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Let's not make babies get stuck with moms (referring to Jason's posts); if the babies don't want me, I don't want them either. People would just kill the moms they are stuck with.

I like the thought of having an investment before you are born. My immediate thought is a perk that is strongest the first life you roll. Then it weakens the more you /die. But that's kinda like a soft restriction in a disguise.

The most important thing is that moms don't suffer if their baby is a picky person. Bones are a hindrance, angry babies are a hindrance, cooldown is a hindrance.

I do wish we could make the game so good we'd eagerly take any life we get but rebirth and player preferences are really difficult obstacles to overcome. Possibly impossible to overcome. But surely there are ways to tweak the situation. Good and bad.

Uh oh.

Signed, someone who hasn't gotten to craft oil and diesel things yet.

I agree to this fully.

Yeah, limit /die, people will run, poke bears, sit in snow, whatever it takes they'll get out. We should not limit /die thinking that'll fix it. It won't. Not even if there is a 0.5% chance of the kid staying because they had to sit a bit longer there. No, I don't buy that. That's way too unlikely to be a reason to limit /die.
Indications of lineage bans: yes, tell the player what they did and what they caused. I bet many clueless people are doing /die thinking they can get back to a family where they died as over 30 years old. "You are now unavailable to be born as a >family name where you just /died out of OR died in as over 30 year old<".
Rebirth is the bane of the game in a sense, as it makes life cheap and enables player pickiness. However, it's still a game, and it's an amazing thing that we commit to it for ONE HOUR per session! You can't force someone to commit to a game for one hour if they don't like the game. They'll do whatever to end it or to play in ways that you aren't supposed to play as they desperately try to drag entertainment out of a forced session. Then they stop playing altogether.

So, yes, let's rather connect players with similar preferences than let community punish each other with abandonment, cooldowns and ruined gameplay experiences.
You can't force a player to enjoy things they won't enjoy. They always have the freedom to pull the plug or hit alt F4. You can't fight against that. Rather find ways to encourage NOT pulling plugs, hitting alt F4 and make your game so good that people have hard time picking what they like the best.

I like the pregnancy one and the soul idea. I'd love to jump into the body of almost 3 year old baby and get to work without the first boring minutes of baby life. I don't mind missing my birth or naming or obtaining a body that already exists. Spawning in next to a fire with almost 3 year old baby body would be great.
Anyways I defend /die command and the freedom to use it. And I don't use it btw. I don't defend the playstyle of "I pick where I live and don't care about you drowning in bones", yeah it's not cool, but I'm not about punishing or restricting players like that. I don't mind.

And yes lineages and towns dying to SID sucks, but I rest easy knowing it ended to people not wanting to be there.
But, I'd like to give a chance for those last mothers (and men, why not) to come back to revive the place, if they really want to bring it back. Then maybe when you get back, you get kids who want to stay this time around.

Grab the BB code and drop it in as it is. It still works.

*hums Disney's Pocahontas' Savages song and eats blueberries from the nearby forest*

I never get to be Eve nowadays. Before, I think I've had like 5 real Eve lives during 6 months of gameplay. And those were from last year. I haven't been a real Eve at all 2019. Some people are chaining /dying to get to Eve, and so some never ever get to Eve (the ones who don't chain /die). We have lots of active hardcore Eve players who play to Eve, starting camps all around and splitting players around.

Early game is very different than city times. Early game you create, set a base for things, make visible structures and be a part of the creation of the core of a city.
In city times everything vital has been created already and you just fix, tweak or clean and arrange. You can create things but the place is so big nobody even sees what is just a bit outside of the core of the city. Your creations are pushed to the borders of a city and rarely people care what is around a city.

Anyways, I don't want to Eve, really. But in early game it's clear what is vital and what needs to be done next. It's clear as a day what is lacking and what is the hurdle the people have to focus on. What is the threat.
At city stage, there is no PvE threat, just people disconnecting, /dying and griefing. And goddamn drama and crowns and obnoxious people.

I hate drama. And I hate cities where there is drama.
I still play every life I get. But I wish cities had similar feeling as early game with challenging but exciting and fun urgency.

That's great, what an awesome photo collection.

Oh, that's random. Yes, Spoon family; I was Kitana (gen 8), who moved a whole graveyard to build a great pen for the sheep of a jungle-desert-swamp town. It was pre-temp change update so it was great, apart from two swarms of mosquitos wandering to desert side. I birthed and raised lots of children, showing them around and teaching my newbie son, who dug me rocks to make the pen with. He also chopped jungle trees for me to get them out of the way. The pen pushed the mosquitos further, and I did my best to block the edge.
Named my kids funny names, like Mega Spoon, My Spoon...
I had a bestie, a blonde lady, who was also a really big help. She ended up killing a ginger gal who tried to convince her child to kill with her.
During my last years, I managed to get a domestic Moufflon and watched it grow. My bestie wanted me to be there for it, and so I passed, leaving my bones to block some more jungle edge from mosquitos.

Then I got born into the same town as Poppy Worth, after some update had killed Spoons. Marveled upon the sheep pen of Kitana Spoon, the pen was fully active and clean. There were some foul mouthed twins that got killed or died, can't remember. Nathan Worth was such a bro and got so many rabbits for us. Again, named kids with fun names, like Mega Worth.
And yeah Terada family was living with Worths, names intertwining. They had a town and connected it to the old Spoon-town during my life. I had lots of lovely children and visited the Terada family's town during my last years. I teased my son about his friend being his boyfriend, heheheh. Mother things.

Good lives. The mosquitos almost killed the old Spoon-town though. Most people migrated towards Teradas, but the jungle road was swarmed with mosquitos, so the travel was often fatal.

Kitana: http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=2679481

Poppy (check how the place developed): http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=2684433




Last one is from Terada's town. Heavily desert town.

Nice!

It was terrible to see a new player in a YouTuber's video, standing in the middle of the town and saying "I'm new. I don't know how to farm" and EVERYBODY ignoring her. There is only so many times they dare to ask, we should really drop things that aren't vital right then and go help them get started. We need more players and teaching a person is an investment which is the most valuable thing we can do, as the knowledge carries on to infinite lives they play.

Do you know why the newbie got killed in their first life?

Good post. And I agree. I will most certainly not recommend the game to new people or stay to play if my lives are spent either getting killed or chasing people who try to end the town.
My fun is simple, I enjoy farming and exploring. People keep thinking that's boring but I enjoy it. I think it's boring and frustrating to chase people with a knife.

That's actually very cool!
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