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This is incredible smooth brain thinking. What if we just steal from our future lives! I'm sure that'll work out well :^)

Working together supplying each town with whatever they're missing is the smart move instead of trying to lock random shit up because dumby mcdumb is going to steal it to support his mud hut village.

This is the most likely outcome. People just dump resources in the middle and the other races either hangout in the center and walk out for kids or take X and leave Y.

No. You spawn in and realize you've cared too much about a meaningless mechanic instead of trying to enjoy the game to the fullest. Kek

Food hasn't needed the invisible food bonus for literally forever.

Oil is getting nerfed because one rig was producing so much water that one rig was worth 46.2 cisterns worth of water. Do you not see the problem with a single rig producing that much water?

The art is ugly and not in a good way. You're full of shit as always. It's okay for games to be unaesthetic but pretending that in its current form is going to be anything other than an ugly mess is a lie and you should be ashamed.

Looking at the main page Jason has led to the deaths of over 7.4 million people so he might have done something wrong unless you're one of those Jason deniers.

Make sure you eat your 10 one pip berries because that's a lot of hungry work for all those dead babies.

"Did you know there's a bunch of wild berries in the southern green biome? You can take a bowl down there and even collect up wild carrots so you can make bait." Or I'm just going to go grab a cart and start hauling berries + wild carrots because why would I sit in a starving town? Maybe a new player doesn't know any better but it's very clear that they also don't go and tap the abundance of free resources.

In Eve camps I just tell my kids to go collect eggs so we can cut down on adults having to eat low pip foods while boosting ourselves past the soft cap. If my kids are too dumb to fetch them then I'll do it instead of starting steel tools since dead kids don't need a shovel. Sometimes, you just let the kids die because killing everyone is worse than whatever score negative I can get from one or two children.

In relation to the engine thing just wait to make the engine until you actually need the thing instead of making it and sitting on it. You don't need the engine for the oil grind, and even if you're out of water you only need 5-6 buckets worth to whip up an engine anyways. And even if someone puts the engine on the car you've specifically talked about fixing this exact issue by talking about allowing us to just remove the engine from the car which fixes the issue too.

The only thing that cannot be reasonably solved is something like being the last person in a town as I can't clone myself. If I leave I'm better off just living with my new family or just trying to ring a bell or tidy the place up.

I want to keep the naked people alive regardless because I would like to come back to the town in the future to continue whatever I was doing. It's better for me to start handing out even the most simply crafted clothing (straw hats, mouflon hides, rabbit shoes, rabbit loin cloths) than for me to sit around snuffing my nose at them. Maybe they're new and don't know how urgent clothing is? Maybe they're just lazy and don't want to make it but it's better for me to improve everyone rather than dicking on them for not dressing.

I don't even lock up my fishing huts on main server and frankly doing so does no one a favor even if they steal or loot the place as its helping someone somewhere with whatever they're doing and you know what? That's okay. I can restock it with nets, I can restock it with rods, and I can restock it with people. Me being selfish and gating off the ability for people to enjoy what I do is just plain dumb. On the other hand, any time I have seen someone make a private property its ALWAYS mismanaged with people taking in more than they ever produce. I bet even when you did a milkweed farm in your little fenced area you grew eight or so and thought you were making a "noticeable" difference.

I take a cart, hoe, bucket, and bowl and I can produce much more milkweed than I'm going to need so why don't I just give it away? Unused resources have the same value as nonexistent resources as a rope sitting in a box kept away is just as useful as the same rope not existing.

By keeping resources to  myself and potentially killing non genescore family I only hurt myself and to be frank I've stopped caring about gene score as it was causing me to essentially afk instead of playing the game. I'd rather have 6 slots and play than to have 8 and be stuck in this loop where I play only to live.

http://onehouronelife.com/fitnessServer … il&id=1797

I'm 562nd out of 573 when I used to be in the mid to high 40's regularly. I've just realized how little I was enjoying the game when I focused on gene score instead of playing for good lives and I think I'll stick to the ideology.

Higher cooldown just equals more bells you change nothing besides the multiple bell city being more meta. Again you think nerf without actually taking any real context in what it would do to actually effect the game (nothing at all.)

Adding difficulty effects only the people who are hit by it the hardest which are new players. You could give food values invisible negative values instead of positive and guess what? Veteran players would still thrive and new players would still starve out in the masses. Once you get over the difficulty gap this game basically becomes mind numbingly easy and every attempt to make it "harder" is just extra tedium disguised as difficulty. Making this game harder won't improve it at all in my opinion unless it's basically turning ez mode off (which still doesn't add real difficulty.)

The game should embrace the fun parts such as crafting with your family, raising kids, and finding your niche in civilization and really shining through. You have to do things that make sense to the players if you want to see something play out as we're not a bunch of idiots. Jason was basically warned exactly what the meta would become if he went through with racial specialty - People would just group up together and ignore the mechanic because self segregation and family loyalty aren't a thing in this game. You play for the city and if your kids decide to hangout with you that's awesome but just not how the game goes.

I recommend actually playing the game and seeing what its like instead of sitting on the benches pretending you know how it plays.

People like variety and under the current game that's just not very possible.

