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The only thing I can think of that is worth fighting about would be water given how each well could be considered a form of territory.
If this is going to be a thing I'd like the ability to use my hands to point without having to dance into objects.
So how will we trade again?
On the subject of languages, I think the way World of Warcraft does it would work nicely if you decide to implement them. There is a list of made up words, and everything that players say is parsed through that list and words are replaced with made up words of equal length.
For example, 'Welcome to Eve Town' would become something like 'Kaelsig ru Lon Odes'. This gives you a general idea of what the player might be trying to say, and it would definitely be easier that translating it into a real language.
Except you could just make spelling errors to circumvent this. We already do this in the game with abbreviations when we're too young to make sentences.
Glad Jason is looking into families and making them more closely knitted together. I agree with that fully especially if he makes the family the only curse-able around.
However, a family that is very large with many surviving branches becomes really boring really fast and so... Clans! Clans are the same as the family name now, but it serves as a tribal membership and the Eve becomes the legendary ancestor they all share.
I suggest having the option of breaking up a family every second or so generations to make keeping your family alive matter more whilst still keeping them in the same clan.
Interface-wise this can be a "Clan Champagne" above the character name or elsewhere and should not be required when cursing or adding people to property fences.
1. The family name is inherited by all children. If not granted a name or granted a name by some other member whilst adult they still retain their family name.
2. The primary branch keeps the family name whilst secondary branches are allowed to change it once their parent(s) has died.
3. Males do not get a new family name unless marriage is a thing.
4. Childless children are skipped and the family name continues in a secondary branch that either didn't rename their family name or changes their name into something else.
5. It's the parent that decides what their children's last name will be unless of the primary branch. When a surviving daughter renames herself it automatically transfer the last name to her children regardless if they're around or not.
6. If no clan name was chosen by the Eve then the oldest female retains the right and the siblings receive it.
Scenario:
Eve of clan Champagne has three children.
Clothilde (f) survived and had issue, Clark (m) survived, Maria (f) survived and had issue.
Clothilde retains the family name Champagne (of clan Champagne). Maria gets to create a new family name (Knight of clan Champagne) when Eve Champagne has died if she wants to. Unless marriage is a thing, Clark retains the family name.
Clothilde has three children.
Hilda (f) dies young, Roe (f) survives but has no issue, Vera (f) has issue but predecease her mother.
Hilda is skipped, Roe gets the family name unless she remains childless, Vera gets the family name.
Everyone in this tree is of the clan Champagne.
Potential pros
- People will make families based on profession. Smith, Farmer, Cook.
- People will care more about their family.
- We must not all be given a terrible family name all our lives, just a clan name that might not be the best.
- It's easier to differentiate between families within a clan and who you should care for.
- Rulers have a better succession line if that's their thing.
- If you don't care for this then you need not participate and not rename your last name as a secondary branch holder.
Cons?
- People who don't like to roleplay get pissy.
- Potentially hard to do.
BerrypickerAF wrote:but it makes me wonder if early human tribes actually were ruled by women, as the death of all females would lead to the death of the tribe.
I don't think so, bride kidnapping seems to be common in many tribal cultures. Heck, even in Roman mythology the rape of Sabine women is a very prominent myth (the word rape being used in an archaic meaning of abduction rather than sexual assault).
What do you think happened with the women after they were abducted? Do you think consent was an option or a concern?
Answer: RAPE
Restricting the pest to the jungle finally removed any real reason to be afraid of them. If you go into the jungle you should know what you're getting into.
Well, sheep dung will decay in the next update from the looks of it, but I second the need for more decay and I love the book idea.
I would also like to nail paper onto doors and have the interaction be reading the paper initially and the second press removing it from the door. Do not think paper should decay though, but should be able to destroy them after they turn old.
I could never play without it.
I love properties. I love it more when people do something nifty with it.
I've had a few great lives recently.
1. In the Honor family as Bow. http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=4177491
Twisted, as Kevin Honor, wedded me with Bebe and gave us his property which we utilised and laid floors in. The wedding and more can be seen in his video. Bebe had a tendency to overfeed without asking, but otherwise a great wife.
https://youtu.be/4b0baMgQosA?t=3700
2. In the Ray family, I was Zona Ray. http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=4196424
I was born into a family with their own little property and we really cooperated with each other and made good connections. It was really nice. I married Shawn, a distant cousin, that stuck around. I ended up becoming the Matriarch after my mother died and I had inherited another property so my nieces and I appropriated the new property. We were rich with a lot of food and tools we had made as well as a lot of rope. And as such, we got a bit haughty with the commoners. I yelled at bypasser to get off my lawn and shooed some unwanted visitors. As a rich lady I started to mingle with the other old lady neighbours and invited them for dinner parties and fresh mimosas, we laughed wealthily and said our shares of Ta-Ta and darling before I died.
