question about zombie multiplier and respawn

[cocoayoc]

if zombie re-spawn is disabled. does that mean the population multiplier also is? the zombie population will never increase?

[meh]

The way i understand is zombies will continue to spawn till peak days. Lets say the cell can have 100 max zombies, at the start it have 20, then 40, 60, 80 till 100. If you kill the first 20, then 20 more will spawn, etc. you get the point. I could be completely wrong but thats how i understand it work.. and for unload areas, once you load them they should have peak population (if the days had passed)

[derLoko]

No, it's seperate.

[Sable]

If respawn is off, the population multiplier will only affect unvisited cells of the map. Visited cells won't have any extra spawns since the first time you entered it.

[Armagenesis]

Originally posted by LUD:

The way i understand is zombies will continue to spawn till peak days. Lets say the cell can have 100 max zombies, at the start it have 20, then 40, 60, 80 till 100. If you kill the first 20, then 20 more will spawn, etc. you get the point. I could be completely wrong but thats how i understand it work.. and for unload areas, once you load them they should have peak population (if the days had passed)

You don't really have to kill the zombies. New zombies will always spawn in until you reach peak days.

[cocoayoc]

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

Originally posted by LUD:

The way i understand is zombies will continue to spawn till peak days. Lets say the cell can have 100 max zombies, at the start it have 20, then 40, 60, 80 till 100. If you kill the first 20, then 20 more will spawn, etc. you get the point. I could be completely wrong but thats how i understand it work.. and for unload areas, once you load them they should have peak population (if the days had passed)

You don't really have to kill the zombies. New zombies will always spawn in until you reach peak days.

that's where i'm confused. does disabling respawn stop that?

[Armagenesis]

Originally posted by cocoayoc:

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

You don't really have to kill the zombies. New zombies will always spawn in until you reach peak days.

that's where i'm confused. does disabling respawn stop that?

AFAIK, no. Until you reach peak population day, new zombies will keep spawning in.
But after the peak day, no new zombie will spawn.

[MrMinMax]

No, disabling respawn only stops the "per period (max_zeds_per_cell x respawn_multiplier)" number.

as an example. initial settings is 100 zeds, max is x4, so 400. Your peak pop is on day 28. Game will keep adding 14 zeds (400/28) per day until it reaches 400. It will also keeps respawning 10 zeds on day 2 (rate 10% and respawn timer is 24 hrs), 11 zeds on day 3 and so on (40 zeds after day 28).

Then add redistribution and migration, these are separate mechanics from respawn with separate parameters.