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Have you ever tried to tuck into a big meal while sitting on a horse?  Have you ever been on a horse?  It's no place for eating, trust me.

I could make it so they wait around for a bit after you get off.  Like, you get off, and they stand there for 10 seconds before running away.

The point is, I want you to have to tie them up.  I don't want them to just stand there like a dumb vehicle.  People tie their horses up in real life.  There were hitching posts in front of every building back in the day.  Or else your horse (and cart!) would run away.

The idea is also that you set up established outposts, and the first step is building a hitching post there.  That allows you to establish a "trade route" between the city and the outpost.  This is another reason for roads:  to mark the path to the outpost where the hitching post is located.

So I really don't want you to just "park" a horse wherever, tied to any tree.

Regarding eating along the way...  well, you could imagine setting up hitching posts at regular intervals along the way, at roughly the spot where future travelers will also need to stop for lunch.  Also where you will need to stop on the way back.  In other words, trans-generational civilization.

As you can see, the horse isn't "broken."  It just is a more detailed experience than most people are expecting.  The horse, like everything else in the game, is a problem for you, the players to solve.  It's not unsolvable.  But it doesn't work like a horse "should" work in a game, which is just a way to make you go faster with no other consequences or wrinkles.  In fact, I'd say the horse isn't wrinkly enough yet.  It should also get hungry along the way...

That said, if you don't even have time to build the hitching post before the damn thing runs away....  I'll play with it and think about smoothing at least that part over.

Trick wrote:

pennedgalaxy wrote:

Recent bear attack in the Panda town, there was two arrows around but no bow. Someone crafted a bow, but that's not enough arrows to take down a bear, in my last moments I died trying to craft another arrow and instructed my daughter to make one. Honestly I'm just so confused as to why there was two arrows but no bow? I'm assuming either a griefer took the last one or they hid there's to avoid griefers, either way very unfortunate.

Finally killed the bear, and a second one showed up.

It's because the town is right next door to 2 bear caves, and a bunch of mothers were letting their kids die.

Was spawned back in that town actually! The bear got killed but another came by at some point before my second birth, I was Luna first life and then Toni Panda in my second! Who were you my dude?

So I've never killed anyone in game before but here comes a lady saying 'all blacks are slaves' and threatens to shoot me since I have dark skin in this life in game. Noticing the obvious threat this woman is I go and get a bow and kill her, I immediately get stabbed, BUT! I have enough time to explain what happened and I get healed!

Moral of the story nip problem people in the bud as quick as you can before they can do damage, I'm glad I didn't end up murdered there!

I guess i'm the other baby Trick (Prince, my old brother was Tyrone according to the family tree), i can tell what is next.
I was born while mom and warrior was in the wild, in the middle of a snow biom. My birth complicated things and a girl soon came too, but we managed to make it out of the biom and all survived.

We arrived in a giant town with things everywhere. Nobody was alive, here and there an old grave, that's all. First it was just me and princess, my sister. She was not a chatty girl, and soon we began to work. Warrior and mom helped too, but mom was busy with kids, and Warrior died of old age soon after the arrival.
I came to the compost area, only one pile of composted soil was left, of two baskets. The boar's pen was full of dung, and the berry farm too, so i focused on carrots and wheat (only seeds and dry rows) and soon it started. In the meantime mom gave birth to many other kids. We had some silent and inactive people, it could have be more fun, but i was happy to be part of the ressurection of such a great city.

For unknown reasons most of my brothers and sisters died and we ended with two women. They hopefully did it and gave birth to many other kid.
At this time mom came. She had a backpack full of dead pigs. She told she was gonna leave the town for another town, far east, from where she came. She said it was full of bad and racist people who caused her lot of troubles, and she was seeking revenge. Warrior was the only good man, the one who trusted in her. And with this bag full of pig, she will destroy the entire city. Was something like "i must die in the city. They will try to loot my body, but they will take pigs and then they will be unable to eat cause of pigs in there hands. Muhahahaha".

It was the last time i saw her, i wonder if she suceed. From the rest of my life the city grown, i worked on farms and compost mainly. A girl made a key and was able to open the door (luck?) full of knifes, bows and arrows. This girl was strange (one of the silent, who does not answer, people). She locked herself, don't know how, in the room with the key out, maybe a bug. I realesed her, she said it was lag. But she was walking near people with knife in hands, so i gave my backpack and knife, the legacy of warrior, to a young boy to prevent problems, in case if. I died two mins after.

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A young boy was born into a thriving city with stone walls, horses, paved paths, and a vast graveyard. There the people were fed and happy, but it was not without conflict. The boy witnessed tragedy as one of his relatives perished after having been locked into a chamber full of weapons, only to have the key--and the killer--go missing. The boy was Trowa.

It quickly became apparent that there was little else to do in this city. Trowa ached for adventure, but everyone's needs were met and his options were few. So Trowa convinced his Aunt Tye, who was still bearing children, to come with him to start a new city. The two gathered two carts of supplies and a small band of the willing, including Trowa's little brother Wayne and his cousins Mary and Donna, Tye's daughters. Donna lacked experience--she could hardly feed herself--but most of the band survived the two year journey due east, across desert and tundra. Soon enough, they found a grassland with suitable resources. They immediately went to work clearing land and starting a farm.

