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Spoonwood, how are things standing in Sparta?

I summon you Bobo! What is your reasoning? What can stop your killing spree? Not Jason, obviously

For punishment. With 20 available pips for adults it is just a nice bonus, just like you said. If the min was 4 (5 in fact), it would be a necessity. Flaws of current unbreakable yum:
1. Hidden bonus. Game engine must be described to understand it. yum 2.0 requires GUI feedback, so it is more intuitive.
2. As you said, it is a nice bonus. Which makes it not enough to end era of berry munchers.  yum 2.0 would punish berry munching heavily, but not only. Even the best milk drinkers would suffer from it.
3. For maximal gain from high yum you must eat at the edge of starvation. Not a case for yum 2.0
4. Describing the game engine is not immersive. yum 2.0 allows for sentence "the more food variety you eat, the stronger you will be!". Much more touchy and parenting friendly.
5. A new exploit proposition: eat a berry once, from berry bowl once, eat a popcorn, a stew and a mutton pie to receive a pernament + 5 to every next berry in your life. Berry munching will be even easier than before food nerf

Because I told you Just to be sure, are you from Germany?

I look at it the different way. The Polish-German states border was the most constant for Poles. That condition changed only because of unification of Prussia with other German states, which created the interest in joining German territories at the cost of Polish coast line. The Prussia was an architect of partitions of Poland and forced also Russia and Austria to be involved in.

The end of Prussia means the end of Polish-German territorial conflict. I am educating people in my country at that subject which tells, even from geopolitic perspective, Polish and German can now be friends again and have mutual interests. Just like before Brandenburg-Prussian union.

But even if our states were in conflict, I would treat individual German with respect.

No. It is a link from Coconut Fruit quote. We both get to know OHOL from that video. The guy in the video has a nick Hed and is a professional game reviewer. Many Polish people love him for self-irony and his sense of humor.

Regarding jumming: it is only for veterans. It will not make newbies life easier, because it is counter-intuitive and they simple don't know how it work. And even part veterans like pein do not like it nor utilize it.

Quite a good translation. Nobody says that way in Polish, but it is not incorrect

It is a big offtop, but you are wrong in few areas here pein.

Healthcare was bad untill the XIX century, when the vacciness (from English Edward Jenner) and antibacteria hygiene (from Hungarian Ignaz Semmelweis) started to be used. But despite rapid progress in XIX century, antibiotics were still awaiting to by discovered by Scotch Alexander Fleming in 1928. Look at below tomb. The vaccince for diphtheria was available at those years, yet it was too expensive for most people

War was profitable up to industrial revolution. In 1899 Polish banker Jan Gotlib Bloch proved in the book "Is War Now Impossible?" that advanced, industrialized society cannot gain profit because of war. I world war proved he was right. II world war was possible only because of dictartoships disregarding the wealth of governed nations.

Regarding religion: there are religions stopping science, but Reform Judaism and Catholic Church were pushing science towards.

It WAS true and still is in Africa, but ceased to be in the rest of the world. Before industrial revolution in XIX century, all societies were malthusianic: every food production improvement was eaten by increasing population leading eventually to all living at the edge of starvation. Such malthusianism was existing in Africa, so every food help and medical care provided by foreigners in XX century was leading to catastroply in tribal societies.

But it changed. Now also Africa is in the middle of demographic transition.

It is a new topic here. I was also expecting a playerbase increase during pandemia, but nothing like that happens. It seems Jason is so successfull in designing the game of one-time, unique experience, no one wants to play it again

4 hours by car to Germany. You can see Joriom, me and Coconut Fruit are Polish. The mentioned video here: https://youtu.be/bVkKavTffwE

I am not playing since magic property fence was introduced. I dislike voodoo solutions and constant nerfing/fixing the game. However, I've developed some kind of Stockholm syndrome and keep reading the forum hoping the game will move forward. I was advertising it among my friends. But now, when someone asks me about the game "you only life an hour", I say honestly the developer stucked in the cursed circle of nerfing/fixing the game with gamechanging mechanics. I worry the number of players will decrease so much by the time he will start providing content again, the game will become not playable

You see it the wrong way. Jason gave in past a lot of his thoughts how to make the game a unique, one time experience to make this one particular life matter. He even considered charging a microtransaction for each spawn.

All of that is to discourage new players from the game! When veterans point all of it out, he claims he has made a most complicated solo game and still earns a lot of money thanks to it. So selling a game to people who will play it once and quit seems as a mission complited. You should rather talk how to further discourage new players from playing!

Remember veterans, too. They also need to be discouraged. It's obvious, language, tool slot, skin tone specialization and tricky toddler feeding is not enough. What can you propose new?

For me it was magic with property fences. I stopped playing there.

I suggest you all to learn the theory of comparative advantage. It describes why trade occurs in real life. It is not because certain people cannot do certain things. They could always learn to. It is because certain people have advantage in producing certain stuff over others. Most often this advantage comes from specific location. Even distribution of resources in OHOL does not encourage specialization nor trade. The latest updates made it sure everyone has the same amount of resources. For trade to occur, certain settle points must be giving huge advantage over others. Current design needs 2 updates:
1. Iron must be exlcusive. Loose iron to make initial game start, but veins must be very rare to make them valuable.
2. There must be a reason to settle around the mine. This way a settlers will be mine dependent and will protect iron from other players. Those 2 combined would allow to trade.

Just compare smithing tech tree and mining. Smithing is complicated, there is a need for kiln, forge, different wood types, few flat rocks, pottery, tools and a lot of manual work. It is a pleasant, long work to create any item. Also, the process is better with cooperation. There is no need to make a smithery far from starting village location, as that would not benefit from anything. During ingame choices the smithing is always right next to food sources, never close to iron location. And there is a reason, as loose iron does not encourage settling far from village only for shorttime boost, while mines are the spots to come, gather an leave. The solution is to make a multistep, many items dependent mining which will require to gather multiple resources near mine and work there.

Proposition:
Allow players to enter mine, but only with light source and pickaxe in hands (like arrow and bow). This way, upon leaving the mine they will have to relase both items, needing 2 empty tiles around them, gather iron, put pickaxe and light again to the hands to enter mine. Upon light source end up force leaving mine. If iron would not stack at mine, it would be better to work i pairs. One inside mine to dig it, the other to collect it on the ground.
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Also, it would be better if stanchion kit instead of a full set put on the mine would be a multistep proces done on the mine itself. This way, we do not make one trop to the mine with stanchion kit, but multiple trips with bramches, rope, bucket. It makes the mine stop a place which is worth to prepare even basic settling.

It would be also wise to make output of mine less worth. Put a random chance to gather any rock instead of iron. Or make purifing iron requiring more ore.

Upon depletion of basic mine a diesel engine would not be just enough. Provide rails, cards and build an elevator, put an engine at the end. First the player with light and pickaxe goes down, then cart. After few clicks the second player on the ground could bring cart full or iron back. That would be dangerous, as a miner cannot leave on their own even if lights go out. Just allow to drop food to the mine unless new oil is bringed to save the miner