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Here is an old guide I made for Eves
How to Find a Suitable Home as an Eve
One about temperature, very important to understand.
THE TEMP METER DETERMINES HOW FAST YOUR FOOD METER RUNS OUT!
One about searching for a good home as an Eve, or scouting out areas around a new town.
You have to be brave.
Sort of an Eve guide...
Get the basic tools going.
Another temp guide...
Food Consumption vs Temperature
Advice for Eves and players born to Eves...
The solution is to be prepared

But none of these are really up to date guides on how to make it through with all the new foods.

I'd write a really long post but I'm kinda tired atm, so, I will just say, try to either: find a nice place with tons of cactus nearby and then just hold out the ten minutes it takes for them to spawn fruit and live off that while your farm gets up and running, or, find a place with a ton of ponds and clay, then rush to mass produce plates and just keep bringing in the eggs. When you have 6-9 plates and 6-9 eggs, let a fire get down to coals, cook rabbits if yu got tem, but before the coals burn out, toss a flat stone on them and drop and egg on the flat stone by hand, then take it off with a plate. Omlettes give something like 18 food and they are just that simple to make. It's really a shame people don't make them more often, but, most settlements dont hae a huge amount of ponds around and the ones they do have have either been drained at some point and no longer have geese on them, or, have wells.

But when you are just starting out, omelets are just ridiculously amazing. If you can find a good swampy area with 10-20 ponds within a reasonable walk of your settlement, I would make 18-27 plates and just have baskets and baskets of plates and eggs waiting for the fire to die down to coals, then you chuck that flat stone on there and have one person throwing the eggs down, another person scoopin them up with plates, and even a third to move the plates with omelettes that the second throws down, out towards the edge of the clutter area, so the second plate man can just keep slammin those omelet platters on the ground whippin out plate after plate.

Make it fun for them to build things, instead of a tutorial, give people puzzles to solve. Start them off in a preset area, with x, y and z resources, and have them build something that will save their lives in an amount of time set by their food meter. You can teach all sorts of things that way, like give them just enough time, but only if they craft clothes first or stand on a warm patch of desert to extend the time their food meter pips last. And have the puzzles easy to repeat, so when they get stuck, they can just try again easily. You don't have to overwhelm them either, you can have only the amount of items in the area, say, on an island, that will be enough to make the thing they need to live for 5 minutes until rescued, or, until you pop a fake kid into their lives and say "YOU DID IT! YOU SURVIVED LONG ENOUGH TO ENSURE YOUR FAMILY LINE CARRIES ON." and then fade back to the Tutorial/Puzzle selection and offer the next challenge. I'm sure people who already know the game would have fun doing something like that, just to see what it's like. Also the people who make videos will record themselves going through the Puzzle Challenges, and their viewers will learn the recipes as they watch.

You could go so far as to have a 55 minute puzzle where the player's mother has just passed away and they have 55 years to progress all the way up to iron tools to bury her and if they mark the grave with MOTHER than they get some kind of sappy musical ending that'll really tug at their heartstrings. Another lifelong challenge could be to make a saddle for a horse and ride off into the sunset. Or, mine gold and make a crown to become ruler of your kingdom. Each one could have some kind of story text for victory, along with a piece of music you've composed especially for that challenge.

You could have a lot of fun with new puzzles each week, and people will surely make Youtube videos, and streams on Twitch, of themselves completing the puzzles. People will come back each week, even if it's just to see what new puzzle there is to solve.

Start simple though, and have each puzzle build off the previous one in some way or another.

I already love the "work with what the game gives you" situations that exist in ever normal life. I think people would really enjoy that, condensed into a series of challenges.

Sure...

I had to toil for many lives to get all these screen shots to look perfect, and was fortunate to also be named Athena each time.

But here you go:

Starting point on the north side of town:

Starting point on the east side of town:

Starting point on the south side of town:

Starting point on the west side of town:

You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find locations where all the trees and bushes were in just the right places and get the screenshots with the same avatar at the same age.

