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If I am busy surviving and providing for one hour, I have basically no time for talking, connecting, planning or learning. We are racing against death and any conflict is detrimental or even fatal so there is no space for that. Even talking is punished by hunger dropping.

Personally I just want epic PvE but people seem rather hellbent on PvP.

Oh my gosh, I just got flashbacks. I, too, stabbed someone accidentally.
I wasn't even a new player at that time;
I was old, the curly blonde lady, chilling with my cousin (first or second or so) who was about to die to old age in few minutes. We reflected on our lives and I made sure to thank him for his work. He had been doing great and was a big help to me and the town, a real bro. He had finally finished his life work and was talking about how he's just gonna chill until the end. Then some kids started running around us, one trying to kill the other. They kept dodging, shouting, stabbing items, dropping weapons and grabbing the dropped weapons from one another. I stayed put with my cousin and kept an eye on them and their behavior to determine which may be the real rotten apple here. I decided that next time the chased one runs near me I will stab them. The weapon wielding person was only after this one character, so I suspected the one being chased is more likely to be the issue here. The weapon kid could've stabbed an easier target if they were the real problem.
Then, the kid I suspected to be the problem ran near me, so I take a swing at her with my knife-- stab lands, ON MY OLD COUSIN. This poor raisin of a man drops his little popcorn bowl, and I start gushing out apologies to him. I hoped he'd die to Old Age first so my stab wouldn't count. He was chill about it, and I stuck next to him until he died. Nobody killed me nor fed me for that matter, I kinda wanted to just starve, but got out of the cooldown and lived to Old Age for him.

I think he got Old Age death though. Would take some effort to find this life from my folder of lives and screenshots, but I could.

My sibling almost bought OHOL, they wanted to twin with me; if alone I am a hurricane of productivity for my digital family, with my sibling it would've been double the achievements we would've reached together. At the best times, I praised the game to my friends, one wanted to join me too. But in the end, I realized this game isn't (for me) worth more than the half year I spent in it. Jason's vision is still unclear to me and things like apocalypse and thirst for drama between players are signs that this game won't be what I'd love it to be. One dev can only do so much, but inconsistencies, broken features (multiples and curses/lineage bans) and old things left useless (pork still only for tacos right?) are just left untouched for crazy long times.

And again, I don't start up the game to be a villain hunter hero of a town. I start the game to help out developing the place I am born into, and try something new from time to time. This is hindered by griefers and Jason's wish to constrict towns from developing fast and killing towns to slow down players. I want towns to die due to people leaving it or mismanaging it, not because of a continuous attempt to bring it down by players.

In the end, me and my sibling bought Overwatch instead. At least I can avoid certain players who want to have fun in a way which diminishes mine. My friend went on to play other games.

I feel sad for all the people who don't have the mod and get griefed by someone with the mod. It's like an adult kicking a child.

To me you are adding an unnatural way to speed up a natural process; lighting a fire to a forest to help out a wildfire while I try to extinguish the wildfire, only to realize someone keeps lighting up more to add to it.

Killing families as a goal, in a way it's interesting that people create such goals for themselves in order to enjoy the game more, but I am very disappointed it's about killing. So many games are. It feels more like lack of imagination and creativity than proof of it, to revert to the killing things goal.

Deserving death... Well, if you poke a bee hive and get stung, then poison it, did the bees deserve it? I mean, in a case where someone is stirred to anger, calls you names/curses/hunts you, you'd probably say they deserved it? I've seen these stories unfold here in forums. "Well they called me bad names and exiled me! It was self-defense!" "Yes after you threatened us and killed us and tried to force people into slavery (as some sort of "RP")."

I think you ruin more fun than create. We are opposites on this one.

Small story about ruining fun vs creating it with softcore griefer: I had an old man in a fresh town who would kidnap babies, trying to starve them and drop them to wilderness. He would work from time to time, but mostly he just tried to kidnap babies. Me and my brother, both he tried to kidnap, killed him as adults. He said he made things interesting, that we "played a game together", as if he had done me a favor. Me and my brother both sighed, at the same time, "idiot", as he died there. We did not want to hunt him down, but we couldn't let him be either, as he'd kill naive and new players if left doing his stuff. We didn't enjoy this "game" he "bestowed upon us". He was simply a bother, a chore, like getting trash to the bin outside. It was not why I started the game, I did not come to play hero who kills "bad guys". I came to play together, to teach new people, to show tricks to surviving, to help out establishing beautiful and awesome towns and maybe get to do something new. But that started to happen so rarely, I stopped playing over a month ago.