Aunt Tye died soon after they arrived. Luckily, Mary and Wayne were skilled farmers, and soon carrots sprung from the ground. Trowa's aging back ached from the journey, but he managed to explore the wildnerness and bring beans, squash, and some iron. Trowa was teaching Donna to make a hatchet when she fell to the dirt in front of him, dead. Mary was the only remaining potential mother. It seemed the colony was headed for doom.

Mary looked cold. Trowa had but an apron, straw hat, and snakeskin boots, which he gave to her. Immediately she birthed a girl. It gave everyone hope.

Trowa breathed his last after having built the town's first kiln. He did not get to say goodbye.

[Many years later]

A girl, Mimi, was born to a growing farm. Wooden floors surrounded the town's forge, and the central gathering place was abundant with crocks of stew. People were happy and joking. A sign proclaimed CAFE TOWN. Mimi knew she would live a comfortable life, but she heard an echo that seemed to go back for generations. Had she been here before? It couldn't be.

Mimi confided in her sisters, Mi and Mili, telling her of these strange feelings. Mimi somehow knew that there was a shining city not far from their home, and that it was their destiny to return. Mi, ever adventurous, was immediately ready. Stew bowls in hand, the pair set off. Mili stayed behind. She never saw her dear sisters again. She had no way of knowing, but both of her sisters had perished, having encountered a wild boar. They never did find out for sure if Mimi's feelings were true.

Mili carried on in Cafe Town, heartsick at not knowing what had happened to her sisters. She toiled over the farm, contributed to the stew pot, and kept the community fed. She birthed many sons, some of whom were of filthy mind and incestuous. But from a very young age one of her sons, Juniper, spoke of the same vision which her sister Mimi spoke not long ago. She knew that he would be determined to make the same journey Mimi had made. By the time Juniper was old enough to leave, though, Mili's bones were aching with age. She bid her son farewell, expecting never to see him again.

Juniper marched out, due west, with a basket of supplies.

[Four years later]

One afternoon, while the good people of Cafe Town were joking around the stew pot, a strange man rode into town on a horse with a cart. The man rode up to Mili, who knew her son on sight. She fell to her knees and gave thanks to the Stew God for returning her boy safely home. The horse, Juniper said, came from a vast, abandoned city two years' journey to the west. He told them there were more horses, tools, carts, full pots of stew, and mysterious locked rooms full of weapons. Juniper's--and Mimi's--visions were true.

Juniper's brother, Warrior, a vile beast who desecrated the graves of his family, took the horse and set off for the city. In Juniper's absence, the town had not kept up the berry farm and the stew was running out. A famine hit the town and Juniper perished, frantically searching for a wild berry.

It is not known if Warrior made it to the city, or if others have returned, but it is rumored that the shining city was once known as Stormville, ancestral home of the family Storm. Long may the Storms live.

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This has been a trip. What a fun game. If you're bored in a big city, get a group and start a new one. Such an adventure!

(In case it wasn't obvious, I was Trowa, Mimi, and Juniper. Thanks to my moms. All hail Eve Storm.)

No reason to care about babies?  Huh?

Everything you do is meaningless without them.  It's not entertainment.  What you worked on during your life will be lost if no babies survive.  When a village is short on babies, they aren't pretending to want a baby for pure entertainment or role playing.  They know that the future is doomed without one.

If two men are left, and no babies possible, they suicide.  The game isn't a "what can you accomplish in one hour" simulator.  If it was, those two men would work their asses off to build whatever they could before they died.  No, it's a collective, trans-generational project simulator.

That's the point of the game.

You're saying that point needs to be underlined with a personal motivation, like, "A surviving baby of mine is my only chance to continue in this village later and keep working on my own project."

But if you want to get that meta, Kinrany, what is the point of working on your own project more and more anyway?  Why are people motivated to do that?  What's the point?

To your other point, maybe there should just be a suicide button.  No sense in making someone reload the game to do that, and no sense in making them wait to starve to death or hunt down a rattlesnake.

Trick wrote:

(probably YAHG)

LOL

Yeah, I realized that there are too many side-effects here, so I'm rolling back this change.  The old lineage ban will still apply in all cases, just like it used to.  If you let a baby die, they aren't coming back to your village for 3+ hours.

HOWEVER, to help brand new players out, the lineage ban will only kick in once a player has lived a total of 2 hours in the game.  So their first two hours of living (and dying) will be lineage-ban-free.

These time-counters will reset every time the servers reset (once a week, after children-of-men), so the first two hours of a new server are kind of a wild west period with no lineage bans.

This will also help players who are getting back into the game after a time away from it (who haven't played since the last server reset).

This will allow griefers to return to a village within their first two hours of living.  However, given that they have to grow up a bit to grief, this effect will be somewhat limited, because they will be chewing up their time clock every time they grow up.

(As for why these time counters don't last across server resets, I'm trying to keep the implementation quick and simple.... also, I'm not implementing inter-server communication for this feature anyway, so the servers will all be keeping separate records).