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What a waste of time.

The game should not be about using fear to discourage people.

Players have failed to keep it about love and encouragement.

Jason encourages you all to fail, not to learn, but to turn more would-otherwise-become good people, into sadists.

The potential for good this game once had, loses it's power.

Be warned, this is an obvious invitation for groups to perform wicked acts. But the game mechanics are unreliable, Jason changes things on a whim, so any investment of your time into this world, will be in vane, if you are a group of people looking to cause mayhem for amusement. People who love being innocent, love caring for others, the most important; most mundane tasks of maintaining basic functions, they will quit. Jason will cater to people who cry and complain, making the game worse for your 'posse' of friends, and your friends will get bored of this game and quit.

This is another example of Jason fucking up game design on two fronts simultaneously. Who knows why?

To weed out the most passionate people, at both extremes?

You would think that someone making a game with a parenting mechanic, would play a little more towards the strengths people gain from being in a good family; the lessons, of good families, should be here. The mental and social skill, strengths, that a good strong education, tempered by two sides. In reality, children's wits are sharpened by a mother on one side, and a father on the other. In this game, that temperament is done between one person, and no one.

I see where Jason really failed with this game. He didn't make a multiplayer game with today's multiplayer mechanics in mind. He had so much fun, with this game, - he was so enthusiastic - before people started dumping strategies on forums, and coordinating outside the game, via voice chat. The modern multiplayer experience's of Rust, MOBAs, Arena Shooters and the Raid mechanics of MMORPGs like WoW, have geared people with technology, to overcome wonder.
Wonder, was this game's strength. The unknown certainty of the future, and a mother, to keep you warm and fed, while you get on your feet.

That wonder is taken away with every mechanic added that stands to benefit, from the outside world, corrupting, what is inside each new player; that unknown, that wonder. In my opinion you should not cave, into that modern MMO mindset, Jason. Keep the game about anonymity. Keep families independent and far apart. Throw the 'Eve Spiral' algorithm out the window and just spawn people wildly across the map with no need for others, true, Adam and Eve style. Everything from nothing, but a mother and her children. If they manage to make it for many generations, and their family grows, then, spice it up gradually with diversity. You could have even taken a cue from reality, and started with black people and the diversity could have come as players gained lighter and lighter skin colors from their descendants, until you have your need for oil, and your family starts producing it's lightest skinned offspring.

It is already too late to make sense of the past in light of the present state of the game, but perhaps both, past and present, can serve the future.

At least this game's history will be an interesting series, of fumbles.

CF: "these 4 curves"
The real beauty was the way it came to me when I wasn't looking for it, the way it pulled me away from the Math.

ant: "something wrong with your math"
I wish all my Math was wrong.

DC: "those wiggly horses"
"those wiggly horses"

Nice cleavage.

It doesn't matter if you die, if your family dies, if your town dies or the server is wiped out by a monolith being constructed, or end stones being collected or anything.

The only thing that matters, is that we love each other, and with that, we pick up the pieces and rebuild.
But we only rebuild, to keep love alive; to give us, a little more time, to let each other know, that we care, through our actions.

Never forget that.

I need to lay something to rest, at the cost of digging up old, dead drama.

Twisted, was the reason for this shit. He was the main reason. When nearly all other players in 2018 were accepting their starting conditions in the early days of this game, when nearly all other videos you watched, from people on Youtube and Twitch, took place in small, Eve villages, Twisted videos, the majority of the time, took place in the largest towns on the servers. People in Twisted's comment section, even asked him "How do you always manage to wind up in such big towns?" and sometimes he responded, telling those people that he ran away from his mother as a child to die in the woods to be born to a new mom.

Being one of the moms that had to deal with him doing this, was devastating, when the population of your village was low and depended on babies, maturing to adults, gathering resources and having children. Hundreds of towns, died, because of this behavior. And he was the only person making videos of the game, daily, that showed life in big cities.

