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What are some weird massive empty spaces inside your city? Many brownfield areas sit vacant for decades with no conceivable reason why. Here are a few strange ones from Calgary:SE Calgary has grown around multiple landfill and industrial sites leaving some odd dead space. Here is the satellite view of it:There is an active proposal to turn the two large rectangular patches into solar farms.
Urban Flight is a four-map campaign that features interesting environments, dynamic pathways, and a unique multi-stage finale. It supports singleplayer, co-op, versus, survival, and scavenge gameplay. Userscripts for Urban Dead. Klexur 1.1.0 added DSS map link to GPS cooridinates. For the browser-based zombie apocalypse MMORPG, Urban Dead.
The land is contaminated with phosphogypsum from years of use by a nearby fertilizer plant. Here is a rendering of the array planned for the smaller site:What piqued my interest recently was the realization that between this site and an active landfill there is in fact another dead zone completely cut off from everything else. My guess is it's still being used to dump radioactive waste from Nutrien. My office is literally a 2 minute drive from here:The plant itself. By far the eeriest deadzone in the city is this area of Lynnview ridge that was built on top of land formerly used by an oil refinery that was discovered to be leeching carcinogens into the homes. It was expropriated and bulldozed and now sits as a weird vacant fenced in park area:Follow the road for the full tour.
You can see the full extent of what was bulldozed from above:An article about efforts to convert it into a park and some history:I drove through it before demolition when the houses were vacant and it felt like the ghost city in Silent Hill. Our worst is the former Grace Hospital nurses' residence, or whatever the fuck it was.Today, it's used to store snow.In terms of not an empty lot, but an urban dead area.
The end of Water Street East. It used to be curved with simple but urban brick factory buildings (large by our standards, but still WAY smaller than what you're thinking of in cities like MTL, obviously). Would've been a great area for condos and the like had the older buildings been kept. But everything was bulldozed and the street was straightened.
Today it's mostly parking garages for buildings that face Duckworth Street. It's hideous and although there are often pedestrians, it's always just runners/hikers going between downtown and Signal Hill. Saskatoon has this weird little zone of nothing wedged between a flour mill, an armoury, a Polytechnic parking lot, and the CP line:. Not sure who keeps the grass nicely mowed.Speaking of CP, Saskatoon is riddled with level crossings that provide some measure of brownfield fun:There's also a not unlike Ottawa's. It's attached to the university and well inside the city.I think there was a plan for McKercher Drive, which is otherwise a 4-lane suburban arterial, to cross over the CP yards in Sutherland and continue north toward Attridge Drive, but it was probably too expensive.
There is even a grassy ROW still there waiting for it on the other side. But now it just in no-mans land.Saskatoon used to have a lot more crap like this but it gradually seems to be filling in. Anyone who thinks that the Experimental Farm is a 'Dead Zone' is an idiot.It's probably one of the most vibrant parts of the NCR.(I'm a former farmer so of course I'm rather biased about this)Experimental farms are the opposite of dead zones, they're literally researching how to make plants grow better.
Thunder Bay has two: one for crops, and one for trees.Thunder Bay has quite a few former gas station properties that are left undeveloped despite being prime locations for anything. The largest one is located in our busiest retail area and is used as a snow dump.
Contents.Updated the Wikipedia information There were new updates made within the game, I've updated the current information that is in wikipedia. The changes that I've made are 'With the new additions of the skills 'bellow' and 'scout safehouse', the highest level possible to be obtain in the game is 45'. If you find some grammar mistakes within this statement then feel free to correct it.Changed the 'Just recently' to October 14 2008. —Preceding comment added by 21:54, 17 August 2010 (UTC) Untitled Comment Thought the wiki would be a good link. Hope i'm right, and it doesn't get deleted, like all my other stuff.JackWiki link is great:) - 20:11, 30 August 2005 (UTC)Did anyone have a look at the urbandead page that was re-directed here before that action was taken?
I'd suggest that some salvage work could be done to move content from there onto this page. 17:44, 7 September 2005 (UTC)OMFG! Urban Dead made it into Wikipedia.
