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I like to play as a carpenter or lumberjack, collecting wood for town, etc.

I agree that the hungry work element has made wood working more interesting and challenging - I'm a lot less likely to find random piles of firewood willy nilly around the town, and I have to think a lot more before deciding how many trees to cut down.

There was at least one town I was in, that seemed to be dying just because it had become really hard to get firewood anyplace nearby.

But I don't think it's really promoting yum.  For me it's the opposite. If I want to go lumberjack a copse of cypress, I pack three mutton pies so I can quickly refill after chopping each tree down. I'm not going to take yum foods (which tend to be rare) away from the moms by the fire, and chopping down trees tends to happen far from the bowl-based yum food sources of a town.

Also, how did I miss that Tarr is back??!?  Yay! 

Just bumping this up, since we only have two long-lived families, and it's pretty clear the world hasn't wiped in several days, even though we are currently having another "eve window".  It's nice having things I recognize building from a few days ago.... but there's also very little variety in playing either a Reed or a German.

Dodge just put it in the data file issues.

Also, stop reading the forums!

I didn't hate the rift either.  I think there are some interesting ways Jason can go forward from the Rift, and I don't think the Rift per se was a terrible mid-point.

I hated the way the players responded to the rift.

I hate that we can expect this in the future:  1) Jason does something experimental, that on initial drop makes everyone a bit angry and frustrated 2) greiferbase grows in response to the general anger and 3) greifers feel like its ok to go around killing and destroying everything they can think of because "Jason made a mistake". 

Jason's gonna make mistakes guys.  He's even going to fall in love with his mistakes and leave them in while tweaking them to something the rest of us can live with (warswords).  That just means we need to "get good" at laying out our problems and discussing how to solve them (like on the "real problem" thread that led to the map structure update).  It does no one any good if we make the game unenjoyable by being nasty to one another.   

I mean, sure we finally got the weird staked berry bush transition to domestic fixed, but did that really need to be a top priority?  Was the pain of going through an arc without even berry bushes worth it?  I sure don't think so.

And at some level, the fact that the Rift update made some of the long-standing issues with the game even worse and more obvious is a FEATURE, not a bug.

Thanks Drak!
This was very helpful.

I was playing while the rift went poof.  It poofed.  I experienced some serious lag as it went poof, but i play with Hetuw, so YMMV.

It was glorious to go from a very limited oldest-son-of-an-eve scraping by in a reclaimed village hard up against the edge of the rift to having the best of both worlds... a developed town with loose domesticated animals north of it and abundant wild foods and milkweed to the south.  I got to wake up rabbits for the first time in a loooong while.

Given the low quality of my play time yesterday, I'm thrilled to hear you are rolling the rift back for a bit, and promise I will not complain too much when you add it back in. 

Now go enjoy your vacation!

Personally I'd rather have us fighting over cameras than the endstones... at least it is an item that doesn't require a ritual killing.

But you have a good point, that a single fail condition will cause people to distort their actions...Maybe something like the max number of families decreases for every two hours that no pictures are taken?  There are probably additional metrics that could be used and combined, too.

But mostly, I wanted to share that there were no pictures during the long decline. 

What if we had more than one eve spiral... and balance placing Eve's in pristine wilderness locations with placing them in occupied areas. 

We started to go that way with the Eve's spawning in near  concentrations of other players... but having them always pop at a particular tile ended up getting them caged.   And Tarr caged the Eves as a protest of the entire property fence system, not the feral Eve effect.  Heck, at one point in the game Tarr would only play as an Eve if he could find a town to co-occupy in the first ten minutes.

In other news... seems like I picked a good week for my own OHOL-free family vacation.

I have had a great set of lives lately.  Worrying more about finite milkweed, green bean seeds, squash seeds, etc. is actually making the game more interesting.  And when i play scavenger, it's much easier to find juicy troves of clothes... cause everyone died within a horsecart range of somewhere.

My one harsh life... was in a family that lived outside the main towns, and it was the realest experience of being the poor outsider I can imagine having.  Saw the milkweed growing inside the town and gasped at the abundance!

This is working.

My first response to a post was sharing what I'd learned about yellow fever and how to treat it, right after the Jungle update came out.  https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … 125#p38125

The jungle update!  I loved that thing.  A whole new biome, tons of new trees and plants.  Learning how to deal with mosquitos.  That's the kind of update everyone loves.  New stuff to do new things with and find new ways to survive. 

These gameplay updates have been harder to deal with... but they are important in their own way.  But I had a lot more optimism about the game in the aftermath of the jungle update than i do now.  I've also learned a lot about me and people, and how easy it is to slide into violence and anger once you get exposed to it.  Why is it so much easier to get frustrated than it is to spread calm and appreciation or gift giving?

The first post I started was about San Cal, the long-lived city. https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4822
This post was from before the San Cal sign, and I called it "Two bell berry patch". I write about a friend I made from exchanging stories about our prior lives at the same location. At the time I thought it was normal to be attached to a place in game, and didn't realize that very few people pay attention to the places we live in.

Jason's quest to make us more attached to our families has led to this stage where we are resetting the world every couple of days (at best).  No city like San Cal will be built in these conditions.  Old ruins just mean a half-hearted eve start these days, not hundreds of tiles of roads, a university filled with notes, or a car locked in a small room.

A newer player remarked to me last night.. "This is the best town I've ever been in."  I just about wanted to cry, it was so lame compared to some of the awesome creations I've seen from Tarr, Killian, pein, truz and psykout over the last year.  But a property fence sheep pen and a wandering cow seem great if you haven't seen anything better.  And that Eis town did have a diesel pump...just no oil anywhere.

I've also seen lots of friends come and go within the game.  I used to triplet all the time with Mich and Nepumuk.  I used to play with truz and Tarr.  I used to look for the latest forum message from Crazy Eddie.  I used to RP a lot more often and a lot more deeply.  My interest in OHOL has outlasted a lot of other people's.  And part of that is... I like change.  Not necessarily the specific changes that Jason makes on any given day or week, but the fact that the game is a living changing experimental thing is one of the things I like about it.  Even if I stop playing for a couple of weeks, I'll be back eventually to see how the gameplay has changed.

I like discovering the new meta for continuity - and you only get to do that if you play the game while Jason is still figuring things out.  You have to try out the "Hell Cell" while it's new and there's a griefer staking all the wild berry bushes to make them stop being renewable food sources.  Somedays I don't want to deal with the violent new thing or situation that people are using as an excuse to act badly, but it's nice that there are new things.