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Yea i wouldnt say diesel is a super easy way to get water. Especially compared to deep well. When moving a family its better to go ahead of the family, scout out the spot, and built up the area before they move in. Much like pein has done in the past. Its far easier to build up a solid town without the demand of an entire family.

Going back to oil being easy. It sure is later in game, but it does require a lot of prep and a lot of resources. The tanks alone are 24 iron, plus a blade, and god knows how many pipes. The first time you drill its insanely expensive with little reward. So in a way oil kind of pays itself forward in later runs. Its especially important that gingers remain rich with it and rich in iron. All it takes is one over generous family member and its back to ground zero.

I dont necessarily think infinite resources or harshly depleting resources are good. I dont think the game is at either of those poles in its current state. In fact with how oil is structured i think we are on the more infinite end of things. The issue i see more is stability. Its not resources that we run out of too quickly, its towns. Towns and families are forced westward in order to survive. Too far of a distance from the other families is a death sentence. This disables towns from reaching their full potential and the constant need to shuffle resources west wastes valuable time while leaving behind an obscene amount of work. What you end up seeing is a trail of half built towns. Gingers have it worst, despite being the strongest family in terms of resource strength. Oil tapping out pushes them west more than anyone, and its easy to presume everything east of a ginger town is tapped. Often a decently long ginger lineage has cleared 1-3k west of their original site. This forces a ginger eve to move even further west to find a fresh area. God forbid they settle in a already tapped zone. That pressure west is the biggest killer and disables any form of stability in a town or family. It seriously needs to be adjusted. Banding has made drilling oil easier but it has also made the westward movement even more aggressive. Moving 1-3k a day is not good.

Yea this was my main concern with the addition of banding. Before banding, a "good spot" was one with each of the specialist biomes relatively close, at least one iron vein, a decent starter swamp, and plenty of green zone trees. Now its really only, is there iron, is there a swamp, and maybe a relatively decent green zone.

Scouting out spots and finding that "golden zone" used to be my favorite thing to do. You would think having less factors involved would make that easier but it hasnt seemed like the case. Every spot is kinda "ok" since banding was added. Hard to find an awful spot but just as hard to find a good spot.

That being said spots are dependent on where you are in progression. A spot that's excellent for early game might be terrible for late game and a spot that's perfect for late game might be too difficult to manage in the early game. I am of the mind that any spot that has the shortest distance between a well and an iron vein is good. That way a forge can be built close to the vein while still being close to town.

At least the box of death gave us 300+ lineages and actually promoted resource management and hoarding. As well as not necessarily knowing how it ended. An update in the rift did kill families but it didnt kill the towns or the work people put in pre update. Now towns are lost in a day or so and hundreds of hours of work are left behind in each of them.

You had people fighting to keep families alive and people fighting to end the arc. The eve window was always an interesting time to play as well. The only problem i saw in the rift was it being to small but it was always interesting seeing what people built and how the towns and families developed throughout the arc. Everything is hollow now. Families are only as important as their utility and only distinguished by their race. There is no personality there is no culture, no history, no legacy. Nothing runs out, we just move across the land like locusts eating up everything as we go. Families die and are immediately replaced. There is no weight to their death, no reason to prevent that death and no reason to invest time into something that will be dust in the wind in no time.

Certainly would be an interesting mechanic and would likely give players who enjoy the more violent end of the game something to do. Though i think the combat mechanics of this game would need some serious adjustments to make something like that enjoyable.

I honestly dont see wars and alliances happening while race restrictions are active. Killing or hurting another family is only going to damage your own family's survivability. In the past killing or stealing in another family did nothing to harm your own and often your family could either resettle the new town or take the spoils of war back home. This is now impossible with race restrictions and the homeland mechanic. Outsiders are no longer viewed as threats and towns do nothing to defend themselves.

Im more of the mindset to call someone's ideas or actions bad but not the person themselves. Though i prefer to explain my interpretation of the concept and why i think its bad instead of just calling it bad or telling the person they are bad for thinking it. If the individual has more points to justify their view all the better. Discourse and criticism only strengthens the resolve behind a thought and filters it into something more effective and marketable.

The whole point of these forums is to facilitate discourse. Sure it can get heated and sometimes folks resort to name calling and etc when they get frustrated but i agree we should have compassion for each other and do our best to foster ideas and the discussion surrounding them.

/dying is the only way to combat race restrictions. Not sure why you stalked this random leaderboard name and made this post. How about instead of punishing people more for using the /die feature, we stop punishing the moms who have them by leaving behind bones.

Im not sure what you're on about with wanting a more severe punishment. It sounds an awful lot like you want tool slots back if thats the case...

Who honestly cares about fitness score? Its a clunky, exploitable, and boring system with almost no reward for jumping through its hoops. Get to be leader, get to be eve? Leadership is annoying and being an eve isnt what it used to be. Instead of needing to do everything right in your eve run to even give your family a chance at succeeding, you have to do practically everything wrong in order to give your family a chance at failing.

Plus /dying gives you a high chance of being cursed by moms and can get you put in donkeytown, not sure there is a need for a harsher punishment. But i do feel its dumb since people are being put in dt just by using a harmless mechanic built into the game.

Totally agree dodge. Raiding and stealing will not happen as long as families are symbiotic. Trading resources does sorta happen. But its basically just people dumping resources from their family onto other families on the server. There isnt really a purpose behind hoarding and etc given the fact that if one family isnt successful the remaining families cannot be successful. Besides gingers who can survive without the other families comfortably once late game is reached. Also with the map banding, trading is pretty difficult since you have to travel to the family you need resources from first to even know what they want in return, then travel a fair distance just to get it, travel back, then travel home. With the spawns spreading families out this process could take most of your life. Plus communication is insanely difficult and many people won't give you the time of day, even with paper, pencil, and rubber ball. And just taking what you need can result in being killed or cursed.

I think a good way to balance this with the new spawn change at 60 would be to have a buffer. Basically lets say the total cap is 20, spawns would be pushed to other families if the population hits 15. This way it would leave room for folks who lived to 60 and wanted to spawn back into that same family. Only locking them out if all of the buffer space was filled by others who used the old age respawn mechanic.

The problem with the mother cap is it only stabilizes the responsibility of each mom. It however does nothing for the stability of the family or town. Lets say two mothers have four babies each, they all live to birthing age. Then all 8 of those kids have 4 babies. A 3rd generation camp from a fresh eve has no chance of supporting 40 people. This isnt likely to happen given males would likely be born among those 8. But you can see how it can snowball quickly without some type of cap. Especially with population spikes.

Yeet is more commonly used in the sense of throwing something away or getting rid of it. So in regards to "spoonwood yeeting posts" it doesnt quite fit. But the rest of the examples do. Though yeetin in the streets would be more like littering.