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Maybe not the Tar Baby which would be catnip to griefers who like to dabble in casual racism.  On the other hand, maybe if they were born a Tar Baby but couldn't move or speak and people could interact with it by smacking it around or sticking a limited amount of stuff on it, this might be an innocuous vessel for griefers to get their jollies.  Then again, it would probably just be a way for racist dickheads to get their own rocks off.

I'm not as concerned with no new content as I am with griefers, slackers and the reset.  I'm happy to make pies for an hour if I feel like I'm contributing to the progression of a collective project.  Or, I'm happy to try to revive a dying city with only one fertile female.  But what's the point if it all fails because of idiotic murder roleplaying, the reset or because some fool wants to spend an hour making a swastika out of fencing?  People standing around the fire babbling nonsense eating berries.  Why am I bothering when it's all going to go away within 24 hours? 

I'm usually one of the last people to declare "this game is dead" but I'm almost ready to make that statement.  And, really, why not?  Let's all just move on, Jason included.  He made his art game/experiment.  What more is there to do here?

It's hard for the casual player to know what's edible and what isn't.  For example, I've been playing since well before the cow addition but I just learned this week that you can get milk into a clay bowl and eat it.  For a while, you couldn't eat onions but now you can.  But there are plenty of veggies you can't eat.  I only learned just now from this list that you can eat a Shucked Ear of Corn.  I am surprised that Bowl of Gooseberries and Cooked Mutton aren't higher though.

I just came back after four or so months away.  It's definitely an overall better experience but I wouldn't say a huge improvement.  A lot of the wrinkles have been ironed out and the work/villages persist longer so you feel more like you're part of a bigger project.  A lot of the new tech has made things more fun.  But it's still fundamentally a farming sim even with cars, airplanes, radios, etc. 

I don't think the griefing has been reduced though.  Some of the griefing methods have been blunted but more have popped up.  I feel like I'm seeing MORE pointless murders rather than less.  There are still many people doing bullshit role-playing like "pedophile" and "the Borg," thereby ruining your experience.  I've played an hour or so a day for the past week and I'm about done again.

Every time I've spawned in that cursed town it was either just after a griefing wave came through or it happened during my lifetime.

I disagree.  It is relatively much easier to bring a functioning town down than it is to keep it going.  Stealing pies is way easier than making them.  That's a broken aspect of this game.  It takes very little effort with very little risk (IRL: getting caught, fines, jail time) to ruin things but a great deal of effort to keep things going.

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One of my favorite things to do is make baskets and boxes.  I know the broken windows theory has been discredited but I still think there's some truth to it.  That is, that visible signs of disorder (pies all over the damn place) encourages further disorder (suicides, people abandoning jobs or hope).   So it's my opinion that an orderly bakery matters a great deal.

Yes.  I want a passive game where I farm--or make compost or boxes, or trap rabbits, or clean up people's messes--for the rest of my life.  I want to see how far incremental improvements by a large number of players can go.  I want to see how far Jason can go with adding tech and then having players add onto that.  That's what I play this game for.  I'm not interested in role playing a murderer and too often people who do that ruin my fun. 

HOWEVER, I do agree that dealing with a rampaging bear or some bored douche adds to the challenge and I'd hate to see the gameplay narrowed any more than it is but I sure don't want griefing added as a feature.  It's just too hard at the moment to organize people to counter it.  "The griefer job" would literally be the easiest job in this game -- easier than berrybush tending even -- and so it would just run everything else off the rails very rapidly.

Yellow dye isn't hard.  Turmeric produces a yellow color.

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I get your point Jason but the suiciding is really breaking the game because there isn't any way to deal with it.  I understand not taking a heavy hand with griefers and the bear pokers (and these at times can add some interesting expereince) but the suiciding babies is too much and I wish you would deal with it.  It's so disheartening when you've spent a lot of time getting improvements on line or fixing a broken village and then there aren't any more females.  I personally enjoy doing the menial crap in this game (hauling mutton, corpses, bussing plates, etc.) because I enjoy the experience of participating in a collective effort towards a shared beneficial outcome but if it's all for nothing then I'm much less inclined. 

I do appreciate that there are already loads of games out there that are similar but this game is already very different with the complex tech tree and other aspects that I don't think you'd lose anything by being more heavy handed with the suiciding.  I see here that you are trying and it's much appreciated.