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What the hell? Whenever I get raided a new person or whatever gets in my base and asks people questions. Is that new or something?

No, that's been there since long before I worked on the game. It's pretty rare though, only relatively recently have you had any real incentive to wait out sieges.

may i suggest make the sight radius be a cone or triangle in the beginning when you have one survivor
or if it's possible make the light of sight not go through the wall block?

I don't want to implement directional vision, since it's a significant amount of work to do so, and it would only really make sense when you have one person. I'm not a huge fan of directional vision in these sorts of games, since I think it implies the character has poor situational awareness and isn't looking around. I'd need to add buttons to let you turn around in place without taking time, and then that would add several extra keystrokes for the player to do what's a very simple action in real life.

Light is already blocked by walls right now, but it's (intentionally) on the generous side when calculating what squares you can see.

also please please move the add a space between the name and weapon column
i randomned christopher richardsWeapons i know it's just cosmetic sorry

I think this really comes down to "Christopher" and "Richardson" both being too long for the space provided; it's hard to squeeze a name like that in while still making room for everything else in the game. I'll shrink those and a couple other long (10+ letter) names, using similar substitutes like "Chris" and "Richards".

The main changes are skills, recruitment, and jobs for people who aren't headed out with the raiding party. The scavenging job is very powerful early on, but will drop off in effectiveness as you use it more, since your scavengers will have a harder time finding unlooted locations. Currently, there's no risk to scavengers. I'm planning to change that.

The changes are pretty substantial here, and saves aren't compatible with the previous release. I'm still planning to have more save compatibility between releases than with LCS, but I elected to not spend the extra effort of converting the old Rick Grimes saves to the new random character stuff.



Download:
http://www.jonathansfox.com/ZSS/zss_python_2_27_2013.zip

Changelog:
- Added recruitment
- Added scavenging, basic tending to injuries
- Added skills
- Changed attributes
- Changed starting situation to a much more spartan beginning
- Increased sight radius
- Prohibited enemies from spawning within sight of the player
- Juggled item spawn probabilities, increased water drop slightly, added a couple new weapons
- Used combat skills to influence hit/miss in combat
- Made you autopickup items underfoot even when you're attacking

for some reason i cant kidnap anyone without it sayin "all of the targets are to dangerous" or I just straight up kill em.There has to a way if you have martial arts skill or something you can just knock them out.

This happens when they have weapons. Certain targets, like soldiers and police officers, will always be armed and can't be kidnapped on site unless they're badly injured. Other targets that don't always have weapons may be carrying at random; this is especially common in Nightmare Mode, where many people carry guns in public.

If you need to kidnap someone who is normally too well-armed, you can drop a pickup line and then try to kidnap them on the date. They won't bring their weapons along on the date, so you have a much better chance of success there. Dangerous targets may still cause you problems, though; don't expect police to always submit to kidnapping, even if you're armed and they aren't.

Surprisingly enough, the game itself gives "plot armor" to the founder by reducing all damage to 1/4.

This subtle benefit is actually really important to making combat-based founders viable.

here's the code:

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 </armortype>

    <armortype idname="ARMOR_LCS_UNIFORM">
        <make_difficulty>5</make_difficulty>
        <make_price>500</make_price>
        <armor>
            <body>10</body>
            <head>10</head>
        <legs>10</legs>
            <arms>10</arms>
            </armor>
           
        <body_covering>
            <head>true</head>
            <arms>true</arms>
            <legs>true</legs>
        </body_covering>
        <name>Rebal Armour</name>
        <shortname>LCS</shortname>
        <fencevalue>250</fencevalue>
        <interrogation>
            <basepower>6</basepower>
            <assaultbonus>4</assaultbonus>
        </interrogation>
        <professionalism>9</professionalism>
        <stealth_value>1</stealth_value>
        <appropriate_weapon>WEAPON_SMG_MP5</appropriate_weapon>
        <appropriate_weapon>WEAPON_CARBINE_M4</appropriate_weapon>
        <appropriate_weapon>WEAPON_AUTORIFLE_M16</appropriate_weapon>
        <appropriate_weapon>WEAPON_SEMIRIFLE_AR15</appropriate_weapon>
    </armortype>

1. In your quoted section, there's an extra </armortype> tag at the start. This could just be part of the previous entry, but make sure you didn't add an extra one of these in the actual file when you were copying and pasting.

2. In the <armor></armor> section, you added <legs>10</legs> and <arms>10</arms>. The correct way to do this is to create a single <limbs>10</limbs>, rather than have separate sections for leg and arm armor. See ARMOR_HEAVYARMOR for an example:

    <armortype idname="ARMOR_HEAVYARMOR">
        <make_difficulty>17</make_difficulty>
        <make_price>5000</make_price>
        <armor>
            <body>10</body>
            <head>8</head>
            <limbs>4</limbs>
        </armor>
        <body_covering>
            <head>true</head>
        </body_covering>
        <name>Heavy Ceramic Armor</name>
        <shortname>HeavyBodyArmor</shortname>
        <fencevalue>400</fencevalue>
        <interrogation>
            <basepower>2</basepower>
        </interrogation>
        <professionalism>1</professionalism>
    </armortype>
Let me know whether that fixes the issue!

i fount a glitch when i was playing when i get a certian amount of money it goes negetive. This glitch makes it hard to be rich.

Due to the way numbers are represented internally on computers, almost all games either cap your money or have a bug where it wraps around and goes negative. In LCS, you'd need more than 2 billion dollars to run into this bug.

I know I should be concerned about the fact that this can happen, but I'm honestly more astounded that you reached that point. How did you do that?