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Fixed one of the pictures!

I agree. And more gray on the brunette curly haired lady. Even bags under eyes would be a great lil' texture to imply older age. And the short haired Egyptian looking lady should have darker hair before menopause.

Wow, that's a bit disturbing.

Yes, she looks like her old self in-game, just in the family tree she goes "OuO"

One thing I want to add separately;
As the game is 60 minutes, you tend to get approx 6 kids per mother. These 6 could easily all be males, or five males and one girl who suicided, etc.
As this is a multiplayer game where the players have no power over their characters, it's very harsh to not favour the gender that can save the lineage in times of need. Yes it's PvE, and gender odds can be a part of it, but it does feel very punishing towards players who are powerless against it.
In real life, we would need both males and females. Now that women give virgin births, males are left as a "lesser being" when it comes to lineages and saving towns.

I am not suffering over the random chance and it has its sides (I know all lineages end anyways and nothing lasts forever), but I do think, due to the harshness of the game and new settlements, there could be a point to try and give more chances for the players over things they have no control over. I can't prevent suiciding daughters but I'd love to be given a chance for a new one as the time window to spawn more is so short for 50/50 odds.

As a cause, I'd imagine this favouring to cause more cities to rise as lineages had a higher survival chance. But even those cities would die if the Eve can't get back there.
I wish males could contribute more to the "spawning more kids cause"...

Those are most likely a texture that is connected with her body colour which is applied onto the default body (with default pubes).

Well I for one hate talking with people in online chat and the last thing I'd do was roleplay. I hate playing pretend/acting but I do mild roleplays when I type, only when I type.

A teacher hat which grants you the ability to talk as long sentences as elders (would probably be over-used and OP though)? Maybe wearable only by teens and older?

Yeah kids should be able to speak two words. Babies one word. Teens short sentences and adults should be able to speak like elders. The limitations are really harsh for such short lives and hinder teaching.
Once an adult woman came to me speaking one word at a time (I starved while listening to her).

Would it help if your speech bubbles sort of rose up from your chara and the first bubble vanishes as you type your third text? Right now you gotta wait so others can read your first bubble before entering the next one, but if you could have two visible, that could be useful? The older top bubble could have some opacity.

Key bindings seem nice, but you know the voice commands in games like Left 4 Dead? You press a key and use mouse to select a preset command like Follow me, Stay, Wait, Careful, Watch out and so on. If one would bind a system like that on mouse 3 button it would be easy to spawn and toggle without the keyboard. Then ofc people could either have a set selection to bind or then type in their own sentences to use like "Stay on this warm tile", "Are you new?" "Do you need help?" "Leave a carrot for seeds" and so on. This ability could activate as a teen if bypassing the character limit is an issue.

Heya, yesterday I birthed two sets of twins almost back to back and I can happily report my chain of bad experience with twins has been, for the first time, broken. Briefly, but still!

I was suspicious as Dane and Jane popped out, at least no cursed speech bubbles so I observed a bit. We were in a desert town so I was a bit concerned when the twins ran to poke clothes and backpacks as babies; people geared them up though as I stared with my newborn son. I said, "you will overheat like that" when Dane and Jane stood in the desert berry farm in full gear: hats, loincloths, shirts, shoes and backpacks. One of the twins even wanted the shoes off an old woman. They did contribute though and lived to old age (birthed only boys, server going down back then maybe?). Maybe they put their gear to good use, it was just odd to have as girls in a desert village fully clothed; hunter males I'd have understood as they'd be running in wilderness.
The twins I birthed soon after Dane and Jane ran off immediately so yeah, at least there was one good set for me to experience.

That's why I mentioned that I am not relying on players for my enjoyment so I don't focus on lineages but rather on myself to have fun and do stuff that is not relying on other players and/or luck. An Eve run of 5 gens or 25 gens is all the same for me, I'll be spawning back anyways and reviving the place for others. But yes there are two views, personally I haven't adopted the other view because I know some are selfish and I have no need to "convert" them to behave differently, personally.

Yep, I do often wonder what is something Jason wants to have and what is not. We will see!

So the thing that frustrates most about suiciding babies is that they doom a lineage, right?
Remember guys, all towns are doomed to die off anyways UNLESS!!! the Eve of the family tree died at 60 to Old Age. She can spawn back and revive the place if she died with her home marker set and at 60 years.

