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Guys, I had a blast as both a North and an East in the aftermath of your first quad. 

But gentle reminder that we need to find San-Cal on server 2, today!  Please include driving fast to horse-carts as part of your plans. 

OH yeah, Tarr tried to give me a link to it, and I couldn't make the link work.

Yes! 

Two things I love doing.  Chopping down trees and making paths.  Totally doing this!

And really looking forward to your magnum opus, Grim.

There are many reasons why I don't like the apocalypse.  One is that it provides a justification for killing people.  While I know that you and Tarr are using volunteers and healing people, the general public doesn't.  The average player is not active on the forums, and will assume that people building endblocks are killing other people randomly to create the apocalypse.  And killing other people without their consent, when they aren't actively harming you or others, is what I consider greifing.  It's the thing that I save curse tokens for.

The one time someone tried to recruit me into building the apocalypse I said NO.  Quickly and emphatically.  I explained that as long as San-Cal stands I will do everything I can to stop the apocalypse from happening on server 2.  They stopped talking about the apocalypse.

On the flip side, I respect what Tarr is doing, in testing our ability to create an apocalyspe on a major server.  So I don't plan to play on server 1 until your experiment is complete. 

The apocalypse absolutely has a point.  I love finding old towns and revitalizing them.  Once an apocalypse happens, there will be no old towns to rebuild.  Eventually we will build back up to them... but... isn't this game hard enough as it is?

And lionon, Are we sure the one week cell reset is working?  Or is actually set for one week?  San-Cal has lasted months.  It's currently at the heart of the eve spiral one week, and the end of the eve spiral the next week, back and forth.  I was pretty stunned by how good it looked when folks re-discovered it a week and a half ago. (Twisted's video from last week is set there, BTW.)  But it goes nearly a week and a half without players - unless someone like pein or Tarr is riding out there in a horse cart on its slow days??  Anyway, I don't think the cell reset is working the way people expect for whatever reason.

I would not stab you for telling me stories while I am your child.  That's mean!

I tend to take my babies on tours with stops like, "Bakery"  "Very cold berry patch.  Sorry, not my choice." or "Sheep, we just got them!" 

I used to take them to see all the things I built in a previous life, but it's finally dawned on me that no one else cares.

You can use a skewer from a sapling as a hoe.  This is a great early eve camp shortcut that not enough people are aware of.  It can also save your butt when rebuilding an old town, but in that case, you may also want to bring back cuttings from the sapling to plant.

Also, you can make sapling cuttings to plant with just a piece of flint.  Much easier and lower tech than other trees.

Cut stones make for attractive flooring, and excellent corners or intersections in roads.

I like that the apocalypse is super easy to disable.  I found one tower, took the endblock off, and carted it many many biomes away and hid it behind something.   

That felt good.

If we get to the point where there's a big stable town again, we can block off access to the Nosaj with Newcom foundations, just like we do for bear caves.

There is a chance that Jason is creating an obvious greifing mechanism for the purpose of sucking up all their energy and leaving the rest of us with time to play.  Maybe. 

For any further explanation,  I think you'd need to find the folks that worked on making the Apocalypse happen.  Maybe go ask Shydies on Twitch?

Hmm, the only old post I found was discussing the players receiving curses and spending time in donkey town.  It was from back when he tweaked the formulas for the length of time people spend in donkey town.

Copied the rest of your quote because... YES!  I'd love to see us identify towns in the data, and I really appreciate everything thundersen is doing to make this data freshly squeezed.

Hmmm,  I'm probably in that top ten list towards the top...  as I say in game, "I play a lot"

I'm trying to cope with an evolving chronic pain and disability situation.  OHOL is something that I enjoy and get a sense of accomplishment from, while the rest of my family are off being normal members of society.

In other words....I don't necessarily recommend this lifestyle.

I don't have any issue with your math, but I think people are extrapolating over lifetimes a bit too much.  The competition for babies is happening each instant that a player joining the server, not over a lifetime.  Once Mom 1 has a child, Mom2 and Mom3 have much better odds for the duration of Mom1's cool down period.

Mom3 is infertile for as long as she stays in a bad temperature and has a low yum bonus. But no one spends their life in the tundra. The instant she moves to a better temperature zone, her odds of giving birth increase.  (Has anyone else started noticing that they will give birth the moment they get to a desert edge?)

Mom1's yum bonus and temperature balancing will be of benefit to her as long as she maintains them.  But she'll only have a constant stream of kids IF she can maintain it, and eventually you have to eat something that breaks your yum chain, unless you have a really big and well stocked town.

So since everyone has lows and highs in yum bonus and temperature, the real meta is to time your yum bonus high and temperature balancing for the moment your baby cooldown ends, while otherwise going about your business.

This is great.

I'd like to discuss a specific example.  Have you seen San-Cal's university?  It's a very large building with ancient stone walls and board floors, built mostly over desert tiles.  Most people visiting it from San-Cal have some amount of clothing on.  Most people enter it from the north, where the edge of the building lies on the normal forest biome.

I've been telling people it's a frying pan of death since before it was finished.  I also try to tell people about the food per hour difference, but people don't seem to take me seriously.  But I've cleaned a LOT of bodies out of there. So I think we should call food per hour the starvation rate.

Next time I'm there, I'm going to say, "This place has four times the starvation rate as the rest of the town.  I'm not staying here, and you shouldn't either."

I call that town West Village.  Unfortunately, I've had a lot more problems with mosquitos there.  I think they used to be deeper in the jungle but have moved over to the area we have built in.  One of these days I will give that place a proper mosquito wall.

In the meantime, I'll be sure to drop by and say hi to Berta.