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Someone said in another thread that people would kill just to get the "cool" letters. Apparently anything that visually separates someone from others is a motivation to grief, not a detriment.

I was there about the same time, if it was the Aaberg family!
I had two daughters, but I later found their bones. They died as kids. Probably should have asked them if they were new...

A bear was loose north of town in my old years.

I don't play with the mod, so I have no way of telling for certain if a big town is on the decline.

Thank you for the fries, I had a taste late in my life

"Congratulations" on killing off people who didn't even know what they were up against.
Carrot farmers, bakers and blacksmiths. My my.

What a failure this Toxic guy is. Give me Starcraft over your stupidity any day. There people develop skills and fight each other because that's what the game is about.

I'm more and more supporting those who think griefers should be banned from this forum.

How about adding just one water source in the center of all biomes (except swamps, leave them as is)?

Eves might not choose to live there. But once a city is up and running, it would make it simple for Eve's descendants to expand to nearby areas.
It would be worth it to have a small town in rabbit biome, since clothes decay and rabbits respawn.
If mines respawned as well, that too might be a good place for a small outpost that could grow into something bigger.
Same with snow, if seals respawned.

What kind of appreciation for being constructive could be built into the game?

Actually I think I misunderstood.

I thought the core idea was that "only smiths can make stuff, and they have to practice in order to build their skill before they can become smiths", i.e. you have to melt a certain amount of ingots before you can move up the tech tree and get the 'smith' skill which in turn will allow you to attempt to make a shovel. That sounds like a pain when life only lasts one hour.

And then I thought that in your reply you meant that if you hit a hammer head an extra time with a round rock, it also becomes flat/a shovel.
I've actually never tried to hit it twice, so I actually don't know what happens!

But now I realize that you tried to explain something else, and that we do have to make a hammer first before we can make a shovel, and I probably haven't grasped the core idea in this thread at all

+1 to cereal

As for personalized tech trees, I think it works well in other games where your life isn't limited to one hour. But in OHOL, part of the challenge is to do what is needed to make the village thrive and survive. If the town needs a shovel ASAP - or say a water pump, and you know how to make one, I don't think you should be barred from it because you've been hunting rabbits until now.

If the conditions were such that people could start villages in every biome (and if iron mines were renewable) (and if road building was a little simpler) I think people would start more diverse towns and travel more between them.

I believe there's only one thing really needed to start a town anywhere:
- Kids need to be able to be productive while not starving to death

That's it, I think. That's all any biome needs to provide to create some ingame diversity.

I agree with Léonard here.

People use /die to get a say in what town to spend the next hour.
It is an expression of wanting to have a free choice.

It sucks, but it could be fixed by implementing some sort of choice system in the login menu. Perhaps it would be enough to choose generation (0-5 or above).

Griefing on the other hand is an expression of malicious intent.
If we take away murder, they will lure in bears. If we take away killer bears, they will hide all the food. Where does one even begin to find a solution to that problem..?
Griefing can't be 'fixed' the way /die-babies can be fixed, but maybe it can be limited.

I don't /die, and I don't grief, but I can respect /die-babies.
I can't respect griefers.

When I run around, I often find places with only a few ponds. I've been in several starter villages located near 3 ponds or less, because the Eve had to settle at some point. Perhaps the issue is that only the camps near large clusters of ponds manage to survive long enough to develop tech.

Your argument seems faulty to me.

"If I dislike spending my time dealing with griefers, I should have the option to farm carrots instead and just stay out of the drama... Nobody should tell me how I should play OHOL"
See how your argument works both ways?

Carrot farmers aren't lazy. That is just another lame griefer excuse for being a jerk.

The difference is that the carrot farmer, unlike the griefer, *really* doesn't destroy anyone else's fun.
The difference is that the griefer *does* end up imposing his play style on the carrot farmer.

If, as you say, you want to have fun, and you don't like ruining anyone's experience, then stop perpetuating those silly excuses. Let's help each other instead by brain storming and perhaps coming up with good ideas for Jason to implement that benefit all, regardless of preferred play style.

Actually, the map is nearly infinite. You may not like being born into towns, but you always have the option to leave and start a brand new town elsewhere.

I have more respect for a person who says "I invoked an apocalypse because I had fun working towards it" than for a person who makes excuses like that.