[UseYourHeadCutOffTheirs]

Occupation has absolutely nothing to do with value. Most of us have read some TWD comics. There's a girl in there that is the groups sniper and best shot. Before the outbreak she was a secretary at a law firm who had never even shot a gun before.

Talents will fall naturally into place among a random group of survivors. When you have a lot of people who know a little bit about a lot of different things it's only natural for everyone to learn and become good at things needed to survive.


Mouthbreather, I can understand your concept of pull your weight. The only thing is, when it all comes down to it I really don't think you will have time to keep record of every little task each group member does. Just to have these people around you to keep morale up would make it worth them being there. I really don't think that it would matter if they "pulled their weight." There really would be no choice but everyone work together to survive.


Also what about babies? or small kids? They are going to be a HUGE disability to the group and won't be able to do much to help, let alone survive themselves. Are you going to kill them? just because they don't know better? I sure hope not because those kids and babies are the only hope left of continuing the human race. Your every priority should be to keep them alive and train them to survive in the world they now live in. Turn every child into a "Spartan" per-say.

[Darkness]

"You make some good points, UseYourHeadCutOffTheirs, and well said, imo."

Behemoth said:

Ermm, have you seen the film? This guy is more dangerous than 100 zombies, he walks around with a suppressed shotgun, all this guy does is kill things. There is a great line from the film, i cannot quote verbatim, but woody harlesons( spelt surname wrong i think ) character says you've seen him, well that's kinda strange cause you should be a dead man.

"People die in those types of situtations because they make stupid mistakes. Like you're suppose to hit him over the head with the brick, WHILE you have him immobilized with the taser. After all, he IS a psychopath, right? Or is he?" :evil:

[UseYourHeadCutOffTheirs]

What's that over there?! Taze!!!!!SMASH!!!!! there you did it! no more bad guy!:clap:

[skullwarrior]

id go by myself honestly unless i ran into a fellow ATZ member in trouble. other then that id stay away from any screams and/or groups of zeds. and maybe id let people into my group if they agreed that i or someone with as much or more zombie exp be the leader.

and of course id help children. i aint heartless. even though on multiple happenings ive been called a cold heartless and you all know what the next word is.

[Jimmy]

I would post my family up in a safe house. Then my dad (ex-Ranger) and I would gather a few of my/his buddies who are/were in the Army and are highly trained in first aid and guerilla warfare. Lastly, I would get on here and try to gather a few individuals from here together, mainly Chewy, DentFoster, and Corpse Grinder. =p

I haven't seen any of them post lately, are they still on here? >_>

[balancedragon]

I would try to find ppl with any basic experience in anything useful for reinforning a place. I would also look for anyone that can or is willing to use a gun. High prority would have to be a person that know some first aid skills, not much sense if a person is bitten or is infected there be no use. The first aid person will be used to help people with injuries from building or searching for others. But the most important one would a have to be a survilist that can help get food, keep us alive, and know about surving harsh conditions.

[Zombreach]

Tripoli said:

I would say NO! to outsiders. What I want to say is, people that I have NOT made contact with before a ZOMBIE OUTBREAK would be unwelcomed. I would NOT trust them, there is no way to trust an outsiders to be loyal to your group.

If any of the zombie movies have any truth to them, then you will be a very lonely survivor. There may not be anyone left but outsiders. At the start of an outbreak, most people will be in denial. Those that survive will seek out friends and loved ones. Many will probably die in their quest. Or be bitten...same results. This leaves outsiders. Although there are a lot of untrustworthly people out there, there are also a lot of future friends to be made. I don't think you should rule out strangers so quickly.

[Faran Brigo]

No offense, but I think the people that say going on your own is easier need to try to actually live by themselves for awhile, and I don't mean get your own apartment, I mean try to survive solely on your own work.

Try it for awhile, seriously. Grow your own food, tend your own wounds, fix your own house, take care of your weapons, repair whatever mechanical/electronic contraption you need. While I don't doubt the most survivalism inclined among us will fend decently, the vast majority of us will not, it's that simple. Not even combat alone is simple, there's a reason why the smallest unit in modern armies is the fireteam, more eyes and guns trained on targets means less chance of surprise or being overwhelmed. This is not the only reason, but it's one that applies to fighting zombies in essentially the same way.

Humans are social animals for a reason, and even before there was rule of law or even division of labor, people banded together in clans or tribes or other forms of groups. If being part of a group was as fundamentally fatal for survival as some people here take it, then I'm guessing we'd have never integrated into societies to start with.

[Darkness]

Faran Brigo said:

No offense, but I think the people that say going on your own is easier need to try to actually live by themselves for awhile, and I don't mean get your own apartment, I mean try to survive solely on your own work.

Try it for awhile, seriously. Grow your own food, tend your own wounds, fix your own house, take care of your weapons, repair whatever mechanical/electronic contraption you need. While I don't doubt the most survivalism inclined among us will fend decently, the vast majority of us will not, it's that simple. Not even combat alone is simple, there's a reason why the smallest unit in modern armies is the fireteam, more eyes and guns trained on targets means less chance of surprise or being overwhelmed. This is not the only reason, but it's one that applies to fighting zombies in essentially the same way.

Humans are social animals for a reason, and even before there was rule of law or even division of labor, people banded together in clans or tribes or other forms of groups. If being part of a group was as fundamentally fatal for survival as some people here take it, then I'm guessing we'd have never integrated into societies to start with.

"Yeah. Ever notice that the old hermit in the cave is always insane? Take, for example, Tom Hanks' character in Castaway."