This be a great game.Has anyone ever considered making a MUD based on Urban Dead?There would be far less bandwidth involved, and it would probably be much more versatile due to the more interactive 'live' interface.I don't know anything really about constructing/running a MUD, but if anyone's interested in this, please get in touch with me, because it'd be fun to organize a group to make something like this happen. My AIM screen name is 'Gay Old Hobo', and my MSN is '[email protected]'.Disco 03:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)Urban Dead gives military people. 18:20, 22 January 2006 (UTC)Urban Dead Survivor Diaries I thought this might be significant enough to include as part of the UD community. Dunno, though.It can't really hurt. It's not like the links section is overcrowded. I'll stick it in, though it might be better to link to the entery page at. 18:44, 1 June 2008 (UTC)Strict political correctness enforcement Damn, the political correctness enforcement on this site is strict.
Kevan banned every IP address I ever logged in from (including public networks) simply for posting an off-color joke about the Mohammed Cartoons. It wasn't even that bad or racist, nothing O'Reilly wouldn't say.AFAIK characters only get banned for cheating, maybe you were doing that as well. Banning public network IP addresses seems unlikely.Judging by the amount of homophobic grafette I've seen I suspect not. Of course mostly it doesn't last long since it get painted over by other users. 14:19, 22 February 2006 (UTC)I play alot and i've seen some really racist people on there.Indeed. 02:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC) A matter of semantics 'Player-killing'?
Unfortunately for those used to the term elsewhere, it doesn't have it's full connotations in Urban Dead. PKing in UD is purely survivor vs. Survivor, and the term may be more related to TKing.
The problem with simply using TKing is that there are groups, as well as the survivor vs zombie conflict. Does TKing necessarily refer to, say, one member of the same group killing another, or is there a third term that needs to be invented for this sort of thing?I had a rather indepth debate with an Argentinian friend of mine on the Urban Dead Wiki, but nothing really came from it. 02:45, 23 July 2006 (UTC)Since there's no NPCs, PKing may not be the correct term for it, but you'll be hard pressed to change everyone's terminology. 'Murder' may be a better term. Go Creedy Guerilla Raiders!- 02:22, 30 December 2007 (UTC)Necrotech Would anybody present have a porblem with me adding a bit of info on it?- 06:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)Graphics Does the PC version just have colored blocks on the map, while the Mac version has graphical depictions of the blocks, ie a hospital picture for a hospital block? I've seen posts with pictures in them, but I'm on a PC and I've never seen them, so I'm wondering.
02:18, 27 August 2006 (UTC)Neither has the graphics by default, but there are extenstions on Firefox that make them -12:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)something to think of i think every so often we should have a thung that says what players from the game sugy for new players to join, zed or human and which class.like, 3 months ago it was suicide to join as humans and peopel woudl probly tell you to join zombies. It might help and i like to help and support suicide ideas for a game!- 02:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC)I joined as a human, and I've always worked at being human.
Sometimes it just takes awhile to get to revive points. Also, some idiots just kill any zed they see. 07:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)that would be most people.i cant stay in 1 placehad to evacuate ackland mall.
At giddings, goign back to joachiam, which i fled when it fell around thebig bash.at the moment its hard ot tell ewhat to do. The cneter is stil la waste land.You live a lot longer and easier if you join a group. I reccomend the DEM personally, though i'm kinda biased considering i'm a part of the MFD.
17:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)my recent changes shacknews deservs as much mention as the mall tour, in shorter time then the tour, they took down caiger mall, the final haven in malton.- 01:06, 24 February 2007 (UTC)No matter what they're achievements are, no player-made group deserves a mention in this article. Shacknews is just another zombie group, no matter how fast they took down a mall. Mentioning them would mean we'd have to mention News Channel 4, the DEM, and The Militant Order of Barhah.
03:06, 24 February 2007 (UTC)then why mention the mall tour? They didn't change the game to the degree shacknews did.- 17:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)Shacknews did not set a precedent in anything, and they certainly did not change the game, which extends beyond the walls of Caiger Mall. Mentioning something like the Many would perhaps be in order, as that was the first large group of zombies in the game that actually posed a threat to malls, not to mention something like the RRF, which had a long standing presence in the game, and, in fact, still exists.
