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If it's easy, then take on bigger challenges, to accommodate the wider view.

Humanity did this when it tamed riding animals, it did this when it invented the boat.
It did it when it invented the automobile and it did it when it invented the airplane.

We've had people in space now for what, 60 years? People went to the Moon over 50 years ago and now we have networks of satellites and an international space station that has had a permanent human presence on it for over two decades.

Oh the times, they are a changing.

That's the Earth seen from 40 times the distance the Earth is from the Sun.
It was taken 30 years ago, February 14, 1990.

Everything, you've ever experienced, happened in that tiny, blue, dot.

The trick here is to empty them as soon as you can, whether in a bowl, or on the ground, and then water them immediately to get the regrowth timer started. Do that for clusters of wild berries and you can sustain good berry production for a life.

It won't last for days, if you do it near ponds, but if you branch out and do it near wells, using the water for wild berries, you can produce a lot more berries with a lot less work.

Give it a try, you will see the payoff. I did it near a swamp, set up a kiln to mass produce bowls, and had them filled in a lifetime, as a mother, on the edge of my families home. I would go in and out of the family zone and had five kids, two suicided but Mercury Venus and Terra had longer lives.

Please folks, don't waste too much time in game worrying about this iron situation, that will be sorted out in time, for now, try your hand at this style of play. Make more bowls, get them near the wild berries and ponds near your family home, when the bush regrows, full of berries, empty it into a bowl and water the bush. Go around doing that till you get a 10 minute cycle down and you can keep those bowls of berries going into your camps or towns. It can work. Nature is more bountiful than ever.

It used to take 10 minutes for one berry to grow back, now we can get 6 berries from wild bushes, every ten minutes.
This is a huge change, don't underestimate the value of this. Farm wild gooseberry bushes for pies, animal feed and bait.
It's a new meta, adapt.

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And another thing, stop telling Jason what his games should be like or why what you think he is doing is wrong.
He's not your typical game designer, you're not going to appreciate the way he's adjusting his games, if you think of him like he's Blizzard, Bethesda or Capcom.
He's playing with new mechanics, new styles, essentially, he's trying to make new games of the same world; the same assets, and, I know I didn't fully appreciate it, after a year of dealing with it, but it's really not that terrible of a way to go about developing a game.

Sure, I have found memories, like pein and others, of the way things used to be, but the fun comes from adapting together.

Correction, I think H was actually the Rohrer family, another family of white people, so we have Hope and Rohrer, both white.
Not yet sure who Korn, New, this Unknown, or who the Jones or Cring were.
Lot of times I see a single family member on the list, and they don't last long, I assume it's donkeys.

Trust me a few bowls in practice, near a good cluster of wild berries will produce an abundance of berries.
Not enough to sustain a huge family, but more than enough for you and a few kids, just ask Mercutio from our life as potters on the outskirts, southwest, of the Brown family home.

We made two dozen bowls and filled them with wild berries from only a small handful of bushes.

We were at about x=-100, y=-80, relative to the brown family's well.

Wish I had got a screenshot of it, it was pretty cool. Pond water and a bowl to start, and we managed wonders, for the two of us.
Venus and Terra were twins born to me down there, they saw the beginning of it. But Mercutio saw the real splendor of the wild berry bonanza.

And no soil was required, though I did farm some milkweed  and a batch of carrots for variety. Food situation at the brown skins home was atrocious.

We'll cross that bridge after we build it, if, we manage to build it, together; by our choice of playstyles and Jason's choice of mechanics.

I wish this discussion could have gone on for ten pages without anyone getting offended and then threatening others.
I would like for humanity to resolve it's differences/
And I can't think of a much better community than one of people who act as parent, for each other, who bond with them, no matter where they are on Earth.

America is a cooler version of Europe, pretty much sums it up.

Suck it, Euro Peons.

I really, really really really, need to sleep now.

Surface iron was dumb anyway.
You're all welcome to make rabbit pouches with me and feed wild berries, goose water, for the rest of time.

I never even thought about that, that Hungary was named because of the Huns. I know it probably seems obvious if you're from Europe, but, in America, every time the country of Hungary is brought up, it always seems to be followed up with a joke about hunger, or, Turkey... yeah, most Americans, at least, most of the ones I grew up with, are, or, were, just that oblivious in regards to the history of the world. Unless is it was the history of the country that their ancestors migrated to America from, in which case, that particular European nation was the greatest country outside of the United States.

