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I played two lives yesterday as a ginger Pu. Supposedly there was a large city nearby, and we had a few visitors during my second life [he seemed peaceful, was stacking firewood near the main fire with his horse cart and fetching long shafts] but I stuck to our small camp both lives. Not sure if the same area or camp though.

First life, I made all the iron tools [when I was born we had only a hoe and an axe], and mined a vein nearby for a haul of about 18 iron. We also got the sheep pen built during the end of that life. Was cut short by a twin griefer after I confronted her about repeatedly stealing the forge plates. I berated her in front of most of the camp, so she shot me and stupidly tried to claim I did it/it was an accident.. lmao. Nobody bought it.

Second life I was born to a Pu from the same camp out rabbit hunting. She brought me back to camp, and I watched as the twin started sniping people from behind an oak tree in our camp. Wasn't big enough to grab bow yet, but made an arrow and managed to direct a brother to shoot her behind the tree. Unfort she already killed like 3 people, and her twin got another bow/arrow and killed the avenger before starving.

Shit's wack I guess, family's fault for keeping twins and not bothering to react quickly though imo.. They looked like trouble from the get go. Our bellows ended up disappearing in the aftermath so I wouldn't be surprised if they'd started hiding things after the initial kill.

Second life I got mouflon and set up compost, smelted down all the iron I'd mined, and helped make a few pies. Someone was working on a stone building by the time I grew old. We still had a girl and looks like they lived for another 20 or so gens, so that's nice at least.

suicide kids stink though. Even with the 15-family limit, things still don't bode well in the slightest for outpost families. In fact, they might even be worse now because of it.. since not only do kids who /die out of a city also add anyone from that family who's trying to eve to their skip list, but now, if you leave a family with 15~ members, you're not gonna have fuck all kids because of the new limit also counting you in their numbers lol.

Outposting isn't viable. Eve'ing is rare. We're never gonna get out of mega-city hell.

RodneyC86 wrote:

Coming here with the mindset to want to live a certain life is wrong approach to this game IMO

People having a certain preference is not and cannot be wrong.  Wrong requires something objective, and preferences end up subjective, so a person can't be wrong for having such a preference.

RodneyC86 wrote:

I think we all need to be less selfish for this game to work as intended but then that might ask too nuch from certain players...

Uh... you paid your own money for a game.  I think that you should, consequently, play on a self-interested basis (so long as you aren't harming others).  If you aren't, I have to wonder about your level of self-respect, but admittedly I do NOT know you, so I'm not making a judgement here.

RodneyC86 wrote:

Imagine each of these eve players sets up new camp every day, if assuming 10 percent, there's only on average another 9 players who will pick up the eves camp to develop it into a town over what 30 generations?, and while doing that, the eve player will continue making new families?

Sure, that's a possibility.

RodneyC86 wrote:

The crux of the problem is, people want to eve families that runs very deep into hundreds of generation, but are not willing to play the boring 'endgame' in late generation families?

Nope, I don't see a problem there.  Eves can HOPE for a long lineage.  That's it.  It's not a problem if they don't have one though, since the length of the lineage barely has responsibility to them.  The length of the lineage depends greatly on the Eve's children.  If they don't want to keep that lineage going, then the family should NOT have high numbers.

In other words, there's isn't a good reason to cut off the choices of an Eve's children for the sake of an Eve's desires.  Those children (and grandchildren and great grandchildren, etc.) have their own desires.  Them choosing not to play in someone else's family should be their choice and under their control.

Basically, everyone should be able to play as they desire as long as they are not harming others.  And no one should force any other player to play as they want them for their own sake. 

So, what you claim as a problem, I don't see as a problem to begin with.

RodneyC86 wrote:

wio wrote:

Hello!

I think you should be born a girl, which will happen half of the time, and when you have enough pips you should take grab a basket with food and run away from your village.
By the time you're old enough to be an Eve, you should be far away enough from you village that it would be similar situation to having actually been an Eve.

Does this solve your problem?

While a good bandaid, there's the issue that most the lands in the direction you came from are combed dry. And people eve to get their surnames (something which I don't get,but that's me).

For the surname problem someone suggested a middle name to make a lineage somewhat your own

Honestly this is a tricky problem, you can't have both many eves and big thriving cities at some point in the game , especially given the current small player base. Jason must choose, and that's a burden

People generally like more control than less control in a game.  An example is Rimworld, where you can pretty much control the flow of the game as much as the developer can and people don't complain about that.  Each move towards less player control is likely to decrease the playerbase, and I think also that more control is likely to increase the playerbase (assuming everything else equal/ceteris paribus).  So, I think bigger thriving cities could also be compatible at some point in time with something like an Eve button and the spawn mechanics before swords got introduced.

Hello!

I haven't played in about a month, and I've come back to find out I can't Eve!!! Eve'ing is my FAVORITE thing and really one of the only reasons I play. I will rarely play to be in a developed town. I hear Jason has decided Eve'ing isn't great and made is so rare that it's not worth it to /die and try.

I won't be playing this game until this is fixed, since Eve'ing is what I enjoy the most. I'm truly disappointed that this has happened. It feels like the attempt is to kill enjoyment for this game for many.

What does everyone else think? I hope this is solved soon.

~MissImmortal

Tarr wrote:

I don't really consider a box downgrade anything more than dead content. It's 1.5x the milkweed requirement, more iron tool usage with saws being one of the easiest tools to break, and is a strict downgrade.

There's nothing to vouche for the things in a game that could be classified as a tedium simulator. Swapping from two clicks to one click for less space (or more depending on if you right click through the whole thing vs just clicking what you want) is not useful at all.

These are without a doubt useless and if people,see slot boxes they should turn them to sledges and take the thread for a second box.

Without decaying baskets you should never have to worry about baskets and if you do either grow some wheat or take a cart to the local prairie to make,some.

See this is where I think the strict mentallity of 100% efficiency doesn´t work. It´s a game. If we wanted 100% efficiency we would probably only eat pies. If I wanted 100% efficiency I would be working at home not playing a game lol.

RodneyC86 wrote:

Hmmm, so if there are 10 pies in it I can make a pie bomb by putting a shaft on it? It's fine, we'll just knife whoever does that repeatedly

I really appreciate what you have done here Jason.

What? It is free distribution to everyone.

FeignedSanity wrote:

So, we can make baskets with thread now (not needle and ball of thread, just thread)

Is this confirmed? Because I'm not wasting 2 milkweed on a fuckin basket when I can make them with no milkweed instead lmao. Milkweed's already a constantly wanted/needed item in the current meta, both in early and late game. There's little excuse for throwing it away to make baskets, whether in early game where milkweed is in constant need, or late game when taking a cart and making a trip to a nearby swamp is less wasteful of resources.

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if people considered using early-game thread for making baskets as a new griefing tactic.