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This is such a terrible mindset that is perpetuating the community. I might not be a veteran player but I would like to consider myself experience. Experienced enough to know most every recipe and could build a civilization from the ground up if there was enough time in a life to do so. Yet I can't tell you how many times I have been in arguments with players who insist their way is the only way and will kill you if you don't do it the way they want it done.

For instance, I just got out of a game where I was born in a village and told by my mother they needed pies. Well, unfortunately, there was no rabbit hunter so all I had was carrots. So I began to make carrot pies because they are more filling than just raw carrots. Now since I don't have a lot of materials, not a lot of plates, I make three pies because three pies are better than none. But a 'veteran' player with 'the most hours' in the game berated me for being an idiot and that noobs like me were dooming the game by being 'wasteful'. Sorry but I was too young to run out and get clay to make more plates and we needed food NOW. No my prick of a 'veteran' it's players like you who are ruining the game with your unreasonable attitudes. Your unwillingness to listen to others because you believe you are so great in your expertise and refuse to share. Your attitude drove me away from your village. I took a cart and left and found another village and proceeded to teach the residents there how to dye their clothes. They appreciated it and we had fun working together up until we died happily of old age.

Perhaps it's a chain reaction. So many players abandoned their children early on because they didn't know how to survive. This created an environment where the only thing that mattered was survival of self and hopefully whatever children you managed to raise after ensuring that you didn't die. Survival of the fittest might work for animals but when building a civilization that mindset tears it down. No wonder so many villages fail. No one wants to play in a village like that. I have seen so many children get scolded by an adult or grandparent only to suicide in order to spawn in a friendlier village. I've been that child that runs as often as I've been the grandparent yelling to leave the carrots alone cuz no one will listen or because some troll thinks it's funny or because some know it all believes they will just magically find seeds for eternity.

As much as I love this game there are so many issues with players themselves. Angry adults letting children live or die based on gender or sometimes even knowledge. Angry children running away and dying thus stagnating a village into death. Angry trolls that do everything they can to ruin a village through starvation and child stealing. And as much as role play is fun, grandpa threatening to kill the children is not going to foster friendliness either. I mean it's fun in jest but I've seen too many follow through for those threats to be taken lightly.

What can be done? A collective effort to stop being dirtbags to each other and actually play the game as if you were raising a family. Realistically would you have a baby and leave it to starve? If you would you need psychiatric help first and foremost.

As far as game implementation... maybe a system where Eves cannot drop their babies until they are able to walk? That would limit the number of babies with a longer cooldown time right off the bat. I know since day one I've wanted the ability to carry the kids around on my back in a backpack. It would make starting off so much easier. People made backpacks out of reeds.

But now I am rambling. Something in the air needs to change or else the game will stagnate before everyone abandons it all together in favor of something that is a solo experience like Rise of Ages when it finally releases.