I've been playing TD2 for a while now but it only just occurred to me; what happened to the rando's from TD1? You know, the random people walking around the streets, being harassed by the baddies, and occasionally yelling down at you from second story windows? Yeah, those guys. Did they all die off or something? I think they gave the game a sort of nuance that I'm just not feeling in this one.
Realistically, the city would be picked clean by now and no one would stay in cities because there would be no point. Without maintenance, there would be no power and without regular fuel shipments there would be no generators functioning either. With no power, nothing would work.
Buuuut games are made by game developers, not engineers so...
That is only if the Settlements and JTF had not started producing farms and sending out people to maintain the power supply in the city.Originally Posted by Hexipoo Go to original post
After D1 a lot of survivors started building settlements due to the loss of CERA crates drops for supplies. This resulted in the creation of multiple settlements around NYC and some of the basic function for them was to start creating Farms to produce food and even have some suviving engineers work on fixing and establishing short range power supplies for the settlements. The JTF joined in on this effort as well by helping with guarding transportation of food between settlements and even sending out teams to constantly repair power supply sources. They had people in settlements producing ammo and weapon parts to make guns as we seen in the Heaven Settlement (of course they got themselves a working 3D Printer for easier mass production of gun parts now)
A few survivors can sometimes be encountered in the sewers to fix the power supply in the region or outside in areas where there is a power supply source and they will ask the Agent for some Junk item as repair parts.
Rikers and Cleaners also got creative with their supplies as well such as how the Rikers started using pure gold to make gun parts and ammo (as shown in a Side-quest) which also resulted in them creating the Bullet King LMG (ya it is a gun made of 100% Gold.)
That's just nonsense. You do not "fix" a power supply without parts, manufactured parts. Most of which are NOT even made in the U.S, making repairs impossible. Furthermore, I meant actual power supply, like a power plant. Those things don't run without operators and fuel. A lot of main lines run underground as well, you need digging machines and a map to get to them and they need maintenance quite often and without power plant operators, you have no way of knowing where the fault is so you can't even try to fix it.Originally Posted by orrthehunter Go to original post
Despite what many people seem to think, electricity doesn't just magically come from the wall on it's own. There is so, so, SO many things between a lamp and a power plant. I happen to be an electric engineer and I'm telling you, <insert LOTR meme here> one does not simply "fix" electrical infrastructure.
In any collapse type of situation, cities are the absolute LAST place you would want to be.
I did say establish short range power supplies.Originally Posted by Hexipoo Go to original post
A lot of the builds tend to be blacked out but the ones we can enter tend to have a common appearance of Portable Generators around the area and/or inside the building to power the place. From the looks of these Generators being placed, the JTF and Settlements have created a small network of Portable Generators to replace the Powerplants so if one generator goes out they can repair or replace it without it affecting all the buildings.
We know the state of DC, NYC, and from the D2 cutscenes California as well but we don't know the state of the rest of the world and other regions of the USA beyond these three Cities.
We know the US government is still active and still controlling regions of the USA not heavily affect by the Green Poison despite completely abadoning DC, NYC and California so the Division and JTF can deal with the issues themselves.
Portable generators last maybe a few days tops, depending on what they are used to power, then they need fuel and unless the JTF has a functioning oil refinery and an oil rig with full crews, that's just not happening.Originally Posted by orrthehunter Go to original post
Most people take this stuff for granted, but it's really complicated and fragile.