Gun shop question

[Windy Winston]

How are these identified by the mapping process? My two local shops appear on the map, but w/ no guns or ammo, or any icon that may exist to ID them as a gun shop.

[Rider]

It's based on OSM data ;)

[Necroscourge]

The game ignores the majority of the OSM data, unfortunately. So a lot of buildings that should sensibly have a specific thing in them do not. The game itself lacks a variety of different business types and does not utilize the data taht Open Street Maps provides.

A good example is hotels, mechanic shops, gun stores, amusement parks, and many other types of businesses; the developer simply didn't designate them as categories. The game lumps ALL STORES into "Store or restaurant" which only have canned foods. It designates seemingly random buildings into "Parking" as well, there's a few gated communities that are inexplicably full of gasoline.

I was playing my hometown, was wondering why a lot of buildings don't have what they should, and peeked in the map editor. OSM has a LOT of information on these buildings, the game just ignores it.

[robtock216]

I guess it will get worked on as the game progresses, what's in now works fine as placeholders but it would be great if it went deeper.

I live near one of the UK's national grain storage centre's, i look forward to 70 million peoples worth of grain nearby.

[sarah]

And the game thinks the Salvation Army is military or police. I thought that was funny.

[Slick]

Originally posted by sarah:

And the game thinks the Salvation Army is military or police. I thought that was funny.

And yet actual Army bases have no guns, or any specialized loot. Just the standard ? for all buildings.

[sarah]

Originally posted by Slick:

Originally posted by sarah:

And the game thinks the Salvation Army is military or police. I thought that was funny.

And yet actual Army bases have no guns, or any specialized loot. Just the standard ? for all buildings.

The game is taking place years after...so I'd be shocked if there was anything left to loot at all in reality. When there were lockdowns a few years ago...the stores were emptied out in a week.