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Nice post, I think we all need to chip in for the data once we are able to do some one-man-farmer and test things out.
Well I like having more new animals too... but don't you need to work on Hydrocraft instead of playing this?
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It seems there are many more new players now?
Yes, 3 hours ago, the server was actually full. I am shocked to see that message.
This is the nightmare of a game developer though: people not being able to play the game as intended and having to find tricks like "logging off and on". That's why I think Jason would want to take back the change, cause he wants people to be able to survive as naked Eve's. That's the only way the whole system could ever work.
So its not a solution to try logging off and on until you are born to a wealthy family.
Actually, carrot seeding kills soil is indeed in line with Jason's vision about his world; I have been fine with it when I started this post. For example, a week ago, someone asked, "do we have anything to eat other than carrots?" Now, I think about it this new change force us to make more advanced food like pie and utilize a hardly used tech, the compost.
I am just not convinced having the food bonus reduced... yet. Maybe after even a few more hours of playing, I would get the hand of it.
ameliewilde wrote:About warmth: The backpack used to give warm bonus. Now it doesn't.
I expressed my opinion about the drop in eating bonus in another thread. But I am not a fan. Especially now that finding food is harder, I don't see the point on making it even faster to get hungry...
I mean, I liked this game for a slightly casual game play where you still have the time pressure. But now, it is just hardcore and stressfull. I hope he increases the eating bonus.
If he does, I am a fan of the changes to food system that encourages variety.
I'm with you on this. Was nice being able to explore all parts of the game but now it's just trying to go one more min before starving by finding the next berry tree. I was loving making things like wheel barrows and buildings but now its trying to scramble for your next meal before you and your kids starve. Agree, it's stressful. And frustrating, not really fun now.
When I started this post, I am trying to keep things neutral... but after further playing this for like 3 hours straight, this is my comment to your frustration:
If you need to search berry trees like that? Just die, don't waste food on yourself and clinch on to life, seriously. The food bonus and the need of clothing makes a naked person seriously useless. I managed to find a place with like 10 berry bushes around; but since water and clay is too far away, my 40ish person can only managed to make those three basic tools and I just so frustrated that I just stop eating around 55. Before I die, those ten berry bushes only have around like one or two left.
Remember land's resource are limited; and the one and only unlimited resource is Eve.
Similar topic is covered in another post here... Since Jason shared his thought there, so the point is you need to convince the sole developer; not the rest of us, honestly.
Very doable I think. The world will develop (and reset) You can abandon babies too. Raising babies is hard, and should be.
Jason isn't likely to reset the world unless the world is seriously crowded with items that he has to do a wipe; and recently, he just discover a bug that increase lag so he's going to fix it instead. So the world is going to get more chaotic and harder to survive; it's not as simple as moving to new places because the spawning mechanic always get you near those existing settlement, thus even though you spawn as Eve, you are very likely just die around those abandoned old settlement without rabbit, milkweed, and tools (because people trying to evacuate).
I mean, I liked this game for a slightly casual game play where you still have the time pressure. But now, it is just hardcore and stressfull. I hope he increases the eating bonus.
When I finally willing to take on kids after a week of game play, now I am back to square one for keep saying "sorry BB no food".
I don't expect this to be casual game though but right now I have to say I felt like playing an FPS or RTS. Hopefully the lag would be lessen as right now my character just humping items wasting precious time. Survival is all about adaptation and we shall see how it goes.
At least right now we are more and more into making rabbit/carrot pies to make food more effective.
Do you happen to have steam? I use steams f12 screenshot. Just add the game to your steamlist and launch there. I'm not sure why printscreen does that though.
Wow, I have Steam for at least 15 years but I never knew it's that handy... of course, many people didn't know Steam has a music player either. Anyway, I will give it a try and thanks.
I thought Geese were renewable so long as the pool was not fully depleted and is full?
I was reading somewhere that if you emptied a pool and refilled it manually, the geese dont come back to it.
Interesting... I never knew Geese is renewable at all...
Carrots and seed farm:
I guess we probably need to rewrite our newbie guys, Tenents and our sustainable farming technique now as when Carrot turned into seeds, the soil below will be come non fertile thus requiring us to start making compost. The one carrot rule now is even more toxic to the land than ever before so now this old rule is totally thrown out of window. However, that doesn't mean that making a row of carrot seed is much better either.
