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Deadby100cuts has Dead State

Jun 30, 2015 @ 6:42pm

How do I keep moral high?

I'm just playing on normal, I had some problems with moral but FINALY got to a point where everything was managing good except moral. It got pretty bad, over -1000. Dude in the wheelchair shot me.

Honestly I'm not even sure I'm going to keep playing, I got like 20 something hours out of it, which isn't bad, but its just very grindy and I'm not exactly excited to start from scractch AGAIN. But I would still like to know how I was suppose to keep moral high. I went on at LEAST 1 run almost every day, had people at the shelter building this for moral, and was giving people luxuries every chance I had.

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Jul 1, 2015 @ 12:56am

Im sitting at over 1k positive moral in my game without even trying (Day 26), I just explore the maps and bring the ♥♥♥♥ back, I have only given items to the depressed girl and to max, all of it is wasted it seems as they go right back down to unhappy... I think I only got negative moral at the very start, and then one day when I sent that dumbass Todd out to die.

Kinoringan has Dead State

Jul 1, 2015 @ 5:23am

You must be doing something wrong, I'm sitting at 1k ++ morale too and I'm not even trying.

The only thing I can think of is you didn't fix the fence or kill neutral people while scavenging.

Deadby100cuts has Dead State

Jul 1, 2015 @ 10:08am

Nope, didn't do either of those. I fixed the fence, updated it to the wooden one, and built a watch tower and some other upgrades

Jul 1, 2015 @ 11:48am

I just finished playing another few game days and my only morale drain is from peoples mood, I have a drain of around 250 ( I think) per day, as long as you can offset that by all the upgrades, and small bonuses, as well as bring in food/lux you get an easy gain. You also get bonuses for being high morale for 7 days in a row, as well as nice boosts when you get new people. My only issue with the game is getting max's mood high enough to talk to, even after a moral boost in a crisis and loading him with all my pills he only gets to content..

Levantine1978 has Dead State

Jul 2, 2015 @ 6:19am

Did you run out of fuel for the generator or turn it off for some reason? That's a massive morale hit.

Pookie The Krogan has Dead State

Jul 2, 2015 @ 7:10am

for the first few days just dont fight and try to gather as much resorces as possible

Deadby100cuts has Dead State

Jul 2, 2015 @ 2:09pm

Thats what I did. Every day I went out and grabbed everything I could carry, even making multiple trips in a single day. I made sure the fence was up and the generator on.

ZombieBisque

Jul 2, 2015 @ 2:46pm

One technique I've heard some people using, and which I've had some success with myself, is to do a lot of recruiting early on - the bonus for bringing back a new ally is a fairly sizeable morale boost, and there are over 10 recruitable allies within walking distance from the Shelter. Only downside is that you'll need a lot of food and special request items to offset the higher population, but it is manageable.

SunwardMold [developer] Jul 2, 2015 @ 4:01pm

Were you giving your allies any of the special mood items you found while scavenging? To give them their requested items, transfer them into your inventory from Shelter Storage (Special mood items are sorted to the "Unique" tab) and then talk to the ally who's mood you want to increase. You can check ally moods on the Goals screen. When moods get low, the daily drain on morale can be very difficult to counteract even if you're hauling back buckets of toothbrushes to eat. As your allies get happier their daily morale drain becomes smaller, so you may want to prioritize cheering up your allies with the lowest mood first.

A good Negotiation and Leadership skill will help you to take advantage of all of the extra opportunities to raise your allies moods which occur during dialogues. Building upgrades, making a popular decision during a Crisis Event, and recruiting allies will raise mood for the whole Shelter. The major things which will lower your allies moods are starvation, the fence being down, the generator being down, the toilets being broken, the death of an ally, having an infected ally in the Shelter, and making an unpopular decision during a Crisis Event. There are also many dialogues and events which can raise or lower the mood of specific allies or the Shelter as a whole.

Deadby100cuts has Dead State

Jul 2, 2015 @ 6:21pm

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Tommy

Jul 4, 2015 @ 6:01pm

Wow! That looks very depressing to me. It seems you are low on everything.

I'm currently on Day 19 (played 40 hours):

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=475416173

You have to loot more ... much more.

Last edited by Tommy; Jul 4, 2015 @ 6:03pm

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Deadby100cuts has Dead State

Jul 4, 2015 @ 9:25pm

HOW I'm looting as much as I possibly can. Every single day I go out on a trip, the come back, then do it again.

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Kinoringan has Dead State

Jul 5, 2015 @ 1:42am

You got unhappy and disgrunted allies. Did you pissed them off when they come talking to you? During crisis event, did you piss them off even further?

You don't have any points in negotiation skill. You need at least 8 in that skill. Usually, I read from forums that people who play this game put skill points into negotiation skill first and then leadership skill next.

Last edited by Kinoringan; Jul 5, 2015 @ 1:43am

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Tommy

Jul 5, 2015 @ 2:02am

Do more trips per day. Take allies with high survival skill with you to increase travel speed, use your horses and take Priscilla with you for the speed boost. If you haven't hit the carry limit after one location, try to find another one nearby before heading back to the shelter.

Use the mood items ... if everyone is happy the mood penality is significantly lower. This is also the fastest way to level up your character. Here my current skills (still day 19):

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=475416208

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Stoibs

Jul 7, 2015 @ 1:32am

Woah, you've got a lot of unhappy allies there.. (That is; at "okay" and lower)
I generally have everyone at Happy at all times, and begrudgingly leave several at Content if need be with lack of special items or if they have the 'Nothing Golden" trait anyway.
That's the problem right there.

Yeah you've seriously done something to piss a lot of people off in either crisis events or deaths or just generally how you respond to them in conversations.
Negotiation and leadership are arguably one of the most important skills to have I'd say.

Looks like you don't have a full 4 people on the guard duty for the bonus, and I'm not sure if the memorial wall is built at that point in the game but you should click on that every single day too. Another trick is to use the Downtown Splendid dumpsters to keep all the Fuel/parts/Food/Antibiotics/Luxury items in and only bring back and stock at the shelter what you need to hit certain morale milestones - 30 parts, 20 fuel, 50 food, 10 antibiotics. (since the devs for whatever reason made us auto stock everything and refuses to give us a manual option.. -_-)

I guess once you've played it again and again for a while you tend to get a handle on the mechanics and tricks of how to maximum and metagame though.
My hardcore mode, Full house achievement run ended with me at something like positive 7.5k Morale.

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