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central or floor heating would be good, really good.

Imagine connecting piping to houses for water and a setup of radiators. Radiators could be placed along the walls and take up minimal/no space but provide ideal/adjustable heat. (ac alternatives too)
Definitely higher tech to fuel the whole system.

And the bakery? Why have a fire in a house with wooden flooring? let us make packs of matches with multi uses.

Also. Baby cribs. Prevent them from moving  untill a certain age. there.

You know an even worse vision field around a baby would make...being a baby very scary time indeed, and also baby tours very unconvenient.
More emotions yes, even if it's fear.

But we'd then need better baby carrying options since it'll be even harder to make children survive (if people are trying to save their family, give them the resources to do so.) Quite a few babies are born in the middle of no-where, away from the safety of their mothers.

Gosh imagine being born while your mother is running around, you have no idea where she went or how she looks like, it's just blackness around your tiny bubble. any person picking you up is a stranger and taking care of you in this very scary time.

I think I as a man or old nana ended up 'stealing' away children from some women who then came back too late, wanting the lost child back..
Well, the child then wailed and kept running from their biological mother back to me screaming they are being kidnapped.
Boy that was hillarious xD

Also on the caring thing and bonds? Maybe people you spend a lot of time around give off some heat, have people like spending time next to eachother and maybe chatter will commence if it gives some benefit, or inquiries to go in pairs perhaps.

Yes i think encouraging players to do things from ease (ie it is native in the area ad least cumbersome to do) is better at diversification than handfisting diversity.

Well. Early villages were sharing everything since everything was a communal effort.

Hmm. Have you tried nonlethal combat?
You can't protect your carrots unless you can defend them.
All we can do right now is:
1) run after and shout
2) run after them and kill them (can survive) and potentially die due murder cooldown.

Why can't i just slap the carrot off his mouth right there and then the moment he picks it up?
Then again he's probably the piemaker and will barr me off the kitchen ;(

Thing is this issue is multicomples!
organisation for better job distinction? Megsphones to help carry out orders and have actual central organisation?
a change of mentality of players? (esp those that only workworkwork and yell at those that immerse themselves in lives)

I think simply the 'bush' aesthetic is enough for me. Even though rose pens are absolutely gorgeous i had to employ my daughter Rose to finish one small one beside the kitchen because I decided to make it too late in my life.

You betcha I was happy when I saw my daughter's last words were "This is Rose, our milk cow."

Next time I'm trying this and turning it into a pooch pen.

If the graves become a thing, we have to think about the wider inplications for present and future.

Please. Spoonwood.
There is the universal language of music as the most static emotion coercer.
I as a person of the craft know the theory behind why and how such feelings happen, how to simulate, how to build tension. You know people actually created academic courses and even vocational classes about that? Sure emotions vary, but within a margin or duality, but it is a visible pattern of reaction. Drawings games movies are a more complex language than music, less primal, less basal.
But still they put us on emotional rolercoasters. Dissapoint, sadness, tension.

I think weather you can return or not should not depend on what your descendants or relatives do, but depend on your own actions.

If you put a lotta love in it? You'll probably keep putting more love into it. Other people are a wildcard and might either garner you an extra /die if you wanna get away from that hellhole.

Sweet deal, will we also get the hatter's disease ?

Yes give us guard dogs lol dogs need some TLC but only limit the guarding ability to certain breeds.

It is I, Amon and it is NOT the weekend!
And also it is me, not quite sane-at-mind so please excuse my delirious ramble.

And I can definitely without reassurance say that I can easily, definitely say that I can reckognise my best friend by the way they gasp before entering the room... -enamored-

One more thing Jason, while parents unconditionally love their children, the same can't be said for further out relationships. The further apart people are, the less they'll care about eachother, unless a bond is estabilished. The divide starts when siblings grow their own families to invest to. The further apart you grow from your own personal unit, the less you'll care.
In this game too, some of us end up making close bonds with people, related or not. When I was a policeman my co-workers were my bond, there was this nurse/doctor in another life that was my bond and I cared about her more than my own family. when I was a man I had a strong bond with many children for I was their godfather. And they always sided with me nyehehehehe.

But here we go with the family. In the end of the day families split up further down you go, and you just won't care about your 6th cousin twice removed anymore, you'll be more invested in your imediate family and your partners. Really in the end of the day it's your personaly little family that maters, and for which you will root that it continues (I always feel sucessful when MY lineage survives to the 55s and not my sister's hahaha)

Here is some extra info/story from real life, i'm gonna change up some names.

My uncle whom I care about deeply is called Szymon Nowak (and another cousin whom started it all). In our village there is a anotherm an called Tomislav Nowak.
We're maybe related, maybe he's my third cousin once removed, maybe not. But whatever it is, it's only in the name and having a possible same ancestor didn't prevent them to squabble in a blood feud one family againt another with Szymon almost dying when Tomislav attacked him.

I'm not going to care about my X cousin X removed because that's unrealistic, unless we become friends.
We currently have villages consisting of one ancestor, and further down the line if the village is prolific it'll have many families...just with the same name. Having a devotion to the lineage is simply...unrealistic in the real life, or at least it is in the modern world.
People do want multi surname towns though.

The drama and conflict we go through is very good, I really love it, I would enjoy more, I'm personally a sucker for good IC drama. But currently the game is not at the right place to have it, but definitely right to try build towards it!
We need MORE us-vs-them mentality! We need more uniqueness, more personality!
We need more things that differentiate villags, more...things one village has and another village needs. This is solved by trade or war. (However having war be a thing would need to change some things around in regards to wound timers maybe, oh and behind the line battle medics? we can do those easy.)

