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I like the idea of getting cursed for entering gated spaces that are not yours. It's kinda realistic I mean you could go in to all kinds of spaces in real life and take things be terrible but you don't because of social pressure more than the locks. Think of all the small towns where people leave their doors unlocked. Or here in NYC in apartments with doormen the same thing happen door are often open but trespass is rare because the doorman is watching. Will the doorman stop you physically? probably not. But, it will have consequences.

And it makes for some nice choices. Your child is going to die, there are pads in that house, do you run in and grab em?

If you pick them up it shouldn't hurt your cooldown.

Yeah I don't really get that play style. I think that people find it funny and don't think through the fact that it might not seem funny to anyone else? Anyway that really sucks but depending on other people is like that some of the time. You'll get a excellent daughter in another game I bet.

Destiny I think your long response makes a lot of sense. A factor in things like currency and trade is the population. A population of fewer than 150 on the server and maybe 8-24 in a village just isn't large enough for money or trade to make sense. Trade works in real life because I can buy things from people I don't know anything about and because specialization is so much more extreme. I have a friend who writes the text that goes on bottled water and other packages. That's it.

A problem with specialization in this game is people get bored and they die. I might be the super fast pie-making champ, but I hardly ever want to do it for my whole life. I do it if it isn't being done or if I want fancy pie for yum chains, or to teach, then I move on. That's part of what is more fun about the game than real life you don't have to just stay in your niche. You can be all about doing one thing well, or try something new.

And I would not want the "lazy" people to starve given the population rates in most towns. People are the most valuable resource. The biggest way someone can hurt a town is by killing people or making people not want to stay by being a jerk. Towns die mostly because of too few people. And when a town looks like it's empty it gets harder to get babies to stay. I think a large portion of the player base, especially newer people wants to be in a town because there are people there. So even the people arguing over crowns and doing nothing are valuable. They are entertainment. A billion dollar industry in the real world.

I mean we don't want the game to be JUST like real work? UGH I have a real job with limitations and not getting to try new things as much as I want etc. I don't want to be locked in to always doing one thing unless there is some kind of tech advancement so the learning process that's part of the game would keep moving forward.

This could create an island version of the game where everything REALLY runs out and you gotta get that raft tech going or you will starve on you little island. But, other islands could be hard to find, or might have people on them who are not thrilled to see you. That could be a lot of fun.

I used to like to have a knife, but it's a pain in the but looking for someone to give it to or taking it apart before you die. And I consider just falling dead with a knife on my that anyone can pick up to be one of the worst things I can do, so often I get rid of it by giving it to someone industrious doing a knife job or by taking it apart with the smith hammer and recycling the blade.

It's a little odd to me that knives don't get old or need sharpening. Hmm.

I like this so much more than locking people out of areas because it invites conversation, conflict, co-operation instead of the game kind of solving that for us by making it so someone can't pick up my round stone that I use for stew. Instead it makes this action a little harder to hide, you have the round stone I painted white. You took it. Social pressure works well in this game and I find that fascinating and rewarding. Most people don't take tools someone is using a few do. But too often the "theft" is because the person doing the taking didn't understand that it was being used and someone cares.

I mean that's what I find rewarding knowing what other people care about helping them to get to a goal it's a different kind of reward than "beating" another player. You beat nature, the pigs, the bears, the cold that's the bad guy.

pictograms sound wonderful and they work with players who don't speak english as a first language too. And they seem to fit the theme a bit better.

Letters are very exhausting. I agree.

I think Jason gave his reasoning for this not being the case. Signs are not that effective and there would be so much sign spam in the game. Just nonsense and things people would ignore. Right now signs stand out and you know it was some one's lifes work to say whatever is on the sign so you read it.

I do think that maybe it's a bit extreme since people can hardly write a town name as it is, but I would not want signs to be "easy"

What about a mechanic where you make a paper note and then it can go on a bulletin board with some kind of thumbtacks. That way it can't be changed just removed. The letters system is a bit... uh... looking for the word... excessive? Byzantine?

I was born in a town with no clothing and thought "I'm going to be the best trapper" I went out of town, found milkweed made traps and did my first run back, everything was fine. I found a lot of milkweed so I used a rope to make a cart, made some baskets in the wilds and brought more back. Came back to this scene.

I mean, should I just stay in town? I'm pretty vigilant about grabbing and eliminating excessive knives (town this size needs only two)

Anyway the clothing shortage was uh... solved. Don't know if the town will make it.