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This is a problem with cultural expectations. Gamer culture in general expects and respects accomplishment (building things, becoming skilled, et cetera).

Jason expects OHOL culture to be different. The game is based around the idea that what you do in one life is transitory. Nothing lasts, and the exigency of survival makes it difficult to finish a big project... but that's a large part of the point. In a way, the game is a love letter to Shelley's 'Ozymandius'...

"Look upon my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

We are actually seeing a lot of the sentiment that Shelley was warning about here: hubris. "I have to get back to save MY TOWN!" Really? You are the ONLY person who can make that settlement function? Overweening pride much?

Look, I get it. It's a great feeling to see something you worked on that's continued while you were doing other things. I remember living a life as my own great(5)-grandson, and telling people to shut up and let me work because I planted those berry bushes in the first place. That was an amazing experience, and people should get to have it as well - but if we're proceeding from the meta that you should always be able to get back to anyplace you want to, that experience won't be anything special. If it's a simple matter to get back to 'your' town, it cheapens much of the game play.

Sorry. Waxing a bit philosophical this morning. Carry on!

We should just start calling this the 'superglue' update, since so many things seem to be glued together irrevocably at the moment...

Good thing we have a per-missive streak around here, because that pun was tearable!

Jason doesn't wipe anything (unless necessary), but if things haven't been seen in a week (like, a player passing within 20-25 tiles counts, I think? It doesn't have to be on-screen) they'll disappear on server restart. So if that town had been outside (or inside) the Eve spiral, it might be gone now.

Exactly. Read Spider Robinson's "Melancholy Elephants". Eternal copyright would kill creativity; it's far too easy to make a derivative work unintentionally (look up the legal action surrounding George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord", for example). A reasonable copyright term - say,  25 years, like patent rights - would allow a family to profit from a particular work for a time, then release the work into the public domain for others to remix as they chose. But the big media corporations don't want that (Disney, I'm looking at you in particular) because they'd lose exclusive access to 'their' characters, and so they keep lobbying for longer and longer copyrights.

It's not a bug, it's just an odd feature. The tutorial areas are actually in the game world; it is possible to find them (with an airplane). I was born as the first child of an Eve in a tutorial once... fun times.

I'd been toying with the idea of uncoupling the Yum chain from the Yum bonus. My basic idea was that the more Yum bonus you get, the harder it is to get the next point. Curently looking at this progression:

1	+1
2	+2
4	+3
7	+4
11	+5
16	+6
22	+7
29	+8
37	+9

(I stopped at +9 because 1) the progression should be plain by now, and 2) there's only 40 food items in the game at the moment. Well, 39 + mushroom.)

I was also toying with the idea of a 'favorite food'. This would never count as Meh to you. But I suspect 99.9% of players would pick Gooseberry.

In order to make Yum more useful and desirable, how about a .1 s increase in your food delay per point of Yum bonus in addition to the extra boxes? Or possibly a 1% adjustment towards moderate temperature per point of bonus?

We could then add Yum bonuses to foods. Maybe butter isn't just 2 extra pips on that bread - maybe it's also +1 to your Yum chain. Or more.

EDIT: I promise I had this down before Eddie said anything... I just forgot to post it:

A Meh food reduces your Yum count (not bonus) by 5 (or by its food value?). If this reduces your Yum count to 0 or below, it is set to 0 and you start over, as normal. Otherwise, continue Yumming.

EDIT2: I hate when I math wrong.

Nice work. A good teaching poem!

I was thinking the same thing. The 'baby bump' could just be a visual indicator that you aren't on birth cooldown. Not sure how it would display with clothing, though.

Check your game folder. There is a file called 'no_copyright.txt'. The text of the file is as follows:

Perhaps the first paragraph should have read, "This work is not copyrighted, but I reserve the moral rights associated with authorship. In other words, do not claim authorship over the portions of the work that I have created, only the portions that you create for your game. Beyond that, the work is placed in the public domain."

Jason put the game in the public domain with this statement. Most people took it to mean that they could do anything with it, including claiming authorship, since that's what the license says. (I'm not saying that DD did this, by the way. Everything I've seen has them being aboveboard and honest about what's happening and what they are doing to correct it. I think this is just a case of things getting out of hand due to miscommunications.) Now, Jason's putting conditions on the (very liberal) terms of the license - which is his right as the creator of the work - which puts DD in a very precarious position.

If they don't comply, they (or their business partner) are guilty of fraud, whether by intent or omission. This obviously opens them up to legal action, even if Jason doesn't want to go that route.

If they do comply, what is the next thing that Jason will decide violates the spirit of his trademark and authorship of the game? It's a slippery slope. Maybe it will be the character models next - DD needs to redo *all* of the character artwork, not just the 'signature character' in the banner. Or the music. You can see how this would present a chilling effect on development of OHOL-derived games.

Yes, Jason has said that he will sign an affidavit that the changes made are sufficient, and that he renounces any further control of such a product. But then, he said that in the first place (reread the above text), and look where we are now. I happen to believe that Jason is in the right on this particular issue - but it's still something that makes you stop and think before beginning work on any large-scale mod project (like the stone-age tech mod I wanted to make). I still want to do it... but if I can't call it "One Hour Stone Age Life" I'm not sure I want to go forward.

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Three objects were added on February 15, all items for the tutorial (v200). New items added to the game for the temperature overhaul update. This is easily seen on OneTech.