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Haha, maybe Jason could spawn in NPC scribes who walk up to a person and start asking them questions ingame. "Good sir, I can see you have just been stabbed by a knife. Would you consider this to be an a) bad experience, b) fun experience, or c) none of the above?"

The nursery fire should be the center of the berry patches.
Each berry patch should be 3x3 tiles, separated by wooden roads and wood road surrounding it. Possibly with a stone road outside of that.

The closest 3x3 patch to the bakery could be for stew and boxes of pies. The patch closest to rabbit land could be for boxes of clothes, rabbits and furs. One patch should perhaps be dedicated to carrots, since they tend not to be picked if far away from where things are happening. That would leave 5 3x3 patches of berries. Should be enough?

For example:

B-C-B
F-N-W
B-B-B

B=Berries
C=Carrots
F=Food
N=Nursery (no walls, just open space with fire)
W=Wardrobe

This could be interesting. Separating the game mechanics from the family tree and having a "sphere of known individuals" instead, based on how often you have been exposed to their presence.

The information given in the game display could be for example:
"Nina Johnson, mother, friend"
"Pery Hill, unknown, friend"
"Sal Johnson, cousin, stranger"

The sphere of strangers could have the war sword/no curse mechanics, the friends the normal mechanics.

It would make it possible for a griefer to leave the family, stay away for let's say thirty years, and return with the intention to kill... But it would feel more natural perhaps.

I think this Youtuber has some great points about games in general. If OHOL feels boring, it might be in part because it does not manage to "beat the grind".

https://youtu.be/nP1qLrXaDvE

Right now, the best use of tech is upgrading wells. It absolutely does feel like a relief when someone manages to build a diesel pump and provides lots of fuel for it. But once that is done, nothing happens except that we have water now. It does not change how we work in the town. Beyond having a pump, there is no real sense of progress.

In the video one of the arguments is: "A large part of the frustrations we associate with grinding are to do with doing the same thing over and over again, which ultimately stems from a lack of observable progress. Minit is a game that sees your progress more or less reset every sixty seconds, forcing you to repeat yourself. But with the fact that with every iteration you can make measurable progress towards success through your understanding of the game and a growing collection of items, repeating yourself never really feels that bad."

At 5:50 he talks about Stardew Valley which in some ways is an extremely grindy game. There are several ways the game instills a sense of progress - like seeing the farm grow, and improving my character's skills. But one thing that helped the grind feel meaningful and valuable to me was saving money for upgraded tools which would make my job easier once I reached a goal.

Now I don't want OHOL to be Stardew Valley. But I think OHOL has many of the same elements that Stardew Valley does: Farming, baking, gathering ores and minerals, fighting monsters (or bears or strangers), relationships...

But what OHOL does not have is a feeling of how life is different in various stages of a town's life.

There's Eve camps, which have certain central jobs that differ from later towns: Gather soil, gather milkweed, gather wild food for the children and the smiths until carrots are up, all while making tools and building the main infrastructure of the town.

Then there's towns with pen and water (let's call it stage II, with stage I being Eve camps). Later towns have more foods available than stage II, and different clothes, and they look different in many ways. Top hats, radios... they could be stage III or even stage IV.

But there has been no progress to the central jobs. It doesn't matter if the town has a diesel pump or not, the main jobs have not changed from stage II: Make compost, water berry bushes one by one, plant carrots... Chop wood. Feed the fire. Plant milkweed. The central jobs, what keeps the town running, are all still stage II.

You can name any nameless person even if they're too old to pick up. Just stand close to them and say "You are ..." Then you can curse them.

I don't think it's because they can.

I think it is because you pose a danger. Even if you mean peace, you may bring (or give birth to) other family members who don't share your intentions. It's too big a risk to let you live.

Right now there is no need to have strangers around. Anything the stranger can do, you, your family or your descendants can do just as well. The only thing that separates strangers from family, apart from appearance and language, is the ability to kill and wage war without being cursed. To many it's just not worth the risk when they know that strangers will mean war down the line, no matter what anyone does to prevent it.

Lutefisk (fish in lye)

Leave a fish to dry.

Drill a hole in a bucket.
Place bucket with hole on top of another bucket.
Add round stone (or sand?), ashes and water to bucket with hole.
Yields lye in bottom bucket.

Put dry fish in crock.
Add lye.
Leave for some time until fish has swelled.

Add bowl of water to crock.
Cook on hot coals.

Enjoy the lutefisk.
Bonus: The smell will drive away invaders.

I agree.

I would like it if you had to declare war before war swords worked, and that everyone in both families were alerted.

And instead of no cursing outsiders at all, the rule could be that you can't curse members of a family you're at war with.

Perhaps to end the war, two people from the opposing families need to drop a war sword and declare "peace!", and the war is over. Swords no longer work.

Amon, how did you manage to become a "SELECT group FROM users WHERE user_id = MISSINGNO."?
Looks even more exclusive than the mernber group!

Edit: MultiLife and Valareos too! And Grim_Arbiter and Tarr! Not so exclusive after all...?

Are there any rnoderators around?

We can't claim the name of the original Eve of our line. The oldest daughter of this Eve didn't get her mother's last name, neither did the hundred generations descending from her...

http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=4783134