No, as i taught my Clem in the last episode, always keep moving. Staying too long in one place make you an easy target, especially when the resources are running out. It doesn't matter how much they fortify the inn, they can't survive without supplies, of which Lee took the last ones on the day of the attack.
It would of been better to leave because as Kenny said food was running low and Macon was finished for good and i can imagine if the bandits would never attacked , Lilly would line everybody and accuse Carley and Ben as usual ( or Ben if you save Doug ) and Kenny would say that she is crazy and that she has sentenced them to death and everybody goes back to their rooms and in the middle of the night Kenny wakes up Lee and tells him to wake up Clem , Carley and Ben while he wakes up Katjaa and Duck and tells him that they are going to leave while Lilly is sleeping and you would have the choice to stay with Clem or leave with Kenny .
They were already running out of food even before the bandits noticed them. Macon had been picked clean, and hunting will only last you so long before an area has been overhunted and you need to move along with your prey. The only way sitting in one place works is if you have planted crops to provide a reliable source of food, and the motel didn't really look like it had any decent farmland. And even if it did, that would have been a long-term solution at best. They still would have needed to survive the winter without any harvest.
Besides, even if those particular bandits hadn't attacked, someone would have found it eventually. Probably someone with more people than Lee's group had. And when that happened, whenever it happened, the motel could have been taken easily. It may have provided a reasonable defense against walkers, but it wasn't exactly Fort Knox.
The Motor Inn kept them alive they died within weeks of loosing the Motor Inn...
Macon was going but they had enough supplies they could have lasted the winter...
It was a better Idea than going to Savannah and finding a boat...
They'd have to go eventually so I voted No, but I feel like they could have gotten at least a few more weeks to prepare and leave. Hopefully this would mean Lilly wouldn't go crazy and kill Carley (or Ben), she hasn't got any reason to because she doesn't need to be suspicious of either of them but if there is any chance of that she would be out of the group and left behind at the Motor Inn. I still think the boat plan was flawed though, maybe they would have found a community on the way to the coast.
Edit: I disagreed when Lilly said that they should leave the motor inn when they have to, not because of a dream of somewhere better (in Episode 3). Leaving on the groups own terms would be much better than being forced out by walkers, starvation, a death of someone, etc... and would give them time to prepare supplies and themselves for the journey somewhere else.
The Motor Inn kept them alive they died within weeks of loosing the Motor Inn...
Macon was going but they had enough supplies they could have lasted the winter...
It was a better Idea than going to Savannah and finding a boat...
If the bandits never attacked , they would still need to leave the motel because they would of run out of supplies eventually .
So staying in a motel with psychopats breathing down your neck is safe than finding a better place and hopefully a miracle ?
Macon was going but they had enough supplies they could have lasted the winter...
I feel like people tend to highly overestimate how long supplies last when it comes to situations like this. Consider that in Episode 2, the group is nearly out of food completely, having gone through Mark's whole supply, which surely had more than what they found in Macon in Episode 3, in a matter of three months. And this was during the early months of the outbreak when there were still a few easy food sources to loot and the weather was much better for moving around. Winter is just as long a time to last in far less favorable conditions.
What's the most that Lee can take out of Macon in Episode 3? 10 items? Maybe a few more? I can't remember, so let's be generous and call it 20. And let's say Kenny got the same amount. So they're walking back with 40 items. And let's just suppose for the sake of argument that that's all food (even though we know that some of it was medical supplies and other stuff). That's 40 items of food for 9 people. That will last you maybe a week if you're rationing yourselves. You've still got 12 more to go to make it to spring.
On top of that, the easiest places to loot for food have been picked clean first. And as it gets colder, you have to spend more energy to go get it. Eventually you reach a point at which, even though there may be more food out there somewhere, it's simply not worth the energy you would spend to go out looking for it.
Of course, I'm not saying that Kenny's boat plan was necessarily the best idea either. But that one at least had a chance of working, however slim it may have been. Staying at the motel would have been certain death.
I know right, and for the record it is 20 items, I think half was medical stuff though, Kenny was not as dumb as people think, I mean there might have been better ideas then a boat but staying was going to be death for everyone, and all those deaths that happen is Savannah were not his fault, they were more or less Ben's fault.
I know right, and for the record it is 20 items, I think half was medical stuff though, Kenny was not as dumb as people think, I mean there might have been better ideas then a boat but staying was going to be death for everyone, and all those deaths that happen is Savannah were not his fault, they were more or less Ben's fault.
