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This has been fixed.  No more dinging when you have bonus food points not shown in your hunger bar.

You will also notice that my forum activity is inversely correlated with the size of the weekly update.  Being active in the forums takes time.

Once someone is exiled, you don't need a posse at all.

Any single person can kill them, alone.  But the posse system speeds up the killers.

In fact, the posse system will probably removed in the future, though I need to think about this more....

I agree that the system has become too complicated.

But it's a complicated problem to solve.  How to let the "good guys" kill when they need to, but prevent the "bad guys" from killing.

Okay, let us count the n-word then.

In the current logs there are 100,000 utterances, which represents something like the past 30 or 40 hours.

The n-word was said 3 times.

The word "RAPE" was used 18 times.

I guess it's good to know where the priorities of the community lie....

And no, you can't play on multiple accounts without paying for each one.  I guess Bobo, if he really does have multiple accounts, has bought a bunch.

And no, there is NO way to block someone who goes and buys extra accounts.  This was an even bigger deal for The Castle Doctrine, where players could use secondary accounts to explore target houses without risking the savings in their main account.  Lots of people bought a second account for this purpose.

If you block double use of the same credit card, it prevents people from buying gifts for friends, and then can just go buy a gift cart to bypass this restriction if they really want to (and there's no way to block the same credit card on Steam, since the person can have multiple Steam accounts).

If you block IP address, it prevents people in the same house from playing (using shared public IP like everyone does through NAT), and a determined attacker can just use a VPN or even just go to the library or Starbucks.  And thanks to NAT, people's IP addresses change constantly, so if they buy a second account next month, it will likely be through a different IP anyway.

So then you're stuck, and you just have to acknowledge that multiple accounts are a reality.

It's kinda like DRM being fundamentally impossible.

Also, while I really appreciate the tireless efforts of the moderators, I have always insisted that they waste as little time as possible dealing with nonsense.

When we add up the total hours humanity has spent on such activities, it's really staggering.... how many hours of sleep and family time and productive work have been lost.

In other news, Bobo Bill just emailed me asking if he could be unbanned from Discord.  Will it ever stop?  No, of course it will never stop.

Yes, I will look at this, at least to factor YUM points into the equation.

Part of the reason it is NOT time-based is so you can visually understand what causes the hunger slips to change (oh, the slip appears when I have 4 pips left, or whatever).

If you were very warm, it might be quite distressing to see the slip appear when you only had 1 pip left.  The slip would appear, and you'd freak out.  Likewise, if you were very cold, it would be confusing to see the STARVING slip on an almost-full belly.

The change, reducing the frequency of forced Eve spawn due to generational staleness, is live.

A few things:

1.  The big solutions, of totally revamping the game with oceans or whatever, don't address the actual problem we're experiencing now.  Why this problem now?  It's because:

A) Eve jumps to the West of the western-most homeland when she spawns (a relatively new thing).

B) There are "forced" Eve spawns when the existing towns get too old, meaning a certain number of Eves per day (a less new thing, but still new-ish).

Remove either of these things (which I can do right now, because they're both live server settings) and the problem goes away.  But then the other problems crop up (either towns get old and stale OR Eves spawn in stripped-bare areas, or both...).

I will now push the ForceEveAfterGenerationNumber from 40 up to.... 100.  That will be a new Eve every 23 hours, instead of every 9 hours.  Which should mean that we move West at roughly 1/2 the current speed.  Towns will be a bit more stale, but there will still be at least one new town every day.

2.  The notion that a family can't migrate, because they can't have an iron mine in a different location, is false, at least for a high-tech family that has an engine.  They can plop an engine down on any muddy iron vein (essentially, any vein not right in an existing homeland) and mine away.  In fact, they can get even closer than that, because the engine can be installed on any sunken iron vein too.  They can then dig a new well in that area.  So, one woman with a horse cart and an engine can start a thriving village anywhere, as close as she wants to be to whatever family she wants to be near.  What a family cannot do is generate more "free" iron in a different location.

But even if they don't have an engine to migrate their iron mine, if they're moving to be near another town, that town has iron, right?  So dig a well nearby, and start having babies there, and then get iron from that town.

My guess is that people don't migrate simply because it's a complicated trans-generational project and hard to pull off---like herding cats.  Much easier to just stay put and eat what we have left until we die out in a few generations.

WoodSpoon is spouting nonsense.  There were no emails.

I'm not working on a new game, and I will never make an OHOL 2 or RTS or anything OHOL related in the future.

If you look at my back catalog, you will see that I always do something totally different for my next project.  But I'm not working on a next project, currently.

At the time of Steam release (November 2018), I promised at least 2 MORE years of updates.  Meaning two years from that point.  Meaning until November 2020.  At least until then.

I also, in the distant past, promised 10,000 objects total.  There are currently 3800.

If I focus on content each week, I can add between 50 and 100 new objects per week.  This week, for example, I added 85.  Let's take that as an average.

It will take me 72 weeks to get to 10,000 objects.

So that's the current plan.

OHOL is still making good money each week, so for the time being, it's not financially foolish to keep updating it until I reach my stated goal.

That said, I have pulled back from overworking myself.  At least a few days this week, I actually stopped working at noon.  OHOL cannot be my 100% focus for the next 72 weeks.  I need to do other things, and spend time with my family, and take time off, and so on.

But I think I can get 85 objects into the game, on average, each week and still keep a balanced life.  And meet my goal, eventually, of making the most comprehensive survival and crafting game of all time.

Well, I haven't been going anywhere on vacation.

Just staying home with wife and kids and NOT thinking about the game 24-7.

It's really important to recharge from time to time.

Current plan is to extend it for another week, actually.  How good I feel this week is a sign of how badly I needed it....