u/CrystieV

I'm playing an Ottoman game, and I was sieging Constantinople. They were holding out very, very effectively. But, I did starve them.

... Then nothing happened. The population of Constantinople starved. They lost like 10,000 pops before I finally got smart, and sieged enough unrelated land to get 100% war score and force a surrender on the empire as a whole.

Historically, the point of a siege was to starve out the defenders. At a certain point, there would be nothing they could do but to surrender. One of the siege ticks is even food shortage, but it has nothing to do with actual food!

I assume the devs are working on it, among other things. But this just struck me as very odd.

They're like little gift bags! Oh, +50% noble power? How about give me twenty ducats.

I specifically seek them out sometimes even after sieging a province capital. The money is useful, but I also just enjoy popping the little pimples off the countryside. Even better if I'm taking the land, but if I'm not? Little gift from me to the AI. Enjoy your de-powered nobles, you're welcome.

Was worried that the cows might squash me. Didn't pay attention.

Five zeds piled out of the barn and stunlocked me.

Goodbye, Lumberjack who cleared out all of urban Irvington. 3500 kills.

This time, I'm trying out veteran in March Ridge. Objective 1, escape March Ridge. (That's a joke, I do want to clean it up a lot first- there was a survivor house like right next to where I spawned with lots of ammo. Already used all the 357, 45, and 12 gauge.)

Hey there! Currently live in Louisville, but am probably relocating at some point further east so that my girlfriend does not have such a long commute to her job in Aurora.

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I love Louisville, I really do. But it's a 45 minute drive for her, and that's just not good.

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What I want, really, is just a place where I can walk to a grocery store, a library, and a park, including at night, without much trouble.

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It would be a perk if there was some transit too; and of course, affordability is a concern. We're not poor, but we aren't wealthy, either. I've been thinking about maybe Westminster, although I've also seen arguments for Aurora proper, Wheat Ridge, Thornton, and even just the city of Denver itself.

I should note as well, we rent and have no kids. No plans for kids either. Being family-friendly is not a requirement, just friendly to living there.

So I like to play fast and loose. I have respawn and transmission off, but my hubris is plenty to get me killed regardless.

This playthrough, I was going nomad. No permanent bases, no home, just killing as many zeds as possible and pursuing some wacky goals. (Collecting the entire Spiffo plushie set, for example.)

Today was the day I was going to clear out the town center of Brandenburg. Never been there, but oh well, I'm sure using a molotov will be fine! (It was not fine.)

Got the zeds burning as they should, I was looping in and out of them setting more on fire, knocking them down with my fire axe, firing off a shotgun to lure more in, having a grand old time.

Then I noticed.

I had set a police station on fire.

Well that was not part of the plan! Just as a little experiment, I tried going in through a burned wall, see if I could get to the armory. Unfortunately, the hallways were full of flaming zombies, and caution dictated I could not go in further. However, instead I tried barnstorming the front. I hacked down many zombies, but... then one shoved me. Somewhere, somehow, it pushed me down.

Into a roaring flame.

I got up immediately with my character screaming and ran outside to look for grass, but alas!

The burn was on my neck.

I died in about ten seconds, on the street. Looking at the sky, rather than the carnage.

No zombie could eat me, because my corpse was on fire.

So ends the nomadic lumberjack. He killed 1500 zeds *before* this debacle, and then set the rest of Brandenburg ablaze.