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I wonder what was the point of the game again. Is it to play together to survive or is it play together to socialize?
Like is this game about surviving as a species or is this game about making brief cooperation/relationships with others?
If this game is about parenthood, there should be less grind and more communication in a social aspect and more interactions between players.
If this game is about survival, there should be more challenges and risks and stages.
If this game is about building, there should be more impact in building things and it should last.

Now Jason did say that if you want to play a building game, play Minecraft. He seems to be drawn to drama and stories from what I gather, so parenthood and social aspect is probably a big one. Funnily enough the game restricts communication and punishes you for stopping to talk (hunger) and limits your speech A LOT. If this game was about socializing though, why don't we just chat here?
Parenthood in the game is basically now about filling in knowledge gaps to ensure your kids could survive. After that it's just a teamwork with little communication; work work work death. Lots of quiet grinding for a social game.

Well, tasks are fun at first, then get boring. Then you automate things, then that gets boring. Sadly Jason said that automation wasn't what he wants, no robots doing farming for us so we can do other things.
To me, grinding in a game can be therapeutic and relaxing.
If and when the game starts to feel like a "tedious task simulator" I stop what I am doing, let's say smithing, and exclaim "we need a smith" and switch my project/profession. If all professions and projects feel tedious, I go play another game.

I like this better. Let spawn rates and such be but have iron mines give less. Some Eve camps are really harsh with badlands and iron sources so making the trips longer is really tough especially without clothes and limited time in Eve camps.

Damn, none of those. My answer:
No, it's not boring to me yet. But I am not too interested in most updates.

At least he is immortalized on Honeybunnygames', Twisted's, latest video. ;u;
But nah it seems to have been a server crash. Everyone went down. I was born to a newbie Eve who suicided, stressing out how she got the game yesterday and has no idea what she is doing. I started an awesome camp and birthed 0 children. Dunno how that was possible as I was in my warm camp a lot.

I'd say it's not the spoiling of a recipe that ruins things. It's the dead end after the recipe is learnt. What to do with this recipe? Not much? Well damn. That's that then.

Some people like me don't want to sponge off of towns by figuring out stuff in-game, or stopping people's work to ask for explanations, ESPECIALLY with complex recipes like pork tacos and sauerkraut, but EVEN MORE ESPECIALLY with recipes that are vanity or not necessary for survival.
But funnily enough I don't use onetech. I don't do the newest things right away (unless people are eager to teach me do it like how it was with milk), I usually see how it is done from a YouTube video of an OHOL player and then repeat it in my gameplay when I have time to do it all by myself.

Back to the dead end thing. It'd be cool if we had more small recipes added in-game, but they'd be intertwining with multiple existing recipes and professions. So instead of one big complex recipe we'd get small useful recipes that can be used to make things diverse and more customizable. Like: new wild herbs, four of them. New pottery item, mortar. New animal, rat. New food, grilled rat. New challenge: infected animal bites. New character mode: dying/ill. New expression: pain.
Then instead of having a one specific thing for one specific area, we could get an interesting layer of gameplay with short recipes that can be repeated and used in small quantities depending on demand. Some herbs could be mixed with food, some would be made into medicine. It'd add a new item to pottery to add to villages and keep in all villages as a standard tool for baking and medicine. A sick rat would be delivering infected bites instead of delivering instantly fatal wounds. And normal rats would be small things to hunt for fun and food.
Dunno how much work that would be but it'd be a more "wide" update that has small recipes to learn and keep in your daily routines instead of these "maybe in one life I have a building to paint, and then it crumbles.. so it's not that important... damn."

Another thing is adding a new level into a profession like a potter. Start your pottery career from clay and evolve to glass items in one life. And then the products they can do on glass level drastically increases the effectiveness of other professions like bakers and medics, so it's not just pottery update.

Only issue I am constantly facing when brainstorming is the realism aspect. Herbs can't heal stuff magically in real life and there is a lot to do to process stuff to make them realistically functional. And all the steps and time requirements in complex recipes push them to "generations effort" and usually generational efforts are cut short by server updates or cities dying. So everytime a recipe turns tedious due to you not being able to do it yourself and having to rely on others (still not happy about white and red roses... ) the motivation to do them drops.

While the "not spawning more" can be a perk, it can also be a bad thing and often is. I do wish men had something special to them, but women being able to spawn players is pretty darn huge as a perk as it's not really a bad thing for the player (you can ignore all babies you birth with no consequences so you are not forced to stop when they pop in). Sad how men are not needed for reproduction, but also thank goodness they aren't. It's a weird one.

This!
I feel like some people are reading OP all wrong. OP is saying they don't want to be the 6th girl of a big city, they want to be the saving grace of struggling small families. Why are we trying to cause a 'civil war' here as a small playerbase of a game? People are being hostile and it seems that there are weird pictures being painted about OP out of anger and misunderstanding. Maybe? I hope??
Anyways I hope we don't start some revenge crusade like people wanted to when the Donkey update arrived.

Then even more lineages will die out.

Yeah, I personally see this change just as odd. I didn't know I can death-grip my babies now, good to know, I don't want to do that. I think it is just weird to try and force playstyles onto players. As I said in another thread ("Suicide is OP" -one), I'd rather support different playstyles and I still think the preference system would be great. Just to connect people who want to be connected: Jason feels like this is basically just "choose your life" tool but players already do that however they want to; by hopping onto snakes, begging to be killed or standing in snow. A preference system is a preference system, it doesn't mean you WILL get to play a preferred life but at least the chances are slightly better for those who want to use a preference system. If some feel like playing as a child of Eve then I'd gladly bump their chance so everyone can be happy. I think the players have a right to use their hour or two on lives they feel like playing, so why not remove that "browsing through lives you won't stick to anyways" feat? Is this death-grip thing really there just for a small chance some suicider changes their mind...? Not worth it I'd say.
If Jason wants a certain playstyle (accept all lives, all lives are precious) to be default, then I'd brainstorm more with the rewarding system than trying to box in players.

As you have explained, you want to save lineages. People who complained about suiciders wanted people to save their lineages. Now you can't do that like before, and they won't get their saviors any more often. It's a lose-lose I think...

And yeah I personally wouldn't even use any preference systems as I appreciate the randomness and making my own fun no matter where I am, but if some percentage of players do, then good for them and us too, so the probability of birthing a child that wants to be there is much higher.

As a male in early camps, I can see if we are low on food; I appreciate it if the mom can send me off to a direction in wilderness where I can grow up so I don't use the camp's foods. I usually run far to eat from distant berry bushes, going further bush to bush so the closest berry bushes to the camp are left mostly untouched, grow big enough to be able to run the distances and then start bringing in wild foods and cook omelettes. I make sure I starve before a female does, but usually nobody has to when I can secure the food sources.

Anyways mothers are free to abandon who they want. I haven't been abandoned as a boy yet though so it's not terribly common I think.

I feel like it's gonna lean to punishing too much. Is it really that bad that people prefer different lives? Can't we support that instead of add rules that limit the players' freedom to play the game like they'd like to? Is it really that important that everyone takes the first life they get?

I am simply after a situation where the babies born to me want to be with me most of the time. If they don't want to be there, I don't want them to be there either.
I guess I have to bury the preference system dream...