blowing up all the supports.
I also think everyone should carry shotguns as a reserve weapon, at least. Seems like we can produce a lot of that and in a sloppy fire environment they are pretty ammo efficient.
I think we came close to winning that last purge. As far as I could tell, the boomer that killed Dophuz and I was the last one.
There should also probably be an outer wall and an inner keep... maybe make the outer wall out of stone with the idea being that as they breach it, the breaches become kill zones with fire from the inner keep, and it won't be costly to make the wall out of cobblestone. I was going for:
Big enough that the boomers won't blow up too much of the structure too easily
Less "cage" and more "box with windows" to lower the cost and make it easier to build
Tall enough that someone standing on an upper floor hopefully won't die or lose their floor to boomers
Also have to figure out the strength vs cost aspects of some of these building materials. You can build metal and then upgrade it to concrete but I think you can also just make the iron rebar blocks and put the concrete on that and I think it's the same end result? Might be a big waste of time and resources doing iron blocks, especially if you're going to upgrade them to concrete (although iron is easier to mass build).
Also really need large flat areas to build on. In some future build it might actually be worth just knocking down an existing building and taking over that flat spot. I guess you could use the cement mixer to create gravel blocks or whatever to make a flat area but I'd bet demolition is faster. You could use an auger and probably chop any normal structure down in a few minutes just by going around the base and blowing up all the supports.
I also think everyone should carry shotguns as a reserve weapon, at least. Seems like we can produce a lot of that and in a sloppy fire environment they are pretty ammo efficient.
I think we came close to winning that last purge. As far as I could tell, the boomer that killed Dophuz and I was the last one.