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Does eating pie remove the buff. I feel like you could travel so far if able to eat pie while it was active, but i imagine it cuts the following action. Anyone know for sure?

Yes. If it were not for race restrictions there would be no reason to /die. Since a towns survival hinges on having all three races i imagine this fuels a lot of SIDs. If you just had a life in a bell town and the last female in the black family was going to be old soon you might feel a dedication to go back to ensure the town survives.

Not saying this is a healthy tactic but it may be a necessary one in order to keep towns alive.

Before the race updates it didnt matter what race you were, every family had the same opportunities. Multifamily cities were a really rare and special thing.

I feel like picking anything up at an early age makes sense. Knowing what to do with it is another. Most players dont start this game knowing how to use anything or what anything is used for or what is important. We grow that knowledge and skill though perseverance and dedication. What do we get as a reward for that dedication? To be put in a box so we cant truly show our skills or apply what we've learned. Its a constraint, plain and simple.

I dont think it has a place in a game like this. Restrictions shouldnt be based around veteran players, they should be based around new to mid level players. Otherwise the non vets get burnt more than anyone. Its ignorant to expect new players to not find this as a huge road block in the learning process.

Say im new and im decent at farming but i want to learn smithing. I stabilize the farm and use up a number of my tool slots. The smith is empty so i decide to try my hand at making steel. I look it up on one tech and see that i need to make coal. The fire is about to go out so i throw some kindling on it, one more tool slot down. I throw some kindling in the the forge and light it up, another tool slot down. Collect the coal and make crucibles with wrought iron. Excited i light up the forge and grab the tongs. Except somethings wrong. I cant pick up the crucibles. I ran out of tool slots. Defeated i return to farming to help however i can with the remaining tool slots i have used.

See how this is a bad system. Artificial roadblocks that completely ruin the immersion of the game. Limit players and make experimentation a liability.

Most humans who made a huge impact on science and discovery did so on their own. Imagine where we would be if those people were forced to work with others in order to complete their work.

I believe that if you know how to do something you should be able to do it. Its the reward for applying yourself in this game. Tool slots are a false limit on the skills a player can provide. I think its enough of a limit how difficult it is to learn things in this game.

In reality people do do things on their own to provide for the community. You really think people who carry towns solo are being selfish? They work to benefit society as a whole, not themselves. Its petty to force people like that into constraints.

When ive been working on big projects in the past i dont ask anyone to help me or force them to do something. I work my ass off doing whatever it is. Some people will notice what im doing and help me out. Without even asking they cut my work time in half. This is not something that can be done in the current system. Someone will go man i wish i could help them but then i would be wasting two tool slots and i really want to do X this life.

Beside the biome restrictions, tool slots are the most immersion breaking thing that's ever been added to the game. Ruins the experience for me, does not make me more cooperative. Interesting attempt at promoting collaboration but fails imo.

Ill repost my list from your stagnation thread.

Stuff like rockets, phones, gps, binoculars, railroads, advanced cars, computers, electricity, air conditioning, furnaces, electronic lathe drill bore hammer roller, several tiers of generators

In terms of gps and phones. The idea would be to launch satellites using the aforementioned rockets. This would likely be super late game. I would not expect updates like this to be done quickly. I could see the amount of craftable items doubling just by implementing the items on that list.

Advances batteries and electric versions of some of the steel tools would be nice. Chainsaw(axe), table saw(froe), circular saw(bowsaw), etc. They would be unbreakable but would require freshly charged batteries or kerosene after a set number of uses. Perhaps they could tie into generators in some way. Perhaps electric ovens and stoves(gas/electric) could be next tier adobe ovens and hot coals. Microwaves and refrigerators could be a cool addition though im not sure what they would be used for. A chemistry lab could be fun and used for a lot of stuff.

I would like to see more aesthetic stuff eventually but i think content should focus more on function oriented things to extend the tech tree rather than visual elements. I also dont think we need any more food. We already have way too much and it all performs the same function.

I oppose griefers. I make it hell for them to do what they do. I make their lives unsatisfying and difficult. I highly doubt they view my interventions as rewarding, ive had griefers starve themselves and run away from town because i kept stopping them over and over.

Most griefers i run into are noobs and do very obvious and basic things. I run into more issues when a griefer has more experience and knows how to make things really difficult without ever being noticed. They steal bellows, break kilns, turn all the wheat into flour, hide all the weapons and pads, bring bears, wolves, and boars to town without anyone noticing.