This has happened to me. As the game is already against creating (deleting old items, decay, apocalypse), adding griefers to the process demotivates me and keeps me out of the game. If it was just everyone vs the game together then I'd rush back to play. But now it's the game against me, and players against me. I know nothing lasts forever; when it's just me vs the game mechanics I'm glad fighting a losing battle, but when players start fighting against me I find the game not worth it anymore.

If I could, I'd play the game completely excluding griefer players. I'm glad curses are in but overall I'd just rather be in a space without them. They don't spice up my gameplay at all.

Hahah, when I installed AWBZ's zoom out I had trouble finding the one to download (had to scroll down a lot and click "latest release"), then I just installed the one that read "full" which broke stuff in the game. Then, confused, I made a forum post, which AWBZ answered, then I got the right one installed. Then, it had to be updated every time Jason updates and AWBZ himself updates, and many times I made clean installs, thinking it had to be done like that. When AWBZ hadn't updated, I was confused, trying to get it to work, until I realized by myself that "riiight he probably hasn't updated yet, so I am in a limbo between Jason and AWBZ".

I've been using Windows and computers since I was like 5 years old, playing on emulators and starting games with commands. Without knowing English but just repeating what I was shown. Yet I still manage to fumble with new things.
Many also mention they'd try out AWBZ's mod but they are lazy, I bet if it was a button in workshop there would be a lot of people trying it. But yes Jason wouldn't want that.

I almost blamed the numbers too but then again with more players there would be more developing towns and bigger towns at the brink of collapsing.
There is probably a sweet spot for total number of players for OHOL as the one hour lifespan is what is pacing the vitality of towns.

From 2019 only?
My Eve percentage is wayyy higher and my survival rate has dropped immensely; that's the Eve suicide I've been doing (join like server9 to fix zoom and then suicide in snow with snowmen). I checked my files and confirmed that all my Eve lives in 2019 have been zoom ratio fixes, so that's 39 Eves dying at 15-16 years old... Ouch, that stings for average age of death and hunger death percentages. I thought it was maybe twenty or so Eves but 39!
Funnily enough the kid/grandkid ratio is even more on grandkids side.

Thank you for the stats and scripts! It's fun; I wish the game had a library of our lives to go through. I'd filter out my kamikaze Eve lives completely.

EDIT: No more deaths by killer?

I think I am in a timezone where I play during the time when more players arrive than leave. I may also have had lots of capable players as daughters.
My survival rate is high because I basically had no learning curve. I watched videos before buying the game and lived to Old Age on my first life. And more after that. Those darn twenty-or-so Eve lives fixing my zoom and suiciding are dropping the rate though. :'(

I do recall lives where I have raised my grandkids and sometimes a great grandkid. From time to time my own daughters just pop a kid and leave it behind. I guess I may stay in towns a lot as a female, so I may notice a baby and raise it.

Some stuff I do (situational);
- produce a lot of goods for places to support babies
- tour my kids/tell them where stuff is
- meals on wheels (breastfeeding 3+ year old toddlers running around, I just grab 'em and let go)
- tell my kids if wild food is exhausted/far (disencourage traveling when way too young)
- leave nearby wild foods for kids and chain myself to eat further away (leaving some berries in bushes and such)
- tell my kids if base is in famine and raise them in wilds
- tell my kids if there are dangerous places around so they can avoid certain directions
- teach babies, give tips
- show newbie babies how to do things
- feed a toddler I know is starving while trying to talk to me (hold them if I can feed)
- never starved a baby by going dry - I'm always on top of it when graying and get them to food in time
- tell my daughters if they are the last female and how to get babies
- have 3+ yum most of the time
- name all my kids and grandkids with cool names (going as far as asking people with a surname to name my kids so they'd get it and pass it on if I have no surname)

But last life I played was 33 days ago so I haven't gone in with the new temp system. This was all pre-temp change.

A-ha, so you do skew it a bit by favoring towns which seem susceptible to killers? That means you are choosing the easy ones to get high kill rate then. It's important to take that in consideration when showing off numbers. It explains high kill rates already.

Good tip! May take a while to die though? Wouldn't have to go on a low population server at least. Would still count as a life I think?

I never saw where the folder appeared? It was supposed to make a folder from OHOL data?

Had to restart it once before it got to 100%.
I must give up and go to sleep though, I have no idea what it wants now; "make a file", waaat.
"Get from email", no idea what it wants part two.

"Unexpected identifier".

Aaaanyways my last life was 32 days ago, Sophia Mich (159656).
On name list: http://onehouronelife.com/publicLifeLog … _names.txt
On Births/Deaths: http://onehouronelife.com/publicLifeLog … Sunday.txt
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=3327975