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This is a fun thing to think about. I am a similar gamer as OP: I rarely find games I get super into, but when I do, I play for hundreds to thousands of hours very loyally. I have now played OHOL for 1 month (on/off due to life and OHOL having murder issues with updates)...

So let's see!

1. No life is the same. There is the element of uniqueness. Some tasks are the same but there are hues that differ each time. Identity, location, situations, people...
2. My actions matter and benefit others. There is the element of lasting impacts, big and small.
3. Experiences: there is the element of surprises. What goes down in the next life? I think this is related to gacha mechanics and slot machines: maybe next one is a "big win"? My new favorite life?
4. Social interaction. Bumping into other kind and fun players awakens my emotions and makes me attached to others. It's refreshing.

What got me to play were the questions "Who will I be? What will be my name? How will my life pan out? What kind of people will take care of me? What will I go through? Will I be someone's hero? How will I die?"
Same questions are keeping me playing.

I also feel that the experience is worth the time I invest as I have instant impact on other real people. Mundane tasks are connected to the indirect saving of others so others can continue their existence and experiences and possibly get to enjoy good moments and emotions and possibly connecting with another human.

I also suspect there are small dopamine rushes going on when doing tasks, simple and complex, and enjoying finishing a project you set for yourself. Crafting, hunting, creating etc.

TL:DR; my actions help others as well as me, behind a corner may be the best life ever and there are differences and surprises in my playthroughs due to the game being a multiplayer. Simple and complex tasks give dopamine rushes.

Is the probability 50/50 when you are born? I feel like I have been a female twice the amount I've been a male, but maybe I've been abandoned more as a boy and just lived for seconds when as a girl I've been raised more often.

In some Sims games one could affect the sex of the child by eating apples or melons, but such 'magical' things will probably never be part of OHOL. Thank goodness for Old Age death and Eve spawn thing, so if an Eve runs out of girls, she could get back again. Too bad when you are not the Eve and can't spawn there... Maybe we get more chances with spawning in the future instead of directly affecting the sex of the baby.

Iirc the town had a knife or two already.

Why exactly do you feel the need to put your energy into telling others randomly that they are ugly?

Wasn't that the case where the man lied he needed oil for a hoe or something, and tried to get his mother (the YouTuber) to get the oil for him? I think the YouTuber was very much in the right in that case. The man had lied about the oil and hoe thing, he was going for a knife as his backpack hid the stuff needed for a knife (only lacking the oil). The village was better off without the man, I'd never had trusted him after the lies.

Ok so what they are supposed to do is freeze over (disappear) and move (while invisible) to another place in tundra to open up again (so they wouldn't be static and block things as you can't drain them or remove them?). I've only seen an ice pond appear in tundra, I was slightly freaked out at first but I had heard they are supposed to change places. I've never poked penguins nor seen anyone poke penguins so that may explain why I haven't seen moving ponds around me yet.

Congratulations! You deserve it! I wish more people would look for a good spot like you did, even better than average would be great.

Lovely! Please space the story out in small chapters if possible! I had to paint over the text to keep myself from losing the correct line.
Happy your child made it and gave the town a chance to be revived.
Maxson was surely MVP.

Glad to hear someone else agrees on that. There are differences in real life and games and that is a really good thing. So many games try to imitate real life too much and fall flat on their noses because games need a balance to deliver (an entertaining) sense of realism. There are so many awesome realistic things in One Hour One Life but debates over mechanics and ideas die quick when it goes to the "stop bitching, real world is harsh too" -dead end. We should talk and have ideas, if Jason refuses them, that's fine.

A mark on the baby itself could work better than the speech bubble thing. So many mothers don't wait at all to see the bubble of the child: they are busy moms and new moms. I baby test like there is no tomorrow, but I can't make others play like I do, there will always be someone who wants to do the opposite for a reason or another.

