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Hungry work for chiseling stone and placing stone wall.

It is already such a pain to remove poorly placed/sized stone buildings

In what way? what name would be better?

I do agree genetic score should be based upon "The reproductive success of a genotype, usually measured as the number of offspring produced by an individual that survive to reproductive age relative to the average for the population."

However, that number is mostly beyond a player's control because you don't choose if you reproduce or not and men cannot reproduce.

If your kids survive that is a sign your genes are good, if your kids die your genes are bad. Since men don't reproduce it is based on his sisters' kids.

Also, comparing to the general population is difficult because during hours before peak, population is growing so score would be higher. During hours where population is declining score would be lower.

I do agree that baby distribution is too good-

New eves should be a regular occurrence rather than being based on # of players and established families should have to compete by keeping warm/yumming

Keeping the family alive isn't a priority because the algorithm makes sure your family has plenty of opportunity to save itself.

I also agree there isn't much to do because population is stable and the resource demands of a few well dressed people is very low, population density is also much lower outside the rift so theres more resources per capita.

However I disagree when it comes to ideal number of family members. I tend to prefer towns with 3-5 adults. I think it is near the sweet spot in my opinion. Anymore than 5 adults and you don't really get to know everyone. Even 5 adults feels like too many to me.

In the rift we always got down to two families and you had half the server in your family. Families now are much closer nit now and I like it that way.

No more mega towns, just the family lodge and family sheep pen and family farm.

Get others to curse them with you. If you get a few really active people to curse them who play the same hours as you, you probably won't see them again for a week.

I have had to pick up pads to stop people from healing in past or hide pads

why not do something similar to Haven and Hearth to balance it out?

In Haven and Hearth, when you overeat it makes you slow(to represent being stuffed)

Something like 20-30% lower speed I think would be good. 

If you decided to do that, you'd also need to make it so that people can't overfeed you to make you slow as a way to grief/troll.

Also, maybe lower the food pips to 15 like you were saying and make your max food bonus 3x your stomach? so a baby with 3 pips max bonus could be 9 pips.

Yeah, a series about rebuilding society. There were multiple times I thought 'why hasn't Jason added that?' while watching

I haven't played anymore since that life, and look how much my score has changed due to obscure relatives whom I never met and share very little DNA with (12.5% at most, 3.125% at least)

almost a 6 point jump

I shouldn't be benefiting from their longevity in my opinion. Currently, my great great nephew Killis contributes more to my score than any other individual, that doesn't feel right to me.

I know that. My question is why should his life have any effect on my genetic score when we only share 3.125% of our DNA? I share 12.5% with a first cousin but they don't count toward my score.

Current genetic scoring incentivizes saving someone who has 3.125% over first cousin who shares 12.5%

How about incorporating r selection?  It should be # of grandchildren who live to adulthood. Those who fail  to reproduce are failures in the eyes of evolution, and those who produce infertile offspring are also failures!

Right now the game rewards those who are genetic failures(have no kids) and punish those who have many(gaaaaah, my 10 nieces/nephews and 3 great nieces/nephews who lived to 30 average tanked my score!)

Yeah, we live in a mob rule now where if you don't follow the cultural norms you get cursed by everyone in the mob and go to donkey town.

As far as I know, I had only been cursed by two people. One woman who had starved my baby and I stabbed that I couldn't understand (didn't know her language, her curse turned purple anyway though) and another who I got in a 'no u' fight with.

Because everyone lives so clustered together, I got born into donkey town despite not really griefing/trolling.

Also, theft isn't really griefing since you're taking from another family to benefit your own. Doing things that make no logical sense like randomly stabbing family members I would consider griefing.

If you're someone who enjoys conflict there is really no place for it in the game, as the only need we have is short term: food and long term: oil. Neither of these resources are well guarded and thus do not require conflict to get. Using conflict to get these is thus percieved as griefing because it is unnecessary.

and to address the whole 'eve grief' thing, you should be making a bow and arrow to get sheep early on anyway. So if you aren't able to counter one person coming in and shooting someone then walking slowly away, it is kind of on you/your family.

Honestly I think you should need to be 3rd cousin or closer to curse, because in-character I should not have to worry about not harming unrelated people. If my close relatives don't agree with my poor treatment of unrelated people they would still be free to curse me.

Anyway, later on in the arc even a group of 2-4 can be weak against a small town because there will usually be a bunch of wool pads and thread around.

I also agree there really should be some sort of in-built supplement to help establish a hierarchy/governing body. Time passes too quickly to negotiate roles/leadership/laws by chat alone.

Also, it feels weird that some old 7th cousin in another town whom I never met can decide I am at war now.

People basically still go to war the way they did before it was a thing, with no regard to peace/war status, but they just use knife/bow.

But does no one else agree that two curses in one lifetime with exponentially increasing curse radius with no regard to how related you are is a bit much? Some trolls will even birth you in the middle of no where and curse you for no reason.(happened to me 4+ times)
Just one misunderstanding can get you cursed by 3-4 people, which can quite possibly get you banned from the whole map (as I have experienced first hand with only 2 curses I am aware of)

Hmm, looking through this list I'd have to agree with Saolin 8 skills may be too many.

List of skills I would want to have:

  "Needle and Ball of Thread# +toolSew"
  "Needle and Thread# +toolSew"
  "Dry Diesel Water Pump# +tool"
  "Hot Adobe Oven# +tool"
  "Firing Adobe Kiln# +tool"
  "Steel Axe# +tool"
  "Smithing Hammer# +tool"
  "Shovel# +tool"
  "Wooden Tongs# +tool"
  "Knife# +tool"
  "Shears# +tool"
  "Stone Hatchet# +tool"
  "Stone Hoe# +toolHoe"
  "Steel Hoe# +toolHoe"

And thats only 12. If I understand correctly, a genetic score ~30 could get you to 12? Obviously, I would take the other skills if they were badly needed...