Now that I think about it though, maybe the boxes should be on the opposite side as the road... ehh, they could really be anywhere!

(Don't get me started on how hard it was to farm all that milkweed.)

Another good reason I'd like to mention for using objects placed in lines for early roads; be they flat stones, seeds, or firewood; the wildlife will not path onto these. This guarantees a safe path free of snakes, wolves, boars or bears and gives a person who may be travelling along these paths, but is just off them collecting resources, a place to fall back to if they do happen upon a bear that may give chase.

As someone who has been your child more than once, thank you. The benefit of keeping all kids is clear when you consider the benefit that experienced players bring to the growth of the settlement, and the chance to learn you are offering new players and the benefit that brings to the entire game's community, as they learn more and more with each life they get to live.

Yeah, Windows and Chrome can do that to people.
Specially if they are smart enough to use Linux and Firefox.

I didn't think you were, was just reminding you I'm not a child who suicides on his mother just to play as Eve so that I can play that role. I am always Eve Sol, at least I have been for well over a month, but Eve Sol is not always me. There have been people I have been born to who have named themselves Sol, or been born to later generations of Sol's who's Eve was not me. And, as I've said before, I am honored by this.

There have been days where it seems I am born as an Eve every other life and I relish these opportunities to spend 10, 15, 20 minutes to search for the best locations I can for towns while I keep as many children alive as I can. Sometimes I flat out fail and have to apologies to 3 children who have all been running along with me as I swap places with them in my arms. I do not let those unfortunate times discourage me, however.

There have also been days where it seems I've played twenty lives as a son or daughter in a row and not had the opportunity to be Eve. In those situations I make the best of my experience as well, whether it's being born to an Eve and having to gather milkweed for her, replenishing iron or bringing rabbits home, or finding the nearest expansion for the town, in case the water runs out or something unfortunate happens to compost production, and making a road to it that will guide others in the future.

Every life there is something meaningful we can give. There hasn't been a civilization yet that has been so secure in it's future that some life long work was not needed. I just love to work in this game and, as much as I like to read your conversations, I can seldom justify standing around talking... about anything. About the only time I ever do that is when I am playing on custom servers with people, and it feels odd. I do it less and less, but I miss doing it more and more.

It's hard to say I love you to someone who may have abandoned me in previous lives. It's hard to care about a mother, when she's telling my little brother she won't pick him up because we don't have enough food, when I know we have more than enough. There are so many mentally unstable people who play this game... but if you just don't talk to them, you're much more likely to avoid knowing how bad they are, maybe not as characters, but as players, as people.

I really don't want to spend any more time talking about all the bad experiences I've had with some of you, or, maybe none of you, maybe those people no longer play the game or no longer read the forums. But I assure you, the best and worst things about this game happen via text. When a mother talks to you as if you are a baby, and not as a player; that is beautiful. When you are not asked questions as if you have some sort of precognition, it's so much easier to get into the moment. To fall in love with that person the way only a child knows the love of their parents, or the parent the child. I really miss that.

I miss my first month, my first hundred hours, or maybe it was just April, and probably March (which I only saw in videos) when the population was huge, the vast majority of players were new, and we were all lured here under the guise that it was a parenting simulator, so we came, prepared to care and be cared for, and I, was certainly not disappointed. It all worked so well, when we had hundreds of people, and players really struggled together, but whats more, they bonded. Then the big cities killed that. Communicating via another network outside of game, while making giant cities, which lured people that, you did not talk to because they weren't on discord with you, that ruined it. Video makers, who happily admit on stream, video and forums that they need to suicide dozens of times just to find a nice place to live. That killed this.

There are so many things that we as players have done to each other, that has turned an already minuscule game's minuscule playerbase, away, that now only 30 to 60 of you are ever playing at a time, and it's really depressing. You treated the people in this game like you'd treat players in some multimillion dollar MMO with hundreds of thousands or even millions of players, and you treated them like you would have the most rude and offensive person there. You insulted them. You abandoned them. You murdered them.

