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Because birth in this game is determined by players joining the game rather than being a reproductive case the rules for what makes a mother likely to spawn a surviving baby are a bit different to real life. When a player is spawned as a baby, a lot will simply suicide if they're born to a mother that's obviously got too many other mouths to feed, is stuck in a dead end scenario or is currently running across the wasteland near the start of their game looking for somewhere to start their camp.

So factors such as how well fed and warm the mother is right now tend to be irrelevant to the longer term survival of a baby. She could easily have a full stomach and be warm just by wiping out the last berry bush nearby and standing at the edge of a desert, but still be doomed.

What clothing a player has (ie they've actually got clothes so must have got somewhere already), is there a fire nearby, have they managed to water crops etc. vs how many other babies are being fed in the area are probably better indicators. The upside of this is that villages will have higher birth rates as they're more established, which is when you need the extra hands to expand and eventually migrate. From the player's point of view, you get more chance to have a good game, so may reduce the baby suicide rate a bit.

If ultimately the best way to escape the imprisonment (good or bad) is to stop playing, you'll simply lose players.

Only if there are the same number of murderers as townsfolk. You might get away with the odd solo killing but anyone going on a rampage or trying to mess with a large town is inevitably going to be killed by the angry mob.

It definitely happened (wouldn’t have reported it as a bug if it didn’t )

Don’t mistake a single “Could not reproduce” for “not a big”

Workaround. Quit the game and restart will reset the effect.

It’s a game where the source code for both the server and client are provided by the author for players to do with ‘as they like’. So that would probably include making your own client or mods using the data to play how you want. I don’t think anything really counts as ‘a hack’

Run it from the Terminal with > stdout.txt

You’ll need to cd to the game folder or wherever you installed it then ./OneLife_v72.app/contents/MacOS/OneLife > stdout.txt

Or thereabouts

I think the apocalypse has nerfed the game entirely at the moment. Basically you've done the WOPPR bit at the end of WarGames and come up with the "The only way to win is not to play" result

I do have 2 different radical ideas for how to make the Apocalypse more interesting.

1) Seeing as it's effectively a game ending win scenario for nihilists why not add in the extra requirements like you suggested but also make it so that triggering an apocalypse *permanently* deletes your game key. That way you get to feel the destruction personally. Think of it as the ultimate rage quit

2) The really traditional option. When you trigger the apocalypse it emails Jason personally but otherwise doesn't do anything immediately. When Jason gets your email, he emails you back with a riddle. *if* you answer the riddle correctly, the apocalypse triggers. (and if you get it wrong your account is deleted and nothing else happens )

Well, the point of the game now appears to be to trigger an apocalypse. There's even a counter for them on the main page of the site.

Because *anyone* can trigger one, it doesn't matter whether there's people doing them as speed runs or not really, basically whatever you're doing will randomly reset now.

If you’re set to use a custom server switch it off so your client can update.