I can understand, that from his perspective, it seemed like the right thing to do, to get those good videos out, keep his views up and his audience entertained, but it was wrong from nearly everyone else's perspective. The game was not designed for that and Jason had to make special accommodations, for Twisted and the people he inspired, to suicide on their mothers, as conditions became desirable or not, to the point where only the best, biggest, most successful town on the server, was where he and others, eventually wanted to be.

So while we, were building up small towns, making them medium, making them large, he was focused, on giving up on small and medium towns and going straight to the largest ones.
When there may have been 10 small camps, 3 medium sized ones and one, giant town, twisted was suiciding on his mothers in those small camps that needed a child, that needed help, the most.

Now, I know, Twisted has attracted a lot of people to this game with his videos, maybe more than anyone else. A lot of you have seen his videos, a lot of you probably love watching them. I watched dozens of his videos in 2018 and just as many, if not more, from other content creators on this game. I played the most hours in the game, every day, back then, 10 hours a day was my average, 16 hours a day was not unusual, I skipped days of sleep, to get in 20 hours, many times.

I guarantee you, what you saw in most Twisted videos, were very rare conditions to be born in, especially, if you were playing full lives everyday, and playing a dozen full lives a day. Now, I do, forgive Twisted for being the root cause of this terrible behavior. Like I said, it devastated most players who were in dire need of a child, to keep the town and family, they loved, alive. He didn't know, and he didn't care. All he wanted, was a good video for the day, to edit and get out to his audience.

All I ever wanted, in bringing this up, was for him to come forward, and apologize. For him to say, he understood the harm he caused, and apologize for it.
But instead of that, Jason made accommodations, for this unusual behavior, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, became a part of the game. And good people left.
As good people have done, every fucking time, Jason has gone out of his way, to accommodate bad behavior, into the game itself.

There were not that many people playing this game then, and there aren't now, because all of the people who would have championed this game across the internet, have been broken, by Jason's actions himself.

This is why some of us love, this game so much, that we stick around here, yet still throw shade, his way.
He made something good, but he is also, ruining it. I don't know why. I don't know what, good, has failed to reach his mind, or what ill thoughts, exist in him, but he is not as good a person, as some of you seem to believe he is. Neither is Twisted. Neither of them will sacrifice their own reputations, for the sake of honesty.
Yet here we are. Twisted is still making videos, and Jason is still corrupting the game.

Curses were a dumb thing to begin with.

That you think people play, solely to do harm, means you are blind.

Cursing a person that did harm in one life, when you have absolutely no idea how much good they would have done in the future or the past, only makes you more biased towards them, the next time you see their identifying names. But we have noticed, countless, unspoken times, that we were wrong to have cursed those people. That we, caused more harm to the stability of the game, by forcing them to be born away from us, for an entire month, which could have been hundreds of lives where they could have worked to help keep our civilizations working, just because they did something in one life, that you felt, warranted cursing them.

A knife can be used to cut bread or stab people.

Curses cause permanent instability in such a tiny community of players.
They will cause instability, on any scale.

It was never a good idea to begin with, not for a game that has a forum and discord, steam chat and other communities across the net, not for people who exist outside of the game and can communicate, reason, and forgive, each other.

We are, a small tribe of players. Every new person to the game, is one of our children. Don't exile anyone from this tribe, ever, for any reason, or the core, of this tribe, will not grow. Everyone can learn. Everyone can enjoy the game when they want to be loved and to feel loved. Anyone bored of it can play EVERY OTHER GAME IN EXISTENCE. Don't force someone that relies on that love tomorrow, but who wants to be mischievous for a life, or a day, to be forced outside this bubble of love.
It only gets smaller, when you do.

Curses were a mistake of the past, don't make them the mistake of the present, or the future.
Understand each other. Understand, we all get upset sometimes, we all have problems, but only we, can help each other.

