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I am upset with leavers. This has been happening for days.

Yet again, I found a decent spot. I did all the "normal" things you have to do these days to avoid having the min-maxing shitlords instant-suiciding themselves; I named myself, I stayed around a town where the forge or farm was visible on screen. Still... I had 8 kids as an Eve, and 6 were fucking leavers. The two last I had were a boy and a girl who actually tried their best, but died to animals. That can happen, but the six leavers are unforgivable. They ruin the game and I find this increasingly frustrating.

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From the bloodline it looks like I had 4 active kids, but Major was just an AFK waste of space that never spoke and never moved, and I have no idea what was up with "Girl" cause they just left.

This game is being dragged down by attention deficit people who can't wait for a couple of minutes to grow up without bouncing all over the screen or killing themselves off in a never ending chase of greener grass.

Last time I brought it up, I didn't suggest fixes, but I will now.

*Bloodline ban and server ban to people who use /die.
*Account cooldown on /die so they can do it a few times, but not for dozens of times in a row.
*Dying as a kid multiple times in a row before you have hair should force you to Eve spawn so you can't keep shitting up the baby spawns for mothers. This would affect runners too.
*Mothers need some sort of birth system that recognizes when they lost a kid, and skips the cooldown before they can have another, otherwise they'll get to 40 year and have all their births occupied by leavers.
*"Curse my baby" command for mothers that affects the last player they birthed, forcing that player to Eve spawn and skipping the cooldown timer on having babies.

I don't have a solution, I'm just here to state the obvious, because I've been playing for three hours, three Eve lives, and it's annoying that each of those civs never got going because the people who play this game don't really want to play this game. They just up and leave the second they don't see a massive town.

Thinking about it, I suppose the opposite probably happens with certain people instant killing themselves in towns too. You could probably get rid of the problem by making a preference option to spawn as Eve, to an Eve or into an older bloodline. Sure, it's outside of the philosophy Jason has described for the game, but there's only so many dead-end starts I can handle before I have had enough. At some point, you have to compromise a little for quality of life things. After all, we're people, not machines.

There's one animal that has followed human civilization, which is not represented in the game, and that's the rat.

Rats have a purpose to serve in One Hour One Life. Big bases often have a trash problem. Every tile has an item on it. Food components litter the forge, kitchen and farm area. If food items had a tiny chance to attract or spawn rats, big bases would inevitably end up getting rats from the sheer amount of food lying around.

Exactly what threat rats would represent isn't something I have a strong opinion about. Maybe they eat or steal discarded food, maybe they bite people to inconvenience them, maybe they have a chance to spread disease.

This would give people incentive to organize better and pack away food in containers like baskets, and boxes. Though rats shouldn't just be there to force people to clean. Bases could decide to chase away the rats instead. Maybe players could deal with the rats directly with weapons, though I think this is actually would be an excuse to have dogs do something.

Cartoons have taught us that cats eat rats, but historically, dogs were employed to get rid of vermin. We kept dogs on our ships and farms, and they in turn kept rats and other scavengers away. Dogs currently serve no function in the game, yet they too have been a staple in many civilizations. What if their mere presence kept rats from spawning, or maybe they could have an interaction where they chase and kill rats.

Rats would make bigger bases harder to manage, which I completely understand if you guys are not on board with, but it would also let new players feel useful just through an easy new job like making baskets and storing food, and it would give experienced players an excuse to risk their lives to get dogs.

I understand that technically this would be tricky since animals and items on the same tile don't work well. So adding an animal that only shows up when every tile is occupied would pose problems. Maybe a food item could simply be replaced by a rat, and they remove food if they end their movement on a tile with food on it? I don't know... I don't want to pretend I know how to make a game. I'm just trying to make rats seem viable.