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Couldn't you prevent this with some strategically placed berry bushes at the gate?

I Found two fairly minor issues with at least the slotted wall boxes yesterday.

1. Graphical issue:  doors open "inside of" the wall slot box - when opened and intersecting a wall slot box tile, most of the door disappears behind the slot box. Looks really weird, but that's all.

2. Wall boxes are accessible from both sides of a wall. Yesterday I was able to stand outside the kitchen walls and interact with objects in slot boxes on the inside walls. So if you wanted to have a locked room, it would seem players would still be able to access any items kept in wall slot boxes on the inside of the walls from outside.

I imagine the regular wall boxes function the same way.

I mean they take away some of the dis-incentive to construct buildings, anyway. It doesn't increase storage, but you can still have a wall without also decreasing storage.

13 sounds better than 9 for a more developed town.  I was just thinking, would it be better if we had a smaller number for eve villages though?  It would probably decrease the routine infanticide in eve villages if they weren't getting overloaded with more kids than they can feed all the time.  They want a few kids, but not too many.  Would help balance the life score issues faced by players in eve villages, probably.  I guess it would be hard to tell for the server what is an eve village, so perhaps "within x amount of time/generations from when the eve spawned"?

Perhaps a chair you could sit on to decrease food drain. Would go nicely with the crib idea.

Am I reading correctly that we get 100+ bonus food capacity once reaching maximum food capacity?

It does, indirectly though. If I build an oil rig to supply the diesel well for example, the next few generations in town (including my own family) will survive more easily, having a positive impact on my genetic score after I die, on average.

Now if I'm starving kids to do this then its still a net negative; in real life you're generally going to be choosing your own kids first, even in a survival situation, but sometimes you might not if a certain task was needed for anyone at all to survive.

I don't think the gene score is perfect by any means. I'd like to see it balanced across stages of the game, so a predominantly early game player isn't at a fitness disadvantage compared to someone who prefers established towns. I also think it could be made less noisy by adjusting your score based on each offspring's performance compared to their own average performance instead of your average performance. If it seems too confusing to have different life score impacts from two players who died at the same age, list their genetic score beside their name on the genetic fitness screen to add the relevant context.

The only differences I guess is it would mean babies need to be fed less often,  and yum would be more powerful.

Of course many food items would need to have their relative value adjusted unless you wanted to deal with non whole numbers. But it could be used as an opportunity to rebalance food items.

When I posted the same idea in the other thread I was thinking more along a 2x change.. but regardless, you're right, increasing stomach size is pretty close to the same as decreasing hunger drain and food values.

I had been thinking about a week ago of a way to re-balance food and hunger, for a different purpose, which was to more evenly balance survivability in early eve settlements and late game towns with the intention being to make them more equal in terms of their impact on genetic fitness.  But I suppose it could be reworked to implement Jason's idea of introducing more powerful food items instead or as well.

Basically the idea was if you decrease pip drain so you lose pips more slowly, and decrease the pip gain of various food items such as pies and other later game foods you can maintain or increase difficulty of survivability in late game, while decreasing or maintaining food pressure in eve camps so that survivability is more similar between the stages of gameplay.  I think also though berries and popcorn would need to give decreased pips as well to keep their power level appropriate and avoid a potential berry muncher's heaven in late game.

So anyway this idea could be entirely re-purposed to introduce more powerful food items by changing values related to pip drain and pips gained from eating.  The tools are already there (i think?) to introduce bigger food items.  It would have no impact on overeating, though I don't really see overeating as a problem, but i guess it would decrease food pressure if everyone always got full value out of their bites.

It's a good point that we still don't have enough incentive to communicate. I thought tool slots would help that a lot more than it has so far, which is why I thought it was a smart idea. I thought the 8-16 would have almost no effect on many players since I/they would have 12+ every life, which is why I suggested cutting it down more. It was supposed to encourage teaching and communicating more, but so far I've just been conserving my tool slots to avoid running out, and if I've been communicating and teaching more it's only because I have less jobs that I'm working on and so nothing better to do. Maybe I'm still getting accustomed to the system, but at some point it's either beneficial or it's not. Personally for me, that in combination with the prolonged stages of scarcity that seem to be an increasing percentage of each arc has made the game less fun recently.

Tools maybe I can still get used to and it won't bother me as much or feel as limiting, but I'm really getting sick of the extended periods of scarcity where there's no incentive to do anything anymore and everyone seems to stop working and it just feels like everyone is basically milling around waiting for the arc to end, bickering about petty things and killing each other.