You could list off a bunch of groups in the article, if you feel they're entitled to be mentioned, but the bit about 'changing the game' doesn't really fit. 17:49, 24 February 2007 (UTC)how much do you play the game? Caiger mall was the human stronghold, shacknews did somethoing nobody thuaght possible, they ran down the biggest target in the game, they actuly have more fame then any other group, they just disbanded since there was little else to do after raiding the well known locations. The RRF and others are worth mentionng, but they didn't do as much as shacknews, belive me.- 17:56, 24 February 2007 (UTC)I realized something, the big bash should also atleast be mentioned since they did have a major affect on the game, the brought more then half the city to it's knee's and brought the zed/survivor ratio to 2:1.There was a guild of Japanese players who were the first to beat Kel'thuzad in, who was the hardest instance boss until the Burning Crusade was released. Several players were amazed by them actually being able to accomplish what other guilds couldn't. Does that mean we're going to mention them?
No, it doesn't. You're exaggerating Caiger Mall falling, anyway. It brought the city to it's knees? No, it didn't. Maybe it brought the suburb Caiger Mall was in to it's knees, but the rest of Malton went on about it's business. 13:07, 25 February 2007 (UTC)that didn't bring the game to it's knee's, the big bash did, by the time people made the trek to the southwest whcih was a wasteland of red dangers, ok, one questin, when was this picture made?
02:46, 23 January 2007 (UTC)It's a real screenshot from July 19th, 2006. It was one of the highest points for zombies.Sir Sonny Corleone RRF CRF DORIS Hunt! 02:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)that seems to show what the big bash did, later, they brought the area of safety to the corners of malton, the bash did something no other group or alliance ever has.- 14:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)YoungOcelot, you are badly wrong. Cody6 is correct about the page.
I agree with you Cody go ahead and edit the way you want as long as you dont vandalise. As for Ocelot remain civil or you will be reported. 20:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)I say it'd be better if no groups were mentioned in the article. After all, there's way too many groups in the game, and lots of them have considerable achievements. For example, the original CoL established a system for hunting down PKers in the game (which shows you how the playerbase adapts to the game, seeing how there's not system for marking PKers by the game itself). The Many were the first zombie group. DARIS was also a group that, early in the history of the game, managed to pull off something unexpected by taking control of a suburb.
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Also, I've been playing this game since August 2005, and let me tell you that Caiger isn't everything. It's not the entire city, and the fall of Caiger does not affect everyone else in the game. 01:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)Daranz, that's exactly what I said. AS for English User, ignore him. He's a sad child who I helped in getting banned once. 08:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)i dont know what Ocelot is talking about.
I was never banned. 19:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)Check my talk page, and the history. 19:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)the bash did more then mall tour did so if any groups they deserve something, they do. They brought the living portion of the game to it's knee's in a short amount of time and took out most of the city. And ya, caiger did have a big impact, to poeple who cared, it was the only place never to fall to zeds until shacknews, both b4 and after the mall update, the fact is, shacknews did soemthing nobody thuaght possible, they destoryed caiger and the bash just trashed most of the game.- 21:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)Yes, but you're still exaggerating. Shacknews just took down Caiger. They didn't move on to destroy every other hideout in half of Malton, they just took down the Caiger mall.
Sure, people thought it was impossible, but that doesn't mean people were brought to their knees. By your logic, we should mention every time a mall is destroyed. Oh, and 'just trashed most of the game.' That's just stupid, man. You're basically saying that the humans were doomed as soon as Caiger Mall fell - 00:46, 27 February 2007 (UTC)Alright, let's make a deal.
I'll let you mention Caiger Mall as long as you don't say, 'It changed the tide of the game/doomed humans' - 00:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)you know whats funny is, i said THE BIG BASH NOT SHACKNEWS brought the human game to it's knee's, they desroyed the southwest and south, there approach would make many people leave, they were the focal point of the zombie power on malton.- 01:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)So? Blackmore Building pretty much demolished Ridleybank, but that didn't send all the human players there packing.
02:37, 28 February 2007 (UTC)Blackmore was a suburb, the bash was the highest point and had we not retaken, they had the power to turn us into nomads with no permanet safew area, the fact is, the bash deserves mention.- 03:05, 28 February 2007 (UTC)That's just not true. Even if the south had been overrun by zombies, they wouldn't of been able to take back the entire city. You're saying that if the Big Bash had been successful, humans would forever have no place in Urban Dead. You're exaggerating the whole thing out of proportion. 03:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)eventuly after we got are numbers back up. But still.the bash brought the game to it's knee's and could have killed the human population in almost every fortress. 03:36, 28 February 2007 (UTC)But it didn't.
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