Whether your babies ran off at Gen X or you only got boys at Gen X, the place will die anyways and the only hope is that the Eve gets back there. Even then, servers reset.
Don't be too frustrated over running babies and your "work going to waste": everyone is, selfish or not, entitled to play the game how they want, even if it hurts others. It's just a cold fact.

I think people should accept that; yes we can plan systems that would punish or reward certain actions that are "wanted" from the players but would it really do anything worthwhile? Would people just think of ways to benefit from these systems and yet still do whatever they please? I think they would.

I don't oppose the pregnancy idea thing, but I dunno if we really need it, I already imagine griefers looking over where the weapons and bear caves are...

Anyways TL;DR, every place is doomed, don't play if you fear your work is going to "waste" (it is, sooner or later, but it won't be wasted time if you enjoyed yourself while doing it) and people will play as they please. Yes for cool ideas, always interesting.

Some people in the forums said they'd suicide out of spite if they got named Hope (they said they are fed up with the name). Some players are trying to get back into a family they spawned before and couldn't care less for other settlements. Some are griefers who want to get to cities.

I think it would be sweeeet to get some minor and major appearance differences in the game.
When I am a smith I can't help but imagine a burly strong man/woman, and when I am the last girl of a town and get fed with pies and stew I imagine a chubby lil' Hope, the "Last Girl Who Is Fed With Stuff She Shouldn't Be Eating At That Age". :'D

Tiny stuff like eye colours and scars or birthmarks would be fun, of course bigger things like build and such would be amazing, but fitting clothing is one of the issues, along with tall people blocking the upper tiles even more. But still I'd like to see some variation in addition to the "default skins".

I picked some parts of the message I want to talk about.

So I've been thinking of becoming a strictly teacher-only villager in my next lives to try it out (currently all of my recent tries to focus on in-game teaching have gone down the drain due to having to compost for huge populations or overall preventing a total collapse of towns and cities).

Quote, first part: yeah, learning and teaching in a game like this is crazy tough as seconds go by and the hunger bar depletes while towns suffer from the lack of a good player as you are stuck teaching, making you slower than usual.
The best time to teach is around 40 so you get enough text and hunger bar (no kids for females), but your life is quickly rushing towards the end and first you need to grab the apprentices to get to teaching (adult apprentices are more ideal so they don't die mid-way like kids often do, starving while asking about things). I think a shaman hat or some 'teacher' hat could help a bit, so people could approach these players to ask about things (now people ask from crowned people which does work half the time but crowns make you a target so I'd rather wear a less flashy hat...).

Quote, repetition (next) part: yes. Do this. Then the people can search for more info about your compressed explanation and maybe learn a bit how stuff is connected and needed for things.
Yesterday a boy made baskets in a wheat farm, I managed to quickly explain that the straws are needed for compost but I had no time to teach him and he was too small to keep up.

Quote, next part ("Four"): this has been the best way to teach for me. My most successful lessons were the ones with teen/adult males as apprentices and I showed them examples and made them watch and eat pie. It's hard to teach fertile girls as babies pop in and the newbie girls try to raise them at the same time.
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Overall the toughest things are:
- you finding time to teach (teachers have to be good players but towns always need good players to help)
- you finding an apprentice of good age
- you not being interrupted (hunger, babies, losing apprentice, dead or lost somewhere)
- explaining more abstract things like how only lambs should be fed and how farms shouldn't be expanded and how space should be left in farms etc., and overall just stuff that is good in moderation but bad when excessive.
These more abstract things and tricks I have learnt from videos.

Yesterday there was an old man tending berries but he was just expanding the huge field, probably had for years, and I was preteen aged and couldn't explain the problem of the expanding to him very well due to the text limitation. After he was gone and I was older the city fell to famine as the soil had gone to the berry expansion so there wasn't soil left to fertilize the existing bushes. It's these kinds of lessons that are hard to explain when they seem good but bring trouble in the long run.
Anyways that made me busy for the rest of my life (trying to compost, get mutton for pies etc.) and I birthed two newbie daughters, both sweet as can be but I had no time to teach as I rushed around multitasking as they got babies.