Alan Grant wrote:You'd run out of resources eventually. There are only so many places on the map. When you clean them out you clean them out, even if you go in guns blazing and take over locations held by armed thugs, and cut open every locked door.
Eventually you'd be relying entirely on trade to get by, and scavenging wouldn't be worthwhile because you'd have depleted everything
I know it might take a long time to get to that point, in game day 300 or something, but it would happen.
300 days? Are you kidding? My first war ended on day 42, and till that day I searched almost every place to 95-100%, except hospital - I didn't want to steal from hospital, I felt bad already about old couple ... but anyway, for few days before war ends I had to go to the market every night, cause there was no use to go to other places.
And even so - for now on I think that on the market there is some kind of bug, cause some of items exchange rates are very low for exchange for some kind of products, and trading with different merchants with all kind of stuff, make if possible to for example take 1 bullet with you, and bring back home whole bag of medicines, bandages, food, etc. Next night you can do the same, and over and over - so basically you will be able to live forever, but since then the game will became boring, and meaningless.
For me the only option for long games is spawn new places (or replacing the old ones already cleared out for 95% or more), resupply old places (for example with changing ownership as mentioned before), and that will make possible to play and have fun for much, much longer ...
But anyway, on day 42 I had in my shelter everything that was possible to have, every item, every workshop, furniture etc. I had 150+ bullets, 100+ food, 80+ food cans, 80+ vegetables, 50+ bandages and medicines, gun, helmet and bulletproof vest for every one. So what for should I stand there for any longer?
And please remember - the goal of that game is to
survive the war. The survival mode would be awesome but for some kind of zombie apocalypse scenario, and I would love to see that 11bitstudio next release will be zombie apocalypse game based on the engine from This War of Mine.