Wild carrots are now probably even more important as it will gives seeds even though it's very slowly; but I suspect that Jason would probably nerf this once we get used to the new carrot mechanic.
I think now we need to teach people to not eat berries unless necessary.
Further, the food eating bonus is also reduced; in other words, it's even more vital to have children to drink breast milk than eating a carrot him/herself.
Fire and warm clothes:
Now I have died so times that I cannot say if warmth is nerfed or not. Assuming that the value is the same, with food being more scared than ever, keep the fire going and have naked people to just stand there instead of "Chop! chop! get more berries" is actually a more survivable solution than ever because being naked and work consumes much more food in the long run.
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yes! I pledged today I will rob for fashion! not for food nor clothing!
First of all, I am also not against higher tech source of thread either. There's no doubt that the wheat production is weird in against the reality where the five agricultural revolutionary crops are being "nerfed" in the game.
However, I always tell people to read the following article, Everything Runs Out, whenever people suggesting more and more resources... in other words, Jason has a point to make for this game and it's all about scarcity and limited resources. I am sure Jason absolutely know about flax and beans but he probably always keeps this philosophy in mind whenever he introduces new items.
Does anyone know how to take screenshots? I tried using the print screen button on my keyboard but whenever I paste it to Word or Paint, I always end up with the paused menu blocking the view.
maybe a wipe is possible when there are way too many structure and too many boxes of food that the server is unable to support, otherwise, I don't think Jason has any plan to reset the map just to make his point about non-renewable resources.
Some part of the road were made starting from last week connecting three villages, so it's like connecting one village per day.
As for how, you will need the axe to cut off trees and saw to make Boards; in other words, you will need steel tech.
I think it would work out best the following way.
One setting for people waiting to be born (Born to friends only)
One setting for people playing the game (Give birth to friends first)That leaves the problem of initial gender. I think keeping gender selecting according to some algorithm is what is best but to make playing with friends more possible, there could be a button "Play as woman" that comes with a cooldown.
or... if gender selection is okay, you could set it up like this
Male
Female (hard mode)Also, no need to worry about passwords when it comes to friends. If there is a field to add a friend, the friendship is only valid if both people add eachother.
That's why the most recent on hand solution is private server.
I watched GreyStillPlay and buy this game right away.
While he's not doing the tutorial, if you catch on what he said, he pretty much sums up all issues that we need to face about this game:
1. find carrot seed
2. only kill family rabbit hole
These two factors already let me deduct what kind of game this is.
Jason already has his mind about the current mouse control... but if you insist, you should provide some reasonable counter-argument in the following post:
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=141
P.S. this guy said WSAD, the other guy said WASD, and now you said AWSD... I really don't want to make a list of all possible combination of these four keys so that the forum's search function can work...
It feels like the only solution to troll is just kill or be killed; I, however, look forward to a better solution considered that the troll will be blooded and do it again once got caught because it's exciting.
There is another occasion where a guy running around with an the bow and arrow and have been killing villagers constantly. My mom said to him "why don't you just shoot me" "go ahead" and he replied, "I have killed 20 today already, hehe"
...requiring players to work together to restrain/kill a troll...
Trolls are exactly looking for reaction; if you leave them alone or what we have here where we just go poof without any satisfication, then eventually the killing may become boring eventually. I just encounter one with bow who probably seeks the thrill exactly because I was looking for him/her. I found him/her get back to the settlement eating a few carrots after killing several members, I stole the arrow but I eventually run out of food myself and die anyway.
When people talking about guards, wouldn't that be ironic if one of the guard is actually a murder?
Considered that it's so hard to identify individuals, the whole town would actually turn to a blood bath just for looking for one murder.
If you have understand Jason's philosophy from his article Everything Runs Out, lack of water is a feature of the game. However, I think that if we have Sea & Shore biomes instead, those water can't be drank directly but this may open up more options for survival.
Does this mean you could plant carrots in sheep pens to feed them, instead of hand-feeding them mashed berries and carrots?
but the sheep ate the whole patch of carrots, I am sure a bowl of mashed carrots cost less than that.