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It's the easiest way to translate that adapting your environments temperature to suit yours increases your chance of survival. In my opinion shade just got put in. If I am fully clothed and run across a desert, I won't overheat. If I run across a desert naked I start overheating immediately. We have been asking for ages to make clothing affect hot climates, well rather making clothing just simply bring you to middle perfect temp, it changes how fast the biomes temp affects you, very clever way to make it more accessible without making too simple. Needs some tweaking but very viable way if what was intended. Also rather than just moving temp to median, fully clothed you consume relatively the same amount of food no matter where you are. The rate does indeed seem a little fast, but 24secs/pip under perfect temp before really is a long long time, but only when at perfect temp. I'd take 15sec a pip fully clothed in all biomes over the up and down we had before.

There is a higher chance that they won't than the will, when dealing with chances especially when hoping for the smaller chance to get a reward, you are gambling. The math could be done but I would guess that 1-2 people eating these foods without the yum bonus would make the food not worth it. One guy that forgot to eat sooner and is scrambling and eats the wrong pie out of rotation, and now that berry pie takes a nosedive to how much theoretical food can be offered. Needed the whole village to coordinate foods available and foods eaten in an unorganized group of players on the big server sounds like a nightmare. I can barely keep dirt near a 4x4 berry patch without someone coming up and tilling it for random carrots making some 4x6 (some rows 5 and some rows 7) mixed planted monstrosity in the middle of the village. It's too much work that needs even more work to be taken advantage of, some things sound great on paper, but should stay on paper.

You should take a second to acknowledge that statement. One, on paper, yes if you were to stop every single grave from happening and for those uses would equate to a lot of food. But, you are not going to stop every grave from happening so you would have a split between graves and potatoes, which I doubt would be a clean split, and would most likely end up being more shovel use than if we never planted potatoes until Jason fixes them or gives us a tool that is solely for potatoes and graves such as a trowel (digging a grave with a trowel sounds like a military punishment though) Secondly, you will only exacerbate shovel/iron use trying to make potatoes work in a settlement that is not communicating on discord or something. Thirdly, you are better off using those shovel uses for other things and that iron for other tools. Rather than converting graves into potatoes in your head, convert those graves to compost piles, way better use.

Would it be possible for the marker to show up without having to dig up the newest marker?

Say you have three markers, Home Mid-Point and Iron Vein.

When near the Home marker, you see the arrow for the midpoint. When you get in range of the mid-point marker, the nearest marker to mid-point would get an arrow, either Home or Iron Vein. This is most likely not probable due to when you get just out of range of one marker, that would be the nearest and the arrow would move back. Could be intuitive though, head in the direction of the iron vein away from Mid-point until the vein is close enough to get the arrow to switch away from previous marker to the marker you were heading to.

Remembering paths isn't too terribly hard, but getting others to find them is much harder. Bread crumb trails can work easily enough but are not foolproof because there isn't a standard and its much harder to designate diagonal directions. Combine that with the standard view, not using zoom out, and navigating is perilous. Adding visual clutter like having more than maybe two arrows at one time I don't think is desirable as well.

I personally want to say thank you for your time. I can easily see that you are putting in extra hard work to keeping connected with us, evident by this post itself, and the fact that your latest news update HEAVILY includes thoughts and information from the community, even going as far as directly naming two.

To everyone else, he will stop by and post when he can, he is reading, this game is his current mancave/work of passion. He's not going to disappear for weeks, give him time and don't derail intelligible thoughts with nonsense like iron nerfs etc. It's very clear that if we are constructively discussing mechanics and doing excellent data gathering (amazing work Thundersen) on these forums, we have an opportunity to be a part of creating this game. Crying for attention will not have that same result.

I am little surprised at this as well. Given that we just got machines an all I was picturing some sort of mechanical doomsday clock, not a voodoo-esque sacrifical totem. It's like 50 times harder to make a car than to bring about the end of the world, not having it compete with resources I can see, but making the difficulty artificial with the timers is really lame.

I'd have to agree with some points here. Every tech update goes further and further out, but a lot of recent updates have made it much harder to get to those points. Now with the Eve changes even a determined player willing to commit a few hours in a row can't experience any continuity at all. Personally I don't understand fully the war against towns. Why spend the time designing and implementing cars if 80% of your players never get to see them? I get that it should be challenging to succeed, and that going from an Eve to a civ should be no small feat. But this never ending running around struggling to stay afloat also gets boring.

I can't even imagine what people would create if they had the chance to. Full on cities with 3-4 lineages in them, each with their own home building. I want to see cities with stone walls around them, littered with plastered housing. Right now there is no point in even beginning projects like these. It will never last long enough and it would be too hard to find when it dies out. Seeing designs like pein's car workshop is really really cool, but then it becomes sad when the chances of a car actually coming out of one is so damn low.

Note to self, Make knife early and kill all the snakes. Every child I have will wear snake boots. I am StateFarm and you are all jake. Together we will outlive the boots line, because ours are made of snakes.

Cant have compost without a pen? HA GOT YA! Nah for real not saying dig up all of em you can see, but if there is say 12-15 reed stumps sitting right there that are about to disappear in 15-25ish minutes and your closest reach to sheep is a carrot seed sitting on an empty tile and 6-12 berry bushes planted, you be DAMNED sure I am going to dig up all those stumps before Karen can bury 10+ kids that died of sids with that shovel yo.

