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This was almost definitely an issue on my end, I restarted my router and replugged my ethernet cable and the issue went away immediately.

The best way to get existing content creators to cover OHOL would be for their viewers and fans to suggest it via YT comments/Discord/Twitter. Of course if they mostly play FIFA or BeamNG or Pokemon on their channel it's probably pointless to even suggest it as OHOL is too far out of their content niche.

The problem with OHOL is that it takes a while for it to 'click', which often means that you need invest some time into prep and learning if you're a brand new player looking to make a video (although I love watching people's first impressions of OHOL). Compare it to something like TABS, which is super easy to get into and make fun videos straight away.

If you do have any content creators that you watch and that you think would enjoy playing OHOL on their channel, let them know about the game. Tell them it's available on Keymailer, and tell them that I'd gladly show them the ropes if they want someone to guide them.

I think the real problem is compost. Shovels should be used for digging, composting should be done by a dedicated tool such as a manure fork.

I don't think this argument holds water at all.

Sheep don't need to be fed and they just pop out babies forever, pigs never shit and their meat is inedible, cows don't have meat whatsoever.

We can't figure out how to eat raw tomatoes or onions, but we can make steam engines out of branches and rocks.

We can make cars out of wooden boxes, and make planes out of them just by adding wings. And that plane takes up less space than two corn kernels.

Also, shovels break after digging out like ten potatoes. That is NOT the way shovels work.

Saying that you can't fix potatoes because it would be 'unrealistic' is an extremely poor argument.

I think it shows the average, yeah. When I first checked the graph said 27, now it says 26.

This. In real life you build buildings to protect yourself and your belongings from the weather. They're a positive thing.

In game they're a tradeoff - on one hand, they look neat and can sometimes help direct people to a certain task. On the other, they cost resources, and (more importantly) they destroy valuable real estate that could have been used for storage instead.

I think changing the ban timer from play time to real time would be a big step by itself. Unless I'm mistaken, the ban timer is two hours, right? That means if a person plays one life every day, they can't go back to their Monday town until their play session two days later, on Thursday. And that is only if their Tuesday and Wednesday lives were both old age deaths, otherwise they'd have to wait until Friday.

I feel like this is more wistful thinking on your part than actual reality. I can't remember a single life where the only village knife was in the elder's hands.

Currently there is no reason to trade as every village has everything. In history, trading happened because party A had something party B wanted, and vice versa. That's just not the case in this game most of the time - the one exception that comes to mind is when you trade clothing for another piece of clothing.

People trade either useful core resources or luxuries. In OHOL, every village has access to the same core resources, and luxuries don't really play a role - if you really like lobster in real life you'll pay extra for it, but ingame lobster is just nutritional value, same as a carrot. The only luxury that might work (and already does work, kinda) is clothing. You can show it off, but then again most people don't care about the looks, they just want the most efficient item. And even if you do really covet a specific item of clothing you can craft it yourself most of the time.

What if there were special rare resources that only spawned once every thousand tiles, like silkworms that allow you to make special silk clothing, or rare dyes for both clothing and buildings, or marble deposits that could be crafted into special tombstones and statues, or animals that can be hunted and crafted into special clothing/decorative items. Luxury items that you can show off.

Let's say that we do have a reason to trade and that we decide to trade. I have a small cart where I store my wares, and a random person comes along. They offer me their gold bar for a basket of pies. I agree, but before I have a chance to react they grab the basket and run away. I cannot physicially block them, I cannot catch them, I cannot grab them. My only course of action is to kill them, and that seems really awkward. Imagine working in a store, someone shoplifts, and the only thing you can do is murder them on the spot.

You might say, "Oh, just build a building and lock it," but building a building like that is a multi-generational effort and most people wouldn't be happy with a single person claiming ownership of it.

Right now you can have multiple people standing on the same tile. What if that applied only to members of your family? That would encourage familiar separation, as you wouldn't want to share a smithy with an outsider since they would be a hinderance. You could also block people from accessing certain area with your body. If another family moved into your territory you'd probably want them gone as their very presence would be making your life more difficult. This would kind of enable private propery, in a way? The more I think about this the more I like it.

