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For the people wondering about the lineage ban, it's been reworked so that it kicks in when you've lived for a total of 30 mins on a certain lineage, and fades when you've lived a total of 60 mins on other lineages. It also kicks in instantly if you're murdered. Check out this commit by Jason:

https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/ … a25468a684

From what I've seen, the dedicated griefers have used this to their advantage, purposefully dying of starvation right before they hit thirty, so they can come back once more to get any people they might have missed the first time.

Oh, and +1 to Sin's post.

I was in a fledgling town today, gen 5. I spent my entire life making food and tools and fetching stuff. When I was forty-fiftyish, we had gone from zero tools to axe, shovel, hoe, froe, pick and adze, we were making stew, and all that along with teaching some new players stuff.

It took one person. One. To end it all.

He didn't need to prepare. He didn't need to do anything. He just made a bow and arrow and killed all four fertile women. He even hung around camp most of the time. We couldn't defend ourselves, because all milkweed was depleted.

I don't care if it's realistic (which it isn't), or what have you. One person being able to destroy the effort of ten other people in a heartbeat is fucked up. It's bad game design.

This is so sweet <3

Hello Dwan! Yeah, it's sad the family name was lost after that. Our mother, Nami Sun, actually tried to kill, at least me, as a baby. She went out of her way to travel three screens away from the village, and dump me in a tundra. I only survived because there was a desert there, so I stood on the edge to set my temp to the ideal level, and thus managed to run back to the village, where someone else fed me.

Nami followed me around after that. Maybe she was surprised, and maybe even spiteful, because she interfered with a lot of the things I, in particular, tried doing, haha.

Looking at the family tree, it seems they survived for a while longer, without much killing, and only died off because of a lack of girls. I think it's one of the good ways for a bloodline to end, so I'm happy with that.

To the Sun family-

Words cannot describe how happy I was when I returned to our village in my old age, after a life in the wilderness, and discovered that not only did my griefer of a mother not wipe you out, but that you were thriving even more than before. I am sorry I ran from her when I was young; I've taken a vow not to kill anyone in this game ever again. I hope you find the little camp I set up in the north; I hope it is of use if anyone griefs again.

To my nameless little sister: thank you for staying by my side until the end.

http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … &id=242972

Long before the first apoc happened, I was born to a rich civ with very nice people. It was, however, just being repopulated. It was in need of workers and just people in general, because there were so few of them, but instead of helping out I just stole a cart, clothes and a lot of food and went on a lifetime-long search for gold. I returned to the town in my next life, and it had died out. Sorry 'bout that.

I love cities with huge berry farms and stone walls. The carrot farm is of a moderate to small size, used almost exclusively for compost. People bake mutton pies, and sometimes, rarely - dare i say it? - berry pies. They wear sheep and muflon skins, and reed skirts. There is a leader/overseer, and they wear a crown. There's strategically placed trash pits all over the city, and its citizens take the time to throw away broken and rotted items, keeping the place clean and clutter-free - or, ideally, there is one person dedicated to that job. A tall bell tower stands in the central area, or at the graveyard. A fire burns near the kilns and forges, never going out, as there's always a firekeeper that looks after it.

The compost system is cool. It's also realistic, for those into that sort of thing, although this game in general is pretty far from realism. I also agree that a carrot farm shouldn't be the only thing that feeds an entire town. But the thing is, this game is lacking in content. Why should we only be able to farm carrots, berries and wheat? Why not add the ability to farm onions (which already exist!), or tomatoes, or potatoes, or cabbage? What about other fruit and vegetables? What about eventually adding more kinds of animals? Make it so that a farm with only one kind of veggie/fruit can help kick-start a base, but in order for a larger settlement to evolve from it, people have to start farming more stuff. Ideally, they would also have a choice on what kind of stuff to farm: one town could specialize in some types of veggies/fruit, another in others. Hopefully, trade would also evolve from that. And this philosophy could also apply in animals/meat, tools, etc.

By the way, I think decay was a good idea. I supported the idea before it was implemented, and I still support it now. But the mistake was, in my opinion, that it was implemented without the ability to repair. Granted, you'd still be making the same items when repairing, but at least you'd be going through fewer steps and consuming less resources to do it. And the initial effort you put into crafting the thing would mean something. And then we'd still have this: "Proudly using your grandfather's ax, and then passing it on to your own grandchild as the end of your life nears," and this time it would be even more meaningful, because you also have to maintain the ax to keep and pass it on.

What drew me to this game was the promise of family and civilization building. The concept of crafting something that others could later use. But lately it just feels like nothing you ever create matters. You could say that passing on your knowledge is what should matter, but communication is so limited in this game, that it's close to impossible to do so. It's disheartening, and depressing, and it's far from the heartwarming experience I remember when I first started playing.

I don't think anyone wants this game to be a carrot farming simulator, nor for it to become too easy. But changing the way stuff works all the time, forcing players to relearn the same stuff every week, and then taking everything they've accomplished away and forcing them to rebuild it from scratch is no fun either. No matter how many ways you come up with to farm carrots, the end result is the same: carrots. No matter how many times I'm forced to make a steel ax, in the end of the day, it's still a steel ax. There's no novelty or variance. There's no new things to do or discover. And in the end, nothing we do or create ever matters, because it's all gonna be wiped out, and we'll have to remake it, forever stuck in a loop of an age of stone-and-a-bit-of-steel. And that, I believe, is what makes a game stagnate, and eventually die out.

(This got far longer than I expected it to, lol.)

I found a huge city, all stone walls and like a million berry bushes, not sure on which server. When I first found it, I just stumbled upon it as an Eve. The people there told me it was 'Berryland' and tried to kill me, but I ran away, stealing some of their pies, and later their axe. I eventually died of old age, and was reborn inside the city. My mom refused to name me because I misclicked and jumped out of her arms. Eventually more and more people were born into it, and I just abandoned it and returned to the old camp I had as an Eve.

Just... a bad place to be, I believe. Didn't really enjoy the lives I lived in/near it.

I fully support this.

(Also, you might wanna post this suggestion on reddit as well?)

Edit: I just noticed, you already did. Forget I said anything, lol.

Has happened to me twice, both times were today

My experience was pretty much the same as OP's. Only I never found any cities at all; just a few abandoned farms here and there, littered with rotten baskets. It felt like only new players that were trying out the game were playing t the time; most of the people I ran into, at least, were new. And really, I believe they too will stop soon. Having a decay system without a way to repair stuff *and* a way to dispose of broken things (yes, both systems are needed; it's not fun having to remake things a hundred times) is tedious and annoying.

I'm just gonna say what I said in another post: decay should be much slower, things should be repairable and broken stuff disposable. Steel tools should last a *lot*, especially given the effort needed to craft them.

I've played many hours of OHOL. I consider myself an experienced player. I kept playing the game after the apocalypse, after all the nerfs to farming, after all the complaints about rampant griefing. I found ways to deal with those problems, and I can even say I found the challenge enjoyable (especially when it came to griefers and murderers; I always enjoy some good pvp). But this update made everything annoying and boring. I think I'll probably stop playing, at least for a while, until this is fixed.