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Jason addressed this in a post a little while ago -

There's a little problem, first proposed by Turing in the 1930s....

A piece of computer code cannot tell what its actually running on.  This is why DRM is a hopeless folly.

Corollary:  a piece of computer code on one end of a wire can not be certain about the nature of the computer code on the other end of the wire.  It's possible to do a lot of things.  You can guarantee that no one else can read a message.  You can verify identity as far as ensuring that the remote party has access to some secret.  But you can't get proof about what software the remote party is running.  Bits on the wire are bits on the wire.

I.e., it is impossible for the server to block modded clients.

Now, it is possible for the server to send less information to all clients, so that modded clients have less "special" stuff to show.  There would be a performance and quality cost to doing this, though, and the improvement would be minor.  I.e., even if we sent you less of the map in one go, your client could still "remember" the parts of the off-screen map that it already has seen and show those to you.

One last avenue for improvement here is to send less information about other off-screen players to all clients.  There's no performance or quality hit if I do this, and it would eliminate the offscreen-spying advantage for modded clients.  They'd still have a more comprehensive view of the map, though...

The rift is impassable other than by plane, and even then you cannot have babies outside of the rift.
The rift was implemented to see what would happen when we run out of resources (Oil,Water and iron) also to encourage interaction between villages and towns.

The player base is too small to split up. Zoom-mod is not an issue as it doesn't overly impact another players experience. Some mods however are detrimental i.e the 666 bots and worse would be a bot which doesn't tell you they are one, Wasting food and the mothers fertility.

I really like this idea for several reasons:
- this would be quite fun to map the maze if it changed each rift.
-Perhaps you could mine through a wall to connect to more resources
-Lots of choke points to guard, It might encourage the capture and control of land.
-You may get lost in the maze which would spice things up.
-it could make resources rarer because its not as easy to navigate the maze and find that one thing you were looking for.

Best idea I've seen in quite some time.

I think a big part of what gives a life meaning to me is the social structures. Jobs, businesses, guilds, marriage, rites of passage, laws, economy.
For the most part Jason can't fix the lack of these structures, only we the players can.
The worst is when you get given the best clothes without earning them.
Then being told GLHF only to be left in a fully developed city with few people who are happy enough working alone.
I've tried to implement some social structures but they never seem to last past my generation.

My favourite social structures I've been a part of have been:
-OHOL news team (Covering stories from around town and some war reporting)
-Keystone builders guild (I made this guild in my mentor Fords honour, at my time of passing i made Gio the guild master)
-Yum shop (trading Yum food for cards and cards for Yum food.)

If I could add one thing it would be a town notice board, So I could add a note inviting people to join or interact with my guild, business ect.
my 2 cents.

Perhaps setting it to if no family line older than 12 hours exist then reset the rift. That way you could leave the eve window open.

I'm struggling to turn into a donkey. This might be a bad time to do this, another group is trying to kill everyone and stake all berry bushes.
We only need one donkey to get a team of four to donkey town.

20k is far. 200 years on foot and assuming horse is twice as fast that's still 100 years.
The journey would have to be continued by a child born on the journey. Things can go wrong too.
An airplane might be safer and we should be able to produce one in a reasonable amount of time in DT.
We will need to know how far a plane travels before landing and needing fuel and runway again.

If we find enough end stones we could make an apoc tower in DT too so that we cover all bases.

Snowballs in backpacks can cool you down but they melt after a few minutes.

That wasn't me who killed you the life before, nor was it me who locked someone in a property fence or made angry face with knife. I would say if I did. Perhaps it was my sister with a similar name. You can your capitalist cronies have made a powerful enemy today.

I like the Coppicing idea, it's the only way to keep it realistic and not have magical maple saplings spawning.
At the moment stumps disappear after one hour, which is unnecessary, wasteful and unrealistic.

It also takes at least 90 years for a maple tree to grow. Perhaps reducing it to one hour might make maple farming a bit more viable.

Regular saplings (not cuttings) don't really act like saplings either, shouldn't they grow into trees?
who ever heard of someone tilling their garden with a sapling? a branch would make more sense.

Its justifiable enough for me. I doubt you would get cursed for it, perhaps killed after but not donkey town. If you live by the sword you have to be ready to die by it too, It's the price us town defenders have to pay sometimes.