Jason wants people to kill each other, have wars and fight for territory and resources.
Just so, when nothing wholesome is left of the game, but the rare player still telling their children they love them, and the occasional new person that walks into a war game, thinking that they bought a 'parenting & survival', asking people to "Give peace a chance." He can then say, in interviews at art houses "The players had the Garden of Eden, and THEY ruined it. It just goes to show how greedy people are." Meanwhile he's made 60% of all the money the game generates, Steam has made 10%, Twisted, WBSteve, Drae and all other video channels make 10%, and the Chinese farmers who sell engines in game for 99 cents each, and iron for a penny a piece, among other resources and items, take 20% of all money the game ever encourages people to exchange.

Yeah, Jason wants war. Otherwise he'll feel bad when he adds tanks and bombers to the game that we never build, because we're not smart enough to kill ourselves.

Dear World, be careful trusting anyone who lived through the "Cold War" in the United States.
In that time, war was romanticized by the US in Hollywood, television and on the news.
Soldiers were praised like Kings, military weapons engineers (mostly nuclear weapons) were in high demand and every smart kid was told the smartest people in the world worked for the FBI, the CIA and the NSA. We were all highly influenced by the media at that time. It really was 1984, in the US and in every country that Big Brother made think needed his Big Arms to watch over them.

I don't doubt it was much the same for the USSR and for all the countries they tried to muscle for lunch money, but yes, our Big Brother intimidated their Big Brother and for a decade, the US was lauded as the toughest kid on the block and has spent the last 20 years, wiping out sand people that the Russians had deals with.

The world, was a shit show, but not everyone bought into it 100%.
Not everyone, fell for it all.

But some people did waver.
A lot of people, wavered, between talking to their girlfriends like they wanted peace, so they could get laid, and talking to their guy friends, like war was necessary, so they didn't seem weak.

Sure, you can probably dig through any country's history and find similar stories, stories going back thousands of years of the same thing, but that is now why the world is full of war movies, combat games and every manner of justification for the old adage "Might makes Right" and all the counter arguments for it, from all the types of people you'd imagine.

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This game, started as something beautiful though. Something more fundamentally basic, than all that. You were just a mother, trying to feed yourself, to feed your kid, so you, and they, could live.

That's it.

That, is the essence of life. Not war or power, oil or guns, just, LIVE and REPRODUCE.

Don't ever let Jason get away with devaluing those things.

Don't ever let him forget. Don't let him mangle, the beauty of THEM, like an abused pit bull.

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Some of US, are, abused pit bulls.
We, are like, abused pit bulls.
But we are still human beings.

May you all, never run out, of people to love.

Oh, hi, every other game since 1983.

We meet, again... *sigh*

Just make a good game. .

Spoon, I assumed everyone was smart enough to understand what I meant by "this world".
Versions of this world, are not, this world.

People across this forum, are not talking about changes taking place, in any of those versions you mentioned, when they talk about The Game.

For now, this world that we play in by default, is Jason's and Jason's alone. People can influence the world, via him, he may even hand over the reigns from time to time, to other people, and, I'm just completely unaware of it, but as far as I know, he determines all rules of the game itself, and we, determine our rules, for engaging with each other, within, the rules of his game.

I don't give a shit about any of those other versions, they aren't what I was talking about and you know it.

I'm only here for the real deal. Sorry to anyone with any stock in any, versions, of this original, product in the making. I'm sure there are lovely reasons people bother with those knock offs, but they all started here. And all future spinoffs will spiral off the hurricane; the Great Red Spot, that is this original work, and all the ups and downs, it goes through, as it develops.

Water, the friggin, wild berries, people!
Save the soil for everything else.
Making that soil, for all those domestic berry bushes, is a big part of the iron problem, and itself, a part of the water problem.
It'll cut down on iron used for hoes and shovels, for carrots and wheat, as well as cut down on water used for those crops, as well as the dry compost itself.