And when all they wanted to do was care for you, you killed yourself.

I'm so sorry I have to say this here and now. Those of you who have yet to get your "money's worth" out of this game, I hope you stick with it and stick to caring for people, to surviving and to allowing others to care for you. Don't ever think that there is a role that needs to be played as "The Town Killer" or be one of those people who proudly makes posts saying anything like this. These are not roles you should be playing, like the Thief, Barbarian or Wizard in a fantasy game.

... the future is very bleak for this game because of all the actions people have taken disregarding others. Treating 100 people on line as if it were 100,000. I'm very upset so many of you let it come to this, and to those of you, who cared, who care, and who want to care again. We are down to the last few people. You know this situation only too well by now. There are good people, players capable of bringing more players into the game. Attitudes that keep people around. Actions, that will allow those good players to live and to insure the future. Then there are those of you who may never bring anyone to the game, but at least you can insure that when they do come that their experience is positive. You don't have to worry about editing videos or writing reviews, you don't have to do a thing outside of playing the game and any or everything that entails for you, so long as it does not discourage people from sticking around in the game they paid for because they wanted to play it.

Apart from those two roles, there is the community murderer. Carry on, and the last family you will be responsible for ending, will be this one.

We're down to the point where the streamers and video makers can't suicide enough to find a good town, because there are not enough people playing the game at times for there to be one. You can be the best Eve in the world, but if your only two daughters killed themselves because they wanted to show off the latest tech in their new video, than the effort you put into finding that home doesn't mean a thing.

If you really want there to be a future for this game, and people to experience it with, think deeply about this, but don't let it discourage you from returning. These may only be the worse times, for years to come, if as a community, we can turn things around. Be polite, and thoughtful, but also determined and persistent, if you want there to be a future here, or in game, to revisit.

I generally pay close attention to everyone's behavior. I get around the village a lot and can see when people are working hard and making positive contributions, standing around on the desert farm just eating, or worse, standing in the cold and just eating; you eat 2 to 8 times more if you are cold than you do if you are warm, and it makes a BIG difference to the rate that the settlement goes through food, soil, water, iron and worse, people. Far as I'm concerned that point should be emphasized with every post on this forum, but I digress. I highly appreciated your contribution as I was one of the people who brought that iron home. I guess I was also one of the only ones hunting rabbits as I managed to make a backpack with each visit to that colony and every time I came back the snares were in the same place I left them in the prairie, until finally, the last time, I just brought them home along with five extra rabbits.

Thank you for turning all that iron into steel. I wound up using the last of it later to make replacement tools; chisel, shovel, hoe and mining pick which I used to start an iron mine just 5 screens ENE of town. It was a nice place. Also worked on a road to a potential expansion NW where there were lots of cacti and a few ponds, north of what is/was the graveyard west of town.

Whoever decided to make that GY on the grassland, please, if you can, make things like that on Badlands if possible. A graveyard is almost sure to expand if people care enough to bury and mark graves, and a graveyard on a grassland almost insures that useful trees like Maple, Poplar, Yew and Juniper are going to be cut down. This guarantees future strain on a village when, especially Maple branches, are needed to replace tools. Please do not sprawl onto Grasslands. First place to spread out should be on Desert, after that, spread onto Swamp so that farms are nearest to water. And allow the oven and smithing areas to remain on the edge of the desert and grassland where they have access to branches for kindling and tools. It's okay to cut down swamp trees, at the moment they only serve to hide ponds, reeds and deposits of clay. They do not play a role in any other process, except maybe to conceal snakes or weapons. So clear those areas and use that wood for boards and fire.

Even today I saw a prominent Youtuber mention that people should not be cutting down trees in the swamp. It's bad information. Many of you know better but in order to reduce the amount of misinformation floating around it's always good to remind people of things like this when we see it, or just provide the information regularly for the steady trickle of new players coming into the game and onto the forums.

