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Make poop decay

Nerf compost to give less baskets

Give way to get fleece without making poo

Add storage container for poo

Make relocating poo not a negative

All of these options tackle the issue. Not sure which I prefer.

Shorn sheep fed berry carrot bowl makes dung and fleece, just bowl of berries or just carrot gives just a fleece? Elegant solution.

There are a few ways that I do this.

Did I accomplish the goals I set out to? I usually look over a camp between birth and three and pick out projects that I want to achieve by certain points. How many of those I was able to do, and do well, over the life is one measure.

Was there a specific personal connection such as teaching an intricate task? Giving someone the knowledge and practice to be confident in a task is very rewarding for me, as I don't seek them out, so they are rarer and special.

Did my children and their childrens' children succeed, and were my actions part of that? You can never know for sure, but lately I have been having loads of great grandchildren and also lot of my kids have been living to 55+.  How many generations that exist after me is a statistic I am fond of aswell as looking through the few generations after me and seeing lot of old age deaths. I usually play in newer camps and eve camps, usually am gen 1 or two, haven't Eve'd in a bit.

It's a combination of all of those that make a life standout to me. A life that I ended up not doing any of the goals I initially set, a life that all the girls died out, but also gave me opportunity to spend thirty minutes with a new player and teach them smithing from the ground up, is a really good and successful life. A life that all the kids knew what they were doing, I got to build a really cool Pen+Bakery, and there was dozens of old geezers after my time, that is also a successful life.

Players determined to Eve, could still self ban with /die and be banned out of that area/family, but players that don't necessarily need to be an Eve, but just like starting new camps, would have a place in a big town. To increase the longevity of the family, and the main town, you would need to have small colonies around your cities, and need people to start them. That with a stronger family tree visual and tracker, people would have pride in their cities and their family for branching out. You would want your families to succeed, you would want to take care of the young and the old, because they are your connection to the towns and colonies, it's a symbiotic relationship. There are ways to implement griefer control. Murders can ban them out of the family so they wouldn't respawn, or if there is a way to tell if the baby just came from the town and who they were before, you could just not feed them. Thats why I thought of having the ban kick in not based off time, but deaths in a family add up and then ban at a certain amount. Griefers would be removed pretty effectively by starving them out a few times.

I really started thinking about this after the lineage ban changes to area. It was the idea that someone in your camp could run away from the town and you get birthed to them and just come back. Well then I thought why not make a little mini base, nursery and farm. Once the kids are big enough to journey back and be useful off they go. A baby colony. It just naturally makes sense if you want your family to live as long as possible, if that's your goal, to have more than one sustainable camp. Any collapse in one will only effect a portion of the population, and if they were close and connected, an extra shovel to do compost in a time of need would be possible. Babies into the family would be spread between the two camps so there wouldn't be booms of food usage as heavy as they can be sometimes. If there is respawning in the same town for a couple lives, a smaller amount of people would be plenty efficient.

Two Ideas well kind of...

The Death ban would help keep the new starts in place, while still keeping the pace changing. Three strikes and you're out would give players three hours in an area before having to leave, and be a part of a new family. I would put the reset at a pretty high amount, 24-48 hours (realtime not game time). Towns would definitely be more stable and longer lasting with these changes, hence calling for a day or two area ban.  I also say area because I think it would be cool that having split of towns from same family would give you a chance to come back at a relative distance from the original town and family. If the original family were to ever die out, you would be able to go back and restart that town, but if you never split off, thats it, it is gone. If eligibility is also affected by natural births and baby cooldowns, making sure all the kids do well in the town would be a little more important, because players couldn't return for a second and third life, if there wasn't good amount of females.

Give the player the same name they had before plus an affix when they spawn as a baby. You'd recognize the name, plus the fact they came out named, that they were just in your family and not a new entry. As you recognize the names, you'd notice the ones that also have been around for couple lives today in that same town. When you come down those final minutes of your last life, saying goodbye would be hard. Right now its just aww that guy/gal was here for a whole hour, good bye I will miss you - immediately go back to what you were doing. This would be an, oh shit, that dude built the super pen and both bakeries, and now he is about to be gone. She was the one that got all the horse carts and started making the cars, who is going to fill her shoes? Oh man, that was Psykout from the forums, and since we had time we did a lot together and talked a lot, I wonder when I will get that chance again.

Bigger mega cities would need to be surrounded by smaller camps just outside the area ban to ensure their success. Without them, the strong players that have been in the city before, wouldn't be able to get back in time to stabilize them before collapse. If the area ban was all the way up to 48 hours, pretty much with no colonies, everyone would eventually get banned out of the town and it would go extinct after a slow slow death. The fragility of a new camp would still have ripples inside of the civilization. Keeping connected to your colonies via radio would actually have a use, as knowing whats happening in either would important. Oh the colony to the west just had a compost breakdown and don't have any iron? Someone take a car out there with some for them. The main city just said goodbye to its mechanic, and needs a new replacement, and a new one is flown in.

A real kicker, or possibly stand alone, that could be added to the mix.

Saying goodbye to someone that has lived three full lives would be sad, but heartwarming. Watching someone starving to death running towards a berry bush when old on their first life would be tragedy. Also my favorite thing about this.... Old Peoples' Home. We would have a reason to care for elders and make them rooms for warmth and food to nibble before they pass. Burying yourself and making a tombstone would be like a right of passage, that you didn't screw up, and your final burial next to your other lives would be the town funeral.

As a standalone, you could make it so living to old age is the trigger to respawn indefinitely if the town lasts, everything else would be rather normal. I prefer the mix

P.S also removing griefers would be possible by starving/killing them out with a group effort, and would ban them out of your area for a long long time. Passing information to colonies about troublemakers would be useful as well.