Ofc it is "easy to judge - hard to do" when it comes down to the trickiness of balancing and making anti-grief systems, but there are very good, valid ideas, and then I see others stamp the people behind them whiners. Great ideas can be refused, I don't mind, especially with an explanation, but oh well. Humans...

I'd also add to the "doomed to Eve life" thing: I suggest that a cursed player loses their ability to play as twins/triplets/quadruplets for x amount of time or x amount of Eve lives: this is to cover the plausible leak of the lineage ban. Would like to have it confirmed or fixed if possible: can a player bypass a lineage block if they spawn as twins, triplets or quadruplets?

Thank you, I guess Oneal might have left me be and tried to find a woman to kill as I was just a male. I dunno, that's my best theory on how I survived. I am surprised I got both though.
Sad how they decided to go out like that, the town raised them, it's nobody's fault if a bear gets one of them- but maybe they were intending to grief and murder from the beginning.

Yeah I've been seeing this player (suspecting it is the same player) who just takes down others as they die. That's always the reasoning, "I'm gonna die anyways".

Oh yeah and my mistake: I was born to Mia the first time, and to you the second time!

Ahh, I wouldn't be surprised if the lineage ban leaks like that.

Please don't do that, other nice players will suffer because you are trying to get some sort of revenge over things. Don't get offended but it is immature and selfish behavior to revenge and let innocent people suffer.
There are mean players as there are mean people, but letting others suffer indirectly or directly will just feed the flames and the downspiral continues. I'd say the revenge mentality is what keeps people so negative.

If you end up living with horrible players, just let go and advance to the next life. No need to sit and suffer, go on, you have the power. I know I ran when I was born to a cursed mom talking about me being a sex slave. And what do you know, amazing life right after that!

I was a new player just under a month ago. I also watched videos and learned through them. 60 minutes goes by so fast in-game, it is rare to get time to teach. I don't expect people to teach me but I do teach others whenever I can. It is, still, most effecient to keep watching newest videos and hearing about tips rather than wait for someone in-game to grant their knowledge upon you. Communication is not easy in-game so teaching is not easy either.

Anyways, regarding the original post, what I wanted to message here was:
basically, nobody has a right over others to dictate how they should play the game. But. People can kill people in this game. And that will happen. Always.

Here are some thoughts that hover around this subject:
"Some people should chill"
Sure. There are some players who are very short-tempered. If they got a weapon, they can act out on a whim, on their impulses and do as they please, just like anyone else.

"Let me have my fun"
Have it. Better yet, go have it somewhere where you can support having your own fun. You'll be safe and won't bother anyone. It'd be polite to do it like that. Not all experience your fun as fun.

"Nobody should be killed"
I disagree. But it'd be great if there were special servers for people who want no killing. Griefers would prolly love to mess up their towns though, by using the soil and making messes, trashing stuff, locking things and so on.

"People are killing harmless people"
Yes. People can do whatever they want just like you can too. You want to honk a goose throughout your life? Someone might want to kill you. Both can do whatever however. I'd advice the goose honker to honk the goose somewhere else (and forage food for themselves to continue doing that away from others).
But what is a harmless player? One who doesn't kill, one who doesn't work, one who at least isn't draining the resources...?
Nobody here on this thread wants to kill just harmless people. Nobody here wants to carry people either. People have different opinions on what is fun and what is annoying, what is lazing around and what is idle time. People who wield weapons just have a bit more power to back their actions. That's just how it is. Sometimes jokesters are not wanted. Sometimes they actually are a drain to towns.

Also, as a note. Some griefers can just simply "play you": They mimic veterans and act like them and then do unfair kills and screech out things like "they didn't do work" just to get two sides against each other. Sometimes it is a burnout veteran player, sometimes it is a long-time griefer/murderer who knows how to play the community and get them riled up.
Griefers also can and will "play dumb" and take on a role of a newbie. Yes, sometimes a real newbie is killed, and sometimes it was a griefer playing "the noob card".
Don't worry, every innocent one gets to respawn anyways. I was killed as an innocent player, and got a nice life right after. No problemo.