People get confused and dont know who's doing it. All it takes is one false accusation and everyone wastes their curse tokens on an innocent person. Most griefing is not easily ignored. Most griefers dont want attention, they want to inflict pain and mayhem onto others.

The main reason i like this game is that it capitalizes on human nature. Sure its unrealistic but many of the elements of the game are tools in displaying human behavior. Killing and murder have been a part of human nature since the beginning of our species. I think removing or limiting those elements would take away a really fascinating part of the game. Even if it is one of the more annoying parts.

I do think there could be more tools available to aid players against griefers. Make griefing a more annoying and tedious thing to do. Someone mentioned bear traps a while back. This could be a good counter to bears. A reusable but hard to make trap that attracts bears and uses raw mutton as bait. Perhaps things like kilns could require elder removal permission. Perhaps breaking them makes a loud noise. I do think stuff like this would help more than simply removing killing.

Something like you cant kill the last 1-2 females in your bloodline makes more sense to me than no killing at all.

Knowledge used to be our only limit, but now we have tool slots and biome restrictions so that's cool i guess.

Main issue i have with this idea is that time overlap could make most quest useless. Say you put in a request at 20 then it gets picked up when you're 30, takes the person 20 minutes to complete, you're now 50 with only 10 minutes and a reduced food bar to complete whatever task you're doing. Presuming a player lives that long.

What happens when a quest giver dies in the middle of someone completing the quest? Would you need to waste a tool slot to write on the board? Would you need to be old enough to write what you need on the board?

I HATE the hierarchy concept. It sickens me. How is it remotely competitive with the social structure we have now? Things like this need to have a function not just a novelty. I like the idea of this quest board but i would likely look around town, see what is needed, fill the void, then work on my own project. Not sure how useful it would be and honestly im tired additions that require months of balancing while adding little value to the game.

Remember when this game had elements of equality? The only thing holding you back was your knowledge? Individuals fueled by ambition and a desire to change the face of the world for the betterment of future generations?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

I agree. An easy way to fix stagnation or make the current endgame the beginning of something epic is to extend the tech tree. Make it huge! Stuff like rockets, phones, gps, binoculars, railroads, advanced cars, computers, electricity, air conditioning, furnaces, electronic lathe drill bore hammer roller, several tiers of generators and much more. About a year ago, a youtube video made by Jason gave the impression that 10,000 craftable items would be available in game. Today we sit at about 2225.

How would this be done though. Kinda makes no sense.  Every second is a little over 6 days. I like your hat but its time to buy some cattle jcwilk.

I want the game to be accessible not easy. Plus there are better ways to make rubber harder while still having it feel satisfying. With the second system i proposed you would struggle without the other fams but you could stay alive without them. Giving you time to find them.

Personally i dont find the constant trail of dead towns very satisfying. Or playing in a town that's survival hinges on a specific race magically waltzing in. That kind of struggle is repetitive and boring imo.

If you have a system that would make things harder than what i propose but still accessible i would be interested to hear it. Im looking for a middle ground. Even if that middle ground is only an inch off of what we already have.

If people kill each other over crowns that mean nothing imagine what they will do with this.

Monarchies dont just happen. They usually form around wealth. Specifically withheld wealth and resources controlled by a minority.

I think a system like this would be interesting but i could see it turning a bit lord of the fliesy. I like to think of the current system as a bit of a communist anarchy. No one owns anything no one rules anyone the people belong to the town and the town belongs to the people.

I find it quite beautiful and i honestly think its highly successful in the scheme of societies. Imagine a society where they could go 120 years without a single murder. It does get a bit boring though when its the only societal structure used imo.

Personally I like civilizations developing organically in the game but I do like the idea of having some *optional* structures to guide people into the societies they choose. I worry though that the proposed system would serve more as a nuisance/distraction than a structure that aids in creating a dynamic society.

Players are likely going to gravitate towards the most efficient system so how would monarchies or any government system be balanced in order to make them a competitive option?

I imagine the player base would be split between those who want the monarchies and those who dont. There would be constant battles of people trying to establish monarchies and those trying to tear them down.

That being said it could be really interesting but could easily turn into mayhem similar to the war sword update. But that all depends on how it would be implemented.