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Honestly I read through this entire thing and actually thought it was a recent post until I noticed the last response.

Yep, all of it definitely still rings true. Same problems now as there were back then. We're not gonna get trade, politics, stores, law-enforcement, etc. on our own, and Jason hasn't really done anything to push us towards it.

Even shoving us into a box for resource contention never brought these concepts to light. All that really did was encourage people to grief/kill each other and reset the map.

He definitely needs to take a step back and reevaluate these concepts. The "Family Specialization" update was a better attempt to encourage these [namely trade], but still isn't working. I think the reason it's not working boils down to this simple fact: There's no reason to trade rather than share. It's quite similar to your second example, except on a multi-family scale rather than within your own family.

Damnit fug, you were supposed to see how long it'd take Jason to figure out you're Tarr. You ruined it!

Maybe he didn't notice...

I love how everyone just completely ignored the bug milkweed posted in which you can literally insta-drop bloody weapons. They even turn un-bloody for you!

Good shit.

Just add it to the list. He's also promised/said he'd include:

-Rabbit domestication [including a hutch of some sort]
-Cattle intended for meat production [and potentially leather]
-Food decay, along with refrigeration to prevent it
-Trailer stuff [robots, high-tech walls and transportation]

By far the best life I had ever lived. It gave rise to a belltown of several names and the town itself survived for nearly a week. You can find the story [along with a bunch of other perspectives from that town] on the original post I'd  made about it, linked at the bottom. But the original goes as follows:

Lineage Link

Awesome transition from original life to my second life there the next day

Original thread

Yeah I envision a lot of tools being lumped together for work.

Compost: Shovel + Sharp Rock + Hoe [to grow your carrots/wheat]. Maybe knife too, since you're tending sheep anyways and might need to clear it out occasionally.

Forge work: Hammer + Kiln + Axe/Hatchet [to cut kindling].

Cooking: Oven + Round Rock? [for grinding flour for pies] + Knife [bread/killing sheep] + Sharp Rock [if you're making the worse pies]

Hunting/Backpacks: Snare + Sharp Rock [bait] + Knife/Flint [skinning] + Needle/Thread [making bp/clothes]

Building: Chisel + Mallet at least

Also, engine work.. if each newcomen component is considered a dif tool: Hammer, Roller, Bore, Lathe, Drill.. plus your regular hammer, and the forge/kiln..

Not to mention you'll want shears for working with sheep.

It all comes down to "whats considered a tool" in the end, too. There's some items like round rocks that are necessary for a lot of work but also integral for basic things like home markers.

Would round stones be a tool? Flat rocks? Skewers? Lassos? Ropes? Loom? Horse carts? Hand carts? Flint? Obscure shit like net/fishing pole that nobody uses or has reason to use?

Sorry 'bout that, was the easiest way to encourage it to be one answer per person.
Thanks for the response!

Delusional sounds about right, yeah. You see things that just aren't there, and try to fix nonexistent / small problems with out-there solutions that just make things worse, or do nothing to affect the problem [like the "hurr just make baskets with string so no grain clutter haha" fix]. I swear 99% of the time you and your playerbase are looking at two entirely different games. It's frustrating for both sides.

I respect your decision to create the game alone. What I and a lot of players [even your moderators lol] dislike is how you treat input from the people who actually sit down and put hours into your game. You don't play the game. We do. To treat us children and push our input aside because "lul I am game designer with 15 years experience obv I kno best!" just pisses everyone off.

People don't have to have 15 years of game dev experience to know how they feel about a game and how it plays. If anything, you RELY on those people and how they feel about the game- nobody's going to play a game they don't enjoy, after all. It wouldn't hurt to hear out the perspectives of those players. At the very least, I doubt anyone would be upset if you took time out of your rigorous coding schedule to play the game multiple times a week and interact with the playerbase. Or, y'know, use that fantastic in-game poll system that you worked so hard on [and then threw out the window after like 2-3 polls bc lol asking my playerbase for opinions? why would I do that?].

We see things you obviously either don't see or don't value the importance of. Maybe that's because many people play the game regularly, and you mostly see it from your empty test servers and data. There's obviously a disconnect somewhere in there.

The "best game in the world" won't get made through a single person's extremely narrow view. Games ten times better than this one definitely weren't assembled through one person's bias. Perspective is key for anything to be successful.

Also, for the record, I'd say this game is better than it was a year ago.. but I can't say it's better than it was 3-4 months ago. But that's my perspective on things. Other people have theirs, and of course, none of them hold a candle to your own.

Thanks Jason, very cool.

Don't worry, it's not just your end. Pein complained in the discord he wasn't able to update either.

I just loaded my game up and got the same issue, just shows this

I'm sure Jason will fix it soon eventually.

Should probably also point out that Mango Trees are currently being used as a path/gate blocker due to the ridiculous fact that you cannot chop it while it has soil, after it's been watered, or while it has mangos on its tree. Might be used to block or at least hinder people in this scenario too.

Basically if you plant a mango sapling and water it, it's there for an hour [can't dig it up] until it grows. Then if you add soil to it, it's there permanently, in a dry fertile state without ability to remove the soil or cut it down. One has to waste a bucket of water on it, wait an hour for the mangos to grow, pick all the mangos, and only THEN can they chop it.

Understandably this can't be easily seen out by a player since it takes a full lifetime to become choppable..

Well, freedom was fun while it lasted folks. Guess I'm back to not playing again ;w;

Thanks for freeing us, Tarr. Had a lot of fun setting up camps in the outside world again. Hadn't played in like three months but seems I retained most of my game knowledge, which is good to know, given it'll be even longer before I pick up the game again [if I ever do].

Its a pity Jason didn't get to see all the joy and excitement players had when they realized they were outside, and that they could escape the hell cell. So many people had a blast with that! I know I did! But nope, muh experiments demand we be shoved into a box :'D

Til next time fam.