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Quite the contrary.  When good ideas are ignored or openly rebuffed, it merely shows that Jason is closed to collaboration with the player base.  Then those positive threads dry up and all you have left are the negative ones. 

Most of us just get tired of endlessly railing against a system that refuses to change.

Ecclesiastes 1-12
All Is Vanity
1 The words of the Preacher,[a] the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
    vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
3 What does man gain by all the toil
    at which he toils under the sun?
4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,
    but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
    and hastens to the place where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
    and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
    and on its circuits the wind returns.
7 All streams run to the sea,
    but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
    there they flow again.
8 All things are full of weariness;
    a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
    nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 What has been is what will be,
    and what has been done is what will be done,
    and there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there a thing of which it is said,
    “See, this is new”?
It has been already
    in the ages before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things,
    nor will there be any remembrance
of later things yet to be
    among those who come after.

The_Anabaptist

Domestic Berries are a pox on the land and should never be planted.

You are better off building a basic cart.  Filling it with bowls and then going out to the wild bushes to collect berries.  No watering, no soil, you just need to remember where the wild bushes are.  I even like to fill my backpack and one basket with carrots and complete the berry and bowls while traveling.

The_Anabaptist

Fertility Idols!

Touch the fertility idol and your next child is that race!

The_Anabaptist

I can't speak about early Minecraft, but I did play a lot of early DF and will add my two cents.  Not about the games, but the developers.

In DF, if you wanted to know what the developer was planning, you could go to a multi-page list of items.  Some things were clearly months or years away, but if you saw your particular item, you could count on it at some point.  In OHOL, since the new year, all I know is that "bug hunting" is the focus.  There is no documented vision for the game that can serve as a reference point.

In DF, you could go 6-12 months without a significant update or when an update would hit.  In OHOL, we have been trained to expect weekly iterations.  Too much of either philosophy isn't healthy IMHO.  The player base needs to have their expectations managed better.

In DF, I never knew the developer to interact with the player base in a negative or dismissive manner whether it be in the forums or elsewhere.  'Nuff said.

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You may say, "Well DF is a single player game while OHOL is multiplayer game, you can't compare them."  I would encourage you to read some of the community games that are lovingly written up in great detail in the DF forums.  That dozens of players would patiently pass save files from player to player waiting for their turn to play a month or year in the life for a given fortress.  Many of the stories are truly legendary.  It marks a clear difference in temperament of the early DF player base from the current OHOL player base IMHO.

The_Anabaptist

When the player base offers suggested improvements, it is because they want to be part of the continual improvement process.  This process typically is most effective when more than one voice speaks and is heard.  You are effectively advocating for one (Jason's) voice.  That is your right to do, but I for one believe it leads to a poorer end result.

The_Anabaptist

You make a very good point.  If Donkey Town isn't teaching players to play within a given set of accepted norms, then Jason might as well setup the game to do the following:

"if no mothers are found available to birth you due to curse restrictions, then you are returned to the login screen with a message stating that fact and then given a notification that further login attempts will be ignored for a given number of hours or days.

The_Anabaptist

If the women can't have babies anymore, then the only solution is for the babies to have babies.

The_Anabaptist

What grinds my gears is that there is less town diversity now than ever.  Remember making a laid back town in a bountiful patch of cacti?  I barely remember the last time I've eaten the fruit off of a cacti thanks to the new racial restrictions?  Same for bananas.  Nobody messes with jungles, "too much bother..."  There should be more varieties of towns at this point of the game's maturity, but I rarely see a real snow town only a snow trail if I'm lucky.  Most people don't even want to live a provincial life in a village anymore, no they have to run as fast as they can to the biggest town.  That might make more sense if we had a truly epic tech tree, but we don't.  Plenty of blame to go around here for the player base and the development direction.

Let's all just go back to spamming bowl of berries and carrot so that we can feed/shear sheep just to play dress up.  You might as well open a micro transaction store Jason for exclusive racial and clothing skins, you'll make your next couple million easy off this crowd.

The_Anabaptist

Zacharyyy wrote:

WE NEED A SYSTEM TO CURSE OUR MOTHER. LIKE MAYBE /CURSE MOM OR SOMETHING (as a baby). PLEASE. Why? Because I'll have a really good genetic score (For me), around 40-50 and I get born into a mom who doesn't even take care of me. (running off, on a horse, is stupid, is a griefer, etc.) And by the end of it, I end up losing around 10 points. And I usually just rage quit, not even be born into a regular family. please change this

I rarely use /die, but I thought that when you used it that your genetics score didn't take the hit.  Is that not the case?

The_Anabaptist

A testing server, so Jason doesn't have to put untested patches on the production server each week?  Instead, it could go on the testing server for a week or two and let the players who get their jollies from experiencing unexpected consequences tell all of the rest of us about the bullet storm we missed this week on the production server.

But yeah, I would take bare back bear riding as a consolation prize.  It should have the feature of bucking you off about as often as a horse runs away, 100% of the time stunning you, and then if you happen to fall on an open tile proceeding to get yourself mauled in the next second.

The_Anabaptist

I grew up in a canning culture.  So I was thinking of the Ball or Kerr lids of my childhood.  But a search query or two in response to this corrected me.  The lids of my childhood were Zinc, not Copper.  And nowadays they are either Stainless Steel or plastic.

So no, don't use copper after all, unless you want to risk getting botulism from eating improperly canned organ meat!

The_Anabaptist