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in the book "Things Fall Apart" it says the Nigerian tribes people would abandon twins in the woods cause they were considered to be evil. Just saying.

I haven't had twins turn out to be evil, but i've had a mom who was an evil twin, and killed the whole family and kept saying i needed to be a slave moving rocks or she would kill me. I ran away with a bowl and was excited to live in the wilds a while then come back to reclaim the camp with a family, but I died of yellow fever

I suppose I should have cursed my mom after running away, being as she told me they killed the whole village.

it's important to remember that murder isn't necessarily griefing, and that PVP violence is allowed in this game for a reason: because it would be a completely unrealistic portrayal of human society without it.

an established city really should need a doctor and a dedicated guard/militia to be safe.

i don't witness that many murders, but in established civs generally a fair amount of people have knifes in their backpacks.

There's no good reason a murderer should be able to kill several people in a decently functioning civ. If you get murdered sometimes that's just the game.

at the same time, non-violent productive players very rarely get cursed. So if I accidentally get a couple here and there killing murderers (which i never have) it isn't a big deal.

I've long thought it would be fun to play as a raider, but there is no real point as pretty much a basket of pies and standing next to some cactuses is enough to survive a whole game lol.

Though, that actually brings up another important point What people are upset with is the murders being seemingly for no reason. If there were possessions worth killing for it would all look different. But, it's so damn easy to walk off with things, and almost every possession you would only want either to kill people or to be a productive player.

it's like a home marker, i believe you only see it if you don't have a home marker.

wow, thanks!

Do you think this had anything to do with the disconnects upon birth?

i also like the idea of having ice cultures etc. Especially with the risk clothes give you of yellow fever now. i think we would just generally need bigger biomes. Which, now that there are horses etc would be viable. I'm not a programmer, but my understanding of how the game works is that the biome size and variability is just an input, and (though it would either required a map reset or only apply to new areas) that it would just be a matter of making biomes bigger and reducing variability.

I had been quite interested in the idea of making it more viable to be long-term hunter gatherers. One option for that would be to allow the cutting of burdock root to allow it to be planted just with a sharp stone, but then it takes a long time to be viable, like possibly even an epoch. However, the milkweed never coming back really nerfed that possibility of not having agriculture.

But, people don't seem interested in doing this anyway, even though i think it would be cool if villages were periodically raided by "savage" tribes and whatnot.

Regarding stew, i don't have a great answer to that. I wonder if people think they will get yelled at for eating the nice foods other people make? Though compost is fully sustainable, it's ridiculous the amount of it you have to make when large groups of people are living off of berries. And then you spend all your time and water on the bushes.

When i'm in a camp with stew it's usually my primary food source, or at least one of them.

I think part of the problem with eating the same foods is just the nature of the compost cycle

It's really well balanced, but it forces you to have a large volume of mutton and wheat. So, of course you have to constantly make mutton pies. And you have to have berries for the cycle. This could be massively reduced if a fed sheep produced manure, as opposed to only when a lamb becomes an adult. i think part of the idea is to force you to have knives though, which is unnecessary because you need the iron shovel anyway. 

one solution could be to allow more than one way to make compost and feed lambs. For one thing the threshed wheat would be fine as lamb food. No one really mashes carrots and berries to make compost, it was just a convenient available thing. There's no reason a plate of chopped squash couldn't do the same thing, or any number of things which are available. There's also no reason goose poop couldn't be used.

If we get more than one way to make soil, i think we will really see villages doing different things.

I'd also like some way to turn graves into fertile soil. It could be as easy as just making where you bury them work as fertile soil. The number of graves is becoming a problem, especially with limited irons, and human bones are a resource.

Also I've only been in one place with a high volume of sauerkraut, and I was seemingly about the only person eating it.

Maybe food delivery should be a job. Though, you'd need to make it possible to transport more full bowls easily...but that's as straightforward as letting some of them stack.

You do realize when you hover over them to see the name, it also tells you if they're related, right? So literally, in the time it takes to find out if they have your last name, you find out if they're in your family, whether or not they have a name.

this also drives me crazy, when people don't know how to gather. If you're in a new camp and it isn't obvious what to do, grab a berry and go look for basket materials, and then gather. Even just running back with 3 berries to set on the ground can be crucial to allow people to stay at the camp long enough to accomplish something.

I am as well, with horse carts its quite feasible to go long distances iron gathering. i wouldn't be surprised if killing people for wasting iron has doomed more lines than running out of iron itself.

It's not that challenging to keep two babies alive in the wild. It's also not that challenging to feed a camp if people are actually working. With people actually doing compost, berries, pies, and meat you can create a massive surplus.

The volume of people is not the problem, it's the people who don't contribute, and even so, this can tolerate a moderate amount of freeloaders, but most of them want to help if assigned a task.

Food just isn't that scarce of an item, not starving is pretty damn easy.

yeah I take good care of my babies and 2/5ths at most live to adulthood. Even in a food crisis I just run out and live in the bush and keep having babies.

It's frustrating because it's really easy to stay alive in the wilds, and often in this situation all of my kids die and i'm the only one who lives. How GD hard is it to carry a berry around.

if you actually try to focus on the order of food yum can really make you go through quite a small amount of food. I started paying a bit more attention to it recently since it effects fertility. At the very least, it's of enough value to vary up the pie types and have different foods around camp.

Also, having a more diverse food system is generally more stable and more fun.

I also remain convinced there are at least a moderate amount of starvation deaths caused by people waiting til the last minute to eat to save food.

At least that's what i assume by the sheer number of people who inexplicably drop dead surrounded by food.