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What do realism arguments have to do with game balance?

That just postpones the problem. According to the patch notes:

So spawns will be fairly localized, and combined with the fact that compost is now finite too, we're going to have far worse resource problems than we did back with the original Eve spawns. Going out with carts just ensures map segments won't get reset, and will create a bigger circle of desolation so new Eves can't possibly make it to pristine lands.

People performing ritual on your bones to curse you sounds like a perfectly reasonable mechanic, provided bones are identifiable. One person doing it probably shouldn't do anything, but two different curses from unique accounts could cause a short banishment, and it stacks with the number of curses up to some maximum banishment duration.

Prison seems way too tedious. Banishment from civilization at least lets you do stuff to pass time. Especially if there's an incentive to do stuff, like needing to survive to 60 to get out of banishment or even having to complete a challenging objective within that one life (building some kind of a mini monument for example).

There are no tools in the game to actually investigate, tho, you have to witness it. Which means you have to be standing in the risk areas all your life. And you need a lot of people doing it because we can't see or hear anything further than like 15 meters. And with the way combat works, you have to be standing with your weapon drawn, so you can't exactly be doing other stuff while you're guarding. Hence it's basically a mall cop simulation.

Guards are a terrible solution, though. Standing around all your life is not fun and nobody sane would want to do it.

Killing a human should break the knife or arrow, whichever was used. It'd make serial killing a lot harder I think.

Karma system, each kill you lose a point. *Zero* passive karma regeneration. To get a karma point another player has to use an item on you, something like a medal. It should be an item that requires moderate effort to make, but is accessible to low tech so Eve can reward her kids. The point is that it shouldn't be easily spammable, so not only is regaining it hard for griefers, but it also makes it possible to meaningfully thank someone who has been of great help. Maybe also a negative karma item, to punish bad kids without resorting to murder. Karma would be visible to anyone, so if you get low karma by being an ass you'll be doomed to play as Eve forever because nobody will raise you. Conversely, good karma will get you prioritized over other babies, because everyone wants a helpful player in town.

Domesticated berries take 60 years to regrow, so you might as well have lost that soil as far as immediate needs are concerned. It's a waste of time to plant them early generations, get carrot farming under control before you plant your first bush.

Whole server really needs to be in one language because of the way spawning works. Communication with your family is important, so language barrier ruins game experience for both you and the family. Problem is, I don't think there's an ASEAN lingua franca (correct me if I'm wrong), so even a regional server would probably be best off in English.

Just random names here and there. I was Marx the other day and named my son Karl XD. But the main thing is that names should be under six characters, because it makes it a lot easier to talk to specific people.