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Thank you. This is what I mean. It is a way of balancing the game.

In my opinion, a good game should be difficult and challenging. The problem I have with the unmodded version of this game is that there are times when it is neither. Not because it is easy, but because some things can't be overcome with effort.

The definition of challenge is: "something needing great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully, or the situation of facing this kind of effort" (Cambridge English Dictionary)

When you have an element in a game that is completely impossible to overcome, it becomes unbalanced or broken. While the zoom mod does give some other advantages, many use it simply because they saw it as a way to balance an otherwise good game.

If Jason really doesn't want his players to use a zoom mod, he needs to balance his game. I'm not saying it's a bad game. The fact people modded their game rather than dropping it tells you that it's good. I'm just saying that the use of this mod could be heavily prevented if the reasons people have to use it are fixed. When 10% of your player base uses a specific mod it is a sign that there is something that could be done better. (Not hating on Jason. I really appreciate the effort he puts into this game)

I did all that. There is always a slight lag in this game for some reason. I know it's not on my end either. Lag plus animal coming at you equals death every time. Animals can travel across biomes as well, so it is possible to run into them elsewhere. It has happened to me. It is great that you can handle being killed by complete chance, but I can't. In my mind, if death can't be prevented by skill in some way, there is a problem.

I have to admit, I rarely got hit myself, but when it happened by complete chance it just ruined the game experience for me. I would be okay if I got hit while actively trying to avoid the animal or when it jumps out from behind a tree. That's fine, the fault lies with me in that case. But when you take all precautions and still die because it suddenly appeared seemingly out of nowhere from the top/bottom of the screen, there is a problem.

What's wrong with XD? It has been the emoticon for laughter since long before emojis were a thing. Would you prefer lol, haha, or rofl instead?

And just in case you didn't know, calling someone a c*** makes you look far more like one than whoever you are accusing...

Preventing the % quit in the game won't solve anything for Windows users as they can always close the game through task manager.

To show how odd the communication in the game is compared to real life, here are some comparisons based on my personal experience with over 40+ young children. (The age ranges I will give are averages. All children are different)

Single Vowels:

A Newborn to about 3-4 months of age will only be able to speak single Vowels. They may add in a soft consonant every once in a while.

A baby of this age in the game can only speak one letter, so pretty similar right here.

Syllables:

At about 4-5 months of age, a baby will start speaking in syllables, usually ending in a vowel. This is when they may start saying ma and da, even if they don't know what it means yet.

In the game, a baby of this age can only speak one letter.

First words:

At about 6-11 months of age, a baby will start speaking full words. They love to mimic language at this age. The more you say something, the more likely they will be to repeat it. It can be really cute. I remember one baby I watched that got really excited (big smile, laughing, jumping up and down) every time she saw my cat. We of course encouraged this because it was so cute. Her first word at 6 months was kitty, even before saying ma or da.

In the game, babies can still only say a single letter.

Mimicing continues:

From 12-18 months of age, the baby continues mimicing others. This is usually only one or two words at a time. They will usually have commonly used words down well (mama, dada, baba, food, out, down, up), and try to mimic words they don't know as well.

A baby of this age in game can only say one letter (I think. Maybe two)

Short sentences:

The age range really starts varying at this point. Somewhere between 18 to 30 months(1.5 - 2.5 years) of age, the toddler will start speaking full sentences. These sentence are usually short and use simple words. A 20 month old baby I know recently said "No touch [name]'s computer." They usually repeat things they hear often, mimicing short sentences.

A child of this age in the game will only be able to say one to three letters (again I'm unsure. I never paid too close of attention and avoid talking at this age if I can)

Full sentences:

Between 2.5 to 4 years of age, a child will start speaking full sentences. They may make simple mistakes, such as using incorrect tenses and butchering long words, but they are pretty fluent. There is really no limit to sentences length at this point. They can keep talking and talking until they run out of things to say.

Children of this age in the game can only speak up to 4 or 5 letters.

So basically, it takes 59 years to reach the language skills of a 4 year old in the game. In fact, I believe a four year old can speak better. An elder in this game may be more on par with a two year old. It's odd that communication is so limited in the game, especially considering how community based it is. It really hinders gameplay.

You curse them with the name exactly as it is written.

So to curse a player named Sally West lV, you would say "curse Sally West IV"

Always include the Roman Numerals if the name has them

But people are reborn into towns pretty often. There have been times when I am born back into a village shortly after my last life there and have info about the village and surrounding area that the current generation would benefit from knowing. I then have to suffer typing this information one or two words at a time. It's rather annoying.

Children in real life start speaking full sentences at about 1.5 to 3 years of age. I find it odd that the people in this game are forced to live their entire lives with the linguistic skills of a toddler.

Also, limiting communication in a game that intends for the experienced players to teach the newer is an odd decision. This is something that should be fixed before the game is put on steam. Either allow better communication in the game or create better resources to teach new players how to play.

Have you tried creating a games folder in your c drive and putting it there? You could also place it in program files (x86). It might solve your problem

Anything to free up clutter. This includes more stackable items (iron bars, seeds, crops), better storage options (food barrels, silos), moveable/decomposable animal corpses, etc.

Seriously, my favorite update by far was when plates, bowls, steel ingots, and baskets became stackable. I was amazed by how much more productive it seemed to make towns.

+1

Been one of my biggest pet peeves since day 1

It didn't occur to me that the immigrant was supposed to be a wife. I guess that makes more sense.

As for population, I still have to disagree. The issue isn't that woman can have an infinite number of children, it is that a child can only have one mother. By making males able to spawn in players, you are essentially adding more 'mothers' to the game. The more 'mothers' a town has, the more likely that a player will spawn there rather than somewhere else. This means that players will be even more likely to spawn into towns than to eves. Now, I am unsure of the exact consequences of this, as I haven't looked at the code myself, but I am pretty sure this will make the population of towns increase far more exponentially than they already do.