Note, I am basing this idea on the universe of The Walking Dead...
If you had a large enough group of survivors, what about barricading yourself into a small shopping mall? All of the doors open outward, so blockading them wouldn't be that tough. You have a huge variety of supplies in all of the different stores. You would have any number of different water facilities, plus a variety of kitchens to cook in. You would need to forage for food, but you need to do that anyway no matter where you are.
You also have huge parking lots around them to provide some measure of security with a free fire zone.
It's not bunkering yourself into a prison, but if you have a large enough group to provide a regular rotation of guards and workers, it might provide a solid tiny microcosm somewhere to survive for a while. Depending on how ambitious you get, you could even try a heavy skylight area as a small farming area.
Am I just completely off base here?
All the ones I've seen have multiple entrances, distant from each other, that are pretty large areas covered wholly with glass panes.
All those entrances made of glass would cause two concerns:
1) The Zs being able to see people inside, and therefore probably becoming more excited/active regarding getting in to feed on their sweet sweet entrails. Attracting them more, in general, and giving them an obvious avenue of attack.
2) Glass being broken more easily. While plate glass doesn't shatter in a stiff breeze, the chances increase with more of the above attention and is still highly likely to become a problem than the deadites banging on some outer wall through which they cannot see.
The survivors holed up in a shopping mall in Dawn of the Dead.
Quote from: mirth on August 11, 2015, 01:42:16 PM
The survivors holed up in a shopping mall in Dawn of the Dead.
Yeah, I was gonna say!
Rick puts it best when he says "eventually they get in", period. Lots of advantages to a shopping mall, but the disadvantages (too much glass, too many entry points, a beacon for human looters) would outweigh them IMHO.
Right there's Dawn of the Dead and there's also the [awesome] mall level of Left 4 Dead 2.
Quote from: Gusington on August 11, 2015, 07:10:11 PM
Right there's Dawn of the Dead and there's also the [awesome] mall level of Left 4 Dead 2.
I love that level....damn fire alarms!
That game gave me heart failure in many different ways :)
Quote from: Gusington on August 11, 2015, 07:34:41 PM
That game gave me heart failure in many different ways :)
Man up and stop "teeheeing." You might fare better.
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I would think a mall would attract survivors. That might be a good or bad thing. Where the survivors go, so too do most of the zombies.
Depending on the mall, there's a lot of square footage to cover. You'd have to have a large group to effectively cover it all, and a large group means a huge drain on supplies. Also, once power and water services go out for good, those cooking facilities (not to mention toilets and such) will all go buh-bye. The interior of the mall would be difficult to navigate, unless there's huge skylights (which most have), but that would also mean access points too.
Though if the mall has a gaming store, I'm all in. ;D
Tee Hee
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 12, 2015, 02:57:01 PM
Tee Hee
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Tee Hee!!! Tee Hee!!! Tee Hee!!! Tee Hee!!!
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 12, 2015, 04:46:03 PM
Tee Hee!!! Tee Hee!!! Tee Hee!!! Tee Hee!!!
Do you know how we know you're gay?
I did pretty respectable in Left 4 Dead 2. Besides LB there were a bunch of others who played with us...Oche, Bison, I think even MD played.
Hel, I even joined in once. Imagine that... ???