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Oof. It's not that hard to find flat rocks. Even in the rift when all resources were highly limited. We were able to quickly organize roads to connect my Villa in the far west to the town in the far east with the airport in between somewhat north.

And there were still so many flat rocks left to be used.

Guys, stop pretending that flat rocks are rare to get in an infinite world. They're not.

Just hopping in to say.

Astronomy, mathematics, astrology and physics and engineering are all related skill groups that benefit from each other in one way or another, most notoriously from mathematics and physics.
Polymath isn't a skill but defines a person that has multiple skills, if you look at other polymaths you quickly notice most of their skills are related in one way or another wit ha sprinkle of philosophy. Leonardo da Vinci was a painter and sculpturer, but also an architect, engineer and inventor, same stuff here.

All of these skills together are more comparable in OHOL to being both a builder and a wall painter.
To be both the smith and engineer.
To be both a farmer, herder and the cook.

Which aren't that hard in the stretch of the imagination. Now surely Gallileo was not a woodcutter, labourer, botanist, doctor, pasty maker, theologist, horse breeder etc.
You can be everything you ever wanted, except for the things you don't.
And that might just mean nothing in OHOL.

Get a professional artist, that's what I'd say. Unless the early flash game aesthetic was intended.

I wouldn't even say OHOL looks ugly in any stretch of the imagination. It has style, coherent and streamlined. The characters may look a tad too outstanding provided the environment they live in, but suppose they should stand out. The only thing I can say to Survive together is my opening statement. I'm perplexed why the question is even asked, especially if the assets are mere placeholders?

There is a beauty to ugliness indeed, but there is no surface ugliness to something that's beautiful. Art Brut shows the naivety of artists that can still capture one's visual interest.
Why are people sick and tired of 3D movies? Why? They don't distinguish themselves anymore, it's the same facial design doctrine of big eyes, big nose rounded features over and over and over again. Why are we getting into the process of tiring from pixel art games?
What even interests us anymore. Visuality is key.
Perhaps with the current graphics interest may be caught by a fluke, yet modern-day gamers are highly interested in superb visuals.

This is a very nice separation of skills.

Well, historically, before the advance of, men figuring out if they do the dowith a woman, it makes a baby. It was mostly the uncles who filled in the emotional paternal role for the children of their sisters.
Can still see this to today with the cool/fun uncles.
I can easily see how, having some more personal bonds with your relatives can convince the newborn newcomers to play along in an equaly caring relationship, perhaps even to stay and do better themselves.

It's the people interactions that make the game, the fluff is just fluff.

Having them separate in profession is a lot more elegant in my opinion, plus over time as tech improves, so will the jobs improve with more tools. (Vaccines when?)
Most people end up doing one job in their life, this mechanic would perfectly align with that player behavior and reinforce/limit it.
Having some extra tool slots come from the gene score would now be a boon
Instead of people keeping their gene score low for a tolerable amount of tool slots.

Also I would seperate builder and carpenter.

Also, I think fish meant, why are you on the forum, not existence itself. Suppose you only do to keep spreading the message, but from what I've seen, only you think this way. You might have better success to just forget OHOL exists and move on to something else that will give you pleasure in playing instead.
And well, if you are so adamant on making people leave, well... That's something for others to decide, Spoon. ^^" If they had an inherent flaw with the mechanic, they would have left eons ago.

Your existence here, since the dawn of multicellular life, has been the result of unspecified organisms cloning themselves/female organisms having offspring, and though most of it, it wasn't a choice, neither was it consented. It was simply winning in this certain thing called living, or rather:
Most animals, if even, do not choose to not have offspring, they just do. Multiplying, in essence is as basic as is existence itself. Sex is good and fun, in fact, most living creatures do not correlate sex with offspring.

And OHOL presents this mighty well. Whether you find this unjust of a system or not.

We may be able to build cars and engines. However, most of animal life, do not connect sex with offspring. Even us, humans did not correlate one with the other for the longest period of our existence. Giving birth was... simply a thing that happens during growing up. That's what happens in OHOL as well, during growing up, through various stages of your life, you give birth.
Birth is just another segment of existence, of living.
And that is how it was seen. By historic humans, by animals, how it is like in OHOL.

But here is a sky spoon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AASW8nM4Yk

Those are very cute and nice.

I would scatter the homes through the city, well not IN the city, but outside of it. Have them form little villages say...next to the smithy, the farm, same near the kitchen.
So that people are never really far from either home or their job.

"Hi bb" "We are farmers, house is here, look."

A while ago I pondered about ideal house sizes depending on wastefulness.
If each house had its own crockpot and a communal soup garden, things could turn out quite well.
Or a chest and a cart-man would deliver food and plates to and from the kitchen.

These things, however, are mostly based on the mentality of players. Not game mechanics.

Seconding that. That's really great.

"any kind of game system to interact with"

OHOL has lots of interactive systems. The game also has a goal, a win and loose condition, it's surviving against the odds of other players, the cluttering of civilisation and the degredation of the environment.

A walking simulator is a game that lets you roam a location and, things within a game are scripted to act upon you. You have minimal to no interacting posibilities and the games are more geared towards guiding you through a story.