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Oh dang, yeah that's a good point. The other servers would fill up mad quick LMAO.

Yeah I agree that this forum has gone way off topic, I did not intend for my idea to take over the entire post. So if this only applies to people who are murdered, then okay. But what if it goes, as has been suggested, that it happens for all death. If it applied to all death, I think there would definitely need to be an age limit.

Let's say, once you reach the age when you can fend for yourself, you get 4 extra hunger bars and you're immediately on the clock. Your time to stay alive has officially started. Thoughts?

Really? I've never even seen it mentioned anywhere, or I would've jumped right on it. I've honestly never brought it up because I know how people would react to it. I know it'll be very unpopular with a lot of people (honestly surprised how many people are a fan of my idea). Which is why I spent so much time clarifying that it was just my personal opinion when I first mentioned it.

But again, I feel like you're missing the point. I'd like to draw you back to point 2 of your previous post. It is common to want to "go back and check" on how you old family is doing. It's normal to want to go back and keep working on what you started, or indeed finish it. But that's not what this game is about, at least in my opinion, and apparently Jason's. There are already so many games that offer that, but how many offer the drama or never again seeing your family and everyone having to live on in each other's memories. You get one chance, and that's it, it's on to the new story. I find that much more compelling, personally.

Also, I think he's reffering to the "insider's club" of people's "souls", not characters.

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The only way I could see that working is if you run off into the wild to do it. If you do it in town, someone else could watch the kid you neglect. Would be an intersting way to grief, but I feel like it'd be terribly boring. You don't get to see the effect, and it's really slow. Terribly slow and not getting the satisfation of seeing your handiwork. Can't imagine too many people would do that. And you could only do it once to that lineage, you couldn't spawn back in and do it over. So even one of those terribly sad people truely exists, they would only have one chance to do it.

Honestly I'm really happy you (Jason) took the time to read my message and had some real though on it. I've thought a lot about this game, about many things regarding this game and this is one of my personal takeaways. I agree with all the pros, every life is meant to mean something. Every hour is supposed to be a new experience and that's what I like. I think you hit the nail on the head with the minecraft creative mode reference because I've been feeling much the same way. A lot of people want this game to be like that, which makes sense, it's really popular. But if I wanted that, I'd play that, or any of the other 14 games that offer that.

As far as being banned, I may have been a bit hasty in using the B word. My initial thoughts are banning but when I think on the negative implications, I can see that that may not be the best solution (for reasons 1 & 3). Maybe there should be a generation limit, like you have to wait at least 4 generations before you can be born back into that lineage. Then it is essentially a different experience, because "bob the blacksmith" isn't around anymore and everything has changed. That seems to solve those two issues, no?

I kind of second this notion, as far as having a goal. I know that the idea of a surviving settlement is in itself a goal, but that can be a bit ambiguous for some. It might also deal with some of the more experienced players that grief because they've become bored and have nothing to strive for. Maybe the more I think on it, I'm torn. Because if you've gotten to server 1 and have a thriving city, then the bored griefer is back to square one. But if you grief and get killed by the competent players that catch you, then you have something to work towards again.

I definitely think it's an interesting idea, but there is a real danger in splitting up an already small player base. Maybe only use the first 3 or 4 servers for the karma ladder?

I dont think it's necessarily meant to be a challenge. Yes it is easy to squat in a field for an hour and just stare at berry bushes. The fact of the matter is that it is a grind, an hour long one at that (unless you're an eve). So you are in a minimum hour long banishment from the server you were killed on, if we're looking at it only being used on those that have been killed. If we're looking at it from a perspective of it happening for every death, murder or not; then it will at least show that people have the ability to survive until 60, regardless of the method.

To the dancing skeleton puppeteer and his protege, I would like to admit that I was the one who stabbed you. I remember when I saw you for the first time. I had just been born and was listening to you conversing with an elderly man. He was talking about how he was going to go soon and you were telling him that you were going to make his skeleton dance. I didn't know what you meant by this, but found it funny that the elder gentleman just kept saying "no". Before I could even fend for myself, he had passed; and that was where it all began.

