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If this keeps up, we may actually see the server on a wide-scale progress from Tier 1 of Maslow's Hierarchy to Tier 2.

A tried, true, and tested formula.

Yeah, that formula looks a lot better for tool distribution compared to the exponential.

Considering the loophole in SIDs has been patched up, I have a small feeling the Gene scores will start to float around the 80-120 region for like the top 15% of people, and then maybe the top 2% will push into the 160 range. Will have to watch and see, though.

On the other end of the spectrum, since we haven't seen anyone do negative values, and since that should theorhetically be very very difficult to do, people should probably lose more than 1 tool for crossing the negative barrier. 2?

Jason, I need to check that I understand how this system works.

1) There is a Gene Fitness for each individual

2) There is a "Life expectancy" value per person

3) When a person dies, their age of death vs. Life expectancy (not Gene fitness!) changes their Gene fitness score, and adjusts anyone else by that same amount

The inherent issue with that system is that the "abusers" of SID would have their negative value countered by their Ma's/Gma's Age 60's. If they can't farm their parents by dying before they do, then gaining Meme Fitness becomes significantly harder.

If I understood everything above correctly, I'm pretty sure you're close to the solution to patch it up.

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Also, yes, please clean out that Top 100-200. It's silly to see everyone getting so high up after the change was applied.

On a uh....separate note, is it possible for a certain person's Leaderboard name to be changed to Michael Punch?

I mean, it wouldn't be as simple as that, imprisonment is a very very fine line. One wrong move and a griefer may be able to get away with doing that to innocents every now and again. Careful what ya wish for and all.

Huh, where do they make Guillotines that hang people?

Well, you know me by now, Jason.

I like being able to deal with griefers, but I would much rather see you looking into adding Batons and Guillotines to the game as player-enforcement tools. "Curse X" as the only way to deal with 'bad' or 'misbehaving' players is a bit crude and 'boring' gameplay.

And for Baton/Guillotine naysay'ers, both those and Cursing can be taken advantage of equally; the former two would give more community/role-oriented gameplay features, primarily the Baton so that "non-murder-y" combat is possible.

It's a sprite edit to make them easier to find.

I mean, surely Jason could just flip the Ice Hole states to have insulation by default.

That'd fix that problem easy and make it a feature for the Gingers.

Also, with the existence of T-Houses, expert players are already insulating themselves as fishermen. So changing that would unlock fishing for the 'lower skilled' players.

Honestly I would suggest you just turn the tutorial area into more of a "Sandbox".

Strip out all the tips and how to do stuff.

Just explain the two controls; Right-Click and Left-Click. Then explain how they can light the fire and die to start playing.

After that, tell them they have to survive for 5 minutes and the door will unlock to the torch room. That'll force them to understand how to feed themselves and gives them downtime to maybe learn something while they wait.

Give the player an entire space with all the very basic tools for them to try stuff on their own. Some farm plots untouched, a furnace space, a house, a cooking oven, etc. etc.

I would greatly prefer players get to experience that than having to hand-hold them the entire way and show them only a slice of what they need to understand when they first start.

A lot of what you're referring to bleeds into my other thread I made from a while ago:

http://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6588

tl;dr yes, culture and government could exist if we were able to reach Tier 3/4 of Maslow's Hierarchy. However, the "core gameplay loop" focuses on us suffering to sustain water and food, so we are perpetually stuck at Tier 1 as a whole, while the occassional memer/streamer/roleplayer attempts to ignore Tiers 1 and 2 and go straight into acting out certain roles/activities that are a "net detriment".