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As I once said; let wolves play with sheep and see how long it takes until the sheep are gone. If left unchecked, the game dies as the peaceful majority leaves. Newbies are met with douches and turned away instantly. There is no point playing a game that leaves you frustrated and sad; you should feel happy or fulfilled after a game. It’s entertainment after all.
When fulfillment leans on a very shaky success condition, that is easy to thwart completely by anyone, it’s a sign of a problem.

Family cursing annoys me so much. Can’t we just report players like in other games? Stream sniping was never complained about, right? It was such a hasty implementation.
I usually play few lives per week, sometimes dropping out for weeks. I definitely don’t play after updates because I know there will be issues. Swords and Eve spawns sounded like hell... I still dislike war swords, because they are just magic genocide swords, a weapon tweaked to be special to try and enforce conflict between families; in the process becoming griefers’ favorite tool, paired with blooming racism. Which in turn breaks my immersion, makes me disappointed by this behavior and then sours my gameplay.

How about, instead of flooding cities with anything, you start building hunter huts?
You could leave three arrows in a locked box in case you get back to the place, and then leave some free arrows in baskets. One note that says "In case of bear attack. Return after use." The huts would be small buildings, and they'd be at the outskirts of cities. You'd be remembered by those, like some players are remembered from Battle Arenas. I'd help you build one if I'd hear about a project like that go on as a baby.

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Oh man, it’s so sad (well, more like frustrating and disappointing) to hear about the racism thing.. Griefers are such lowlives.

The twin killers, ugh. I wish we wouldn’t have to play with those people. Just an annoying distraction and in addition they ruin the image of twins.

Once I raised triplet boys. One of them died at 13. When the two (who were left) were older teens, they both had obtained or created a weapon and started killing people. I was old but got one of them, my other son got the other, and when that one died, he said as his dying last words ”well finally you got one”. They didn’t manage to kill all women but the ones who lived got old soon and didn’t get girls.
This also happened with other triplets. One died at 10 and the other two started griefing and murdering.

Yes, seems like I have had one life in a Ziv lineage.
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=4895420
This one made it to gen 36. I was gen 19.
It was a town running out of water. I had a mother who knew how to get the engine, and I hoped she'd teach me, so we could do it together. She helped me get started, but I constantly kept forgetting what parts and how many I needed. Iron was low too. Farms and food situation was still good, but people probably had to travel far to fill buckets.
I spent my life basically parked in the smithy. I would carefully try to make the right parts and not waste buckets of water in the process. I'd occasionally sacrifice steel for some tools when someone requested for some. I managed to figure out some engine parts in my life, and left them neatly arranged for someone else to possibly, hopefully finish. In my last moments I hauled bucketfuls of pond water to the smithy's cistern to help the next guy get started in making the last engine parts. I got too old to do anything else, so I never got to haul in more iron ore or make extra coal to ease the future generations' workload.

I worked alone basically my whole life. My mom and sis were running around the place and I never got to know the surroundings, although it seemed to be a well-placed town. I had no idea what was going on in the village though, it seemed to be okay, no drama. For my last words I said I hoped someone would finish the engine, worrying that the water situation is going to end it all, wasting my pitiful efforts of tech help.

Yes, it's a trend, people tend to be more eager to talk if the story involves killing. Heck, I have front seat experience on it with my fanart of OHOL, and the stories behind the fanart.
However, there is infamy. You have gotten infamous. If you want to get discussions going, sure, you can talk about aggravating things or make very extreme points. But the discussions you get from that will backfire, as you can see. A forum member Toxic saw it too, his lineage got hunted down in-game due to him honking his own horn as a griefer and killer in forums.
Here I'd rather suggest getting good open-minded and non-judgemental discussions and good talks going, without trying to provoke others or talk about killing sprees, as that makes you come across as an immature person, an annoying person; the little snot nosed brat who thinks it's fun to pull cat's whiskers just because the cat reacts strongly to it. You are giving a bad image of yourself, but at least it's honest.

By acknowledging your negative traits, and striving for the good of all (no self-justification, you can't decide what others think is good) you can become a more admirable player, and be remembered for your efficiency and helpfulness.
But if you keep bringing down others, talk badly of others, get angered easily and dramatize things, people won't be on your side. They see your flaws and how you are lashing out, unjustified, acting on feelings. And that is childish. You can be better than that. You don't have to be, but if you strive for that, you get my respect no problem.

Happy to hear you can find towns you like. Remember that people pass by quick through families, don't let annoyances get to you so easily. Know that not every place will be as good as you'd like it to be, and not all players will be as good as you'd like them to be. But try to have the attitude of "most of the people are at least trying to be good and useful". It just doesn't always look like it, especially if you are a hot tempered person. OHOL desperately needs players, we must not turn others away.

What a subtle way of demanding roleplay from a player.
It does feel odd to talk about real life things in-game, though. I guess I expect a level of escapism and that snaps me right back out of my game-mood.
One of the many reasons why I hate racists, trolls and griefers.

I’m just here think out loud about OHOL and roleplaying;

it’s odd, in a way, the game automates roleplay by simply assigning relations and names on the players. Yet, people can push it to a full-on roleplay of a character, who likes and dislikes their own things and can do good or bad decisions while being detached from the person behind it. Then the character is in the focus and makes its own story, and the player basically narrates it and nudges it into entertaining directions.
I rarely see people talk about themselves as irl people, or greeting others as themselves. Only once I talked about my irl life with my in-game son, as our town was doomed (last girl died).
We just tend to accept our in-game names and genders and respond to them, and call brothers brothers, and mothers mothers.

It’s kinda funny to see irl men get flustered when a male character is being gay towards them, yet often irl women find it sweet to gay around. I find it hard to play along when it’s a character of my irl gender being gay towards me, has other straights had that?

I don’t like roleplay or playing pretend, but in OHOL I do it in mild doses and enjoy a brief love story, which is basically few sweet words and special treatment of a certain player. Few extra actions like notes and burial.
I do entertain myself occasionally with a story in my head, even write down some as real full-on stories. Sometimes they write themselves, such as one story of a boy who grew in cold and separation, developed behavioral issues and lack of trust due to his environments, and found false security in drugs and isolation. Got deep in human behavior and trauma with that one, just because one different life inspired me.

Maybe there are limitations as this is the first summer for OHOL in Steam stores.

It also seems that upon an update, your RecordedLife becomes unusable, right? Because it doesn't match with the server's version? Can this be bypassed somehow, I have some old lives saved I'd love to watch again.

It's so disappointing. This is why we can't have nice things.

Also, whoever was the Qin who cut down trees to iron veins, thank you for that, I mined two veins by following these cut trees.

Hey hey, I was bringing your sister Katarina a backpack at one point, she seemed to be very new. Sadly I was out of town a lot so I barely saw what was going on in there. Usually a bloody murder grave each time I visited. I saw someone farm in the west part of the town, but it probably wasn't you? I got some milkweed seeds from her farm. Stole a bucket from there once, thought it was abandoned. I took it for the mine... :D