You picked up his bones in a basket, then repeatedly dropped them and picked them back up again. It amused me at first, what a fun little idea. Sure enough, his skeleton was dancing. As I grew older I started to work on the same thing I usually do, a pair of holy fruit boots. I had painstakingly gathered all the supplies and had begun crafting the knife I would need to take out the dirty "camo death noodles". I took me a while to gather everything I needed, so I didn't spend much time at home. When I returned he was still doing his routine, entertaining all the kids by the campfire. I admired his determination to his routine, but quickly set about returning to my homage to the one, true, Cactus god.

Others had taken notice of what I was making and were asking me to kill you. I refused and told them that you weren't hurting anyone and to just let you have your fun. But as the years went by, and I set about the long task of making file blank, making chisel, cooking goose, making finished file, and finally making the blade blank that would be my tool; I had grown weary of your routine. Eventually all I could hear was, "kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk, kuk kuk kuk". It never ended, it just kept repeating over and over and over.

So as I felt my frustration grow, I took the sensible approach and figured I would politely ask of you could take a break from your routine. Sadly, it was to no avail. Again I requested that you please stop the routine, others had voiced they're frustrations and we would all be grateful for a moment's respite. Again, to no avail. Eventually I was forced to resort to aggressive means of persuasion. This gave you pause, as you noticed the knife in my backpack, but it was not for long as you continued your dancing skeleton routine. I tried to reason that your art had turned to harassment and you were bringing misery to those who had once found joy in your routine, but in the end, I was only left with one recourse.

As you eventually passed on, what happened next was one of the most eerie experiences I'd ever had in my many lives. I was not met with the usual questions of "why did you do it?" or "how could you?". I was met with thanks and congratulations. Even when you kill a griefer, even if they don't question you for it, they certainly don't thank you for it. But no one openly expressed any resentment to the crime I had committed. No one except one. A little girl holding a skeleton in a basket. She approached me completely appalled and indignant. She couldn't understand why I had done what I did. I tried to explain, but she wouldn't listen.

I could tell she was crestfallen, and normally this would've made me feel a sense of remorse. But as I stopped to reflect a moment, I noticed something I hadn't before...silence. I could think clearly. For the first time in years, I could think clearly. I truely felt for the little one, but I stood by my decision. And to this day I do not regret my decision. He had gotten lost in his art and it had driven him blind to the suffering he was causing. I continued my pilgrimage and made many boots that I blessed the next generation with. I hid the knife and only disclosed it's location to a little one that truly believe in the lord and savior, the Cactus god and his blessing of fruit boots. I only hope that you and your skeletons find peace in the afterlife, and that your protege does not fall victim to the same madness as her mentor. I left that life in blissful silence.

Really? Do you remember the stream? I'd like to see if I could find the VOD, see if from their perspective.

I know you it's impossible to cover every scenario in these polls, but some of these are hard to answer. Like "how often do you leave baby boys to die" (I pick more often than girls) but that's usually because all my kids have died or ran off lol, so I need the girls. But if I got 2 girls at home accounted for, it's boys from then on out. And as far as suiciding, I only really suicide when my mom names me something like "fuckface" or "jabbaflaberscony" (instant escape, % lol).

I have personally thought a lot about this and think that things are fine as they are now. Granted, some people have the ridiculous notion that you should only have females in your city because males are useless. But unless you're 111 gen style coordinating, there's no guarantee every mother will listen. Besides, leaving the natural inclination to provide for every kid aside, a lot of times it can be hard to gauge. It may seem like you have enough food for one or two more kids, and it doesn't seem like it'd hurt; then next thing you know all the carrots are gone. I think this mentality of males having no place is just ignorance.

Honestly there's no need for more than two females, and have the rest be males. Two women to stay home and tend the farm/tend to and educate the future generation (population control); and males to take care of everything else. Honestly it's really frustrating to be in a city with 4 or more women and be up to your eyeballs in screaming kids, which then turn to dead bodies you have to move, which turns into a depressing mass graveyard. Like I said, I think the problem is more of based in shortsightedness than anything else. You only need 2 (MAAAAYBE 3) females, anything more than that is overkill.

Actually LOL'd at this. +1