Thanks again for this post Neo, and thanks again for your hard work. Even though you spent most of your life in town, you earned that stuff.

I click Get Reborn and then I get the three red dots across the top of the screen, blinking in sequence. All I can recall, not sure there are any words, just the three red dots.

Sometimes it goes through right away, but usually there is a wait, it can be 5 seconds, 5 minutes or longer, but if it's longer than ten minutes it usually means my internet has gone out, which, as I mentioned happens about once a day. No idea why.

Na it's more like a one time, click Get Reborn and then the three red lights and I just wait. I turn my volume up so I hear the sound of me entering the game and do housework, make food, read the forums or watch videos, sometimes I go on Twitch and see if anyone is streaming, hoping to see someone complaining about getting disconnected, but it's always just me, at least that I find. It was worse a month ago, but I think things have gotten better over the last few weeks; less disconnects, little less bouncing in game.

I used to get problems routing through Chicago when I played Ultima Online and wanted to play on Central, Mountain or West Coast servers. I had a program that would ping every server along the way and Everything west of Ohio routed through Chicago, but that was back in the late 90s. No idea what or where the problem is down the line in this case.

Definately not server wide simultaneously. Sometimes I bounce for 10-20 seconds and recover, then ask other players if they got lag, and sometimes they say no.

I'm not sure how to ping it without somethig that checks, I recall it could be done with MS DOS but I haven't done it for anything in a very long time. I could look it up and try next time I get disconnected, let you know if anything looks unusual.

They all work fine, when I get the kind of disconnect that only affects the game.

I've just gotten so used to it, especially after things we're really rough, around the time I had about 400 hours played or you'd just introduced the decay of objects. I figured it was just all the tracking of all the decaying objects. I'm running Windows 7 on a 10 year old dual core cpu and mobo, with 4 gigs of ram that's about 6 years old and a graphics card I think came out three years ago. If you want more specific system information I can help you out with that. Not sure what else to say, but I'm really tired right now. Only played 6 hours and not one disconnect I can recall.

Figured I'd do a little math and I've been playing for 77 days and logged 655 hours, that's only 8.5 hours a day. Not nearly as bad as my rough guess of 10 hours. Thought that's almost 60 hours a week. Anyway, thanks for clearing up who you are hosting through. I don't know a lot about computer stuff, but I did feel bad assuming GD was the one hosting.

Patterns, hmm, mostly in the morning. Sometimes afternoon, sometimes around dinner time. If I could guess times I'd say 40-50% occur around 5-7 AM EDT, 20-30% occur around 10 AM to Noon, and the rest, another 20-30% around 4-6 PM. So, almost like it's breakfast, lunch and dinner times. Rarely do I get disconnects in the late evening or night. As for the things I've noticed, yeah, I do get the jumps, or bounces, and those happen a lot. I recover from them about 3/4 of the time, but the other 1/4 or so are when I get disconnected. Maybe 1/3 of those that I "recover" from, I end up getting the message I died of starvation.

Got one of these I didn't report to you.

I was just so in the mood to play, I think I played another 4 or 5 hours that day and it wasn't until the next day I remembered I took this screen grab, but, then I just started playing again...

False? I don't get them when I step on snakes, never had that happen, that I can recall, although I'm not 100% certain. Most happen when I go to use an object on another object or go to pick something up, I start bouncing and disconnect.

Sure, if I can remember and am not so helplessly in the mood to play that I forget.

I've gotten so used to just waiting to be able to reconnect, which, can take anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute or two, that I just automatically click get reborn, bring up my browser, put on a Youtube video and just listen for the BRRRING sound that I'm back in game. If it's one of those odd, regular ISP disconnects, then I just do something else and I'm back on in 5-15 minutes. Those can happen late at night, like 3 AM, or in the morning around 10 AM or so, but they are mostly early morning.

I'll try to remember to email the stdout.txt to you next time I get disconnected and it's not due to me losing connection to my ISP.
Less you want it either way?