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Spoonwood, I disagree with you at some points.

Let me offer you my point of view on why the "old days" were in some ways better and more fun. You see, when I first played this game, people died instantly when bitten by a snake, boar or bear or even killed by a knife. We were paranoid going behind trees because the chances of there being a snake behind it was pretty high. When killed by a knife or arrow, there wasn't even a pile of bones in a pool of blood, you just drop dead.
When your mom gave you a name, you had to try and remember it because names and family names didn't even exist yet. Baskets were decaying and carrots that were stored in them, were thrown on empty tiles as soon as they did. It was the wild west back then.

After the death delay and pads being added into the game, that's when the real fun happened. People were stabbed when they ran into a person who tried to put down their knife in the same tile. If your family didn't believe you that it was an accident, you were killed instantly. If I remember correctly, griefers were more like serial killers back then. You had the occasional sheep murdering and tool steeling, but most of the times people were knifed. Usually outside of town, hiding behind a tree and stabbing the first person that came in their sight. If you were lucky, the wounded was able to catch his attackers name and all men and some women went out hunting for the murderer while the younger ones made more pads. Once the serial killer was caught and killed, the town would still tell the story of how they stopped the griefer for years. They would tell the story to their kids and their grand-kids.

Tools and food were going missing ? The town became more vigilant and looked around for suspicious activities, letting others know who they suspected to be the culprit. Brothers saving their little sisters to safe the family line after a killing spree of a murderous group. You were born to a girl who survived an attack from outside of town and who was trying to keep her family line alive. Or you were born into a town that was build in a jungle or had a huge garden full of mango trees.

Compared to the life I have lived the last time I've played, those lives were more exciting and each one of them was different. Now you are restricted by your race and biomes, killing someone takes ages or is impossible if they have too many followers even if they are exiled. Families and towns don't last long enough to even leave a legacy behind.

Stealing, murdering, lying, betrayal, etc. (all things that people consider as griefing by the way) can be found in any civilization at any time. So why not in a game who's main goal is to build a civilization with other players. Why not have all the elements that surrounds a civilization.

I got bored doing the same tasks in a town over and over again. How can you possibly say that someone is lying about how they feel when playing the game. Just because you don't get bored doesn't mean that others don't too.

I agree that not everyone wants to play a stressful game (like hunting down or stopping griefers) but some people, like me, do. To reiterate, there are people with bad intentions in every civilization, so why shouldn't those people play that role in this game. Again, just because you feel a certain way doesn't mean that it applies to everybody.

That being said, I do agree that killing back in the days was too easy and skilled killers were able to get away with murdering an entire town. People who wanted to build and see their town and family thrive were rightfully angry and frustrated. However, some people were telling Jason to fix the griefing "issue" by banning them entirely from the game, adding the curse system, etc. I would have loved to see a justice system put into place, giving us players the necessary tools to capture and bring them to justice for their action. It's a part of civilization as well, setting up order by putting up laws and punishments. Not relying on a single all-mighty man to fix our issues.

I agree, learning on a private server is a good way to learn the game. You are free to build and try out anything without someone either destroying or taking the resources from you.

What about the fact that when you follow the gate leader of another fam, destroy the gate, unfollow the gate leader, rebuild the gate and have the rights to the gate and the old gate leader also has access to the gate.

What Jason says : Fences should protect valuables and prevent outsiders to come and steal them. Followers of the person who owns a property gate have now easy access to it. 

What we have in game : Anyone, from any family, can follow the person who owns the property gate of a fenced in area, can destroy it and can take whatever they want, making fences useless.

Didn't she resign ? I think you need to go ask Bob for that.

Ah I see, I understand better now. Thank you for explaining. That does make it easy for one to use someone's alias in the chat. I'll let Px know, maybe we can figure something out

Shush, keep it down. If we don't talk about it he will forget to re-active it and we can finally play this game with less frustration

Yes I get that, but this all happened when the population was very high. During the new player boom, a couple of days ago and even today. All while having a population between 40 - 60. I got points for my granny but not for my mom.

This happens often when the lineage gets longer, my mom's points and sometimes my younger sister's get lost. Also my own daughter sometimes is shown as my niece, just like Arcucurs. It happened when I was playing as a twin and when I was playing solo.

I had it too.

Also, couldn't satisfy my craving of snipped pickled cucumber. I would eat it multiple times, snipped and unsnipped, but it didn't satisfy my hunger.

We are working on some more guides: cooking, smithing, how to start off as an Eve and how to help out your Eve mother, etc. We are trying to make it a place where new players can find help, tips & tricks, and where great buildings can be remembered and revisited.

Thanks for your request, we'll try and get this guide out as soon as possible

Ladies and Gentlemen, People of OHOL, Young and Elders, another Arc has ended, lasting 2981 years!

Two families quickly rose to the top, the Jones and the Posillicos, and even though the older generations declared peace between those two clans, the younger generations were constantly fighting. While the Posillico Family were thriving and counted at one point up to 30 females, the Jones were struggling to survive. Posillico had taken over their towns more than once and those who stayed to live with them, were living in a constant fear of getting stabbed by their angry and blood driven neighbour.

After a serious drought period has finally passed, conflicts between the two clans were still ongoing and the peace between them was now a past memory. And so, war has been declared.

With the years passing by, pleads for an end to the arc have started ramping up and some citizens were starting to hunt down the Jones. Members of the Posillico Family and even members of the Jones were trying to end this family line.
But this family was strong enough to overcome and survive these attacks and started to rebuild some towns to make them their new homes. With time, conflicts and disagreement were slowly fading away, making space for peace between the two households. Buildings were built, yum chains were expanded and the construction of a bell tower was started in a Posillico town.

During this time of peace, the Jones didn’t sit idle in their town and hoped for a peaceful life. No, they prepared. The once weak family, dominated and hunted by the strong and powerful Posillico clan, had become strong enough to initiate one but impressive attack against the other family, ending their line and this Arc.

It was the Jones, who in the beginning had to suffer many setbacks and difficulties, who was thought to be the one who would die out but who, in the end, was the one who heard a distant bell rang while standing over the corpses of a once powerful and feared family.

Another Arc has started, another Eve widow is open. Which Eve will raise a new strong family able to survive until the end?
Happy Eveing everyone.

The big Horse Strike