Is there a reason why tons of Zombies gather in small towns?

[sticky 7]

I mean realistically, there shouldn't be 20+ zombies in a town with 5 houses right? And then 10 more spawn after clearing the town and entering a house, how does that make sense? I get that playability needs to trump realism, but this seems to be hampering both.

My apologies if this is a known issue/bug. It's the observation of a new player...

[miragexl 33]

Inbreeding.

On a serious note I think the number of zombies are effected by the amount of loot around them.

(don't quote me on that)

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My understanding of the mechanics is dead Z's are not counted in the total number of Z's that can spawn per player at any one time. As soon as you kill 1 Z and move within the zone of location which causes Z's to spawn, you will trigger another Z. I like it because it stops players just mowing down all the Z's in a town and then freely looting.

If you want a real world 'reason' why this happens.. maybe the newly spawned Z's heard the gunfire in the town and ambled in from the nearby countryside..

[Nasty Wet Smear 4]

It kinda does make sense, I guess. In small towns like that, you'll find it's mostly families... That's 2-5 people per house. A couple of Z's/currently infected runaways make their way into town, infect everyone, only a small handful have the good fortunte to chase another survivor out into the woods and the rest remain staggering around their homes and places of business.

I spose it's fairly logical.