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I spent the week clearing up some of the reported issues that had accumulated.

The biggest change is to how killing and posses work.  First of all, if you try to join a posse, but cannot for some reason, you get a DING message explaining the reason.

Next, there's a new exception to the posse and exile requirements---something like "live by the sword, die by the sword."  Someone who kills becomes vulnerable to being solo killed, without being exiled or having a posse form against them, for 60 seconds (the same amount of time that they are stuck holding the non-sword murder weapon).  This helps people deal with the "evil leader" problem.  The current leader is the most powerful in terms of being able to exile, which means that dethroning them requires quite a bit of political willpower.  If that leader goes on a unilateral killing spree, organizing collectively to de-follow them---to strip them of power---can be really difficult.  One of the early ideas for justice in the game was "safety in numbers."  As long as the citizens outnumber the griefers, the citizens should triumph.  That idea resurfaces as we differentiate good killers from bad killers.  The good ones will need to be protected by others while they are in their post-kill vulnerability state.  The bad killers, who are acting alone and without the approval of the group, become fair game for everyone.  The 60 second window of vulnerability is a live server setting, and may be tweaked in the future.  It could be even longer than the murder weapon hold time.

Feast tables have been tweaked so that they are no longer kick-started by pumpkin pie, allowing these pies to be stored on a table without forming a feast table.

This week, I'm also kicking off a new community content feature.  Congratulations to Fred Struggs, whose modern berry farm is featured in this week's VOG Shot:

I'm on vacation next week.

Over the years, a few people have complained about what is shown toward the end of the trailer.  When the game shipped, these people were apparently expecting atomic powered robots and monorails.

However, the end of the trailer is supposed to represent a possible future for the game, when I say, "Who knows where we'll end up?"

And that's what these weekly updates are about.  Along with improving the core of the game, and fixing problems, I'm also slowly adding more and more advanced technology.  There are already hundreds of things in the game that weren't shown in the trailer.  Just not robots, yet.

Today, we inch a little bit closer to some of the stuff shown toward the end of the trailer, with the advent of paved roads.  But these roads, with the way they are constructed, and with the way the seamlessly connect together with branches and tees and crosses, go far beyond the straight horizontal highway shown in the trailer.  Spaghetti junction, here we come.

You can also add elbows and vertical sections to the layout of your sprinkler pipes, allowing you to build more compact fields that are served by a single sprinkler pump.

New this week:  diesel-powered plows and irrigation systems.

Through these industrial farming techniques, you can use water, soil, and iron much more efficiently.

The third-party tech tree (OneTech) can now be reached from a button on the Login screen.

This issue was reported:

https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/issues/641

There's a glitch in the code that won't allow you to satisfy a craving if the craved food is a "yum overlap" food, like a bowl of berries (which isn't yummy if you've already eaten a berry).

Fixing this today.