Proposing a restoration of old items to the game.

[Cruiser]

Let's be honest, I have no idea where to put this, but this seems as good as any other place.


I play a lightly modded MP server (most settings are vanilla, but we had the admin increase bullet stacks to 300, max level is 300 and we have respawning cars on the server, which is the only mod installed). We also had the owner enabled the log spikes for passive fortification against screamers.

I myself, love the farming aspect, unfortunately, that also comes with some "problems". Me and my friend, have been playing since A10.4, so we have a great understanding of the game.

Now, to my proposals.

The return of the lead and brass ingots. I know, some people are having a hard time getting brass and finding other key materials, but that is simply becuse they don't know how to abuse the game itself. There are tons of sources for brass. cars, inhouse radiators, aircons, lamps etc etc. Not forgetting Wasteland Treasures volume 5 (brass from doors).

I have included a screenshot of my current stockpile (yes, I said stockpile) of brass, which has, in lack of a better word, come to the amount of stupid. We get regular bullets from missions, we smelt those to get casings, and then we craft the AP we need (7.62 and shotgun) in bulk (stacks of 100). So far, I managed to have a permanent upkeep of a reserve of 13 stacks of shotgun AP ammo and a full crate of 7.62 AP ammo. all in stacks. And then there is the "overflow" of bullets that I smelted into good old fashioned brass. That now almost fulls a writable crate. I added SS of both types of ammo we use.
And no, nothing we have, is admin powered. all is farmed the legit way. with legit tools and weapons.

Current day on the server is 216, daytime is 18/6 and spans over 2 IRL hours.


What I would love to get back, is the brass ingot. "Cooking" something like 1.000 brass and 50 clay into 1 ingot (at the cost of fuel and clay), would be awesome. or just have it at the same "cost" as forged iron, would be nice. Even the lead ingot would be usefull, as the only thing you can do to lead, is either 6k stacks or pack them into stacks (6k pr stack).



Regards

[Rotor]

Yikes, in my best run through I never had more that 5k brass standing around.

[BFT2020]

3 hours ago, Cruiser said:

What I would love to get back, is the brass ingot. "Cooking" something like 1.000 brass and 50 clay into 1 ingot (at the cost of fuel and clay), would be awesome. or just have it at the same "cost" as forged iron, would be nice. Even the lead ingot would be usefull, as the only thing you can do to lead, is either 6k stacks or pack them into stacks (6k pr stack)

 

Wouldn't be hard to mod that into the game actually.  And you wouldn't need a new icon for it, just reuse the forged iron icon and give it a brass color custom tint.

 

2 hours ago, Rotor said:

Yikes, in my best run through I never had more that 5k brass standing around.

 

I usually process them in the forge and then into casings, so my playthroughs are similar to what you see even though I never throw brass away (though I don't think I ever been hard up on brass to require smelting down dukes either).

[FramFramson]

Yeah a few basic resources that don't have stack forms could really use them. Dirt and sand, I'm looking at you.

[The_Great_Sephiroth]

On 9/4/2023 at 4:03 PM, Rotor said:

Yikes, in my best run through I never had more that 5k brass standing around.

I get more brass than ANYTHING by a WIDE margin. I have three forges at 30k brass each and a safe almost full of it. I also get FAR more 7.62 ammo than any other kind.

[Riamus]

Brass is one of those things that Barry greatly depending on playstyle.  Someone who scraps everything they find will have a ton of it, while those who mostly loot and don't scrap much will struggle. Though, by day 216 on 2 hour days, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't have a ton of everything.  Still, stacking brass and other resources that don't have stacks is a good idea.  It doesn't affect gameplay and just reduces the number of crates you need, so there isn't any reason not to.  Stacks are probably good enough, though.

[BFT2020]

@The_Great_Sephiroth @Riamus @Cruiser @FramFramson

 

If you desire, something I threw together real quick

 

https://github.com/BFT2020/A21LeadBrassIngots.git

 

You can only use them to craft ammo components with the recipes I added (use the workbench).  The amounts are affected by Advanced Engineering perk like forged iron and forged steel.  Ratios are just a stab and can easily be tweaked

[The_Great_Sephiroth]

I suppose I should put my mods on GitHub too. I keep them on my PC and Google Drive, but that would simplify things.