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What? Most objects in ONI also have several stages, it's just that those are not displayed on the DB. If they were, the number of 'objects' in ONI would greatly overshadow the number of 'objects' in OHOL.

You can't really say that stuff like this counts as twelve different objects.

I love OHOL very much, and I prefer it to ONI and I think it's a better game, but saying that OHOL has more content is just bizarre.

Woah, really? That's amazing, I had no idea.

Yes, that's exactly what happened. The apocalypse was triggered with a Nosaj tower, and when the new Arc started the Eve window didn't open which means there were only two families that just couldn't keep up with the influx of babies.

Jason, I fully agree with everything you said! OHOL has a very high new player churn rate and that's a massive problem. But I think the Rift doesn't make the game more interesting or compelling yet (it might some day), I think it does the opposite. And that's why I think the last three months being almost entirely about the Rift is not a great thing for player retenion.

Also, the through-fence storage boxes are not a game changer at all. One day, if and when Property Fences are used for actual property, they will be crucial and super important and we will love them. But as things currently stand, Property Fences are used almost exclusively for animal pens and town walls, and that's a fact that no one can deny. Through-fence storage boxes are nice to have extre mutton storage in the pen, but they don't have much use besides that.

Just to be clear I would love for personal property to be in the game, to be born in my family's house and to trade with my neighbors. The through-fence storage box will be incredible then, but the game is not yet at that point.

This is a very weird argument - of course OHOL is a better game today than it was 18 months ago. No one is saying that it was better 18 months ago. Three months ago, sure, I and probably quite a few others think that OHOL was a more enjoyable game three months ago, but 18 months ago? I don't see anyone saying that.

What I, and assume others, are frustrated with is the fact that the past three months of updates have been exclusively about the Rift & the Arc, a mechanic that is widely disliked, and that he past six months were largely about introducing player conflict in a game which most players came into expecting a co-op experience. There were so many drastic changes this year, most of them (in my opinion) very good changes. But a large amount of players were introduced to the game through Steam, where OHOL is implied to be a mostly finished game mechanics-wise due to not having the Early Access tag.

Many people bought the game expecting what was shown in the trailer, a game with weekly content updates that add a dozen+ items each week, but core mechanics of OHOL are currently developed enough for us to be there yet. That's OK, making a perfect game takes time, but when most updates are mechanics improvements and bug tweaks (both of which are extremely important for the health and quality of the game) people just lose interest. The average player doesn't think "Oh hey nice the last three months had a lot of good tweaks," they think "Hey, I bought this game expecting weekly updates, but everything has been exactly the same for the past three months!" The last content update that added several items was the camera update on April 28th, almost six months ago (or the High Society update three weeks prior to that if you don't count camera ingredients as separate items). The Rift is on everyone's mind because it's been just Rift Rift Rift for the mast three months. Halloween is coming up, and I bet everyone would be thrilled to see pumpkins added, and it being thematic it might draw in some extra traffic from Steam - they often feature games with content or updates that are relevant to real life events.

TL;DR most updates are amazing/great, but a lot of the recent ones haven't been very interesting.

This 100%. OHOL is brilliant, but it has a very high learning curve. Hopefully the newest update helps with that, we'll see. I think a quick and dirty improvement would be to add more variety to the tutorial, make the end area kind of a playground, even moreso than it is now. Tease the player with cool stuff. Replace most Berry Bushes with Banana Trees, Tomato Plants, Corn, Sliced Bread, and Stew - let the player experiment and learn how to pick Bread from a plate or grab Stew in a safe area, and teach them that berries are not the main food. Add a Fence that needs to be 'unlocked' with a Short Shaft and put a Cow in there. Drop some seed bowls in an area that has different stages of soil/tilled row. Tell them they can play through the tutorial whenever they want if they want to explore it. Make it kind of a single player interactive experience (at the same time giving people a higher chance of encountering other players breaking out, making for cool moments).

I think the current temperature system makes a lot more sense. Back then new players were still dying rapidly and having a hard time because a person't first instinct is to find some clothes and get dressed, and that used to be deadly which was a bit nonsensical. Grasslands and prairies also look a lot more friendly than scorching deserts, when it fact it was the opposite. It also meant that two aspects of the game, buildings and clothing, were completely detrimental - which makes zero sense in a game that wants to emulate human development. You used to be able to tell apart new players and pros just by looking if they were wearing a full set of clothing. The game is much easier these days (IMO) if you know what you're doing - as long as you're wearing good clothing and keeping up a Yum chain you will never be close to starvation, even if you run into a jungle/desert. And honestly clothing SHOULD be crucial in a game such as OHOL. Buildings should as well, and hopefully one day they will be.

