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Funnily enough that's the longest family tree from my Eve'ing. Second longest tree died at gen 8, this one at gen 14.
I spawned into a random dead town with embers in the bonfire, spent my Eve time cleaning up stuff and arranging things so it'd be nicer to live in; firewood, bread by berry fields, teaching a newbie, touring babies. Looking at the kiln placements, I do not think this was originally my town but some other Eve's. Hope you had fun in the Gala family.

My only argument to that is that people will not take random if they can affect it (and want to affect it). People disconnect now and kill lineages by being "selfish", like we humans are. No matter how you want your game to be played, people will bend it to fit their playstyle. We should accept that fact and work with it instead of sitting still and saying "You should play like I want you to play!". As someone who is hellbent on getting solutions that satisfy everyone, I can't just sit back with a situation like this.

I love random. That's a big thing for me in this game. But I accept that it is not so fun for others as I've seen how bad the "random" can be.. I understand that Jason would want people to take the life they get, but he can't force that nor expect that to happen. Right now people abuse disconnection and they always will; we could make it less common at least. We have such a colourful community eager to play in different ways, why not support that? There are newbies who want to see big cities, there are old veterans who want to be the heroes the Eve camps need. Why not connect them? Why stick to the randomness, just because it mimics life? I personally wouldn't even use the preference system but would appreciate it immensely to see people born to me who are eager to be born to me.

I understand the beauty of the chaos we have. The crazy stories we make. But the stress and frustration the chaos brings to players is sad; it's a game, for entertainment. Newbies running off from early camps, being overwhelmed by the steep learning curve, feeling worthless and bad because they couldn't help. Meanwhile a lonely, aging veteran mom sits in a city with dead babies, hoping she gets a child, even someone to teach. But no, the randomness doesn't bring them together.

Option to Eve and a preference system would be my go-to "solutions".
I see no harm giving players an option to go Eve or set a preference to certain generations.

I've played for over two months now and I have never installed a zoom out mod of any kind. But lately I've started to feel claustrophobic with the default view. Wondering how often I pass by food or a tool that is just outside of my vision. I also dislike how going up or down feels when I can see such a small slice of the environment, this is how I usually die as an animal is crossing over, landing a hit on me just like that.
A thing that worries me is the griefers using the zoom out mods while I am in the default view. It certainly gives them an advantage over anyone without the zoom out mod. I have considered trying the mod in near future, but I hope we could have the zooming out in the base game.

I can check out the polls at some point.

Thank you for taking the time to write this! I agree with you. We shouldn't shun each other due to preferring lives we enjoy. We have a right to be 'selfish'. I see possibilities of the game bending a bit to be more welcoming to its players, old and new.

The preference system could connect players who want to be connected as a priority. We would be more open to the life offered as we are born. Yes, it's a lot to give to a player, but as I said, we already decide if we want to accept the life we were offered. We could do noticeable damage control by avoiding pushing "incompatible" players together to get frustrated at each other.

I also have taught a few newbies. Oh man was I glad they got born to me in a small town and a city. I had all the time in the world to teach them, and they were so happy and thankful. But if they had been born to an Eve, they would've felt like big failures. Like they are stupid and a burden. Someone even said they just get overwhelmed and go die in a ditch sometimes when they end up in a hardcore situation of the early gen life. Now someone could argue that they should experience all sorts of lives but who deserves to get frustrated and stressed in a game where we want to build and learn together?
The preference system could even be seen as an expansion of the tutorial for new players, so they could be introduced to the game a bit 'softer'. We have already realized how steep the learning curve is and how limited the speech capacity is.

Oh man, I hate drug stuff irl but lately I've been having so much fun with shrooms in OHOL. The way they work in the game is honestly really entertaining. Usually I see some nightmare fuel which is really just awesome. Today I managed to write down some of the stuff I saw during a shroom trip: I accidentally ingested a shroom while gathering them, and hurriedly gathered the ones on the ground before I couldn't recognize them anymore. Then I realized I may not find my way back to the road. But who would have known... THE ROAD WAS MADE OF SHROOMS. I laughed so hard, like what are the odds of that happening? :'DD
In that same life I encountered a shroom trafficker as a child and ended up a shroom user myself; the poor boy was influenced early on I guess. Bless that small girl, Venus Quint, who was worried over the old man Tim and his drugs. Honey, I had a rough life. I may make a story out of it, it's just... so different.

