Hi everyone! Got the beginning of an interesting series of updates for you this week!
Civilians that are aware they are in an apocalypse will now go home to hide if they have one. At the moment 50% of the civilians in a scenario do have somewhere in the city designated as their home, the rest are considered commuters / tourists / shoppers / other and do not have a home to retreat to and will try to find somewhere safe the same way they used to previously.
This is the beginning of a series of civilian updates where they are going to be more interesting and varied things in order to try and survive. As a result of this update the dynamics of the base scenario have shifted far more than I initially expected. Now they stand a much better chance of surviving the outbreak as they have removed themselves from the city streets causing the zombies to reach less people over time meaning the cops are better able to quarantine.
Once I've done future updates I will consider rebalancing the default settings to make up for this but because I'm making frequent changes I'm not committing to changes just yet.
More to come soon and thanks for playing!