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Thanks, I love this stuff too!

I personally like the mix and match genetics more, as it'd be a random mixture every time you load in - a very lootbox/surprise egg moment of fun (to me). I like the idea of not having any clue on what you'll end up looking like, and the fanart that could ensue - subtle and not so subtle differences of characters would colour them more as actual people from around the world (like their players are) than classes from a selection. But yes, I can see that it wasn't built for genetics and mixing. However, if eyes and mouths matched in their position, expressions would look better too - right now sad expression clips to jaw and looks pretty ridiculous and looks wonky on some faces.

It's not like the full package character approach doesn't work or is not as good, it's a preference question. A pool of cosmetics would in my mind be easier to make more and more diverse while full package characters are much less versatile. It's true that full packages act more like game characters though, and can act as mascots or recognizable parts of a game.

Maybe when we get to 100 characters (or around that number) it will feel more like genetic lottery, but I can't help but wish it was an actual genetic lottery! There is just something really intriguing there, vanity RNG. But yes if one would go with genetic lottery, a lot would need to be rehauled, redesigned and programmed for it.

I second what Leonard said in his first post, there are better games than OHOL to enjoy. The moment I realized the game has become boring, I ceased my playing instead of starting to bother other players.

And the pulling weeds thing the other guy said. The only satisfaction I get from killing is the fact that the person is "removed from the session". Nothing else. I hate drama.

Hah, I was once a mute guy for my whole life. I cleaned my keyboard and replugged it as I loaded in; I didn't notice it my whole life but a button was stuck which prevented me from writing anything, I could only use the F1-F7 commands for expressions (AWBZ mod shortcuts). The village was dying with no girls left and I noticed villagers planning to leave it behind to run for the bell town 2k away. I couldn't say anything so I just followed them - soon, I was mid-way to the bell town, looking at my only companion, my old mother, dying in the middle of nowhere, saying goodbyes to me as I made the sad expression, still mute. I think she knew not to expect words from me as she left me her goodbyes. I carried her backpack to the bell town for her, and in the end died with no last words to Old Age.

Wohooo looms! I want to see clothes!

Some sorta kudos, mentioning system, would be enough. I don't need marriage, but I do want fathers. However, adoptive father is adoptive father, I wish father role was a thing like mother role is, in addition to adoptive parents - all part of raising a family and survival. But, as I have no better ideas how exactly it would happen and how family trees would link up, I'm not gonna suggest it (non-related males getting father stamp would be hilarious and amazing though). I know why it's troublesome to implement and I also want to see other updates instead.

True, the game doesn't need marriage. True, incest would be a turn-off and would cause more issues than cartoon nudity. True, it may not add much, if anything, to the game. True, there are other things to add or fix. True, a ring is probably not the best option here with the visibility - or, it's the best one due to the visibility.

What I learnt today; from western countries, only USA restricts first cousins marrying, every other country is chill with it. ("It is estimated that 20 percent of all couples worldwide are first cousins." whaaaaa)

Marriage, eh, roleplay away. However, fathers...
I'd like to be able to link males to the next generations in a family tree. Only women get to make cool long chains of people included but males just sit in their dead-end tree branch looking at nieces connecting to the next generation with their daughters. Damn these asexually reproducing strong independent women.
If incest is an issue, make only Non-related males father-candidates - more reason to bring families together in cities: kids would have unknown fathers unless a non-related male is around (hilarious mental images of a guy fathering 18 kids in a town).
Maybe we could opt out of the responsibility or the whole dad deal. They could just not be in the dad-pool unless they craft something to address them as fathers to non-related womens' kids. I'd also like if we got birth control for girls so they'd have this sort of option too.

I just feel like a game about family, survival and social aspects is not done until we actually have a family, including a father. Why are they left out like this in a game of parenting? A family game continues to lack a part of it until fathers are included. A role of a father shouldn't be left unexplored, at least that's how I feel. I suspect fathers were in the picture in Jason's vision at least at the beginning. Then he realized it'd cause trouble and awkwardness with the spawning system and family ties. I just really want to see what this game would be like with fathers included, what kind of shenanigans it'd spur - how would players act with this included? How would players play as fathers, would they take more responsibility with children as they are their link to the next generation "in blood"?

I was a leech, not a newbie.
And I was a nice leech, leeches are a spectrum!

Huh, that's a nice sentence. Can only be hung once... where's our torturing devices?! Oh that's right, they're called newbies.
(Just a joke people)

"I'll birth out two more people for every one you kill! *plop plop plop*" :'D
No no I get it, it'd be a stabbity stab war.

Looking at your post history tells me you weren't like this before, so what's up?

Nice! Any day, they were great kids, all were smart and nice. Your son, Myson, was the newbie man who I taught omelettes. He was a nice quiet farmer.

Daytime, nighttime, timezones, it doesn't really matter. Every continent, country and group of humans have rotten individuals. Or individuals having a bad day.

Yelling and arguing with people for long times usually ends up with someone getting killed. If you are quiet, it won't be you. Maybe instead of yelling about "not using three soils it wastes soil" you say "use two soil pieces, it saves soil, it's a good trick". Be smart with critique.

Someone snowballing sister: snowball them back. No need to make it other people's problem.
'Tho last time I got snowballed, a man instantly got into guard mode, ready to kill the snowballer. I didn't care, she never got me again (also, Eves, make sure tundra is far so people don't snow grief).

Bad Eve spot: their loss, just leave if they don't appreciate your critique. Again, say "let's make a warm camp in jungle" or "there is water far, let's move" or "I found a good spot, let's move". Or grab a sister who is open to moving.

Dunno why someone would stab for the stew thing, maybe it wasn't because of that? How often do you stay to argue and vent about things? If you criticize in a positive manner and make 'friendly reminders' people don't get into murder mode. "Hey man! Here, try my stew, it's a better food than berries, really useful and fills you up in one bite".

Uuugh bear towns. Eves staph. They are a death sentence. Every bear cave gets activated sooner or later.

Early stew can be great. But people have different ideas what is truly good early game. I'm interested to have a camp go without berries for early game, just to see how different it'd be.

I play at evenings in Europe and all lives differ greatly. Usually they are nice and people are nice. I can't remember the last time I have gotten killed. I have instructed players to do things differently and usually they comply or then debate against my instructions - which is fine. A man used one soil and tilled, I said using two saves steel, he said we had plenty of steel. Didn't stay to argue that steel is precious and compost is easy to make so I let him be, 100% efficiency won't keep a town alive during nighttime infertility or server population moving.
Before Donkey Town I had two common griefers playing at the same hours. Not that I always saw them, I just had more chance of bumping into them. After Donkey Town there was a polish pair of twins who usually started killing people - they were quiet but sometimes dropped in a word or two. Haven't seen them in a long time.
And yes I also remember a racist or two at Steam release, they have disappeared too.

I theorize that the Steam players are slowly leaving the noob phase and start to deflect criticism as they think they know better, having played tens of hours now. This shortens their fuse and they are quick to judge. Not all of them, but some of them, entering the "teenage phase" of a maturing player. "I do it my way, you are just a hater".

It's different from the usual weapon of choice: axe.

Mm, milkweed seeds. So nutritious.

Once a newbie tried to lasso sheep with a snare.
And ofc the basic raw egg eaters..