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Strong objection.

I've seen it all.

Idiots standing around as a griefer slowly murders people one by one.

Idiots standing around as a griefer, revenge-stabbed, gets healed, while the avenger gets stabbed themselves and dies.

An entire town forming a posse to run a thousand tiles to chase down a griefer stealing the town's Kerosene supplies.

An entire town watching as the town Doc patches up a victim, before all of them (~12) stab the attempted griefer and watch them bleed out.

An entire town devolving into chaos because inter-family grief causes a back-and-forth stabfest, until both sides die out.

Murder is a necessary part of the OHOL experience. Not having it would be a severe detriment to, yes, the storylines, even if you want to joke that they aren't relevant. Knowing that people can, at any time, try to kill each other, but willingly choose not to, is a gameplay element in and of itself.

Villages rarely opt to use, or even have, excess adobe spent towards a second set of kilns to specifically do Newcomen work. More often than not a secondary kiln site is placed, also outside, and specifically for firing clay bowls/plates to keep the "main" smithy focused on metals.

I wouldn't say that it's been explored, really. Since smithing iron is pretty adjacent to then dumping on the Newcomen parts, more often than not I'll see the smithy being stuffed on the east side with a box or two for storing the newcomen metals, or otherwise a bunch of spread out baskets (usually the latter). Would two sites both focused on steel, that are indoors, be able to work? Ehh, maybe, I guess in your case it has.

However, springy doors are non-negotiable. They are necessary for slowing down griefing, and automating the pathing in/out of the nursery and central rooms. If those rooms have permanently-open doors, you're losing out on a lot of potential food savings, and opening up your village to getting doorlock'd.

Could we maybe get...a different SFX from *DING* regarding Hierarchies?

Should there be hierarchies right away in the game?

What if Hierarchies could only be formed once someone wears a crown? From there, then people could only follow others who are following someone else, and so on...

That would maybe help to keep the flow of the game "Tribal" in the early sequence, and slowly transforms into "monarchic" in the sense that has been discussed in this Topic so far.

It would also maybe justify more game-associated features being implemented in association with the hierarchy.

Edit: Maybe this could make it so that the three different types of crowns had a kind of purpose/use if they were actually worn by a "True" king?

Welcome back! Boy did you miss out on the latest two megatowns!

Maybe you'll get to join in for the third, when that eventually forms?

I made a thread a few days ago almost immediately after the recipe for it went up. Since that thread's mostly dead, I'll just transfer the numbers over here.

Ignoring the +2 bonus (which is currently +4 for EZ mode), both the Feast Table and its components are the same 320 Food Pips. I assume this is 100% intentional.

At +2 bonus, the Table is 336 Pips, and the ingredients would produce 368 Pips.
At +4 Bonus, the Table is 352 Pips, and the ingredients would produce 416 Pips.

1) This assumes that we are not adding bonus pips to Whipped Cream or Butter, since they are toppings for Sliced Bread
2) This assumes that both Whipped Cream and Butter are both made into Butter, and used on bread slices - even though additional bread is needed for one of the two.
3) If we removed Whipped Cream from the Pips value for parity of only using the ingredients presented, and nothing extra, the ingredients would be 336 at +2, and 384 at +4.

tl;dr you are partially correct, the Ingredient Pips == Feast Table Pips, but Ingredients are better purely because of the +2/+4 Food bonus.

Ultimately every person wants to experience "The City Life". It's the closest the game gets to separating the player from the constant Food-and-Water grind, because the Bell Tower towns tend to have a supply of Kerosene if they managed to invest the 25h required to build all the layers + 2 Gold for the bell.

The Hub (current Belltown) Was and is just that. It had a general farm area plotted, surprisingly-good sheep pens (using Trellis'es since they can never decay or be removed), was in proximity to multiple deserted towns that could be re-inhabited, and had tons of natural resources.

Within a 700-block radius, there were 4 Tarry Spots that could be tapped for Oil. So far, only 2 of them are fully exhausted.

If you ever wanted to learn a new skill, experience a different trade, you can do that without a lot of headache and asking "Where's the food"? Because there's dozens of plates and dozens of bowls to supply grain, flour, pies, turkeys, mutton, pumpkin, you name it.

That's honestly the other best aspect of a Bell Town. They are generally 'lax enough that you can do activities you normally can't in an Eve camp or even a Tier 1 or Tier 2 village.

I hate griefing as much as the next person, but you've said so yourself that murderers/griefers have a role to play in the game like everyone else.

If combat restrictions were to start being placed, such as the 1-Kill or the 2-Posse, I think that would give further incentive to players or "gate guards" to be equipped with those Batons I mentioned a little while ago. Non-lethal methods having less of a restriction on how much they can be used.

It would be another tool the griefer/murderer could use, sure, in whatever odd circumstance they're able to get hold of one while stuck in the murder-state of killing another player. But from most scenarios, if 2 players are prepared to murder an entire village down, then the Baton wouldn't alter that scenario one bit.

Agreed. Belltowers not giving the proper direction ping is a bug that should be address, at minimum regular Joe Schmoe's should 100% of the time receive the coordinates and visual direction (The arrow and amount to travel).

Yeah I thought this as well but someone clarified. The gene score isn't actually based off of Fitness anymore.

It's purely based off of your personal "Expected Lifetime". A completely separate number from personal fitness. It does that instead for every individual and then gives the points.

For the same reason Jason would care about knowing how many times someone fails to put a gooseberry into a basket. /s

Knowing food "wasted" is as relevant as knowing how many food pips each food gives.

If he saw thousands of uses of Popcorn, he'd think that it's being used to efficiently eat.

But, if he saw that 80%+ of the Popcorn's food pips were being wasted, for example, there might be something else going on.

tl;dr Almost all Data is valuable. Waste is one of them.

Yes, Hetuw.

Keep in mind that coordinates of the map are intentionally obscured by Jason from life to life. You have no way, at birth, to know your coordinates relative to the map. Your only known coordinates are simply where you were born.

BUT.

Belltowers have the unique function of telling you their X and Y position from where you were born.

Ergo, when a Belltower is rung, everyone w/ Hetuw can see the coordinate position of where it is relative to their own villages.

The one constructed here is the first for the latest map reset, and post-Rift, so we can finally navigate to the various towns w/o just Maps.

This is very big for town growth and tech development.