ernestww

Members
  • Posts

    138
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About ernestww

  • Birthday 11/30/1959

Recent Profile Visitors

1,012 profile views

ernestww's Achievements

Pathfinder

Pathfinder (4/4)

93

Reputation

  1. I'm not sure what the current philosophy is on where craftables fit into the game but I feel that there should be some reason or benefit to them. I look forward to other opinions as it is very possible I'm totally missing the point. Rabbit Skin Mittens - too heavy at 2 kilos (did the rabbits weigh that much? lol). COATS: There isn't a good craftable coat option. The warmth bonuses don't counter the extreme mobility and weight hits. Deer Skin Pants - They are okay in interloper - until you find Cargo or Combat pants Rabbit Skin Hat - perfect, change nothing Deer Skin Boots- perfect, change nothing
  2. With the .303, you should also be able to keep looking at your target while chambering another round. I would have this as a level 5 ability.
  3. The old .303 was successful again this last week putting venison in the freezer. image of dressed out deer in cold room:
  4. Thanks Raph, for the State of the Union address. I had a good time playing Story Mode even though I am basically a 1000 hour Sandbox addict. I hope the team is chilling with a few Stacey's sodas. As a relatively early early access purchaser, I loved witnessing the evolution. I also loved your aspirational road map. I understand your reasons for not making it public going forward, but I always thought it was fun and never looked at it like it was a politician's pre-election platform. I will submit my vote here for survival mode development. Congratulations on a great milestone, and I look forward to TLD future!
  5. Or get a winch and a lot on nylon rope. I'm tired of dragging deer so will try this year: several hundred feet of nylon and the winch. One of my buddies swears by it. I will come back and update this post if it works LOL... You might need walkie-talkies for the go/stop coms...
  6. It was a good series. It was fun to think about what I would do differently, how i might cope in that situation and whether such imaginings would hold up in reality. It is notable that few did any 'bushcraft' they just did the minimum, huddled under their tarps and tried to stave off insanity. No one 'thrived' by any metric; as in discovering how to get abundant food or in any way be remotely 'comfortable'. The closest to having an overwinter strategy was Lucas. I was disappointed when he tapped out as it seemed to be for ephemeral reasons, and of those left he arguably had the least practical reason to tap.
  7. Sounds like they had some forewarning about location. I read somewhere that they were dropped off in October. That's was a little cruel! Nevertheless it would make it even more imperative to make an enclosed shelter. As much as I enjoyed Lucas's 2 Note Song, I think he should have made his crab trap...I think he even mentioned it. [spoil]Dang Lucas! You were doing well! 500k brother! You had arguably the least reason to tap![/spoil]
  8. These weren't amateur survivalists... http://www.history.ca/alone/bios/ The 4 who made it to last week have some experience or skills for Canada. The first bunch, most were naive. These guys weren't experienced survivalists at all. It was obvious. :-) ... I agree. Like all 'reality' TV I'm always suspicious of the producers. I don't think they necessarily select the most skilled, but more the participants who might make the best TV. I mean if you had 10 Richard Proennekes you would have to change the name of the series to 'Good Times on the BC Coast!' episode 1 Whittling Hinges for the Cabin Door... and no one would ever tape out lol ...kidding aside, the last couple are hanging in there and good luck to them. I hesitate picking a winner. Experience and age vs. youth and stubbornness. Both show signs of cracking. I would like the young kid to win just because the cash would be great for his young family starting out in life. I suspect however that Alan will take it as he displays the least amount of psychological distress. He has the better shelter of the two and much better food gathering skills. That in combination with his sticktoitiveness will carry the day....
  9. I'm not quite so sure they knew exactly where they were being dropped... all seemed rather surprised at the environment from the start [and knowing ahead would likely have had some of them select different supply options]. ... I tried to find something regarding how much warning they had regarding their drop location without any luck. I thought they had some pre-warning. It would be interesting to know.
  10. So far, with maybe one exception, everyone seems to have tapped out for psychological reasons: Irrational predator fear, circular emotional spirals or Joe who, although apparently having studied bushcraft and ‘advanced principles of fire construction’, tapped because he lost his firesteel. The only exception is buddy that thought he was sterilizing water by pouring it over a stump and ended up with ripping giardia - LOL It illustrates the most important element in survival - psychology. A couple of things surprise me generally about the show: An apparent lack of knowledge of the coastal environment. Although I gather they knew they were being dropped at 50’N in a coastal rainforest in what appears to be late September, no one except Lucas constructs a substantial shelter. Living on Vancouver Island myself, the amount of rain and the seasonal temperatures are not a surprise, however, 15 minutes of web research for the uninitiated should tell them what to expect. It rained virtually every day in October 2014 in Kyuquot: http://www.accuweather.com/en/ca/kyuquo ... view=table Knowing your drop point you should know that virtually ALL your food is going to come from the ocean. Forget the bow! Alan and Lucas seemed the best at it but still limited in their approach. Inner cedar bark was the traditional westcoast native form of gaffer-tape. An hour with your axe would give you many meters of strong fiber ideal for various basket traps. The water is crawling with Dungeness crab, but apart from a couple fluking into the gillnets, no one has tried to trap any. A ‘V’ of stakes leading to a corral with something dead in the middle placed in a tidal zone would likely get a couple crabs per cycle. The stream may have crayfish, a basket trap would work. Why has Sam stopped eating the little rock crabs in favour of starving? Why is no one eating the billions of mussels covering every rock?
  11. I'm sorry about the 'predator fear ' tap outs. In British Columbia ...cougar attack risk for a human adult male ≈ 0, black bear attack risk = negligible. Alan for the win. Outside chance to Lucas.
  12. ....a Lee Enfield 303 #5 (Jungle Carbine) vintage 1945, kicks like a mule , the game depicts a #4 SMLE -- a much more commonly issued Lee Enfield. The 303 is good cartridge for most anything we have in BC, not too much gun to spoil the meat. As an interesting aside, it is very appropriate that such a rifle be found in TLD world (northern Canada somewhere), many thousands made their way from military issue into civilian use as hunting rifles after WWII, although they are fading from use now. I suggested to Hinterland that the trapper cabin should spawn the #5, although it is less common, it had a rep as a good scout rifle, shorter and a kilo lighter than the #4. The British made it for the Burma conflict in WWII I believe, where a light, shorter infantry rifle was considered desirable, hence the moniker 'Jungle Carbine' . Features that would make it a natural choice for a trapper ...