Quite the opposite, we are currently constantly scraping the bottom of the barrel when a town reaches a certain tech level, and he is trying to think of ways to refresh that, which is awesome, scary and exciting at the same time. The topic itself is really really broad, and I think need to be picked apart separately. The basics of war, having something to fight over, is not implemented. The time it would to take to prepare to take a thing from someone else to better yourself, is better spent just getting that yourself without the conflict. There is no point in going after a town that say has a lot of iron, and suffer losses, rather than just finding that iron on your own. That goal is far out of reach to me, there are a lot of puzzle pieces that need to be put into place before that picture becomes real.

Second one is my favorite. Nice to see the designs, gets stale doing the same pens over and over.

Quick VOG mockup of pen with added on bakery, with carrots enclosed in the pen. Really been digging the low profile pen entrance. I'd rather just make the pen a little larger, and have the blocking item be on the inside, rather than sticking off from a corner or using the five bush block as it sticks out really far.. One berry push per entrance is sufficient, but a second makes it harder to lock someone in, if thats a worry. I normally would opt for two at each unless the bakery is attached, giving you 7-8 bushes and three rows of carrots to use for inside the pen. You could do on the outside but meh, this design would be for aesthetics and functionality, not raw efficiency. Still get 38 tiles inside the pen though at 42 bell bases.

High moment, forgot they eat them hahahaha, it never happens because we pen them that I totally spaced.... Hmm some kind of block that its there, but not accessible... takes too much inner space... I want something that is right there when you need it, can be cycled well if you want to pump out a lot of sheep, but won't clutter main farm or be gobbled by locust children....

I was hoping no one would be stupid enough to cart up the blocking chest, but then again.... Thought about doing just a adobe corner but wondered if something less blocking and actually usefull would be nice, without doing boxwalls because they don't look as clean. I guess I just don't like how all the farming seems to need to happen all over on top of each other. Each farming task ends up having its clutter, whether it be piled dirt everywhere, stacks on stacks on stacks of carrots, dried corn etc that I think it would be nice if they were compartmentalized. This has come up with having wheat fields near a bakery. Its not essential, but feels more practical. Anything to tempt someone to spend time on it before moving to another thing. Few people will devote a life to a single task, with the broader scope in mind. I have done it a few times, lumberjack, shepherd, dairy farmer. It gets tedious, but realistically in a long lasting town, one person spending an hour cutting trees and hauling back thirty tiles of piled firewood, would make a decent impact to the functions of the town, if they last long enough to utilize it that is.

This is why I think it would be cool to have mess halls, get the eater and reuppers out of production spaces. Lose the necessity to store cooked food near where you make it. Too often bakeries end up being made 8x8 and are both, and its annoying to work in.

This is a really good summary of the whole idea. You would not be able to officially run many types of mods, so would need to have a dedicated server to use them. This is a game that ONLY really works with groups of people playing together. Splitting that player base more simply to mod the game is a terrible idea. There is simply not enough of a playerbase to start splitting them up, there is a reason the mega server was made, the game is more enjoyable if more people are playing on the same server together.

The biggest and most used mod for OHOL is AWBZ. Reskins are done personally, there are not many that are managed by a content creator if any at all. Also it seems like you are forgetting something, just because there is a workshop does not suddenly mean lots of players will start creating content. This is a what came first, chicken or the egg, dilemma. Without a reason or commonplace desire for changes, there will be no mods. Doesn't matter if you have a digital storefront or not, they won't be heavily utilized, because it prevents you from playing on the normal server. You keep referring to Mount and Blade, a game that has a full singleplayer mode, and averages around 6k players a month, with easily 500+ playing official multiplayer servers at one time. They have the playerbase available, that making private modded servers would not affect the main servers heavily. OHOL does not have that. Lastly, literally to install AWBZ you right click your shortcut for the game, click open file location, copy/cut/drag files from the zip to that folder, and you are done.

This is just insanity. In my definition, someone who takes it upon themselves to mod a game, workshop or not, become more than casuals. Saying that people might not mod the game, simply because its a site based off steam, is you looking for ammunition. If you are using a newer version of windows, you don't even need to use an extractor. You just fricken double click the files. Same as that you can mount virtual images inside of windows. You can't preach that windows is popular because it makes things easy, only to follow it up with saying that doing a BASIC windows task is more than a common PC user can do. You are literally saying we should have  mods on steam workshop for people that can not double click a file on their computer. Are you even thinking about what you are saying?

Best advice I can give you, in normal day to day life. If you are beginning or joining a conversation with the idea that either you will change someone's mind, or have yours changed, you are part of a discussion. If you are only wanting to change another's mind, you are leading an argument. Please stop arguing with us and listen to what is the majority, and adapt your minority opinion, or just leave it be.

Put a cap on maximum yum and make the higher tech food give additional yum, +2 or so. Breaking the chain isn't as devastating if an advanced town because there is more higher tech food to yum off of, Eves can still yum as they normal would but wouldn't be able to max it out without starting to make pies. It would be nice to see yum as a mechanic that isn't this house of cards, but something you often reset and build back up. If a town is baking four different pies plus has stew going, it would be nice if we got a bigger benefit from that other than the same amount of yum you could get going through an untouched area. Also if across the board yum was used more, not sure if it would really change fertility much, smaller camps would be a little more competitive and big towns would and should be even playing field. This could open the door for food items that give a lower amount of pips but are really yummy, which is quite thematic.

Ha pretty sure that was me. I was starting colonies couple nights back with carts and tools. To be honest a couple people going out with some starter tools and starting a new town with a young girl is a surefire way to keep a family lineage going. That is, if you are trying to make a lineage go really far versus a town moving up.