I don't think voice chat would be a good idea. I personally like chat the way it is (word limits and all).

One thing that I think could be improved is to make chat boxes overlap less. If you're talking to a person that's standing on an adjacent tile you often have to move away a bit so your speech bubbles don't cover each other up.

First of all, it's not the same thing. Second of all, it's literally impossible as the Rift is extremely tiny. It takes under two minutes to cross on a horse, which is early game tech. There's no empty space, there's no untouched land. Third of all, even if it were possible, it would feel like you're making the game artificially harder to make it more enjoyable. Saying to 'just start a new town if you don't like your town' is kind of like saying 'play the with your controls inverted'. Sure, it would be harder and maybe more enjoyable once or twice, but other than that it's just kinda dumb.

This is just plain not true. Most towns would die out, sure, but some would last days or weeks. You had both the excitement of something new and the familiarity of something old. You never knew where you were going to spawn and what your life would be. Every life you were thrown into a unique situation.

Again, this is just completely untrue, and honestly just reading it is kind of frustrating. Most towns were lost in about a day, but every now and then a town would last for weeks. It would be something exciting and interesting and different. Pre-Arc you never knew if the town you were in would die out in six hours or last for three weeks. Anything could happen! It was INTERESTING!

These days we know that the worst town in the world will last for exactly the same amount of time as the best town in the world, with that time being somewhere between 3-8 days. If you play on day 6 of the Arc you know everything is going to be destroyed soon. You no longer play as one small part of a greater story, you just do whatever and the story ends when the timer is up. Your life is completely irrelevant.

The Arc is a failed experiment. It was supposed to create more meaningful and more interesting stories, but it's done the exact opposite of that for me and for a lot of other people. Please, free us from this hell cell.

It's 24 hours. I think it's there to prevent a situation where you get a good score and then stop playing out of fear of losing your leaderboard position.

I do agree that it's too short.

I don't like the idea of enforcing M and F names. They're not enforeced in real life, so why enforce them ingame? Sure, most names have a gender that they're most associated with, but there's plenty of exceptions.

Making it impossible to kill a griefer alone is not the solution. If the griefer wants to kill, they'll go for anyone, for someone who seems distracted by something else. They'll find a target. But if you want to kill a griefer, you want to kill one specific person. One specific person that will be expecting you to come after them. And with this change you are 100% unable to kill them if you only have one weapon. Which means towns will need a lot more weapons on average, which will in turn increase the murder rate even further.

I like the other changes but I feel like this might be a bit over the top. Why not see how the other murder/cursing changes pan out first?

Troublemakers getting a slowdown when they're trying to catch you is nice.

On the other hand, you getting a slowdown when you're trying to stop a griefer from stealing your baby/engine/cart is very not nice.

I feel like this change is a bigger buff to troublemakers than to regular players. If a griefer wants to murder someone they can choose from a number of people and they'll pick the easiest target. If the target runs, they'll switch to someone else.

If you're trying to stop said griefer with this change you can't do it alone, you need at least two people with weapons. This sounds like a death sentence to small towns. A griefer can pick your people off one by one while you're scrambling to make more weapons.

It will be almost impossible to kill a griefer alone, while the griefer will have no trouble killing someone. Even worse, griefers don't care about being killed because their life is disposable.

I don't like it. If you decide to go with this posse mechanic the default should be 1x speed, but I don't really like the sound of the mechanic at all. Of course I haven't tried it yet so I might change my mind, but just looking at the change my first impression is not positive.

It doesn't matter if there's 2 or 20 families, gameplay inside the Rift is going to be stale either way because those families will always be practically identical to one another. The staleness comes from the fact that, as long as the Arc has been going on for 12+ hours, you are placed in a very similar situation every time you spawn. You spawn in a big town with a lot of food and other resources, a fence surrounds the town, there's clutter everywhere, there's a lack of ropes, unfinished radio parts surround the smithy, and you get water either from a Newcomen pump or a Diesel Engine. Every single time. Having a different last name doesn't really change that experience.

What happened to the Unique Situation Generator?