Thank you!
Ouch, someone really wanted that place wiped out. I do wonder why some people even bother to do it though, places die eventually anyways, and get revived.

Thank you! Glad to hear you enjoyed it. It was a very action packed life. I like to keep the stories true to their origins; how they truly went down during the life played. I was sure I was going to die when the triplet ran towards me as I limped away. Glad I didn't, although it cost dear Hanz's life. </3

I wish you had asked about it here first before going to kill people. Some people can curse you if you just ask. But yes it is not a town, it is a server used to hold in cursed people, last I heard about it.

As far as I know, you get curse tokens, and for each token, you have to play for x amount of time. I am not sure how it is exactly, though, so someone else can shed light on that, but you should be able to get back when all tokens are gone.

I'd like radial menus for things. I suggested it once for some simple texts, like L4D style. Basic things you always have to repeat like "Are you new?", "Follow me" and other things like that.

Yeah I'm quilty of starting to play carelessly if I feel like I am not that important to have. Yesterday I was a gen 3 female when I spilled my soda on my keyboard and I got a surprise visitor to add to that. My focus was already lost as my last life ended before I wanted to, I had had plans. So, as I ran around irl getting the mess cleaned and talking with my surprise visitor, my in-game mom showed me around (I wish I could've told her my situation so she would've known). Then the mom impatiently blurted out, "Grow already" to me. I joked about it, going "Hnnggh-- I can't", but maybe it affected me a little bit. There were like three to four other females around, all very independent and functional, getting stuff done at great speed. I decided to make eggs and plates so I went to a swamp, and ran around, slightly hurrying myself so I wouldn't starve with the cold and small stomach. As mentioned, my focus wasn't all that sharp and I was being careless as I rushed around, so a boar got me when I was 11 years old. I made my way straight to the camp so they could see I was out. Now I saw the family died at gen 4. Oof. Well there were two baby girls that probably ran so I'm not going to quilt trip myself over it. I was careless but not suicidal.

Well, we are all affected by emotions, it happens, but those are wise words. You can make your game better with a good attitude. And making sure you start playing when in a good mood! Also practicing to let go of frustrations is a great help, and helps us see things from a different angle instead of becoming more and more impatient.

I'm still horrified over the thought of food going bad. I'd imagine people would use all the possible options of "forever good" foods like regrowing berries in bushes or constantly regrowing fruits like apple trees instead of cooking food if the update wasn't done well. The food should never decay on its way to someone's mouth at least, that'd be a horrible "screw you" to experience and die to. Unless of course the whole "dying of starvation in a second" is changed to something less merciless. To me, the biggest challenge is to pace the hunger with the environment; it keeps surprising me how quickly I get hungry outside of deserts.

I do hope some foods will be made to last though, so if the current foods rot and decay, we will get tools to process foods to last nearly infinitely, so Eves can stumble upon warehouses with edible moldy cheese or pickled goods. Or even tin cans of processed food?

One big concern of mine is balancing making food if they rot and decay. The populations boom and fluctuate, so it gets really hard to estimate how much is needed, at least if we don't know how many family members we currently have alive. If I could see that I have to feed 10 people, I could learn to keep the food going (and some emergency pickled stuff in the side) efficiently without wasting it, but if I have to guess how fast the food is consumed, it's just gonna get frustrating and stressful and not fun. Also, I would hate being the appointed village chef if I had to carry that responsibility too often: if we could carry easy-to-make snacks for ourselves, people could take care of their own needs more often without relying on one village chef.

I do agree that the current starvation death is a bit silly and not even very logical. It's funny to imagine a guy sprinting towards their breakfast, only to die before the cereal touched their mouth. Starving is very different in real life, where in OHOL it's this hectic life bar battle and alarm noises and the character keeling over a second after they were still fully functional, running around with an empty stomach.

I wish clothing was easier to make and kept hunger away better. Right now, if you step into a desert tile (as you often have to) with full clothing, you basically start starving in few seconds. It doesn't make sense to start starving just like that. It's a bit of a hassle to redesign though.

Thank you, Tea! I'm happy you commented! <3