Pretty much everyone's death were Ben's fault
I don't dispute that they had to leave. The problem was that his plans for what to do once they had were ridiculously thin. "go to Savannah and find a boat" with no concept of how and no backup. In his defence maybe he would have done a better job if the bandits hadn't forced the exit to be such a hasty one.
True but were else was there to go when he thought of the plan, I only started thinking of the country when Christa thought of it, and Kenny was still in a depressed mood the whole time he was thinking of it, and in his supposed 'last hour' he kind of realized the boat was a bad plan.
Maybe they could have stayed another month, but they would have had to leave sooner rather than later. Macon is pretty much tapped out by the start of Episode 3, and Kenny even says that the supplies from the car weren't going to last as long as they thought. Plus, every time Lee and Kenny go out, they risk being killed in Macon by walkers, or shot leaving/coming back to the motel by the bandits. They wouldn't have lasted the winter there, even if the bandits hadn't attacked.
Going to Savannah wasn't exactly the smartest idea either (even though I'm Team Kenny, I didn't think it would work out), and I only went along with the plan once everyone in Episode 3 had died and we were already on our way to the coast. If I'd had my way, I would have left the motel and tried to find another place to settle down in the countryside, maybe a small town like I suggested in Episode 5.
We can only hope, I mean it may have not been the best idea but at the moment there was nothing better, and I said also that the country was the smartest idea.
Well, the drugstore wasn't the only food supply in Macon and they had the stranger's food. Without the bandits, the area was more or less safe. But eventually, they had to go. Probably before winter.
I wanted to leave the motel ASAP so no I don't think staying would be a good idea. You can't stay in one place forever you have to keep moving out run the walkers, you know what I mean. Food supplies were running low and Macon was running dry and it would be to much of a journey and risk to venture to other towns.
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Besides, even if those particular bandits hadn't attacked, someone would have found it eventually. Probably someone with more people than Lee's group had. And when that happened, whenever it happened, the motel could have been taken easily. It may have provided a reasonable defense against walkers, but it wasn't exactly Fort Knox.
Macon was going but they had enough supplies they could have lasted the winter...
It was a better Idea than going to Savannah and finding a boat...
Edit: I disagreed when Lilly said that they should leave the motor inn when they have to, not because of a dream of somewhere better (in Episode 3). Leaving on the groups own terms would be much better than being forced out by walkers, starvation, a death of someone, etc... and would give them time to prepare supplies and themselves for the journey somewhere else.
If the bandits never attacked , they would still need to leave the motel because they would of run out of supplies eventually .
So staying in a motel with psychopats breathing down your neck is safe than finding a better place and hopefully a miracle ?
I feel like people tend to highly overestimate how long supplies last when it comes to situations like this. Consider that in Episode 2, the group is nearly out of food completely, having gone through Mark's whole supply, which surely had more than what they found in Macon in Episode 3, in a matter of three months. And this was during the early months of the outbreak when there were still a few easy food sources to loot and the weather was much better for moving around. Winter is just as long a time to last in far less favorable conditions.
What's the most that Lee can take out of Macon in Episode 3? 10 items? Maybe a few more? I can't remember, so let's be generous and call it 20. And let's say Kenny got the same amount. So they're walking back with 40 items. And let's just suppose for the sake of argument that that's all food (even though we know that some of it was medical supplies and other stuff). That's 40 items of food for 9 people. That will last you maybe a week if you're rationing yourselves. You've still got 12 more to go to make it to spring.
On top of that, the easiest places to loot for food have been picked clean first. And as it gets colder, you have to spend more energy to go get it. Eventually you reach a point at which, even though there may be more food out there somewhere, it's simply not worth the energy you would spend to go out looking for it.
Of course, I'm not saying that Kenny's boat plan was necessarily the best idea either. But that one at least had a chance of working, however slim it may have been. Staying at the motel would have been certain death.
Pretty much everyone's death were Ben's fault
I don't dispute that they had to leave. The problem was that his plans for what to do once they had were ridiculously thin. "go to Savannah and find a boat" with no concept of how and no backup. In his defence maybe he would have done a better job if the bandits hadn't forced the exit to be such a hasty one.
Going to Savannah wasn't exactly the smartest idea either (even though I'm Team Kenny, I didn't think it would work out), and I only went along with the plan once everyone in Episode 3 had died and we were already on our way to the coast. If I'd had my way, I would have left the motel and tried to find another place to settle down in the countryside, maybe a small town like I suggested in Episode 5.
I'd prefer to leave.