Night or Day

Martron

What would be the best time to do your business after the zompocalypse?

by business i mean scavenging etc etc..... providing we were not scavenging the night vision goggle shop

Feral Mutant

Day, always day. Same for travelling.
Humans over-rely on sight, we stand a better chance when we can see. At night they can still hear you and smell you but you won't see them coming.

Martron

i would be a day person myself.....

but with the idea of the zombie having some sort of genetic memory would they not have some sort of memory to sleep..... so if you had to travel would the zombie be slower to move at night because they may be thinking they need to sleep

Fajitas!

I don't think they'll have much reliance on their old ways tbh, just pure hunger.

Day is the only time for travel.

Martron

i was going on the classic references as dawn of the dead. where the zombies had simple memories of going to a mall. so if the remeber of going to a "mall" they can remebr to go asleep

c - 13

Feral Mutant wrote: »

Day, always day. Same for travelling.
Humans over-rely on sight, we stand a better chance when we can see. At night they can still hear you and smell you but you won't see them coming.

Spot on there. Day although still not completely safe is definitely safer.

Reku

That said zombies are typically slow to react, and so it's reasonable to assume that the nerves in the eyes would also be slow to react. As such dawn/dusk would probably be your best times since our vision would adapt to the change of light levels far faster.
As for them being able to smell you over the stench of their own rotting flesh, I doubt it...

Ross_Mahon

Has to be day time, it would be dodgy at night time, Even with night vision.

MarkHall

Day has to be the winner here. The only reason for night travel would be if you where force from a location.
And as for Zombies relying on Eyes to see. We've no idea how effective or uneffective there eyeballs are so why take give yourself a disability when you don't need to.

Zarbon

Martron wrote: »

i was going on the classic references as dawn of the dead. where the zombies had simple memories of going to a mall. so if the remeber of going to a "mall" they can remebr to go asleep

Even if they could remember these things, they may not get tired and need to sleep. Even if they did sleep, day-time for me. If optional.

Nearly everythings been said already, but personally I'd want my vision at its best. Night-vision goggles aren't on par with daylight.

SimpleSam06

What about those zombies in 28 weeks later, if you remember the sniper said they couldn't see at night either, so moving around at night was your best bet.

zero19

Zarbon wrote: »

Even if they could remember these things, they may not get tired and need to sleep. Even if they did sleep, day-time for me. If optional.

Nearly everythings been said already, but personally I'd want my vision at its best. Night-vision goggles aren't on par with daylight.

Gen I and Gen II nightvision are supposed to be fairly crappy too

Zulu

Land excursions by day. Sleep and santuary on my boat by night.

Teferi

farohar wrote: »

That said zombies are typically slow to react, and so it's reasonable to assume that the nerves in the eyes would also be slow to react. As such dawn/dusk would probably be your best times since our vision would adapt to the change of light levels far faster.
As for them being able to smell you over the stench of their own rotting flesh, I doubt it...

I disagree. Max Brooks has reported Z's without eyes still tracking prey. Indeed, after death a zombies eyes would become far less useful then ours as they would not be constantly moistening them through blinking. Their sense of smell improves greatly.

Dawn and onwards would be the best times to scavenge. You would want to be well safe indoors by 9 - 10pm in the summer dropping to about 3.30 - 4pm (perhaps earlier) during the winter.

My 2 Cents

Zulu wrote: »

Land excursions by day. Sleep and santuary on my boat by night.

Well i'm afraid your boat isn't gonna be much use considering zombies can move about in water*, you'd have to keep the boat moving or be in pretty deep water without putting an anchor down (in case they climb it) to make it a safe place.

*Max Brooks 'World war Z' and Romeros 'Land of the Dead'

Zulu

You keep thinking that. I don't see how a zombie could climb up water to get to your boat unless you had the anchor on the sea bed, which, a zombie climbing up would alert most sleepers, and besides an anchor doesn't need to be on the sea bed to be effective.

Either way, this is a moot point. You are assuming that a zombie would notice life on a boat on the horizon, or hidden on the far side of an island, walk all the way out to sea, find its anchor (which in it's self would be a miracle) assuming the anchor is on the sea bed, climb up and out of the water without waking the person on board.

I'll take that chance and sleep comfortably.

Roen

Z's can't climb though, getting up a few stairs is one thing but getting up a chain underwater would be bit of an ask.

Count me in on the boat! I cook a mean steak!

Doctor DooM

Teferi wrote: »

I disagree. Max Brooks has reported Z's without eyes still tracking prey. Indeed, after death a zombies eyes would become far less useful then ours as they would not be constantly moistening them through blinking. Their sense of smell improves greatly.

Dawn and onwards would be the best times to scavenge. You would want to be well safe indoors by 9 - 10pm in the summer dropping to about 3.30 - 4pm (perhaps earlier) during the winter.

Brooks also says- interestingly enough- thats it's not that a zombies sense of smell gets better, they just stop over relying on their eyesight like we do.

(Presumably because, as you say, their eyes would go to hell.)

Zulu

No worries buddy, I take mine rare. How are you at cooking fish though - I've a feeling we'll be mostly eating fish.

Doctor DooM

Zulu wrote: »

No worries buddy, I take mine rare. How are you at cooking fish though - I've a feeling we'll be mostly eating fish.

Better hope the fish can't be infected. That'd really mess your plans up!

Zulu

yes it would, but I reckon it's safe enough. Fish are hard to catch by hand, so they'd be unlikly to get bitten by infected.
Dead fish, unlike humans aren't buried, and get eaten quickly, so there's little fear of them "rising from the dead".
I reckon, it's a safe bet.

Roen

I'm pretty handy both in the kitchen and in natures kitchen. Fish isn't my first choice, but I reckon one of the upsides of Z day will be that we'll be forced to cut out all that mass produced processed tat.
Smoke me a kipper!

MarkHall

My 2 Cents wrote: »

Well i'm afraid your boat isn't gonna be much use considering zombies can move about in water*, you'd have to keep the boat moving or be in pretty deep water without putting an anchor down (in case they climb it) to make it a safe place.

*Max Brooks 'World war Z' and Romeros 'Land of the Dead'

Zombies in water is always funny.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hSPG9QQg4C0

I have to agree that I don't see them having the mobility to climb a chain. to pull themselves up over a low edge mayhaps but they'd have to be a floater if you where in deeoish water. Ten feet should provide plenty of room to avoid Grabbers.

My 2 Cents

well. . . .er . . . . .eh. . . . . in that case,
Permission to come aboard Captain!

Zulu

Permission granted matie!

MarkHall

Happy sailing fellas.

may you enjoy the taste of each other once the honeymoon period has ended.

My 2 Cents

MarkHall wrote: »

Happy sailing fellas.

may you enjoy the taste of each other once the honeymoon period has ended.

What no jokes about Roger The cabin boy or Seaman Stanes?

Jesus Juice

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

What about those zombies in 28 weeks later, if you remember the sniper said they couldn't see at night either, so moving around at night was your best bet.

in 28 days later they werent actually zombies just normal people infectedwith a viruse

Jabcity

TBH in terms of travelling I wouldnt move at all myself unless there was a crisis ie. shortage of supplies, a break in, etc...and only if I had a heavily armoured vehicle and someone to man the guns! F*ck the noise it would make, there's no way I'd be going anywhere on foot