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Low pop balancing is dumb. Balance around people in a real server. Maybe extend curse timer for low pop to make up for it?

I still think this stuff should all be grouped instead of every item being a tool since we're still having to get fixes for every single individual item.

I'd rant about it here but I've done it plenty and the bug list for tools was updated a night or two after the update went live.

Also would be nice if you aren't going to fix auto-orient to at least address some of the issues.

For example:

-Can't stand on a N/S door and close it. However, a west-east door can be stood on and closed/opened.

-Arctic buildings don't have E/W variants which means you have to either import doors or make really weird building styles so the doors work.

-Only E/W fences can hold horses which is sort of annoying as any other fence style is only aesthetic vs the usefulness of E/W.

Issue with the infinite map is he literally waited one week before adding a gimmick to make the game be in a pseudo rift.

I have no idea why he implemented something that should have been a rift update (requiring families of different tones) into a world where he hasn't made it exactly possible for all the families to be close (if they even exist.)

Low pop hours its possible to not have all the skin tones + have duplicates which frankly makes the tech tree impossible regardless if people are close or not.

We have the issue where something is absolutely fucking up Eve spawns and shooting people too far which puts a giant jump gap in between families.

Basically poorly designed gimmick + bugs in new eve spiral =bad. He should have let players actually experience life outside of the rift instead of just trying to corral them into a self made box.

Towns are currently way WAAAAAY too far apart as of the bell town living and Eves spawning further and further from it.

Taking a peak at the server population (really off hour but the point stands) we have four families which seems pretty good except we have some MAJOR problems.

-Two of the families are ginger, one is white, one is black. No browns at all on the server which means the tech tree can't be climbed any further than deep well. Once the whites/west side gingers run out of water they've got to move or fetch it.

-Holy shit are people way too spread. Pika gingers live 10k~ west of the bell, Fran whites live about 8k~ and Dobbie blacks + Kontz gingers live at or very close to the bell. How in Gods name are people supposed to trade or do anything if the needed specialty family (in this case dobbie or the nonexistent brown family) are that far away? Even once a brown family spawns the blacks are too far away to help them do anything and the gingers/whites are useless on their own basically.

If you're gonna push the idea people are dependent on other lineages you can't have people spawning a lifetime+ away from each other.

My suggestion is to have the Eve Spiral (I'm not calling it an Eve Zigzag that sounds stupid as fuck.) reset itself back to 0,0 after going at least 3k out. According to Pein the lineages are moving around 1200 tiles a day with the current spiral which is about 5~ minutes walk meaning after a few days the Eve spiral would soft reset back through towns and areas already built up.

If you dislike the idea of the spiral always cutting through the same town areas then I recommend just having the zigzags shift every time it would reach the end. Start going west then once it hits 3k shift north from (0,0) then east, then finally south, then repeat. About every 2.5 days or so the spiral would shift naturally while leaving players still able to make towns outside of the spawn area.

Basically the game shouldn't be balanced around needing others if they're a 50 minute walk away.

How does this solve the issue? I've had my (very dumb) new son help a griefer because she convinced him to say "I join you" as she ran me out of town with a bow. If the goal is to allow someone to be better by being an approved guard then it should be an elder that approves you not some random kid that can finally say "I join you."

Back to the issue at hand even with six seconds as long as you're within 1-2 tiles you can out maneuver someone you chase with a bow to kill them even at 75% speed. As long as you're smart you'll kill them and due to new players not having any sort of mods they'll fail to see people behind trees and etc. 

The biggest issues are you made combat a mess + there's no reason to play hero as it normally bites you in the ass to do so. Specifically speaking last time I stopped the troll stealing things from town/killing the entire town (besides the smith) turned on me because they thought the "curse you" phrase cursed the individual player reading it. Unless you specifically care about the place being griefed you might as well let someone kick over all the new players castle because otherwise you run into "killing is bad, so you must be killed" new players, or the type who see blood and instantly curse without asking what is going on.

You best bet is to just curse a troll and kill yourself (which sounds dumb) so your next life they aren't born around you. Normally they'll die before you so if you curse and live you risk dealing with the same crap next life around.

Quads have to speed up a random person as no one in a group can speed each other up (otherwise twins+ would without a doubt be able to massacre a town without any resistance.)

As stated it's better to either steal stuff from one town or to give it freely rather than sit around trying to figure out an exchange. Better yet, if you find a town that's a different skin tone you might as well just move in and start doing what your race does best (since going back to the original town is mono race.)

Gingers can't get to oil by themselves so they might as well not even make towns when spawning as Eve. Best bet for them is to spawn in and just walk to the closest town in hopes of finding brown/black population as otherwise they'll be just sitting around praying to run into two different races vs tan/black which only needs to specifically find the other.

Trade update really just slowed the game down for the sake of people not bitching about how stale late game has been since forever. You can't have a stale late game if most towns can't reach it.

Basically this. Eve didn't name her child before herself but a nearby Eve/Family named the child which means the name passed down was Burns instead of Sorrows.

Yeah I definitely think it should be more related to a whole recipe rather than the annoyance of content being dead because you can't find the other race. I'd rather it be where blacks can only do something like glass, tans get pumpkin pie, and gingers have fish/shrimp. Obviously it needs to be balanced a little or each needs other recipes but trading for end products makes more sense anyways.

Otherwise we're just going to be in the situation where if someone off color comes to town you just have them fetch a bunch of their specific resource (salt water for gingers, all the desert stuff for blacks, and rubber/palm kernels when tan.)

It's 3 pips per glass
12 glasses per bottle
and 3 bottles per crock once easy mode comes off which means its 36 pips which gross at gooseberry speed without requiring the soil speed (well it's a little slower but still.)

It's definitely not op by any means considering you need a lot of resources (plants/glass/bottles) to really get anywhere on mass production. It's honestly easier to either kill a lamb OR make pumpkin pie (which is definitely much more op than wine by a long shot.)

Pumpkin pie is fine and even might be a little too good but its locked behind a certain race so that's more than okay. I think wine just suffers from the tedium of it only being able to be done in a top tech town (which there's likely only one or two on the server now with the race update) which means you can't ever do it unless that town has blacks at the moment.

It just feels bad having all these restrictions slapped on from previous updates then when we get some fresh new content you can't even do it whether you know how or not. I feel like this was just a meant to be a hiccup to getting to late game since you didn't want to move the cogs forward again. Can't have a stale late game if its much more difficult to get to the same exact spot most towns would reach a month ago.