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Yes well now the time has elapsed I see i had 27 babies.  I mean, seriously, there needs to be a limit.

My Daughter Missy Mont had 51 babies.  That has to be a record.

@Jason is this for real?

Personally I think the curse system is too weak.  On your numbers that doesn't include the 20+ times I have tried to 'curse' someone and couldn't because I miss-spelt the name, ie Uahdaherdet or whatever it was, or I was a baby and didn't have enough letters (putting it on paper is no good as I have picked up a piece of paper and cursed someone I didn't even KNOW).  Or I haven't had a curse token available as in my evenings play I have had nothing but griefers etc and used my curse up in the first five mins of logging in.  I have seen multiple times where people have tried and failed to curse for those very reasons so I know I am not alone.  I would estimate you could quadruple the amount of curses and still be under the actual number of griefers who would of been cursed had game mechanics not thwarted them.

I think if you start a sentence with the letter 'c' it should let you keep going with a U then an R then an S and E and once spelt that out 'curse' then allow the rest of the name irrespective of if you are 'old' enough to talk. Even at 15 the letters are limited if the name is really long.  And while you can curse the person up to two hours later (I think) most time you forget to write it down or just log out and go do something else til you get in the mood to be griefed again.

A town I was in earlier today, a fair sized one, had been 'griefed' to the fact that some asshat had taken an ax and chopped down every single useful tree for miles.  I mean 30+ screens in any direction.  So when the fire went out, we couldn't find a leaf anywhere. To stop this you really need to make some trees 'protected' species.  So say one in 10 or so of any particular species can't be logged to stop this clear felling.  It was obviously a griefer as the only trees left standing were the ones that don't have any use.  White pines etc.  Either that or make it so that trees can drop seeds as other crops so that we can regrow species when needed.

Making it harder for people to murder is also needed.  Perhaps they need to stab you 5 times to actually kill you and after the first time they are slowed down, so need to work at it, and also to shoot you 3 times with an arrow again being slowed after the first one.   I accidentally stabbed someone a while back unintentionally and felt bad as it was a young town and we had no bandages etc I shouldn't be able to miss click and kill someone like that. If I want to murder someone then it has to be intentional in my view.  Not this one stab and your dead rubbish.  That is just too easy for griefers.

I am put off atm at the number of towns that barely make it past generation 8 or whatever as the kiddies get in before the towns are established with medics and bandages etc and one snot nosed kid can just run rampant with a knife and total the town by killing all the females.   I have played 4 hours today and every single town died due to no females.  Getting to where it is becoming seriously old and not much fun.

The problem with that lame curse system is if you are killed before you have enough letters to speak curse xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx you are shit out of luck. I have been murdered this past week about 4 times where I couldn't type in the required name due to being under 15 yrs old.   Also if the person runs off real quick before  you can get their name, or their name is some weird spelt thing that you cant spell you are also out of luck. 

It is funny, as I said in my original post, I am a long long time gamer, with heaps gaming friends who might of been interested in this game for something to do when we aren't running raids in wow or doing stuff in other games, eve, ultima etc.  But having spent my $30 aud to play I am not gonna recommend any of my friends/gamers come here.  It is just grief city.  Doesn't need to be, there is ZERO reason for anyone to be able to kill someone in this game.  It it not like it is fair player v player combat, it is as I said just pure griefing.

Sad, could of been an interesting game to follow with civilization progress. Not as it stands atm.

Yes well I started this game about a month and a half ago, and now after being murdered by this today, and having been previously murdered by regular knifes, bows/arrow am going to give it a miss, and not recommend it to any of my friends.  I am a LONG time gamer, (been gaming over 20 yrs online) and was giving this a test  due to it's original content etc, however, because griefers can one hit kill you, irrespective of the weapon, I am gonna leave.  I just don't see the point in devoting time into a game where you have 0 redress and only seconds to get cured assuming there is a medic around.

A waste of my time. 

The thing is it is obviously children with nothing better to do with their time other than grief other players.  The game mechanics allow it, so there is nothing  you can do. 

The lame ass 'curse so and so' is fine if you are old enough to talk, but the last two times I was murdered I couldn't 'curse' the person as their name was too long for me to speak. 

Curse should be a word able to be spoken by toons of any age, and you should be able to just 'curse' and click on the person involved so long names are not an issue.

Anyways, is a great original concept but due to the ablity for little snot noses to just run through a village griefing multiple players minding their own business just because they can it is as I said not worth the time and effort. 

No other game I have played allows pk'ers one hit to destroy another players fun.  It is not like it is pvp where there is any actual fighting.  It is just a griefers game.

Laterz.

Edit:  Frankly I do not see a need at ALL for any player in this game to have the ability to kill another player.  What is the purpose of it other than to grief? 

I don't see one.