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You could implement a reporting and temporary banning system like in other online multi-player games.
I know that's kinda impossible with players being anonymous in game and it's a lot of work for one person but perhaps later down the line?

I had a small inkling that the gander wars was going to crop up at some point.

Any way, the issues with the game, I feel, is that males are not needed to reproduce.
Thus they can be seen as useless in the game and creates this "females only" mind set. Males are good for working on the village when there is only ONE female giving birth constantly, trying to raise all the babies by her self. But once there is enough females then that "females only" mind set may start to creep in.

In real life, when it come to having children males are important to produce them, (and yes if you want you can say only their sperm is needed then fine, but they are still needed) that's simple biology.

In this game immaculate conception kinda makes males redundant. If two females act as nurse mothers and the rest work on the village then it can prosper. Especially if the  population is kept in check.

Now if males do become necessary for child birth then incest becomes an issue when all there is, is people from the same family line.

So i get that it can be a bit tricky.

There was a suggestion some time ago, (not sure who said it) that if there is a male in the village that birth rates rise and so in turn, less males mean slower births. ( This may have been said on discord) Which my help balance things.

Perhaps males can have a baby bottle as well like this anchent greek one that was found in a mass grave, (very fitting to all this)  posted by the National Geographic.

In the game males could wear one made of a water pouch, a clay nozzle and rope like a backpack and every time they pick up a baby that baby get's fed. We could use the sheep for milk and have to use the milk bag on a feed sheep to get the milk. It last a minimum of feeds necessary to get a baby to child hood perhaps.

Males just need some reason to keep them. I mean if you have the nudity mod on (I do for Youtube), they could just be seen as a barren female running around with short hair.

I like playing as both genders, I don't like being killed cos I was born a boy or left out and not spoken to when I get older.
It can get lonely being male in this game.

I feel your pain.

Trying to survive over and over again, being abandoned over and over again, building the same things over and over again just to get things going is tedious. I want the game to improve but I some times feel like "what's the point?" it's just gonna get wiped or my lineage is going to die out and whatever is left will decay and wilt away.

I want to like this game again, I do, but I can't. The spark is gone.
I still hope that the next update will make it better,  then the next, then the next...

I teeter and the line between keep the game or get a refund and play the custom servers because this product is not what was advertised.

The game is still young however and it feels like an alpha build you find on Steam so I'm sure it will improve some time down the road.

So for now, I will be keeping up with the updates but I may leave the game for a while.

I feel that the game is very missed balanced at the moment and so is turing people off. The decay needs tweaking, composting needs a re-think and communication needs to improve.

I get some players like the decay update because they didn't like being born in a big village and got bored. That they're glad that everything got wiped during the apocalypse because there was nothing left for them to do. However, all they had to do was wait till they grew up, grab a basket of carrots and leave. Start their own village.  Or if they didn't want to start completely from scratch, then take a hand cart with the basic tools to start with and a bit of food. But they didn't, they stayed, got bored and sometimes stared griefing.

Big villages are alright for new people cos they can be taught how to survive. Watch experienced players and get a feel for what is possible. Then once they learned how to craft and make food, they could run off and make their own village or be prepared as an Eve.

But that didn't happened and that's why I think Jason has implemented all these new updates.
Nobody decided to move out from the nest and so he made the nest fall apart on it's own to force us out and build our own.

So now the game is missed balance and forces everyone to move constantly. Old players who liked to teach new players and work on what they couldn't finish are now forced to start over and over again. Being abandoned constantly by Eves, having their village die because of new players  and watching what could of been a legacy crumble and die is no fun.

That's why I think the player base has dwindled.

New players do come in but they've learned about the game through word of mouth, Twitch or Youtube which is free advertising for the game since it's not on Steam. However, if a Streamer or Youtuber, bigs one like say Twisted, Paragon Hex or Checkpoint view the games updates negatively, that may effect the games sales and have less new comers to the game.

So yeah, the game is dying but theirs still hope. New updates may balanced the game and give it new life. Other wise the game brakes and sadly, dies. I don't want that. Not just because I paid money for it, but because I love the concept and feel that it can go far.

But only time will tell.

Wild carrots don't re-seed after picking them.
The only use they have after picking their seeds is to dig them up in an emergency.
This was done a while ago. Jason wants us to pick up and move on after we used all the resources in the area.

I do feel that the decay time and uses amount should be changed. Baskets should last least 3 generations or so.
When I play the game now, I'm just doing the same thing over and over. Farming food, remaking tools and trying to look for soil as the village I'm born in hasn't domesticated sheep yet or the eve is new and dosen't know how to make compost.

It's become tedious as someone who's played this game for a while now. I want to do the things and jobs  Jason wants us to do, but it's more about surviving and getting your kids to survive or looking for an eve if you are the last male.

I don't know. I've tried to adapt and I'm gonna keeping trying but it almost feels like banging your head on a brick wall. 
But that's just me. If you need more info, check the wiki or https://kazetsukai.github.io/onetech/ to keep up to date with the changes and to learn recipes.

Messaged 4/12/18