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Either you are trapped, are extremely hindered by their presence, adding a ton of travel for even the most mundane thing such as grabbing a stone right on the other side of the fence. The more time that goes on, the more these fences are causing stress and frustration.

I think the fireplace idea is great, allow it to be loaded with charcoal for an even longer lasting fire so warming all the buildings wouldn't be as expensive and prompt people to make more charcoal regularly.

I would agree that its not directly anyone's fault, just that the tools we have been given, and how many are using those tools. It has been made very easy for those wishing to cause harm to due so, as we have noted. Yes it does come down to the players, but there is only so much the minority, those of us experiencing a lack of satisfaction, can do to change that behavior, hence speaking out and being vocal about it. Obviously and honestly my perspective is skewed and biased, but this feeling has gained a lot of momentum in a fairly short amount of time. This didn't start to feel like as big of problem when fences were put it, just when an object thats only and sole purpose was to harm outsiders was added along with clustering everyone together, and I do not believe that is coincidence. As population of active players has gone down since surges like Steam release, negative interactions has remained and even slightly climbed at the same rate, despite the playerbase settling back to a normal amount of active players. I don't like staring at the icon on my desktop pondering if its worth it not to double click it.

I used to play at least a life a day, on my days off sometimes 3+ lives. Since these latest changes I play one life maybe every few days or less, and thats getting further spread out as warmonger topics and posts about killing all outsiders creep into the forums.

Really used to enjoy playing the game a lot. I used to praise the game for making players think about group efforts, the need to forget about self purpose and put the family first. At first I wanted more time in a family because I wanted to see what I was working on be completed. Then it became that I just wanted to do more for my family on that day, give them a better chance to survive. The next day, move on to another family that I felt the same about.

Now it seems like most people are in it for themselves. People are fueling negative interactions with eachother long before positive. The general censuses is that you are better off trapping Eves, and wiping out your neighbors because the chance they might do the same. Towns die of neglect because players male swords and forge out bloodthirsty, leaving just a couple or none at home to take care of things.

This is not the kind of game anymore that I feel good about putting my attention into. Rather heartbreaking.

This hits the nail on the head pretty well. It wasn't so terrible before to have people quit out of an eve camp becaude they don't appreciate those aspects like we did. Now when it happens its doubly saddening because of the rarity of a real eve camp. I kind of laugh at the same time, because those dead towns have to come from somewhere, keep up that attitude and you'll never have a town to be in.

As to the Eve problem... Eve tokens? I think its been mentioned before, living to old age, 58+ allows you to spawn as an Eve. I doubt many griefers live that long, so their ability to spawn as a fully capable adult over and over would be hampered. Would also make it so more eves would be players that are potentially more experienced.

I have been feeling this too. The problem is by the time you can get to a new clean area away from everyone that might kill you for being not related, you have wasted sooo much time. Instead of helping set up a new camp and working to make them succeed, you are just hoping that you have a few kids that are down to start fresh as you go infertile moments afterwards. It has destroyed the feeling that eve's are.... well Eves. The first female and start of a new line and a new town, a new start. The issue of having to search for the perfect biome mix of ponds/dirt/hot tiles we had long ago was fixed. The shift to X number of ponds with Y number of resources nearby was broken open by springs, making many locations possible, even starting off with nearby iron but no ponds at all. That was all sent to the landfill by having eve's clustered around living and dead towns. I can not remember the last time I spawned to a naked eve that was out in the middle of the wilderness. They wear bowlers and backpacks now, are hunted down and cleansed because of lack of trust, and the ability to do anything to them other than kill them. If someone spawns to you in the first gens and you aren't restarting a town, they just leave you with a pile of bones (granted temporary bones, thanks for making that change to sids bones). The feeling of having a place in a new town is shot to shit, its an uphill battle, with the slopes slick with ice. Either you can never get up it, or when you do all it takes is one little thing and you are sliding back down to the bottom. There has to be a way for Eve's to still be pushed out to the wilds, but still be around other Eve's starting off, that doesn't involve making all nearby springs into wells, or hoping that by traveling out you make Eve's spawn to you. I like the fact that its easier to get people around the tutorial area now, but its knowledgeable players gaming the system, not an actual effort, that gets you out there.

Yeah very true, its a little wacky right now, and its more likely to be gen 1 doing compost rather than planting the first berries. Doesn't feel quite right.

I agree with this sentiment. Easiest way to dial in on this without actiively parsing whats in the tiles around a town in generational preference. If you are mostly spawning in towns under 10-15 generations you could expect to come into a town still working on deep well levels, but also might come into a restart. Players that often spawn in generations past 20-25 might find themselves in a branch off.

Because its more of a rarity, they might take the shorter end of the stick and live there. I know I would be less likely to be opposed to settling if it was once awhile that I was outside my preference.

All I see is time wasted on maintaining walls and paranoia. In the time it took to wall of a town you could feed a generation or two. But hey we have cheap sheep pens so eff us right?

Disgusting behavior, and a new sad low for  the perpetrator.

It would destroy the game. Griefing would get even worse, it would be more satisfying to end towns and players lives because you have also interfered with them outside of the game. It would punish less skilled players that have put in time, but still are learning, also slowing down their progress to boot by limiting their playtime. Villages would die in droves due to lack of players, not because they don't want to play, but because they can't. That's not rogue-like, its hardcore permadeath, rogue-likes just make you start anew every time you play/die, which umm already happens. How would you even go about recommending something like that anyways. "Hey I found this game, that you need to rely on other people to survive and grow. It can be crazy easy to all die if everyone isn't working together well, and sometimes the bad eggs run around killing people for fun. Oh yeah also when you die, you can't play for awhile, sometimes over 45 minutes!" Jesus. Oh man, really want to get a life in before work this afternoon... Oh never mind I spawned to a mother holding a knife next to a nosaj and now I am dead, guess I will just uninstall this game that I can't control whether I get to play it or not. The things you guys think of... Please think more