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Just my two cents, but I have had this thought many times and now seems like a good time. It can be a struggle sometime to care about my life, and what I do in it, because of how quickly it all goes away. My hours invested throughout many towns in a day, are gone the next. I am not talking about whether or not I get to enjoy the fruits of my labor, its that nobody does. That bakery a stranger and I built together, gone. That jungle nursery I taught someone how to build, gone. That terrible looking berry patch, why fix it, it will be gone in a few hours unless someone rediscovers it and repopulates it.

It's like going from making a quick sandcastle to making a replica of the venice board walk. Both will eventually go away in time, but you don't put the time and care into making a beautiful sculpture right as the tide is coming, you build a shitty sandcastle you won't remember for months and years to come. Well after building shitty sandcastle after sand castle, I really don't care about them specifically as much anymore, still like making them, but it's not as special anymore. This is human nature.

Eh you could make it slightly more likely to get a girl if you are one of the only fertile females left. Part of the need to sit around a fire and yum a bunch is to get enough kids to get past sids deaths and boy births. If you hit 35 and your sister dies without having kids, at least you could still work on stuff, hoping that 20% extra chance of getting a girl will carry you through.

Perhaps look at how many of those babies played more than 2 lives in a sitting versus one to two lives per sitting. I think part of the idea about area bans killing towns is that players that are playing a lot in one go, don't end up back in the same places, and the lineage is left to casuals to keep it up. Even that logic is flawed though, as one powerplayer stops playing for the evening, there are two more that log on and start playing their sessions.

The only problem with burial bringing people back is how long it takes to be buried. You either have to arrange a funeral so you know you will be buried right away, or play the guessing game of did it happen yet before you choose to respawn. If it acted to shorten the ban timer, it would need to be from 1.5hrs to 1hr, otherwise people would feel inclined to suicide after thirty minutes somewhere else to get back as soon as possible. What if burying someone made the timer go from playtime to realtime? That could work nicely.

I used to call for ways to get back, but really it can do a lot of damage to people trying to make a town survive, because people are choosing to go back to one town. Often I ask myself, do I want to get back to keep at it, or just to see what happened.

What if when you are buried you can "ghost" your gravestone and see whats happening there, but not be able to be seen or interact with them. Last five graves can be ghosted too before it starts getting overridden

That is a crazy statistic oh man, 76 times as eve, how long was their average eve play, 2 minutes? Don't know how the heck you fit that in there. Almost makes me think they were intentionally trying to /die before being picked up to grief mothers, but could be just a naive player that doesn't know about Eve chaining on low pop servers or something. Glad that you are seeing some of the stats on the popularity /die, and theorizing ways to smooth it out.

Ooh I love the way that tree looks, been wanting that kind of visual for ages for lineages, so much easier to see whats going on. Quite a few crazy branches on that one there, fun line to be a part of.

If it was capped and reset after max, maybe eating same foods doesn't break it, but doesn't stack it either? As said, you can't eat if you have the bonus, so you would notice that when eating the same foods over you never start getting a bonus again. After X amount of time without eating a new yum food the chain also resets. Make the +bonus and the YUM/MEH graphic 10% larger or add some color to grab attention, and people would figure it out quicker.

Completely right about that feeling when you see a cactus fruit, it feels nice because its a new food that you can yum off, but that breaks down immediately. The fact its an uncapped chain makes you look at foods either as awesome or worthless with no in between. Also it confines foods to only being balanced off of pips gained, rather than if it could be a extra yummy tasty food that took a lot to make. It's cheaper to just grow corn so people can get one yum from eating shucked corn than it is to make tacos or icecream. I feel like it would be a great addition to have foods be balanced around either being nutritious or yum filled, and would give you space for making complex foods that aren't dumpstered by the playerbase because its not cost effective from a pip stance.

