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I've been feeling pretty good lately; just hit 1000 hours played, lots of dogs were added, trees are plantable. It's a decent amount of content in a short while, relatively speaking. Then I was walking around this town looking for something useful to do, maybe a new project or something, and I saw this and thought "Those look just like fish." and for a moment, I thought maybe the most recent patch added even more conent. And I was just so happy, and not thinking in that moment, until, I looked at the rest of them. Then, I fell back down to the ground; unharmed, but amused, that I'd let myself think such a thing.

Sure, it's a little disturbing, but I'm starting to pick up on Jason's... motives, his M.O., the method behind his... sanity.

I'm okay with these little disturbances once I realize they are both, not long term and, somewhat intentional, if not entirely.

I don't get these lessons so much from my own lives, but I do get them once the populations unfold, and the mess, turns into a message, for us. Perhaps it's just me, but I don't think these are mistakes on his part, so much as, misunderstandings on ours.

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Also, I did it for the lulz.

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While the number of people in the US that are incarcerated is high, the worst in the world (or best if you are employed in corrections or law) you should really get your figures straight.

It's more like 2.5 million Americans are incarcerated
and the U.S. holds 22% of the entire world's incarcerated population.

I don't know where you got 25% of adults are in jail. Maybe at some point in their lives 25% of people in the U.S. will spend some time incarcerated, either in jail or prison? I don't know.

The point most often made is that while the U.S. only houses 4.4% of the world's population, it's prisoners comprise 22% of the world's incarcerated population.

I've heard these same statistics for over 10 years. They've probably changed, for better or for worse, but saying '25% are in jail' is just ridiculous.

Rope + Rabbit Fur Shoe = Pouch

I took some dogs out to a bear, they occupy them.
The dogs were moving at the bear, the bear was moving at the dogs, but neither of them hurt the other. The dogs just danced with the bear and I walked away, unpursued.
So, if you are going to make use of dogs, having a few on the outskirts of your town where the bear caves are wouldn't hurt.

But of course they won't stay there, people will go to "check on them" and they will follow that person home a ways, then wander about.

HERE! HERE!

Thanks, for those kind words.

I'm sure we've crossed paths many times, and will do so again.
I'm generally Eve Sol, and name my kids after the planets, or various other celestial bodies and/or Greek and Roman gods, if I get through Mercury to Saturn.

West must have been the one that asked if I was pein. XD

Good times.

I remember, Mercury.
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Unfortunately I was the second to last person there. The only girl left at the time, Baby, didn't have kids that stuck around.
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And, none of her nameless sisters kids stayed around either.
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And so, in an unfortunate twist of fate, I was the first person on the site, and the second to last one. Survived only by a boy who was smithing for, perhaps, if we are lucky, an Eve who spawns there. Then maybe we can all see it again, and have another shot at making it beautiful.

Thank you jessii, it was nice, a little messy in the end, but I spent my second life there trying to clean the place up. I found a second horse and cart near an iron mine to the west and brought 12 iron back with me, but I think it was a little too late. Everyone was working so hard in the end, and when I noticed there was only 1 woman left, I asked her to balance her temp and keep her food meter full, but she just kept working until her hair went grey.

At this point, I almost wish I wouldn't have shared this story, and let it just be another nice experience for me to keep to myself. Every other life today, so far, has paled in comparison. There is just something I love about helping new players, new Eve's and new mothers; fresh homes, and this person, whoever it was playing Ellen, my mother... it took so little for me to care so much about them.

Please, Jason, if you read this, please do something about infants running away from their parents. I know people can always quit the game and restart, but they so seldom do that when it's faster to run away and die. I seem to recall you saying in an interview that you didn't want people to be able to quit the game, but that you added the hidden hotkey combination for testing. It really breaks my heart when player after player abandons the life they have been given to live just to cycle through families like we are cheap food at a buffet. Whatever their reason, it's just a bad practice.

I can't say I've never, ever, abandoned a mother. I can't even tell you how many lives I've lived in the over 900 hours I've played, but I'm fairly certain that I've stuck with more than 95% of them. Even if I am born to the newest of players; they are my favorite. But even if I am born into a town that has been around for days, I will still find my niche and persevere. I have a great deal of pride in the lives that I have lived, and as such, I go to great lengths to make those who share them with me; happy, healthy and stocked with the resources to weather any situation.

Something must be done about this problem and I think it makes sense that infants should have to crawl for the first minute or two of their lives. I can imagine this will make it harder for people who are abandoned by their mothers in towns to find a suitable wet nurse or player willing to give them food, but right now, as far as game play goes, it's more of a problem that people are cycling through mothers and less of a problem that mothers are abandoning their children.

Maybe if some of you that do that sort of thing have a good reason for it you can chime in. I don't think I will ever be content with the behavior, and I already imagine what you will say in your defense. I just wish you would give more lives a shot.

Maybe there are other options that would curb this sort of behavior. A lot of them would make things worse though, like, if babies got to choose their mothers from a list, so the people who want to be born to their friends could pick. This would really screw over Eves.

