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I'm not sure if we're referring to the same thing but parrying is definitely not nonsense. Heck, they're literally parrying in the video you posted. Besides, we don't have fencing sabres, we have war swords.

I think you are misunderstanding how language works. Everyone in your family will speak the same language, so during most lives you won't need to figure out what the different words are.

The only time you will encounter a different language is when you leave your town and find another village (or if someone from another town does the same thing).

Some other ideas:

• You can only spawn in once per minute. If you die young, either by running away, being abandoned, or using the /die command, you'll have to wait a bit. A bit annoying if you get abandoned naturally, but you'd only have to wait about half a minute in that case.

• After you die there's a 10 second timer before you can click respawn. If you lived a normal life you have some time to reflect on it and it's not that long to wait, but if you're just suiciding it would be annoying enough to make you think twice next time. Maybe you'd also have some interesting info about your life on the death screen, such as your name, number of kids, amount of food eaten, the item that you crafted the most, stuff like that.

• The server only spawns people in 60 times per hour, i.e. once per minute. Basically the same thing as #1, but also annoying to everyone.

• Typing /die or using a mod to do it pops up a confirmation prompt of some kind. You have to type in 3 words (same as the twin list) for the /die to work. Faster than just running away most of the time, but still annoying enough that people might be dissuaded from suiciding as hastily as they do now.

• Slow down the baby to 10% speed to simulate crawling and make them unable to run away into a bear or something, and make the /die command unusable for the first 30 seconds. If the baby dies within the first 30 seconds and was picked up by the mother at any point it resets the mother's birth cooldown.

IMO the Internet overall has become much more negative, hostile, and toxic in the past few years, and the gaming side of it doubly so. Even as recently as ten-fifteen years ago the Internet was much more of a niche thing. Niche communities are generally nicer as people are invested in them due to passion. These days, probably because of the rise of social media, the Internet is a big part of many people's lives. Many are probably unhappy or stressed out with their jobs, and when they get home and see someone being happier than they are online it just grinds their gears. They're anonymous and they want to lash out, so they do. Over time being angry and rude becomes the norm, and they see online behaviour standards as completely unrelated to real life behaviour standards.

I saw this interview excerpt on Twitter a few weeks ago and I feel like it hit the nail on the head - https://youtu.be/XW_KhFq4LQo?t=1988 (timecode 33:09). I think you'd find it interesting.

Adding in game life purchases would 100% kill the game. Don't do that.

I stick with the life I'm given almost every single time, so changes to this, such as adding life tokens, probably wouldn't affect me in any meaningful way, which means I'm personally not against the system. It would definitely anger some people though.

If I absolutely had to come up with some kind of a system I'd do something like this:

Every new account starts with 100 life tokens.
Every time you spawn you use up a token. No tokens, no spawning.
Every 60 minutes of playtime you get an extra token.
Every time you die of old age you get an extra token.
Every 24 hours of real time you get an extra token.
Every server restart everyone gets an extra token.

That way the life limit wouldn't affect people who are playing the game 'properly' at all, and it would probably only affect people that die or waste their lives on purpose.

What if you did the list thing but made it so you had to turn it on in the settings folder first? That way it's doubly hidden (knowledge about /die and knowledge about the settings file) and only available to folk who really want to control their spawns. In my experience people are really averse to changing any game files, even when it's something as simple as changing a 0 to a 1.

Eh, the langage processing code is cool but this sounds like it's going to be either a very dull update, or an update that makes the game worse.

I'm happy to be proven wrong though.

EDIT: After actually playing the update for two lives I'm happy to say I was wrong. I really enjoy the fact that different families speak different languages, it makes for interesting gameplay. Great update, 10/10.

I take it this means you gave up on the weapon idea?

I think you misunderstood me, the parser doesn't look at words, it just looks at word length.

"Weelcome too Eeve toown!" is 8 letters + 3 letters + 4 letters + 5 letters, so it would become something like "Thorniss mod Veld Nagan!"

On the subject of languages, I think the way World of Warcraft does it would work nicely if you decide to implement them. There is a list of made up words, and everything that players say is parsed through that list and words are replaced with made up words of equal length.

For example, 'Welcome to Eve Town' would become something like 'Kaelsig ru Lon Odes'. This gives you a general idea of what the player might be trying to say, and it would definitely be easier that translating it into a real language.

I personally enjoy it, it's a brief moment of slight chaos for both the child and the mother. For me it's fun both when I'm the child and the mother.