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I know there are mods that fix many problems, but I sort of feel that some of these should be fixed in the base game...

I've been away for several weeks, and before that I had some time off OHOL, so it was my first time playing in a while yesterday.

My impression of the rift:

- It wasn't as bad as I thought. After dying a few times as Eve's children, I ended up in two towns in different lives with plenty of resources.

- I do like that both towns were homes for several families. They tried to make peace with each other. Last time I played, more than a month ago, multi-family towns were rare. People often killed strangers just in case. This time, killing strangers seemed to be regarded as griefing.

What I didn't like:

- Griefers. Naked Eves killing people is just silly. It has always been a weakness of this game that griefers apparently are seen by the game designer as the only way to create tension. In the rift people seem more vulnerable to griefers than ever.

- There didn't seem to be possible to play as an Eve in the wilderness. It seems like the only way to survive is either to travel from berry bush to berry bush, or to join an established town.

- The lack of certain resources also makes it hard for anyone except people in established towns to fight bears.

- Giving individuals access to gates takes too long. It should be possible to give access to one's family.

I wish...

- I wish that instead of the rift, road building had been made simpler. With the new peace system in place, perhaps we would have been more eager to find new towns and build roads between them, and live in multi-family towns as in the olden days.

I wonder...

Is Donkey Town outside the rift? If so, if we curse people they can go outisde the rift, make air planes, and fly back in? And if so, how long would it take to transport all fertile females out of the rift...? Males can fly in, women fly out, and eventually everybody can live on the outside... or did I misunderstand something?

"Year after year, the gaming industry seems to fall back on one underlying theme: Kill or be killed."

"The fact that 82% of the games featured at E3 [2017] are combat focused, illustrates a pretty serious lack of imagination."

"I make a distinction between combat and violence, because in combat the player is the one doing the violence."

"When combat is the game's central focus, it tends to celebrate that violence rather than frame it as a tragic last resort."

"[For many] Combat has now become synonymous with gameplay itself. The president of Nintendo America echoed this sentiment at E3 this year [2017]:

'The game is fun. The game is a battle. If it's not fun, why bother? If it's not a battle, where is the fun?'

That's an extremely narrow definition of what constitutes a game, and frankly a narrower definition of fun.

I'd argue that this obsession with violent gaming mechanics is holding the gaming industry back."

"[... ... ...] Or imagine a game set in a post apocalyptic future. (Because every other game I saw at E3 was set in a post apocalyptic future...) But, instead of fighting over the scraps, players cooperate to rebuild a better society."

https://youtu.be/9Sq-EjKYp_Q

It's been a few weeks since I played, but my impression was that there were not many opportunities to practice early game. There were few Eves compared to mothers in established towns, and it seemed like the mothers who set out from their homes to do their own Eve run were frowned upon. So it wouldn't surprise me if the knowledge of how to survive in Eve camps is lower than how to survive in higher tech towns.

Wise words.

Everyone will learn to deal with whatever they need to deal with eventually. But let them learn in their own time. It's not up to anyone else to decide when they should learn what. Why? Because the learning curve in this game is steep, and there is so much to get into. Unless you're following one person from life to life, and teaching them the basics in a step-by-step manner, it's simply impossible for you to know when they're ready to learn what.

But they know.

Meanwhile, don't turn yourself into a griefer.

OMG she has turned a basket into a backpack!

At 1:10  https://youtu.be/UvmC-leoj9U?t=71

But that said, I don't necessarily think milkweed should be cheaper. I think high tech farming should be more efficient so that it pays to climb the tech ladder.

Pine walls are too expensive: https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7070

Perhaps one way to see it is that if the need for limited lives comes from all the /die-babies, and people in the tutorial are not /die-babies, then it might be a good idea not to include them in the limited lives mechanism for now? Especially since there might be other negative consequences?

Why not the best of all worlds?

- Players with hours played<10: No choice screen, no limit to lives
- Players with 10-50 hours played: Limit of 18 lives
- Players with hours played>50: Limit of 12 lives, and a simple choice screen

I prefer new lives every hour. I do like the idea that griefers might run out of lives and be forced to wait a whole hour before logging back in.

I'm making my first little game in Godot, and so far I love it.

I have no opinions on whether it or Unity would have been better for OHOL though. I trust Jason's evaluation. It makes sense that building an engine from scratch makes it more suited to the specific purposes of the game.

I know the developer of Stardew Valley built his own engine, but that he recommends "something like Gamemaker" for people who are just starting making games. (Search for ConcernedApe in this thread: https://community.playstarbound.com/thr … ion.25210/ )