3. In the Sally family, I was Velma Sally. http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=4197080
Omg, this life was so much fun. I was given a red dress set when I was born by my grandmother which meant I was lady Velma from the getgo. My mother Tori was landless, so my siblings Fouad, Smaran, Zora and I decided to build our own little house on the prairie for our family as soon as we could grab stuff. Sebastian, my second cousin, joined us early and to make him an official member of the family I married him, by that time we were already feasting on enough bread to sustain us for life. Sebastian also brought us a little bonsai tree to decorate our little house and brought enough plates from his generous uncle.
I had three children of note, Hilda and Bliss were exemplary and very up with the idea of the close family, but then there was teenage Price who didn't enjoy the fact that we were rich out of our own hard labour (there is always that one rich kid that rebels against their parents). He accused us of stealing and tried to kill me so my hubby Sebastian had to end his life.
We didn't steal all of what we owned and we didn't keep community tools away from the rest. Anything my children and siblings would bring that was too much I insisted they should take it back given that having a lot of wealth is worthless unless there is a lower class to observe it and they need food and tools to survive. We made bread, pies and a little garden for the future. Being the great philanthropists we were, we also aided the community farm.
We almost finished the little 3x3 house on the prairie and had only one side left undone by the time I was 60. Sadly the line got cut short, but I had instructed my grandson Allie to marry and I hope the little house on the prairie survive to this day.

4. My last life of note was in the Hyon family, as Lara Hyon. http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=4197572
From humble origins, I got to witness the scandalous life of my uncles and great uncles who served as some sort of security force in town. I got hands on their property as well and moved in. My son Laughlin was abducted at birth right in front of my eyes by a distant cousin who claimed he was a milkweed dealer. He locked my son into his little demesne but had missed one little hole in the wall. I rescued my child and got my uncle Xander to deal justice with the kidnapper who confessed to the crime. Safe to say we took over his property after his passing and I invited my surviving sisters to join me. Sadly disconnection issues killed a large part of my family.
All in all, properties is a lot of fun and people do make families more likely to stick together like small eve settlements. Not all build houses, but at least they fence in the family demesne. Although, not much is made in the community town it doesn't hurt it if it's already developed. As long as we, as property owners, do not hoard or steal, it does not hurt anyone.
9. Don't block gates with oven bases just because you don't agree with the property idea in the first place.
Give us a sketch, it's easier to get your point across with pictures.
Maybe it would be a good idea to have a fence kit in the middle as well for loading and unloading.
DestinyCall that was probably me you saw lol,
stop grifing my fences, i just want to have property
Instead help me to secure the town with a nice fence
You mean construct deathtraps obviously.
One good way to signal that it's an oven by choice is to add the first batch of pies next to it or unfinished ones. Most would not bother with making a kiln out of it then.
I like the idea. It's really important to try to put down the layout of a town early because people will fuck it up if they're left to do the work themselves.
It's a luxury item. What do you want?
It would be nice if it actually worked out, but towns are proper hot messes already. You just can't trust random players to build efficiently and even less aesthetically.
But okay, okay, I'll make it so that digging potatoes doesn't use up the shovel at all.
They still take two soil.
This is great news! Finally, we'll see more potato farms to add variety to the garden. It's the variety that makes the game better after all.
Dying of mosquitos and yellow fever is not such a big issue anymore so long as you don't wander into the jungle. It's not a must anymore, most of the time you can walk around it.
Maybe we could make a cake or pancakes or any other dish with similar ingredients? Egg, flour, sugar and milk (potentially omit if it's too complicated)? Gets rid of most of those things you said was cluttering. I get that adding another novelty food item makes cluttering worse for a short while, but at least it doesn't add more single-use items.
So in the current dung apocalypse, we can't seem to find enough uses for the dung produced as a byproduct of the clothing production.
I propose to you the ever-present and historical use for animal manure, dry dung fuel.
Dung, once dry, would be an excellent source of "kindling". The only thing that would be bad is the smell, but we don't care about that in a society where we use soil and food with the same bowl.
Side-note, why not make bison produce "Bison chips" for an early source of fuel for your eve camps? Make prairie civilisations a thing.
natural colours trump any neon colour any day. I'm surprised the base white colour isn't more like the white apron, they're made from the same material.
What a fun moment. So many wedding in that village with priestess Stacy. I was Athena, it was so dramatic to see all the hubbies being killed off during the ceremonies. It's not often you see villages without men when they're actually needed.
Also, never found love due to the shortage.
Black cloak with anything makes you look a bit older. Almost hag-like.
I'm a big fan of the red dress too, coupled with a red hat.
I really wish the base variation was whiter like the apron or torque.
Also, seen quite a few wedding so far. I always cry during them, especially when someone comes in and murders the one spouse during the ceremony.
Yeah nah. Cities die too often anyways and it's not because of food shortages either.