Eh the problem is waiting that hour can kill the progress and the design. Too many post it notes, not enough actual change. Going further into this, basic function just a forge surrounding by forge stuff makes that area the forge, but it will never be respected as the forge with floor walls, bearskin and multiple chests. Just as a bakery with walls lined with chests that the second an empty plate is in sight is sorted and used, will always exceed the output of a 2xAdobe mess two tiles from the baby bushes. I was in a town once that had an adobe oven in the worst spot. Like omg. the worst spot. There was barely any pies around because of the clutter. I started to just lay down flooring telling everyone "this will be new bakery" When I logged in the next day and popped up in MY bakery, I damn near cried. I was there because it was still there. It was there because it kept people there. Because it was laid out well, had adequate storage, had walls and floors making it aesthetically pleasing, other people wanted to maintain it, were happy to do so! My daughters were jazzed to be IN A BAKERY, not just mindless bakers. Don't discount aesthetics considering every time you take on something that's scope is past your lifetime, you are essentially a salesman, nay a realtor, trying to convince someone to invest their time into it.

With you on the farmable reeds. Also not about aesthetics, plastered walls dont decay, which is the strength of them. Digging up wood stumps is good if you just straight up need to use the tile or ... for aesthetics. I am hereby challenging your disposition, and am  saying that adobe into plaster walls are for function, and that wood stumps are for aesthetics, and that neither are useless. Only are very specific in their application.

This is  a two fold problem honestly. Devoting an hour to playing a game, ignoring ALL distractions to maximize this hour, is starting to not become the norm. Cloud saves and multiplayer jump in at any time has conditioned us to believe that every shred of time spent should be progressive. To have an event that very well might take a steamy number two on the hour or so you just put it into the game has become a negative to be changed, rather than part of the game that is enjoyable. This double knife scenario is prevalent here because a margin will never be happy with " Guess I am the baker this life because no one else is doing it" and will always want to say " We failed because person XYZ wasn't doing ___ while I was doing what I wanted to do"

The imposed difficulty of eve camps as mentioned is pretty minor. I myself have felt triggered during times when I am going ham, my one and only child at the time is watching me work instead of doing stuff. Like really, standing there watching me holding an adobe was more productive than letting me solo fire 12 pieces of pottery and getting the charcoal afterwards, instead of  putting down soil to start berries. Doubling up on basic tasks usually is a time sink, one that eve camps can't push past if too many occur.

As Pein said, better communication would help, but shit, I have to come out and say, instead of people telling you what to do, how about you teach yourself more. Know what to do when you scan the town and see berries and carrots going down, and just go get some stone or adobe and make the pen real quick. Instead of hauling the tenth basket of banana's go make a damn rope, attach it to a stake and get the rabbit fur we need to make a bellows. Communication is key only when the end goal exceeds the common place view of the situation. The game is not complex enough for the expectation that  a larger amount of the player base can be productive without a play by play.

I of course would LOVE (LOVELOVELOVE) to see some base tech branched out a bit. Since when did people skip over iron tools going from stone to steel, umm never it is actually a landmark for industry to conquer that gap. Am I sad that is glossed over, yes. Am I happy with needing less levels of tools overall, YES.

The biggest hurdle right now is that there is a core group of people willing to devote enough time that any time something new is added it is explored top to bottom immediately. In less than a calendar year, over 650,000 hours have been invested into the game. Lets break that down a bit. In a year there is 365 days at 24 hours a day totaling to 8760 hours in a year. So we as humans have invested 74.41 years of playtime in roughly 11 months of acutal time into this game. No one man can provide that much to curb the easiness that comes from mastering a subject.

When there is more to do, the game will naturally become harder. When advancing tasks are conquered, the workforce (if productive members that will take a bullet), will shift into sustaining tasks, lessening the difficulty curve. Latex lords, taco kings and Stew masters are carved out in minutes rather than through a legacy. Once you have made enough tires to make 6+ carts and you still have 25 minutes left of your life, what the heck else are you going to do? If you care, you'll make sure there is enough pie for 1000 children to feast, or you go poke a bear and see how many people you can stab before someone finds the bow you hid in the forest. To me, both problems are solved when there is more tech, so therefore whether it be deep or wide, anything is welcome.

In my opinion the difficulty is higher tech to spend resources on, and time on. When you reach the end of the current tech, which isn't hard to do, you just end up adding to surplus which gives you a cushion for when something like the compost cycle breaks down for 5 minutes. Rather than dying out, stocks just get low for a second and then come back up because there is nothing to do but make food and roads. So when there was limited things to do, the thing to do was to have a lineage go on forever.

Take the early blacksmith for example. If they are also the source of gathered iron just furthers the point. While they are scouting/gathering iron, hauling it back and then either smelting or going back out, they aren't producing food. You as a civilization are funding that person via food to get this for the village. If they complete this task and there is no further task, they just move into to producing more food than they can consume, to the surplus.

To completely eliminate this I actually don't think is possible, or should even be done, because its the true end game. At some point it should be easy, and generations of kids should be able to do whatever they want for their whole life because of the hard work done by those that came before them. Sounds little too familiar eh? Is it too easy to get to this point right now? Sure. Is it something that needs to be addressed? No, it will naturally evaporate as it becomes more complex to get to the next resting point.