Let's talk about roads - trade can't happen without them. Currently ingame roads have to be built tile by tile before they can be used. My understanding is that in real life roads were formed by travelers and traders who naturally left a trail on the ground where them and their caravans walked. This would probably be impossible to implement, and it would be an incredibly massive amount of data to store, but what if each ground tile had a health value?

Let's say that a grassland tile has 100 health - every time a cart, horse rider, or car crosses that tile the health of the tile goes down by one. You could also use a road making machine (a massive boulder sledge or something) to deal ten damage to that grass tile. Once the tile's health goes down below twenty it becomes a dirt road. Health would go up over time, so if a road stops being used it would go back to a normal tile. Something like this sounds completely impossible to implement, but I think it would make for interesting gameplay.

Bodies of water and boats would likely be a good way of trading as well. Rivers and ocean/lake biomes are definitely up there on my wishlist. The ocean/lake biome would probably have to to be salt water as to not make the current water tech completely obsolete, and the rivers would have to give you muddy water that had to be processed before watering your crops or something.

This is a very interesting and potentially good idea, but I don't think it would achieve quite what you're aiming for. If both towns survive long enough they'd eventually establish a road between them, and people would mix until you have a 50% split of each family in both towns. Most of the time though either one or both of the towns would die before ever meeting their counterpart.

I don't see how or why I would prefer my Montague family to their Capulet family to such an extent that I decide to do anything that harms the Capulets in order to help my Montagues. We're all players playing the same game.

If a young unrelated girl walks up to me and asks for food I will help her, because she's not a random person - she's another player that was was probably my daughter, mother, grandson, or uncle in one of my past lives. She is not unrelated to me any more than my ingame 'daughter' is.

A town has personality - the layout, the buildings, the roads. The towns are variables that keeps changing over the course of the game - every town that I played in over the past year was its own living thing. That's why we care about towns so much - towns are our creations, birthed from the sweat of our clicks.

The people, on the other hand, have been a constant all along. They just pop in at random. We don't get to shape them, we don't get to affect them. They're their own people with their own existing personalities.. A name doesn't make a person.

In real life you care about your children because you create them from nothing, raise them, and shape their personalities. They become what you make them, and if you don't take care of them they will be gone forever and will be lost forever. Very similar to towns in OHOL.

I really dislike this idea. The main draw of OHOL for me is spawning into a brand new situation every life. If I get spawned into the same family every time I play that means death has no real meaning, it's just a slight annoyance as I can just respawn in the same town immediately.

Any family gets Tarr or some other highly skilled player is going to be basically immortal until server reset. What's going to happen is there's going to be ~5 families that keep building up their city until it gets massive and people get bored.

This would also completely screw over players who enjoy playing in Eve towns.

The more I think about this the more I dislike it honestly.

On a different note we just had two straight months of mechanic tweaks, bug fixes, and redesigns. I really enjoyed the content update last week and I was hoping you'd focus on those for some time.

I love this idea. Currently the only reason to bury someone is roleplay, as burying people actually drains valuable resources and the only thing you get in return is even more organization problems as the potential play area becomes smaller. If your child/mother/sibling dies the best thing to do is to ditch their bones in the swamp far away from the town, which always felt really weird to me.

If being buried made you ignore the area ban then we'd see a lot more burials, you'd want to bury a good player so they can come back, and if someone was causing problems just exile their bones far away so they can't come back. You'd also want to bury random unknown bones that are always scattered around towns, as buried bones = more babies for your family.

Murdered people should not be able to avoid the area ban though.

We could also get several types of tombstones, just for a variety's sake. You should also be able to see the name of the person buried there - right now it just says tombstone, and you have no idea who your ancestors were.

I'd love to be able to talk a walk through the family graveyard in a future life and see what type of grave my children made for me.

I agree with this 100%

One of the main reasons I love OHOL is because it's a game unlike any other, a game about cooperation and civilization building. So many games these days use conflict as the main driving force of the gameplay, playing OHOL feels really refreshing.