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Could you run my stats, please?  I really wouldn't know where to start.

Here's a semi-recent life, Steven Zero  http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=3727373

I suspect I'll be in the upper tiers for number of hours played and number of grandkids per female life.

I gave up on dying of old age.  I usually starve to death at age 59, with my clothes already passed on to new babies and standing on the edge of the boneyard.

In the past week someone in donkeytown posted a pic to the discord server.  Their text bubbles was black with white text.

As a frequent "carter of stuff" I see it as my sworn duty to take every broken steel tool and immediately carry them somewhere near the edge of the smithing area.  If there is a second one I will combine them for scrap steel, ASAP.

I often find these broken tools in out of the way corners at the edge of fields, regions of chopped trees, etc.  In other words, fragility is absolutely right, there are a lot of people who see a broken steel tool as trash, not a time-sensitive opportunity to recover iron.

Take broken tools to your smithy!  And tell the smith what needs to be replaced.

"This mobile game is an unlicensed adaptation of Jason Roher's PC game, One Hour One Life (OHOL), as he has made the source code freely available in the public domain.  Purchase of [OHOL for mobile] does not grant the player access to the OHOL servers administered by Jason Rohrer."

Not actually shorter, but i added "freely available" to embed the meaning of public domain.  The part in brackets would be updated for the precise name of the game.

I've had some weird missing links in lineages, too.  And have started a bug report on github. 

https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/issues/223

Looks like there are some small gaps in when the lineage server is operating, and if you are born (or die?) in those gaps, the link to your mother doesn't get created.

Well, I'd like to see both of your options implemented. 
(And I have been using the AWBZ mod shift-del feature.)

For /die, maybe make it available whenever the baby is held by any adult?  I've had plenty of grandmothers look after me as a baby, and the practice of having a central nursery is very common right now.  It would also help if you could extend the availability of /die through the time the baby turns 2 years old.

My $0.02

So to start with, I just want to say, I think you are correct - this game is elitist.  I've reached what I call "expert amateur" level. I know enough of the tech tree and the quirks to be useful, but I'll never have an easy time surviving, and I haven't lived past 35 since the update.  I am never going to be a pro.

And I've been active in the community long enough that I have zero hope that Jason will roll back any of the temperature changes.  When Jason has decided he likes the way something is working, no amount of uproar from the casual player base is going to change his mind.  The grumbling about this update isn't even at an unusually loud level, IMHO.  He listens to Tarr, Crazy Eddie, and a handful of the other "pro" players.  Jason doesn't even listen to Twisted's opinion all that much, because Twisted is a great RP player, not a pro.

Depressed yet?  Here's the good news.   The OHOL code is open source.  The flaws in Jason's one-man rollout style and development philosophy can easily be fixed by a development TEAM, especially if they aim at creating a version of OHOL for the casual player.  Jason has already shown a great deal of tolerance for people working on derivative games, like the mobile version.  I've got a Word Doc listing all the changes I would make...but I'm not a programmer.  On the other hand, I'm sure I'm not the only one keeping a list. 

But other than the simple mobile port, folks will probably want to wait until Jason is actually DONE writing the code.  That seems to have been what doomed the "Two Hours One Life" server and community.  So wait a couple of years.  A version of OHOL that is friendly to the casual player is sure to pop up.

There's a forum thread where Thundersen analyzed the publicly available "life logs" to graph the duration of lineages on the active servers.  The takeaway I remember is that 90% of Eve starts reach the point where they have no more fertile females *less than an hour* from the time they start.  Even though the temp update is brutal on our quality of play - I can't imagine this statistic getting significantly worse than it already was.  This is a HARD game.

https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4886

I'm pretty sure that what it comes down to is this - you have a ten percent chance of a pro either being your eve or an eve's child.  If that happens your line survives.  That's how it was, that's how it is.  Either you make your peace with that, or you don't play.

This post comes to you with much love for Nepumuk and Michie.  They are pros.  If I hadn't done Eve starts with them (as triplets and quads), I would not have nearly as much experience with what makes an Eve start work.

Yeah, I still like herding mosquitos, it's just not as useful as it used to be - or as I was hoping it might become.

My house in One City server is on the upper left corner of an ENORMOUS savanna that is intermixed with jungle.  It's a prime location that was only empty because of the regular presence of mosquitoes.

I'm planning a fenced pen for my mosquito pets - where I can do mosquito herding demos and training.

This teaching session idea is morphing into creating videos of training sessions with the friends and family I'm luring into the world of OHOL.

Um, me!  I'm just that kind of person.  That's why I play a carter.   

Doesn't mean I don't want more tools to make my job easier and more rewarding.  I completely agree with all of your suggestions.

There's a post on the suggestion subreddit that asks Jason to make a new thing stackable every week.  Go upvote it, and maybe make a post about your tool rack idea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OneLifeSuggest … e_one_new/

And yes, I realize that most people assume that Jason doesn't read the subreddit...but I have two reasons to think he does.  1) The sticky post in these forums talking about how to make suggestions (through the subreddit).  2) How he responded to the population balancing suggestion when it got upvoted over fifteen times *in the same week*. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/OneLifeSuggest … opulation/

When thundersens technical suggestion got upvoted quickly, Jason took notice and started a conversation in the forums about how to implement it.  He also implemented several other suggestions from the subreddit the following week.

I honestly think that if anything got over thirty votes he'd implement it.  The biggest problem with the subreddit is that the population of people active there is much lower than the number of people active in the forums.

The servers shutdown almost every week on Thursday or Friday night, when Jason rolls out the update.
So it's expected, but not exactly "scheduled".

hrmka's right, but it's a little more complicated... the problem is the servers were never restarted last week.  So the eve spiral was never reset to a new origin.  That's why the spiral is getting bigger than it usually does. 

Jason did a couple hotfixes to the client, and set up the stress test to force everyone to the same spawn point, but he never actually rolled out a new version of the game, so he didn't do the server update. 

Between the very big diameter and the apocalypse, we are not going to have as many old towns to discover during the next eve spiral.

(Also... hi hrmka!)