Some things to consider are this:
-Everyone is pointing out that everyone looks the same. I agree, we need more more more more sprites perhaps more limited ways how your children look like in the end of the day when enough variational sprites end up made? Haircolour variation for thr darker skins too, brown or blonde, they do happen in real life.
-We also need biome specific clothes! Besides sprites, the way to identify is through clothes too.
-Maybe allow for marriages and husbands? Might incentivise people to care more about one another (and a fertility boost to topple it off) You are MY man, why should I care about the men that are NOT mine? Unless they are my friend obv.
---> here we have it, ownership over things likely started through patriarchy I think, when men could identify who their own kid is and thus dedicate their work to solely them. You are MY children, MY wife, MY husband, therefore you, MY grandchild can inherit my clothes and bag and whatnot, the key to the city eh.
-> All the items in here also are not personalised, except for dyed clothes, dyed wool clothes are amazing, we need more, please?. They are basically all the same and you can't identify if said item is truly your's, that's why theft nowdays is easy, OHOL is like nowdays, all the items are the same, but in the olden-days when every item was custom and you instantly knew if your neighbor stole your watering can...ohoho.
-> further customiseable utility items. Give us glass-ware, or porcelain bowls that are paintable. Imagine what drama could arise if the blacksmith saw his plain clay plates in the kitchen when the kitchen is only supposed to use green-glazed plates. OH the drama if you actually knew when somebody could steal your itmes and you had the means to identify it. That's why animals were branded, to identify them. Said customisation should also be native per biome haha.
-> maybe the bloodline ban should only last for a single generation and granted if lived to 60 no mater how long past, after which you get granted priority to be born to one of your -own- decendants if elegible?? (or if you were male, your sister's or your wife's or your adopted child's??)(is this apropriate incentive to give priority to your OWN kin? (and not ..say...your third cousin))

-->Every village needs the same resources to succeede. Said resources are spread out in not too hard to get to biomes. Essentially every village in the end of the day is the same, needs the same resources and consumes the same resources.
-But you still are limited to said resources and every village needs ALL resources. There really is not much incentive for trade early in, unless a village specialises but if it doesen't trade it's done for.

*All resources necessary to jumpstart civilisation should be available in ANY biome. (That is, imo the way to start a fire, sustain it in an inefficient way, a kind of container and a means for food, for which you must work for) Those resouces however should be diversified, it should also be diversified how to build houses, out of what to build houses and how to acquire food.
   -Desert villages, tundra villages, jungle villages, savannah villages etc. etc... All with different survival mechanics and ways of life. Yes iglos, wicker pens, sandstone houses, woden shacks, etc.
*Civilisation advancemenet resources should remain in far off biomes. *Better resources should perhaps be... well very rare once upon a moon sort of deal. (Lets say, a quarry spot(wouldn't it be nice to have more roads? Why isn't macadam a thing?), hemp, silk, better quality iron?? other necessary metals.) *Better resources should also say, include resources needed to advance civilisation even further than we can now, as well as provide well needed tech-locked QOL.
-Biome improvements would be necessary for this, as well as more in between biomes maybe? As well along with that, you shouldn't be biome hopping too much to get what you need to kickstart a civ to the point where trading/interconnecting becomes available, perhaps biomes should be far larger overall or consist of multiple sub-biomes with hteir own unique flair.

Sea and seafaring? One thing I know from history is this that civilisations started around rivers, and that in the ancient era of greece and rome, there were two contrasts:
-Living far in the heart of the land meant you were more secure but progressed slower.
-Living by the coastline meant that you progressed far better due trade, but were more likely to be and more easily discovered and hence raided. Rivers were also important traderoutes and roadways.
OHOL villages don't have distinctions. Some outposts however are made...say for oil. But they don't server much more than that.

Rivers would be AWESOME in this game, they could provide a means to water/fertile soil to early towns away from grasslands/swamps, and could be an important factor in technological advancement that could lead...to ...pollution downriver (say another village needs clean water that lives downriver...and now we have a conflict between two villages! or maybe a treaty to no polution or something else...)

-Maybe dog breeds should be changed to reflect this, certain breeds limited to certain biomes, not like how we have it now via wolfess birthing a line of dogs, that births a line of dog before we have consistent births.
Maybe she births two pariah dogs and a wolf, the pariah puppy, which taken home to a certain biome births a litter of puppies adapted to that biome (or two puppeis and one pariah). Those puppies when grown up, however will birth their breed puppies no matter the biome. (OR MAYBE NOT, think trading economics, perhaps its better for the seller if they don't birth designated pups, but it's better for the buyer that they do. option 1 is better only if dogs have a sufficiently long lifespan)
-Also dogs should be actually useful and follow their owner. Wether have herders shove positive benefits to herding animals, say pitbulls follow their owner and growl when a weapon is nearby. Hunting dogs hunt, tracking dogs track humans... This brings some more QOL people might want or trade for, else this is useless.
---> there's probably so much more different ways to build up an US-VS-THEM mentality. it already kinda happens in families on a smalelr scale...just potent it and incentivise them.

Also I am highly feverish and delirious so excuse me if the ramble is a bit messy There's just like... way too many ways to aproach this, and the divesification would even potent the, every life is different aspect.

Glasswearm glass fruitbowls and goblets, some distinct high end containers for sorting =P