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@Spoonwood Only the OG concept of "One Hour One Life" will make most of us care about kids but imo the game is not ready for that yet.

Atm if you die you can just "get reborn" immediatly so there is no meaning to care about kids, who cares if the baby dies since he can get reborn.

Also the map being infinite really diminishes the importance of making civilisations and lineages.

And why care about a lineage specifically?

If there was a fixed limited number of eve's per ammount of time and lineages dying meant nobody could play the game until the next Eve, then the importance of raising kids would have a totally different meaning.

Players would care about every baby like it's something precious because they would know that with only one life per hour and a limited number of Eve's if you dont take care of that baby it could mean the end of all civilizations on the server.

Thank ya'll, and yes Tarr I made an error in typing it haha, it's meant to be twice as slow not the other way around, so hunger pips decrease slower than normal. And right now I believe our final version is currently in the middle of building so it may be a hot minute before the server is live.

RodneyC86 wrote:

Yeah I would have saved the beans in a bowl
I have never attempted a radio, it's daunting and I can see why many would see them as clutter if they don't know how to make one.

I have made a radio and the town had a receiver and transmitter. If someone wanted to make another they can hunt for them.

I put the beans in a bowl at first, but later, like 8 years later I found a little girl emptying the bowl because she needed it for berries (there were plenty of bowls in the town, but I guess she didn't see them.) So I just took them out of town.

At this point I'm like "use it or it goes in the trash" *every* item in the game is useful in some way if you let that bother you you will never clear enough space for the town to get running again. Look at how many tiles *in the center of town* were filled with junk no one was using!

Also if trash areas just out of town become common you'll know to look for any little junky item you need out there before going on a journey for resources.

I once died because I had a rose seed in my hand and couldn't put it down without picking something else up. Clutter is deadly.

Apparently futurebird doesn't appreciate beans in terms of bean burritos, bean tacos, stew, or other uses I've forgotten.

Getting rid of worms by fishing doesn't take much time in my experience once you have the pole and hook, which I'm not sure is there or not.

I see niter.  Did the town have a radio?  Have you made a radio futurebird?  You really think that's clutter lying around town?  I'll remind you that need the radios to talk to anyone outside of your lineage.  You're going to need like half a dozen niter or something, and it's not easy to see in a desert exactly (and someone was probably in a hot desert while looking for it).  You don't want to just process the niter right away either.  As soon as you put niter into a clay bowl, the clay bowl is done in terms of doing anything else than eventually becoming a daniel cell, and can't get turned into an empty clay bowl anymore (unless you do a camera thing I think), so processing niter right away isn't smart.  Not finding enough niter can hold a radio maker back, and a radio maker needs niter, malachite, calamite, glasswort, lots of kindling, paper, alum, and I think some other things I don't recall offhand.

RodneyC86 wrote:

Spoonwood wrote:

According to Wikipedia, "Psychopathy is traditionally a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits." https://archive.is/sDmAD

MissImortal, griefed on one evening so far as we know.  So, I don't think it's fair to characterize such as psychopathy, since a behavior occurring once does NOT make such behavior persistent.

That remains to be seen. The seeds are there. Fair enough.
Wasn't there a part about psychopaths usually being charismatic on the surface?

You're making quite the judgement about someone's character here. How about you leave things like this to a psychiatrist? I don't support griefing but you are taking quite a leap here..

futurebird wrote:

When a family "tops out" the tech tree should they just die out?

Is there a cistern by every oil pump?
Is it full?
Is there enough wood by the fire?
Is there ice cream?
Photos?
Are the buildings all complete?
Are the farms optimized?

If it's a mess there is plenty to do. Help clean it up.

Sorry to say but many people (including myself) are likely to never enjoy late game. Maybe if I felt like late game technology was actually worth the time and effort (planes, cars, photos, radios, etc.), this could change. Instead, if you really care about the longevity of your town, these things can be detrimental to build (this is a major issue IMO). Cars and planes require SOOO much iron and can easily be lost or griefed...I'll take a few extra horses instead. Even baking diverse foods is a waste of time most of the time because of how few people build a yum bonus. You're better of just making pies so your nooby females don't accidentally starve since they can't recognize what is edible.

My impact also feels very little in these advanced civilizations. Of course there are things that I know I can do to help, but most of the time the town is not going to die out if I don't (even if I were to actively try to ruin it). In an early game civilization, I can often 'carry' and try to make an Eve's day. Even if I feel like taking it easy, I know I am always make a difference in an early civilization. It's also really rewarding when I see these civilizations are still around a day later. I honestly don't even follow the lineage of advanced civilizations because they already have gotten there. What does it matter if it goes another 10 or 20 generations?

When I bought this game, part of the appeal was that I could choose my life
with /DIE. Now though it feels like late-game is being forced on me and, to be honest, I have just not been playing much because of it.

For the record, I have been generally happy with the changes to the game the last 8 months or so since I've been playing. Not this change though (at least in its current state). If playing early game becomes a rarity, I will quit the game because I just don't think advanced civilizations are fun.

RodneyC86 wrote:

Spoonwood wrote:

Art is for other people, not the designer.

If you don't like some piece of work, or some aspect of that work, that someone tells you is art, you have a right to complain about it.  Good artists have a responsiblity to their consumers just as people selling non-artistic products have such a responsibility.

Wow, good artists expresses themselves through their work, consequences be damned. Responsibility is a killer of creativity.

Couldn't disagree more.