a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building
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I was the new player, started today, who got you clay, sticks and basket of iron, and moved the farm.
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Thanks for teaching me about a lot of stuff, just by watching, and about temperature. You were rude but it taught me quickly.
EDIT: I committed suicide because as soon as you died everyone freaked out and started just eating all the food and not being productive, so I ran over to the badlands and found a wolf.
As a new player who just got the game, I can tell you that from my perspective the game is basically dying from the pile of players who have no freaking clue whats going on.
It took nearly 100 restarts to even live past 18 that wasn't caused by my parents simply rejecting me, not knowing how to play themselves, or being born into a family that has no clue how to build the first year starting settlement.
When I do survive it's because I'm usually the last one alive because I'm out scavenging just to survive long enough to try to build a crop farm, and by the time I get all the materials my mother and siblings have all perished to starvation or other things.
When I first started out, I had expected to actually learn from players teaching me things, I had expected not to survive past infanthood many many times and fail horribly as an Eve a dozen times over. That didn't make it any better when the only instructions I was ever given was "make crops" or "make a campfire." When you're talking to new players, you gotta give them things to do that will help you avoid running around while being simple tasks they can understand. Like "collect branches and clay." Fairly simple stuff. I was finally able to get a mother (who was very cranky at all the kids who simply wouldn't listen) and gave me decent instructions on shit to do. Our farm thrived. And 10 seconds after she died of old age, everyone else starved. The end.
Going to online searches about how to play, I see so much about how to do X task, how to do Y task, or stuff like "take seeds from carrots but don't dig them up" etc. but none of the essential stuff that you mentioned like "build near water" or "temperature keeps you from starving quickly, balance your temperature near base camp" or "overpopulation will kill your settlement." Simple stuff that ACTUALLY matters, and helps tremendously when playing Eve for your first time.
Also, while I'm at it. It's completely ridiculous to have Eve's spawning with newborns so quickly when they don't even have any items collected. It seems like every time I spawn as an Eve a baby spawns so quickly I don't even know which one I am until I move around a couple tiles. I usually get rejected/have to reject this newborn so I can actually establish myself and find some food so me and my next newborn don't die instantly.
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