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It strikes me that there's a basic difficulty with this. We can't keep lineages going in OHOL, but you think our players would be able to evolve to protohominid form? I suspect we'd get up to the level of grass - or maybe even carrots - but I doubt we could pull off even rattlesnake.

From a technical standpoint - how are you going to have both micro- and macro-fauna on the screen at the same time? Not every line is going to progress at the same rate. And what happens when, say, a Snake line hits the final form? Does that trigger reset? Is that fair to the players hoping to push for a hominid line?

Is there a way to back out of a progression you don't like? Some kind of 'deevolution recipe' that can be used to undo a change and push for something else?

Don't get me wrong - it's a neat idea - but there's a few problems with implementation.

I was born to Eve Port inside a tutorial zone once. We pushed on to the end, smithed up an axe and shovel, and escaped. Started a small farm near a pond. Unfortunately, the area immediately outside our zone was mostly snow, and my daughter despaired and let herself starve. No other kids that life. :sadpanda:

This was, oh, almost two months ago when I first started. It was interesting, to say the least.

What? You don't think an unsupervised child should be able to do that kind of damage?

Babies poking bear caves has been in the game a long time. I doubt it's going to be removed.

It's not hard to obtain a +1 or +2 Yum bonus as an Eve, barring certain circumstances. And if you're in those, it's probably not a good time for kids anyway. So factoring in Yum (as well as temperature) to determine motherhood choice shouldn't be that hard. It also makes sense; nutrition plays a big part in successful pregnancies. [Yes, we don't have pregnancy in the game... work with me.]

Yum goes up to +5, right? Add a 5% weight factor for each point of the potential mother's Yum score. That should result in more kids going to mothers in good circumstances without destroying the chances of Eves getting kids, and Eves who do a bit of work can improve their chances of having kids. (Although the way some of these players eat, I dunno...)

The Trouble With Triblets. I saw that Star Trek episode. Quick, beam them to the Klingon ship!

Oh, no question. One was a fear-filled adventure epic, with great tragedies but ultimately great triumphs. But the other one - the one with Sean Bean - was definitely better.

I haven't deliberately set out to do a nomad life... well, a couple of times when I heard a bell that wasn't M or G tiles away. Neither effort was successful. (The second one *could* have been, but the twins were leeches who didn't lift a finger to help after they grew hair, just kept spamming 'F' the instant they lost a food bar. I should have let them starve.)

I tend to lay out 'arrows' pointing to my camp - 5 or 6 seeds or branches, like so:

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... so that someone who spawns in the area, or wanders through, has some guide to a place where there should be some food or the potential to make such. Your method strikes me as much more efficient on time (although pulling 4-5 seeds off a milkweed isn't a bad idea anyway), and I think I'm going to adopt it. Not having to lay out two more items to get a clear directional indicator will save me time and food.

Nomad life is hard, trying to keep the group together without overwhelming the available food sources. Good job if you can make a go of it.

Hunted a turkey for the lols. Much fun!

"I've got a '34 wagon and we call it a woody,
Surf City, here we come"

Automobile bodies in the early days of motorized transport were made of wood; it was a direct change-over from making horse-drawn carriages. They were heavier, but no-one cared - fuel was cheap and plentiful (infinite is what they actually thought). The availability of skilled craftsmen to make the bodies, and the ready availability of wood, made early cars more affordable. As our steel-making technology got better, and we realized just how many of these things people were going to want, we started transitioning to metal body panels on the cars. It made them lighter - which improves handling, road wear, and fuel efficiency - and safer, because metal panels don't splinter when they're struck, unlike wood.

You can't get bitten again, which can be fatal.

Good time to learn to build roads.

The problem with stone roads near the berry farm (or any farm, for that matter) is that they put you into fast movement mode. I can't count how many times I've wanted to go to the berry farm and wound up running past it multiple times. Leave a space. Better to put wooden floors around the berry farm, THEN put a road down next to that. It makes it much easier to grab your bowl to farm if you don't risk running off to Timbuktu with a misclick, and you can still get there quickly when you want to.