Everyone is shoved into big towns because it's not viable for people to run off and start new towns because of racial restrictions. This means mega towns are the only real viable way of play therefore "big towns are boring" because you're always stuck in the same few bell towns as soon as a bell gets completed.

Because "big towns are boring" people want to make new civilizations but as soon as they run off the smart kids will just leave to the bell since you can't actually live there. All the pseudo eves try to make a claim but it doesn't work unless she specifically brings another race over during her next life and notice how I don't say trade because they're basically one soul moving back to the same spot to be viable.

Next issue of course is racial restrictions in the first place because they cut a bunch of content without adding anything to make up for it. I don't know about anyone else in this thread but everyone knows I like to build fishing huts and go fish which means I can only specifically play as ginger if I want to enjoy my time playing. I was just afking for literal hours to not hurt my meme score but I came to the conclusion - Why the fuck am I playing ohol to sit in a little hut instead of playing? So now I just /die to ginger. Sure, I've lost two to three slots now but 5-6 works fine IF I already have a fishing hut built. The game is definitely more enjoyable now but at the cost basically only being allowed to fish vs doing anything else.

The game is boring/bad/whatever because Jason keeps taking things away and not filling the void he left. First he takes away 99.9999%+ of the map then leaves us to basically massacre each other for months, next he frees us just to impose a rift like feature where every family has to be close to each other to function AND he cut away content from all the different races. The game is basically about one player moving family A to family B so that new brown/black/ginger people pop up in the proper town instead of trade or any other goofy ass idea.

I mean to break the tool issues down quickly it looks like this:

Broken or nonsense tools.

- Healing only requires knife for most healing recipes. In an ideal world you actually need to know pads, sewing, + knife to cure but that has literally never been the case since the system came out. Sterilized knife is only used for snake bites vs arrow wounds where you need to sterilize the knife to treat the wound.

- Same issue with the newcomen roller where you learn the sword skill while recycling one into a rod. ??? It's a tax that has also been in there since the introduction of tool slots.

Unrefined groupings.

- Stone hatchet really either needs to be a freebie or covered under the steel axe. As of currently it's essentially just an Eve tax and late game is a trap option for players to learn.

- The whole smithing thing is laid out goofy as can be. You should be learning kiln + forge and not tongs + kiln to be doing smithing/pottery. Fixing this allows there to be a difference between a potter and a blacksmith which in the title example showed how these tools don't separate the jobs at all. Remove the tong tax and replace it with a proper tool.

- Stuff like fishing/shrimping should be grouped together like stone hoe/steel hoe and the various thread needles. Shrimping is basically for children as it has an age 3 limit and is renewable mostly while fishing has an age requirement and constantly requires the player to fetch more and more worms. A lot of things really should be grouped a bit better as more tools for the sake of more tools just leads to traps and crap options.

Permanent learning.

This is something that can be incredibly annoying due to how niche some tools uses are which makes these tools annoying to learn for only one use. Newcomen Drill I'm looking at you reaaal hard.

Permanence leads to having to choose between doing what is right and doing what you want. You might need someone to learn the file so people can cut bread but the file has exactly three real uses: Make a knife, make a saw blade, or change a key. This means if you learn the file 9.9/10 times you're picking it up to use once and then you're stuck with it.

So lets talk potential fixes:

Items that should be groups for tool slot management:

1). Shrimp net + Fishing rod.
2). Stone hatchet + Steel axe.
3). Knife + Sterilized knife
4). Literally all the newcomens should go under one thing. Fuck the newcomen tax which also requires tongs too.
5). Diesel engine tech should all be combined or at least water pumps + mining rigs. I can understand cars and planes being separated because you actually drive them but both water pump + mining rig is you just putting oil into the thing...
6.) Elder note pen + charcoal pencil. Elder note pen isn't a tool and it seems really fishy you can just learn to write with a pen at age 55 but pencil has been a mystery for your whole life.

Fixing niche issues:
1). Remove tongs as a tool. Replace tongs with forge (kiln should be learned when using pottery on it NOT when covering with adobe.)
2). Either allow for a fluid period for tools OR allow people to potentially forget a tool or two. It's incredibly shitty to ask someone to learn a useless tool to help you out (looking at you newcomen drill, file, and potentially bow drill.)
3). Current system requires you to basically run around picking up items to see who knows what this is why a title system was suggested to (quickly) learn who would have some idea of what tools a player has.

Stuff that just needs fixed:
1). Healing in general. Pads are only learned when crafting and maybe cleaning, you can't learn sewing on a human and don't need it. Sterilizing a knife doesn't learn sterilized knife but instead learns the knife skill. Treating anti-venom is the only possible way to learn the sterilized knife at the moment.
2). Shouldn't be able to learn weapons on ghosts, shouldn't be able to learn sword on friendly units, shouldn't be learning sword by recycling it.
3). Using an item on the kiln should learn the skill not just covering it with adobe. It feels weird I can do pottery with just tongs alone even if it is wasteful.
4). Do literally anything with the stone hatchet. Make it free or combine it with axe. It's existence currently is just to count as something against eves.

TL;DR: Current tool slot issues revolve around items that are too niche or have one use, some things don't even work properly, permanence with tool slots leads to bad types of choices and traps, and some stuff is just nonsense or should be changed/removed.