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Pumpkin pie would be nice.  Kitchens have seemed to be more barren of food than usual since the rabbit update, so it would help partially replace the previously abundant supply of rabbits. 20% chance to produce pumpkin isn't nearly enough to completely replace rabbits, which is fine, pies have been OP.  Months ago i considered the possibility of a barbeque/grill (hot coals/flat rock on coals) building and why it didn't already exist as part of the metagame.  Aside from these foods being generally less efficient which DestinyCall helped me notice, i realized that storage options are the main obstacle as only fish and cooked rabbit can be stored in slot boxes (and rabbits are way worse now).  I don't think tacos, burritos, fries or chips can be stored in slot boxes, but even if they can its only a marginal improvement compared to plates all over the floor, and one of the best items in this category, eggs, is horribly space inefficient; all of these factors making this type of cooking best suited for a one-off edge of town cooking session.

MultiLife, what you describe in your "story" life and your "reality" life IS the same story.  You're describing your real time third person thoughts compared to your later-on full consideration of the story that actually played out.  Your "reality" life is a bit more cynical i would say.  I don't like to participate in a lot of elaborate, contrived roleplay either.  I put myself into the first person while i play, and while I play as myself, i will add in details that i find help with my immersion, such as talking about events as if i was experiencing them in reality.  Personally I've played for genetic fitness since it was introduced, and before that lineage depth, and i would say these approaches are complimentary to one another, as emotionally investing in a life seems to help inspire more players to play their best.

Bears are probably the main reason to build a fence around town.  Arrows is a nicer solution since then you don't have to deal with a fence around town. My impression though is people seem very eager to pick up stray arrows and run off with them. Towns usually have mostly safe tiles for hiding from bears, but they do have to be removed eventually.

Yes, people killing their mom doesn't really happen a lot and would be hard to get away with, but it still makes sense to fix it and take the incentive away of doing so.  Why is that a problem?

Remember, Grandma's bones make a great musical instrument!

Cloth your kids, maintain the town, make yum food or luxury items, build buildings, roads, parks, or work on a new skill you want to learn. There's always something that can be done if you want there to be, you can even chat, roleplay, dance, or make music if you want.  And this level of town is great for boosting genetic fitness as long as it's before the stab frenzy starts.  For me it stops being fun once the mass stabbings begin, or when resources are running out, keeping me from doing things I want to. I get some people find it boring earlier than that though.

Ideally I think the progress to the fully developed town would take longer so it was more of a gradual build up before reaching the "has everything" stage.

A winter season where shelter is needed to stay warm, natural disaster where you need to seek shelter, or some kind of (more threatening than we currently have) animal attack to protect from. Building doors could have ownership or I guess lock and key, but that has a tendency to turn into a prison.

Also it would be beyond adorable if we had school for kids to attend. A teacher could explain and demonstrate various skills. The tool mechanic could even be worked in with it being an opportunity for kids to learn tools. Some students would eagerly learn, while others were rambunctious and distracting. Then the teacher would have a baby mid-lesson and run off to find clothes for the baby and no one would step in to replace her. I guess it would get kind of tedious if you had to go through that every life though. Well, It started off as a nice idea.

Usually elo style rating systems don't retroactively adjust scores. It just uses past results to generate the score, not future. So if you were the first mom a new player has they would have whatever the default starting score is and future results wouldn't impact how that initial interaction was scored. If for some reason initial score was way off (say experienced player with a new account), this would skew the results short term, but long term both scores would converge to their "true" value anyway. Think if I got boosted up to a 48, but it "should" be a 45, I will lose more points and gain less on subsequent trials than if it had been the "correct" 45 initially.

I think there is more cooperation. Some about dividing the workload to conserve tool spots, a lot about players cutely trying to use a tool they don't have a spot for and not knowing why. Eventually it will be more of the former though. Still seeing people confused why their rabbit trap is not working too. Luckily it's pretty easy to step in and show how or explain both.

"It's over there!"
Where?
"THERE!"

This could either be horrible or fantastic. In the state of the game now it seems at first like it would be a huge pain. In most lives I'm running around doing a variety of odds and ends tasks as needed in order to advance/maintain the village and using a wide variety of tools a few times to do so. Eventually I would lack the tool slots to do what is needed, which would decrease my productivity and I'd have to count on someone else to do a necessary task. This has the potential to be quite frustrating as leaving tasks to be done by others ends up pretty hit or miss, and a miss can't always be afforded.

Its at this point that it's make or break for tool slots. Thinking about being in game now and not having tool slots to say, make a bucket, and having to ask someone else to do it, you're likely to run into a bunch of people who ignore you, or say they don't know how, or say sure and then run off never to be seen again (died?) And then you end up doing it yourself anyway.  In the current game you realize it's generally faster and and more reliable just to do everything yourself. At least if you die no one was waiting for you to get back with something they needed. Someone else will notice your half finished project later and finish it.

Tool slots would likely force people away from this approach/playstyle, and instead to be required to rely on others to complete some important tasks. While I've probably sufficiently described how this can be challenging, I think it also has the potential to very beneficial on the longer term, at a smaller short term cost. We won't be able to give up on finding help so we'll have to find someone to do the task. Sometimes it will be another experienced player who will understand the situation and take care of it with no problem. Sometimes we will have to pick an "I don't know how" player with an available tool slot and walk them through the process step by step. This is where the long term benefit comes in because the game mechanics will be forcing us to teach newer players how to do some more Intermediate or even complex tasks, making them feel useful and valued, and they will learn skills that will make them more knowledgeable and capable in future lives, which to me, seems like it would make them more likely to continue to play because they will feel more competent and useful. While the time spent teaching them will slow your own progress at the time, in the long run teaching these players should in theory decrease the pressure on more experienced players to do everything themselves. It also encourages more meaningful interactions in game, either involving newer players in the game, or even if it's two experienced players dividing the workload.

This could be a really great change even though thinking about these restrictions right now seems more like a negative initially. The success of this update depends a lot on how things unfold when we run out of tool slots to complete necessary tasks.

I do have concerns with what counts as a tool. I think weapons as a tool is fine. I think stones shouldn't be tools as sharp stone is probably too essential for survival and used in too many tasks, and flint chip is basically a weaker knife. Also there's things like the draw plate that have very specific and limited applications. Some aspects of the tech tree could become completely neglected if certain tools are seen as not worthwhile.

Its enough to operate on 1.5x and maybe even 2x zoom consistently without seeing the squiggly lines at the edges. Beyond that, yeah it gets pretty ugly but could still be useful. What I noticed from trying the mod last night, and maybe it's just on my end, but the image resolution is actually sharpest at 1.5x zoom and at 1x it looks distorted and zoomed in by comparison. It actually had me wondering if 1.5x was your initial plan but went with the current 1x for performance reasons. Though since the program is sending the extra information anyway, maybe it has nothing to do with performance. I think that a larger field of view helps with social situations because you can be more aware of happenings around you.

The only reason I downloaded the mod is for zoom. If even just 1.5x was a standard option I probably wouldn't have felt the need.