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That's really great and I generally agree that the sword post adjustments isn't really the cause of all the (extra, kind of unmotivated) violence we've been seeing. I think it's the combo of Eves being close AND immune to curses. Now for most players the threat of being killed makes them avoid villages, but if you aren't in the game to raise a family and survive that isn't important and you can just go in to towns and cause all kinds of problems.

It's not even like there are a lot of people doing this. It's just a few I suspect. But, they are really persistent.

IDK if just having curses work on outsiders again would be the great though (didn't you find that curses never worked outside of a family?) But, I'd rather not have curses mixed in with "legitimate" raids. Like if a a desperate Eve decides to steal a little iron, she should NOT get cursed for that or worry about curses she should be worried about getting killed... that's more interesting.

But, I don't feel like there is any good defense or response in the game to Eve suicide bombers. Eves who aren't coming at your town to try to kill you since they think that's the only way to survive, but just for the LULZ, you know?

I don't know if "inter racial" is the right word for it but I have said that marriage would be a great thing to add for a long time. Marriage between anyone with different last names with the effects:

-Honeymoon period: you learn language from each other like you are a child for 3 years after being married. So you must talk or you don't learn each other's language.
-small fertility boost for man/woman pairings
-men can now have kids on the family tree!

I think this would be amazing.

One way to force a choice in the tech tree is to use a mechanic like the springs. You need to build your factory on a spring, or on some other rare spaced out source block so it just isn't possible for every town to have every kind of mass production. You have to choose if you want to mass produce pies or wool or steel tools.

Once you get a factory going you'll have a glut of whatever you choose to produce. Since different towns will choose to produce different things you'll have trade.

Agree. This is really out of hand.

Yeah that point seemed way off to me as well. Also:

People are better education today than in any point in all of human history.

There are some dangers in specialization, true, but asking random people now about simple scientific ideas and you will get better answers than at any other point in time. The general knowledge base that people have is just better.

Town halls kept the bear out-- so wild animal protection is a thing... but they didn't stop this from happening.

I could not sort out what caused the chain of murders but it seemed like it stared with a strange guy (NOT an eve and he looked similar enough to blend in) killing someone then twin red-head griefers got involved.

This town was under siege, sheep were dead, things hidden behind trees outside of town.

Down side of the fence is people don't leave the area much. I kept finding stuff while gathering wood. Also saw some woman who was building some kind of trap out of tower bases right outside of town but couldn't get anyone to help me figure out what was going on.

Later the murders started. I think it was the same two people maybe coming back multiple times with different accounts? IDK.

Would have been nice if I could have cursed one of those twins.
But all we could do was kill them and they will be back again in another life to complete their "project."

Don't see how wall would help here.

Though they did make the bear someone was trying to lead to town very confused. I was able to curse the kid leading the bear since he was in my family. So there is that.

Anyway it looks like every other game I play will be like this.

It's very likely that there would be other people in any village would would want to block those same people and the preferences of the village taken together would cover multiple accounts.

Killing griefers does little to deter them.

I think you were my kid! I kept going on about "where's the oil" and you told me about the graves. They were very strange. That town was wonderful.

Agree. The fences probably aren't a good solution or even helpful since there is no easy way to add large groups of people to a gate so they end up being traps even when used with the best intentions.

I've been trying to give fences a go and not just reject them. But I've yet to see them do anything but cause problems.

Even if you could add whole families at once I still don't see how you are going to have all the gates closed at the right time-- and if an friendly Eve comes by what are you supposed to do just stare at her over the fence and not come out? I'm not going to do that.

The swords are mostly fine now. It's the "let's spawn people you can't curse near you AND let's have and an easy way for anyone for force themselves to spawn that way (using /die)"

it's catering to griefers.

And the vast majority of players are not griefers and I don't think griefers are a good "threat" since their goal is to ruin your enjoyment of the game. The whole concept of trying to employ griefers as if they were some kind of new wild animal threat ignores the fact the whatever will make people quit in disgust is that griefers will do.

"Player mute"

"avoidance curse"

Really, I suspect that there are only maybe 20-30 players out of 1000s who consistently ruin my enjoyment of the game. I'm not talking about noobs, or drama queens, or even people who get in to fights that end with murder. I'm talking about *pure griefing* people who aren't invested in the game, who break the immersion AND block my ability to play because they think it's funny to make other people unhappy or angry.

The sword is no use against such people since they can be in your family and don't really care about being killed *at all* right now a lot of them seem to be playing as Eves since they now spawn close enough to drop in and annoy other people without being worried about curses.

Without the curse system we'd have a real mess. I think it's an effective system, but it's clumsy and LOUD.

Since this type of curse is silent it would also stop chain-cursing and "curse backs" as well.

But when someone keep spouting racial slurs, spamming yoo-hoo, undoing my projects, hiding tools, killing sheep, blocking objects with their body and trying to kill all the girls or break the town food supply or water  I could know that would not have to play with that person again. I could avoid them. That would make me feel so much better.

Best of all: since the mute works both ways people have an inventive *not* to use it unless what they are dealing with is really irritating.

I don’t think the game has gotten to that point yet Breeze but you are correct that it could go that way. The majority of my games 9/10 have been totally peaceful. Most people who play this game are not interested in war, object to going on raids speak up when people want to kill a friendly Eve. If the balance tips? if it’s really a game where you kill anyone different on sight and always raid rather than collaborate I’ll be gone too. I encourage you to play one game. See what happens. Random irrational violence has a big impact on the victims. But it isn’t exactly “normal “ no matter how badly the warmongering voices may want that to be the case.