I just don't know at this point. I'm done thinking about it for now. All I can do is discourage people who are doing this and encourage people to stay with more of the mothers they are born to. Besides, I have a feeling the people that do this most often probably don't read the forums much anyhow. Maybe I'm wrong and this is normal behavior for most of you and I'm the oddball here.

Who knows?

Enjoy what lives you do live.

This made me laugh.

I may be a bad person.

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I didn't love all my eighth grade teachers, some of them, but not all of them.
But, almost 30 years later now and I can say, I am grateful that every one of them, every single teacher, took up the profession.

It's difficult, for all people, to adapt from the way we live as children, to the way we are expected to live as adults. Teachers are there while we are making that transition. They have chosen to help us. A lot of us. At the same time.

We are the most complicated things in the universe.
And we exist, with all this knowledge and all these abilities to reason, thanks to teachers.

Pein, it's not about what the inexperienced players do.
It's about what the seasoned players do that set the precedence for new players to follow.
Players who are going to work hard and repeat the successes they've witnessed from others.

I know there are people who are using shovels to bury others wherever their bodies fall.
They can learn the error of their ways with time.
So too will those who take the flat stones from the work stations and use them as gravestones.

New people want to learn.
Old people don't want to change.

This game has selling points for good people; people who want to care for one another via their labors.
We'd do this more often IRL if it wasn't for the prevalence of games and all the laws and litigations.
We were born into a world where the arcade was the place to be, or we were plopped in front of a console or a computer and the easiest, most enjoyable thing to do was to play games. So we became good at them.

Then there is the world of the banks, the courthouses, the real estate agents, the police and the governments.
These old institutions which individually may seem necessary in their own right, but collectively, give new people of this world, the sense that there is nothing left to do on this planet. It can seem like everything is owned, everything is monitored, every action restricted. So what do people with good intentions do? Where do they go to get the sense that they are being productive?

And so we make and play games, games to fill all the niches of desire we have which we cannot express so easily IRL due to all these institutions. We make farms in games, we build cities in games, we explore the galaxy in games, and we raise families in games. And here we have a multiplayer game that blends survival, crafting and farming with parenting, resource management and even the memorialization of the deceased.

Maybe if this game was One Hour One Year and after 60 hours or so of playing a character you passed away, people would have stronger bonds to the players in the game, but as we've seen even 60 minutes is enough time for people to form strong enough bonds that they wish to care for their family members remains and preserve their memories long after that player has moved on to another life. That level of compassion is still here and it's something very special for many of us. Just as special as the love your mother and family give you when you are a relatively helpless infant. Combine that with the current potential to be reborn into a city and to be able to revisit the site of your grave where your children memorialized you, and it can be even more powerful.

Bear in mind, some of the greatest civilizations, the greatest inventions and the greatest stories of mankind, are centered around the memorials of the people who cared for and lead their people to a higher level of modernization. Whether it was via agriculture, conquest or some philosophical revolution, through honoring them, those people solidified their places in history.

However, your mother doesn't have to be Cleopatra, to be deserving of her place in the history of your village, just good enough that you are willing to forge a few implements, gather skewers and go through a few small, but meaningful steps to set her place in stone.

My goal each life is to talk, eat and burn as much firewood as possible.
People who stand around talking are nice, people who work are boring.
It's fun to needlessly throw firewood into a fire to place my babies,
even though it would take fifteen seconds to start a new fire,
and there is a better temperature location on desert tiles 5 steps away.
That is fifteen seconds I don't have because I'm not standing on the fire tile,
I'm standing just outside of it, eating, and talking so much.

I know that a perfectly balanced temperature tile gives nakeds 22 seconds per pip of their food meter,
and they have 4 to 7 pips, but math is boring and I like to see them in clothes AND in the fire.
It's two good things, obviously.
If their food meter is dropping faster because they are overheating, that gives my life purpose.
Then I get to see a more noticeable change when I pick them up every 5 seconds instead of wasting time doing other things.

I love burning those big logs too.
It just feels so satisfying.
I mean, why burn the firewood, when the stuff the carpenters can use to make carts, buckets, boxes or even roads, burns even better.

My demand for firewood, and anything that burns really, sometimes gets the best of me. Then I just have to chop down the nearest tree I can find. I mean, who needs trees as long as you keep the fire going? As long as it's burning you don't need to mess around with all that other stuff.
Trees are just so useless.
They don't talk and you can't eat them.

But at least they don't work and stand in one place.
I'd say those are things they have going for them, but that's my job.

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Sarcasm aside, as much as I don't like walls, could we have wooden walls already?
Maybe log walls, so the people who want to make buildings can make little log cabins around the village?
I mean, much as I love shared commons, I think it'd be nice for people to be able to make homes.
Homes out of walls that aren't pine needles, 4 straight shafts and 5! ropes.
Those pine panels are a product of a game mechanic that just doesn't exist anymore; regrowing milkweed.
You should either change that formula, Jason, or decrease the time it takes for branches to respawn and make rope something we can create from balls of yarn or something.

Just a thought.