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Alright, since im part of the group causing the current mess, i probably should explain why.

Monday:

Here we can see Jack and Yikes enjoying their first succesful apocalypse and me discovering that building three towers simultaneously/with a small delay between one another doesnt just override eachothers' homemarks, making one of them effectively invisible, but gives everyone with hetuw mod three bell locations so they can come and dismantle them, just so only one of those gets successfully passed on to children. Therefore the tower that was completed first was indeed invisible to everyone. This alone makes apocalypses a joke.

Tuesday:

Here we can see Whatever making an apocalypse on his own for the most part, because of how easy it is to build and protect vs how hard it is to destroy/prevent, and us helping him out 'cause the guy deserved it. Also the bugged apoc-mark makes it easy to navigate around the map even without a belltower (which was necessary for the previous apocalypses)

Wednesday:

Here we can se us + Kaybro speedrunning another apocalypse but scraping it down because someone (no clue who, please messege me on disc whoever you are) else had already made this:

and unlike the three previous ones (that were done 15-30 minute ride away from everything), this one was right in the middle of civilizations, with a town being roughly 0,35k away from it and other two under 2k each.
And it rung roughly 5 hours before ours (thought due to a misclick we lost 4hour progress), so we had decided to protect this one instead.

Tomorrow hopefully we can make another one before the new upgrade wipes the map out.

I believe that several problems were highlightened here.

• The apocalypse does NOT require one to reach the highest point of the tetch tree to be made.
          Correct me if im wrong, but i remember that this feature was added when cities grew out of proportion and game became stagnant, so we needed a reset feature to be used when we reach the highest level of tetch. That however is not the case. We can place the first block as soon as our villege creates its first tools = when we make the spring site into a shallow well. And for the apocalypse tower purposes, no further level of tecnology is required.

• Propriety Fences right now are an overpowered way of greifing but a useless form of defense.
  You all probably heard this one over and over again, but let me add my voice to the common choir here.
          As you can see from yesterday's and today's apocalypses... the towers were invisible until the third endblock was placed and after that all we had to do to prevent their deconstruction was to wall them in with propriety fences and then come in turns to kill all outsiders and rock them down every hour. Wednesday's apocalypse site didnt even have a proper defense system - all one had to do to enter was to lockpick one door - but nobody could do it because of an impenetrable and easy to set wall, that takes over the lifespawn of a person to be dismantled. Unless people come in organized groups at the right moment and camp its decay, we can just come over every hour and something, rock them down and then die with a devious face. And if they DO come in organized groups, we'll just counter them with our organized group.
  They were introduced to keep outsiders from coming inside, but are way easier to implement in a way to keep insiders from coming outside/ whatever and whoever's inside to come in contact with the outside world.

• Just building a tower forces people, who dont want a reset, to spend at least some of their time to go to it and dismantle it. Building one far away, forses people to spend a whole life getting horse and running to dismantle it. Building one and effectively protecting it forces a whole load of people choosing between ignoring it and possibly allowing the work of their past lives go to waste or spending each one of their lives by getting horses, weapons, lockpicking tools/wall building tools and rushing to the apocalypse site, with a high chance of just getting killed and acomplishing nothing; and if we add the problem 2 in consideration, then with a high chance of not being able to acomplish anything other than having hoarded useful resources from their town to a remote and barren location. The game for those people becomes effectively a horse-hoarding/marching/fighting simulator. I dont believe that to be the spirit of this game.

  And if someone suggests to just build a stone wall around it and then keep it safe to settle with your own propriety fence, reversing the roles... well, that's a huge wall they gotta build, with a not-so-easy to get resourses to surround an infinite resource; and with 6 hours of time to do it vs over 18hours the pro-apoc group had to settle their defences. And then it's still 10 hours of rotation vs 6 of the apoc groups'. These parallel resources simply arent comparable.

• As monday's apoc showed, the current design of letting players know of an apocalypse, to be able to prevent it, simply doesnt work if people have to deal with more than two towers set at the same time.

The next upgrade will probably solve some of these probems switching them with other problems of different nature but i'd still like to adress them.

This life i was named Mann Serenil. Born to a mother in coma, i've been taken care of by my sister, Alivea, who was also been looking after our sick mother. What a kind soul.

I, however, didn't particulary like that town. It was big, but empty and gave me depression. My soul was seeking adventure! So ever since birth i had two objectives:
- Get a Horse
- Get the hell out of there and never return.

Thankfully the ever-ringing bells of the forever-name-changing bell town make it impossible to get lost.

That said, as soon as i turned three i started working on a milkweed farm, that had to be made almost from from scratch (of course), but having an abbundance of berries and carrots and two random milkweed seeds left in a bowl, by the time i turned fifteen, the town had plenty of spare soil and enough milkweed for two horse carts. Enough contribution to make up for the food i wasted, no?

By the time that milkweed was almost mature and i could finally make myself a lasso, however, a starving little girl run to me screaming from hunger. Kinda odd that someone like as my sister would let her own child starve, but whatever, i fed her a berry and wandered off to composting some extra soil while i was waiting for the milkweed. When i came back to the berry farm, however, the child was still demanding food and my sister was just standing there. So, as any normal human being, i decided to adopt her child and feed her until she could stand on her own. I named her Olivia, in honor of her mother who had taken care of me when i was her age.

As i was wondering about what to do with my sister, who apparently had hereditated our mother's sickness, Alivea awakened and said that she's fine now and can take care of the child. Isn't it nice when problems just solve themselves? Knowing that i was leaving Olivia in good hands, i immidiatly went back to my escape plan.

It took a while to find a horse and to get it back, so by the time i had a horsecart for myself, i was already in mid twenties. Perfect age for riding.

Finally, packed up with a horse, some straw clothes, a backpack, a cactus fruit, a cooked rabbit and a long term tollerance to hunger, developed by eating well, i came to the fire to say my goodbyes... just to find Olivia being in coma near the fire and my sister stripping down and starving herself to death (in a moment of sickness-driven craziness, clearly).

At this point the only inhabitants of the town were me, my uncle Auggie, my nephew Greenlee and my sick neice, who was also the last girl in the town.

A part of me wanted to just leave and let the other two guys handle it all. Another part of me wanted to let this place die out. In the end the part that prevailed was the feeling of owing something to my sis. She had taken good care of me when our mother couldn't even move and she herself was still a child at the time! So i abbandoned my escape plan, instructed the other two guys to leave Olivia in my hands and proceeded to make sure that she ate well and stayed warm.

And so i spent all of my remaining life taking care of a girl in a state of comatose and accomplishing pretty much nothing else, while my uncle was having fun rides on my horse and my nephew was keeping the town together and helping me with the kids. I was, however, recompensated with many cute great neices and great nephews who called me dad.

When Olivia reached menopause i was already on my dying bed. The town had somewhy gathered around the fire place, so i took the opportunity to say farewell to my family. So i started ranting about how i had spent my whole life doing nothing productive, learning nothing useful, teaching nothing useful when suddenly... the girl, who had been in coma for over thirty years, suddenly sprinted, run around and came back. Nobody could believe their eyes. I thought that senility made me go crazy. The most surprised of everyone was Olivia herself. In fact her first reaction was: "Omg, why do i have so many kids?"

Good Question, bitch ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Shoutout to Olivia Serenil for having such an awesome timing, kek
And to Alivea Serenil for being a nice lad.

Tl; dr.
Was planning on continuing a previous life project, ended up feeding a comatose girl.