Everyone is the same, if your family was Irish, Ireland was the greatest, Germans are super proud of their German ancestry, people with French ancestry do tend to be a little snobbish, and it's pretty much the same , no matter where people's great great ancestors came from, but, you don't hear many people talk about their English ancestors, I guess, not since the Boston Tea party and the American Revolution. Even Chinese people in America hold their ancestry to the highest esteem.

There are a few families around here, in my little town in the middle of nowhere, with Norwegian, Scandanavian and "Viking" ancestry, and, while they tend to be pretty polite people in most respects, they're still massively into Norse Mythology and wear runes as jewelry, and they love talking about vikings as if they ruled the oceans all around the world. If you were young and heard the way they talked about vikings on the ocean, you might think the vikings ruled every port from Polynesia to Alexandria. Good friends, terrible Magic the Gathering players. Decks as tall as soup cans.

Middle eastern history is pretty bloody, it was a very tight space for humanity to fight over for a long time. And, since the world has become addicted to oil, the Saudi family, Mecca and their Muslim ally countries, have been expanding quite aggressively around the world. Then there was the mess between Iraq and Iran for many years, as English and American oil companies tried to play their dictators against each other like pawns, while working out cheaper and cheaper deals for the oil fields those two countries shared...

The history of the USA and the UK's involvement in the oil and politics of the Persian Gulf is really a mess. It's always been obvious to me that we were messin around in that region just a little too much, then there were the events of 1991 and 2001, followed by second war in Iraq, for, bullshit reasons. But, no matter what, no matter what I say or do, there is no denying, that who we are, was/is, determined, by those of our ancestors who faught wars and manipulated other nations, and won. Whether that nation is a small one within Italy, or the largest, most populated one in East Asia. Every political geographic distinction was made by some sort, of show, of force, and pride.

In the case of Europe and the Middle East, I'm afraid the Crusades, never really ended.

Tensions, certainly, still exist, between people of either regions.

Pardon me. If I have made any mistakes, my eyelids are dropping like the twin towers.
Time to recharge.

A lot of us do, and that's why we're here. But that's not why Mr. Horse Cart full of kero rides into an 8 hour old town, proclaiming he's solved the water crisis, when he is the crisis. New players have no clue whats what, and rushing a town with an engine and radio, is never going to help them learn.

This is the lesson of the game.

Can you make a cell phone on your own? No, you know why, because it takes the whole world, and all of life's history, to make a cell phone.

We really need to slow down, reinforce some basic lessons, the really important ones, otherwise these folks won't fully understand temp, they won't understand the wells and they won't understand iron. And if that's what any of you want so you can feel better about yourself, that other people be left in the dark, while you pretend you're a star, then you should just fuck off.

Anyone that does rush to kerosene in a day, should just quit. Let new players discover the tech tree among each other.
If you are capable of that, and still want to play, you should probably just be teaching, not doing it for other people and riding into an Eve village with a horse cart of bottles, filled with sulfur and palm oil... that's what really makes the game uninteresting; looting towns for the sake of someone on Discord that just spawned as an Eve.
Give players the chance to experience the foundational stages of the game, when it really counts. Don't force them to go off in the woods and die alone, lot of them don't even know the steps to make fire, or what it takes to make a firebow, and they never will, because they'll play a dozen lives and go back to Minecraft.

You might think that's a good thing for Jason; easy money, but it's not, it doesn't grow the game, doesn't help his career, not going to get word of mouth going that's for sure "One what? Oh yeah, I played that game, it was pretty boring. Nothing to do." because you did it all for them. I'd appreciate if you stopped making them feel useless. Not necessarily you, schmloo, but you catch my drift. Slow down folks, savor the finer things. And if you want to hook up your friends Eve village, drop off a few horse carts full of rabbit carcasses, 40 meters away, let a new player discover them on his own and make sense of what to do with them. They'll keep their temps up, food consumption lower and the water will last.

Maybe the players should be divided into 3 servers: 0-100 hours, 100-1000 hours, and 1000+, or even 0-10, 10-100 and 100+ or just make it more obvious for people to choose different servers, by listing them all from the start, the way most other games do it. Most new players probably have no clue there are other servers.

Once I rode into a black town and asked where the basketball court was, where their chicken farm and watermelon patches were.
It's okay, I have racist friends. I can talk like that.