Is Maryland/DC rocky like that?

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squeehunter

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I've been to DC a few times and while it's hilly in some areas, is there any good reason for that many cliffs and rocks everywhere? Did the lack of grass cause massive erosion over the years which uncovered parts of the bedrock? I'm looking for a logical explination for this because Bethesda is actually IN Maryland.
 
the hills covered in grasses only stay hills because the grass prevents erosion so then the rocks underground could become exposed. also its been 200 years so that allows ample time for this to happen.

also the radiation would kill off most plants and their root systems are what keeps erosion at bay
 
Well, it is a post-apoc world. This is what it'd look like if it were greener.

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I think it was mentioned somewhere in the Fallout world that the FEV virus did affected vegetation and enviroment of the earth as well thus why you have a lot of wastelands and deserts almost everywhere. Nuclear wars alone will not make the earth look like a desert after 200 years, but one should not forget that a large portion of FEV was as well released directly after the war in to the air and parts of ve virus mutated cause of radiation giving even more different results.
 
Man, FEV now sounds like the T - Virus in that last Resident Evil fan.
I think it only changed some of the animals, humans and plants, not the environment.

I have a different question but it is about the region,
Washington seems rather 'rocky', with buildings build on small rock hills at the edges of the city.

This is nothing like reality, is it?
 
radioactive_penguin said:
the hills covered in grasses only stay hills because the grass prevents erosion so then the rocks underground could become exposed. also its been 200 years so that allows ample time for this to happen.

also the radiation would kill off most plants and their root systems are what keeps erosion at bay
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No it wouldn't, plants are pretty hard to kill with radiation.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Man, FEV now sounds like the T - Virus in that last Resident Evil fan.
I think it only changed some of the animals, humans and plants, not the environment.

I have a different question but it is about the region,
Washington seems rather 'rocky', with buildings build on small rock hills at the edges of the city.

This is nothing like reality, is it?
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As I said.

Real life geomap compressed by a factor of 60.
 
radioactive_penguin said:
the hills covered in grasses only stay hills because the grass prevents erosion so then the rocks underground could become exposed. also its been 200 years so that allows ample time for this to happen.

also the radiation would kill off most plants and their root systems are what keeps erosion at bay
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The problem with that, is it apparently never rains in the Capital Wasteland. Erosion from what? The wind can't do that on it's own.
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Man, FEV now sounds like the T - Virus in that last Resident Evil fan.
I think it only changed some of the animals, humans and plants, not the environment.
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Well plants are part of the enviroment. If the flora got changed so heavily it is just naturaly that after 200 years it would affect the enviroment as well by for example simply expose the ground, without almost any kind of plants around and much less species the world would look a lot less appealing then it does today I guess.

By the way anyone thinking about radiation as killer to vegetation should take a look to areas that are polluted with heavy radiation (not only Tschernobyle). Nature was able to recover pretty fast.

Mikael Grizzly said:
Shut the fuck up about FEV.
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Youre such a mean furry bastard ! D: :P
 
Treating FEV as the main reason why the world doesn't recover and gets destroyed even more is like saying F3 has a good story...
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
Shut the fuck up about FEV.

In 200 years there'd easily be vegetation making a return.
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In the real world, yes it would. But this isn't the real world we're talking about. It wasn't making a return in Fallout 2 either. The Fallout world has its own rules, and many of these are often in stark contrast to what you would expect from a realistic game. The thing is, Fallout was never supposed to be realistic.
 
Back to the topic: I suppose when the bombs fell, the mushroom cloud is supposed to fling debris in the air. I suppose it could cause an environmental disterbance causing the rock-bed to rise a bit. But that's only my thought.
 
The farther west you go along 66, the more you start to get rocks. It's sorta approximately correct the way they arranged it except that the overall amount/frequency of rocky things has been greatly increased.

I'm guessing the rockyness made the landscape be more interesting. I don't see where it being exaggurated in this way has hurt anything.
 
Basic game design as traversing rolling hills of dirt and twig trees would have been even more bleak than the current design.

If nuclear winter is real then all plant life would easily be dead in the time of Fo3 all across the globe, regardless of the effects of radiation or massive firestorms. The land would be eroded quickly with nothing to protect it, especially against the constant wind.

This is one of those things where you have to take artistic license because no one knows what would happen in nuclear war, we only have speculation.
 
I live in Southern Maryland. It's not far from DC. I will tell you were no where NEAR that rocky. In fact, it's pretty tough to find big ass rocks like that around here -at all-.

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