they should all be greyed out to begin with, that should show everything, then when i click on one it should show ONLY that category..

it's backwards as is, i don't see the functionality of removing a single category, every single time i use the filters it's so i can see 1 or maybe 2 categories, but to do that i have to deselect all of them?

maybe i'm missing something, why would you need to see every category but one? seems the exact opposite of the functionality intended or at least the function that filters are used for the most... again maybe i'm missing something..

I know this was already posted by someone else, and declined, but please just hear me out. Every job wouldn't need pre-existing skills, just the jobs with skills that would actually fit. Truckers could start with one level in Insomniac, while the Market Research Analysts don't get any boost. It would add a dynamic to the game of which characters are more important to save but only by a small amount.

I mainly think this would be good because almost all characters are exactly the same (other than age) and that's a little boring. Sure, they have different names, different jobs, etc. but they don't mean anything at all to the game.

Right now alot of food and liquidsare going to waste because the penalty for hunger/thirst starts so quickly.

We're forced to get it down to 0 to avoid penalties, but when you have 200 ml of thirst for example, the best you can do is drink 250ml, leading to 50ml waste. If you don't have any 250ml drink kartons at hand, you'll waste even more.

When you're maintaining alot of survivors, those small amounts add up to alot over time.

Having penalties only kick in after a certain threshold is reached, like after 250 cal/ml, would alleviate this problem for a great deal.

since you don't want to allow hunger/thirst to go in the negatives, i would like option to share a single food item between chosen survivors (i am sure there is space for another drop down box)
i am stuck with 2l bottle of soda/emergency food bar, which i can't drink/eat without getting the penalties to 40%, or losing majority of it, effectively forcing me to once per day ventures, wasted on females, especially at the beginning, which in turn forces me to return with high fatigue
so starve because of inefficient sharing system, or die from fatigue induced injuries, or as was the case on my previous account, die from injuries because i had only one bar to share between 5 people stuck in high density location

another issue which led to my untimely demise was ration break, where survivors wasted valuable food to fill up remaining hunger/thirst worth fraction of the food/liquids they consumed, a pig out session so to say

so would like drop down box to share each food/liquid between survivors i chosen (or squads/safehouses for simplicity) in the order i specified (there is already order of placement in safehouses, so it shouldn't be a problem), and option to prohibit survivors from overeating (global or safehouse/squad specific, check box perhaps)
juggling backpack drop down boxes while scrolling the page isn't exactly fun either, i think above ideas would simplify it
not sure how stashes work since i'm yet to see them, but i would imagine the food/liquid ordered to share would remain in the back pack

As things are now, weapons are in a state that doesn't allow any improvement.
I think adding a way of "customize" them with some accessories to improve them would be a good idea.

Gun upgrading items can work in a similar way to upgrade items, improving guns at the cost of some SP. For example adding custom scopes to some guns can increase their range, and silencers can help to attract less zombies. Some items could be weapon-specific, others could be used on a specific "family" of weapons, like the M16 and all its variants. It would add strategic depth and balance the stats of weaker and stronger weapons out a little.

Why not add animals to the game, in several capacities. You could add pets to the game for use in safe houses. Birds, cats, small dogs, could be a type of safe house upgrade that gives a bonus to fear deduction,defense, or recovery, or some combo there of.

Or, you could add dogs to the game as potential team members, as fighters, morale boosters, and scavengers. Either give them their own skill tree, or give them a defined skill set, while also letting them be injured. They would need food and liquid, but would not be allowed to be armored. Think "I am Legend".

Either of these options would allow for new necra cards as well, touting the benefits of animal companionship.

You could also add animals as enemies in the game. Wild packs of dogs could roam the zones with lighter zed presence. Near certain areas players might encounter escaped zoo animals. Certain scavenge locations could have animal danger levels instead of zed presence.

Dead bodies on the map could be degraded by scavenger birds. Contact with these bodies, and the birds, for looting could give a slight increase to infection chance.

Lastly, for transport missions, players could be asked to move animal test subjects from one facility to another. The weight would be dependent on the type of animal, from caged mice to monkey's.

Just something to consider. A lot of ways one could go with this idea. Thought I'd throw it out there.