Why So Many Zombie Brides?

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I've been noticing that I'm seeing a lot of wedding dresses on Zombies, so I checked the JSON; and unless I'm reading data/json/monsterdrops/zombie_default.json wrong, 5% of zombies (or 10% of female zombies) spawn with wedding dresses, and debug spawning a few large groups of zombies shows around that number.

My inclination is to change this to 1%, which is a nice simple change, but is there some lore reason for this that I'm missing? (Did the a significant portion of the population go insane in a way that made wearing wedding dresses seem like a good idea?)

While I was checking it I also noticed Cassocks, Thawbs, and Haori seem to be way to common as well, which again is a simple fix.


Some back of the envelope calculations:

In the US there is 2.5m weddings a year apparently, or ~1.7% of the population (each wedding has two people), so around 0.005% of the population gets married any day. Even allowing for the wedding rate in mid-Spring to be double the average we're still looking at about 1000 times more zombie brides than is realistic.

Of course my suggested number of 1% is still way to high to be realistic, but it's at least not so egregious.

Cassocks:

There's about 40,000 Catholic priests in the US; we can double that to include various Monks, Orthodox, and smaller denominations, and we get 0.025% of the population that we could realistically expect to wear a Cassock, but we see them on around 2.5% of zombies, or about 100x more than we should get.

And I suspect Thawbs and Haori would be much rarer than Cassocks as well.

Posted Feb 23, 2020, 7:09 AM UTC · edited

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kevingranadeProject Lead•

None of those clothes are intentionally super common, a pr with the info you posted would most likely get merged immediately.

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Tim_PollardOP•

Sure, I've submitted that, they're still unrealistically common, but much less common than before, and I agree with the other posters who like the rarer outfits to still appear on occasion.

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Zebba_Odirnapal•

It is kind of wacky, but I still think it's funny when you find a zombie child wearing, say, a leather corset, a platinum dental grill, and carrying a bag of meth. What was that child doing?

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Edixo1993Just like the simulations!•
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bluebullet28m̴͊͂ŷ̷̍c̶̟̐ȗ̴͋s̸͒͗ ̶́̓m̸̓̾u̴͘͠s̶̪͘t̵́͆ be purged in holy fire.•

I really do not want to click that without knowing what it is first.

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PM_me_stuffs_plz•

Its a "fight" at a school bus completely sfw

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CMDaddyPig•

In fairness, it depends how rough the area is that you live in... 😂

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Daved27HundredKevlar reinforced socks•

meth, obviously

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SoyweiserWiki Royalty•

Meth, in style, obviously.

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Reaper9999knows how to survive a nuclear blast•

Probably just an oversight. You're likely to get a faster response from an actual dev if you post this as an issue on GitHub.

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CptFizz•

People wanted to get married before the end of the world

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OverratedPineapple•

After all the work and money I've put in to make this the perfect day Aliens, riots, the apocalypse, so help me God not even death will stop this wedding!

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Easy_Shade•

This is the kind of research we need out here

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HannibalMDD•

valentines day event ?

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banjosuicide•

Lots of legless zombies with pants and shoes as well.

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