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Those are some full baskets. Man! They just couldn't carry any more than that!

Why did you die so many times OP?

I'd rather exile people than put them in a jail. If I was put in a jail, I'd quit/disconnect. What's the point of staying? I opened the game to play, not to be captured and stared at.

This somehow feels hilarious to me. So that's how flower humans would work.

I mean, at least there would be an actual gameplay reason for killing. Although it shouldn't be the ideal way to go. Because in a game like this it goes instantly genocidal and extreme.

Heavily agree on logs, oven not looking hot when it is hot, foods not being worth the time and effort and losing people when moving around together. Also no time for bonding with others.

My list:

It's really confusing how mutton can be prepared in different ways but almost identical pork cannot.
That said, I never see pigs in game.

Domestic moufflon, boar and bison have to be shot with a bow for some reason, while domestic animals can be knifed to death.

Cows, dogs, wolves, bisons and horses have no skeletons.

(To be effective in farming) separating soil with a bowl is bizarre. I do not understand why it should be so that two bowlful of soil is the best way to use soil in-game.

Having to use exactly six mashed berries and carrot for compost is bizarre.

Only sheep produce dung for some reason.

Water buckets, bowls and well interactions are difficult to grasp as a new player.

Bucket of saltwater looks identical to freshwater bucket.

People can use pond water in cooking with no health consequences.

Corpses and remains do not cause any health issues if left to sit in the middle of living spaces.

There is no way telling if a rose seed is now producing red or white roses. The time requirement is also bizarre, and I expected to get red/white roses via farming them long enough for mutations to happen.

I feel claustrophobic with the field of view I have in game.

I get dizzy with the field of view I have in game.

Talking feels really expensive in game because I am constantly on a timer as food goes down.

Talking feels cumbersome as the person you are trying to talk to doesn't know you are typing to them. They may move out of your view before your speech bubble appears.

Speech bubbles get replaced too fast if the other person is a fast typer, or writes one word after a long sentence so you don't manage to read the long sentence as it gets replaced by the last word they just spoke.

Talking is cumbersome as you reach the maximum character amount so late in game. It's hard to tell exact locations of resources or tools during your active years as you are still heavily limited in speech. You can't explain things or give out tasks in one speech bubble so it's hard to have apprentices unless you are nearing sixties.

There is little to no benefit gameplay-wise when bonding with others.

It is odd how there are no fathers in families.

It is odd, bland and boring how everyone looks certain way. People don't look unique or interesting. In addition to that, I can't customize my looks to force myself to be unique.

It's odd how there are no huts or cheap shelter options.

It's odd how a community lives like they are on a farm field.

It's odd how everything is set on the ground, like edible things.

It's odd how the character uses only one hand, while you should be able to carry two tools or food in one and tool in the other, etc.

It's odd how there is only one way to ignite fire.

It's odd how there is only one kind of fire pit; the bonfire.

It's odd how we still have adobe kilns, ovens and clay items at generation 100.

It's odd that we can find hundreds of years old animal corpses and eat from them. Same for pies that have sat under the vast skies for centuries.

It's odd how we can't craft traps for predator and prey animals (except rabbits).

It's odd that we cannot destroy a rabbit hole.

It's odd how we can't shoot rabbits with a bow.

It's odd how animals don't repopulate around civilization and just go extinct.

It's odd how bears only appear if a human goes to them. Irl bears occasionally raid human settlements as trashed food attracts them.

It's hard to make a trail to a natural resource you found. I try to use stacked stones but it takes ridiculous amounts of time and effort.

You must spell out a number in game which makes chatting about distances cumbersome.

It's odd how one can avoid bans by starving before the age of 30.

Cursing is odd. And the requirements for it to work. The result it has is required for now, however.

I do not understand why a sword wouldn't hurt anyone who I am trying to hurt. I do not understand why my character wouldn't slash his brother if I wanted to.

Same with property fence. If I decide not to respect the boundaries, my character thinks differently and that annoys me, as I am supposed to be making decisions here.

I suspeced that too. There are few very active and very loyal players who /die like there is no tomorrow. So it's a minority that just feels like majority due to their extreme spam.

That made me snort out loud.
And that is like the crying-laughing emote level of amusement.

But yes to OP, it's terribly unintuitive. Same as separating soil with a bowl. Baskets, bowls, soil, it's all mostly odd. Now if there was a crude watering can...

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I have played games my whole life so that's 20+ years. I also studied game design and work as a game designer. What I've seen is a lot of seniors having hard time getting accustomed to new era of games (as they are mostly parenting at home, not playing that much). They are brilliant people and I look up to them, but I can see where my strenghts are when I work with them.

I am envious of all the brain power Jason has available for OHOL with the community. Any comment, idea and suggestion is worthwhile of writing and being read. Sure it's rare to have a perfect solution but nobody really comes up with one instantly at first. In my work, designers/devs make sure to run their prototypes by customers to ensure their implementation is truly what it should be, and ask around everyone if they feel it's not good enough.

2 brains is better than one. 100 brains is better than 2 (imagine all those strenghts in that bunch! So many perspectives!). Then it's just up to the one in charge to come up with options and land on the ultimate solution with teamwork.
At least that's how the best things have come to life in my... experience, if I can call 2 years in the field as that... heh.

Sounds great! I'll be visiting at some point.
Good job you peeps.

Somebody could argue people whining about the Eve change are crybabies.
Mind blown.

Anyways seriously though, Jason tends to make very extreme changes oftentimes which causes extreme results. How about you stop trying to put other people down and construct a well-thought out post about your problem and maybe suggest what you'd like to have when playing this game?

Those look really floppy, fabric-y, unless processed somehow, or wrapped around something harder. And from one thread?

Hahah, yes indeed. Well, we gotta see the bumps happen before we can come up with better ideas. There are some absurd rules to the rebirth craziness (like the starvation before 30) that translate in weird ways, making loopholes and such. Perhaps we can figure something out as we go.

Glad stuff is happening anyways, it's still an upgrade.
Interesting shift with the Eve numbers. Eves and rebirth are the oddities of this game, always testing where they should be and how they should fit.