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Morti wrote:

If you're going to parrot Jason, why don't you parrot his promise for the game,instead of his excuse for failing?

Eye roll. Ok.

If this is a grift I'm not parroting Jason, I'm a shelling for him, lol and yeah, I think calls for more content are about the most misconstrued sense of excitement for a game, on any board, a player can make--we want more of the thing! The only solution to our problem is more of the thing! We hate the thing now but want more of the thing soon!

Clearly developers want to add more content. That same urge/desire/commercial interest is what prompted them to make the game in the first place. Reminding people that content is coming, I find, is a worthwhile endeavor. Just as much as they find it's worthwhile to huff that they want more of the thing that's already on it's way. Your amazon package is on it's way--you already ordered it, lol. Jason isn't sitting there, with all his dreams and visions for the game, and going "Yuuuuuup, this--right here--yeah, that's FULLY realized. Wouldn't change a fucking thing. Can't wait to shelf this and just bank for next ten years of my life. Feet up, drinks out!"

Anytime a developer has to sideline making additions to their project, to do other work, it's not without cause.

That PAX convention was huge, for an indie developer, and it's gunna change some work flow. Change your expectations accordingly. I don't see it as a failure, either, that we don't have 100 new broken and fucking boring items crammed into the game. I'm not interested in a bunch of "skinned" items that don't add impact, and I'm def not interested in playing task cycles that require no knowledge, no mechanical/skilled input (outside of a click), and zero inter-player actions to utilize or complete. But that fundamental flaw wasn't highlighted when the rift was novel through constant expansion (and the game was novel in and of itself). Inflation, if you will, hid a lot of those problems and I'm happy that they are being worked out now. Like, it's still a hundred new items, but they will be/are reworks of old things. Would all your woes be fixed if a new recipe item for tomatoes comes out on thursday or would you be more interested in berry farming not being a flippin chore? A lot of items can be implemented, exponentially, but they'll be iterations derived from a system, and if that system is shit--fundamental flaws in the game--then (excuse my analogy) we'll just have a rift with a bunch of recently fed sheep in it; a rift full of shit.

TBH, I'm surprised you didn't see the road fixes, Morti, as a direct nod to your recent projects and an endorsement, or thank you, by the developer for your work in the community (which has been cool to watch both in and out of game, btw). You and your global works probably put that project right on his plate. Gotta be real fun smoothing out a buggy bit of code that you think will directly benefit some of your most active/vocal players but instead find out they're pissed they can't make a green straw hat to shove onto their babies using the same boring harvest system that every other item is structured on as well. Such a failure.

Mr meeseeks wrote:

We're not... Have you actually played? The rift is far more functional that it was... In time, I'm sure it will be a big improvement...

Yes, I have played.   

In my last life, I was born into a town that was being actively griefed by a player riding a horse who repeatedly stole supplies and destroyed stuff.   We lacked weapons and the town fence had decayed in a few places, so we were effectively defenseless, except for cursing (which apparently does nothing anyways).    I decided to leave as soon as I could hold a bowl of berries, in the hopes that I could find a different town, because it was clear that we couldn't defend our town without a secure fence and critical supplies were already gone due to the horse griefer.   

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to locate any nearby towns and ended up circling back around to my home village in time to see the last of my family die, mauled by bears which now roamed freely inside the broken town fence.   At this point, I was now fifteen and was starting to have babies.   My search for a better town was a failure, so I decided to make the best of what I had ... a town filled with bears and dead people. 

I raised ten children in that bear-infested, heavily griefed town.  Working together, we managed to clear out the bears and started to repair the damage done to the village.  While retrieving stolen supplies from the griefer's stash, I found an untapped iron vein and was planning to gather iron before I died.  Things were starting to look better for the first time since I was born into this cursed life.   Until the original griefer came back, reborn as one of my own children, and released a horde of domestic boars in the middle of town to kill off their own siblings.   Then they shot the last of my granddaughters, ending the Bean line.   I died at sixty, surrounded by the bodies of my dead children and the dead boars and the dead griefer. 

http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=5283382

The Bean family was one of the last three alive in the arc and the griefer celebrated when he killed our last girl because he had "won".  It didn't matter that we killed him.  He already had what he wanted.    Three days ago, I joined the arc five minutes after reset and witnessed the Eve camp I was born into get wiped out by a pair of twin Eves, killing people with bows.  Again, I was the sole survivor of my family, because no matter how many times we killed them, they kept coming back to pick off more people.   Based on reports from other players, these same twin griefers were responsible for killing off the final family that triggered the arc reset.   

So yes ... I've played.   Have you?       

The level of griefing in this game is really intolerable.    I'm not interested in a life without conflict, but I am looking for a game about parenting and building civilization.  Not bear-dodging and child murder.   You like to grief sometimes to spice things up.   I do not like to grief and find it really horrible to deal with griefers every life. 

It is not dramatic or exciting.  It's fucked up and depressing.

Hmmmmm .... well isn't that nice.

At least I'm not crazy for thinking the curse system is broken.    So basically, we are back to the early days of the Rift, with feral eves and griefer raiding parties wiping out towns.  I don't blame people who give up on this game.

Probably wait for the curse system to be tweaked a bit. There's hardly a punishment for griefing.

It's reseting the world every day too. So it's really really up to you to decide if you wanna play in this shit

Probably wait for the curse system to be tweaked a bit. There's hardly a punishment for griefing.

It's reseting the world every day too. So it's really really up to you to decide if you wanna play in this shit

You guys should go fuck yourselves and stop ruining this game.

Sometimes I love griefing and trolling, but it definitely should not be organized.

There aren't enough players, and there isn't enough balance. You literally ruin the game for everyone

Please do fuck all the way off.