• Cap yum at 10

• When reaching max of 10, next food eaten resets chain

• Specialty foods give +2 yum

This is pretty rough with loopholes, and reasoning how raw and basic foods figure in I am not fully sure on so don't want to just throw out ideas. One ingredient pies I don't think should count, but rabbit+carrot or carrot+berry would. Something that makes us actively yum more, made it a more widespread and utilized mechanic. Every time you add a new food it makes an uncapped chain easier to do, to the point that you will eventually not need to eat for 1/3 of your life. By making it reset as part of the feature, you would want to pay attention to when you reset it and why. About to leave to find iron, get up to 8 yum and bring a couple snacks with to get to 10 while you are out. Leaving with max stacks could be sketchy if you are gone too long and need to break it in the wilds. That second banana might save you, or kill you in the long run, that sounds fun.

Also it wouldn't be as infuriating if someone accidentally or intentionally breaks your chain. Rather than ruining a lifetime of work, making you want or to actually murder the feeder (happened to me before), you'd just think "well I wasn't planning on doing that quite yet, dang it" It would pay off to have people actively making specialty foods for the town, you would be happy to see some tacos or burritos laying around to get a easier yum boost without overeating to get there. I hate wasting food to stack up a chain to increase my fertility, eating a raw or wild carrot with only two pips down just to see a little x13 on my screen. How much bonus food you get from the chain would most likely need to be reduced as it would be common to have a chain going, might be the best candidate to get rid of the server wide extra food value though.

Yay that was me! Glad to see its still going and people are getting to spawn in both camps, was my hope when I made it, to get the lineage a chance at lasting

Spoke too soon, they died out before the reset. What I wonder is if the lineage would have ended sooner without the branch off towns or not, or if it made no difference. Always thought that branching out helps protect against losing the lineage overnight or to griefers, and might allow people to have a second life in the lineage before the ban from first town wears off.

Change them to wooden swords that stun the other person for a small duration. When used on another person they are dropped and can't be picked up by the same person for awhile, 30~1min+. It could be used to defend from attackers until they can be permanently dealt with, either by conventional means (bow or knife) or if 3-5 people also pick it up and attack the original target, they could starve the assailant through a combined coordinated effort. How long have we been asking for non lethal ways to use on others? A bit honestly. Can't recall a lot of requests for a weapon only meant to use on people outside of your lineage and town.

You could nerf them to only being able to be used once per hour and we'd still have something to say. They feel out of place, and this idea that after the planet blows itself up that we'd be right back at it the second we leave the stone age, is really sad. The apocalypse makes sense because it takes coordination, intent, patience and dedication by a small group of people. Swords are just a toy for kids that get tired of their anthills and magnifying glasses.

Adding on to this after some thought. Paranoia of negative behavior feels like it has been on the rise. Twins/Trips/Quads are left to die 90% of the time. Loose knives are widely regarded as asking for trouble, making a bow is suspect. We start to trust each other less, and draw inward. We care less about our family, because of the high chance your bright faced new baby is going to put a knife between your ribs in the next ten to fifteen minutes. These things, these swords, is just gasoline on that fire, and it concerns me.

Seeing this addition, especially since it's for only outsiders, feels at the wrong time, not necessarily on its own a bad idea. I just wish we had something other than death/murder/language that convinced you to make villages close together. The water update could have been perfect for it.... Oil spots are also on a grid and VERY far apart, effort from multiple prospering towns would be needed to access it, but would supply enough oil for all of them for a good amount of time, until they all have to find the next spot to drill. To secure long lasting water source, you would need to travel neighboring towns, learn their language and convince them to join you and their other neighbors to get an oil well going at this spot kind close. Build a road between each other and the oil rig, share resources after the project is done, along those lines. It would definitely add the element of having a reason to need interaction between towns, because both of you have something you need, each other. I would rather spend time talking about positive links between towns than the possibility of negative ones.

Could we have a compromise with less permanent items like rabbits and ponds, with slight increase to expendables like burdock and milkweed?