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Well you individually doing it isn't going to make a huge difference, but if everyone who read this thread decided to start killing all their noob kids I reckon it would make a pretty significant difference to the average experience new players have.

Most days of the week I can do daytime (say 10-4) GMT, which I think is about 2-8am PST? Not ideal for fitting with those of you on PST, but on Fridays and Sundays I can go into European evening so that would fit with a PST morning. Or if we find another couple of Europeans Nepumuk and I can start a separate quad town

It would be nice to plan the four surnames to be themed somehow - like North South East and West for example, though I'm not sure if those are all on the namelist. Or even just all starting with the same letter - just something to tie the lines together for later generations to see.

Yeah, I'd either make them immortal or only have them need feeding after say an hour - both for gameplay reasons as pein said and also because parrots can live longer than sixty years in real life!

How about a perch you can build out of, say, tied short  shaft + short shaft. You have to feed a wild parrot to pick it up, and once you're holding it it can learn the. First phrase you say. Then if you put it down on the perch it will sit there and occasionally repeat its phrase. Feeding it again allows it to be picked up and taught a second phrase, and it would cycle through them randomly.

The trouble with disincentivising /die is people will just run off into the wilds to starve instead, which I find even more annoying as a mother because it's less immediate and could be accidental whereas /die is very obvious.

If saying "curse my baby" reset your fertility cooldown, there would be the risk of people saying it just when the baby dies for any reason. That would penalise people unfairly. Imagine you spawn in as a boy, but your mother needs girls so she doesn't feed you - and then curses you to speed up getting more girls. That would suck pretty hard.

My feeling is that unless and until Jason gives people a way to express a preference on login for what type of person they want to spawn as (m/f, eve/baby) we just kind of have to accept a high infant mortality rate.

Very interesting, thanks for this!

Could it be that 'normal' tutorial spawns aren't included in the logs, and these are people who respawned in the tutorial cells as eves after dying there of old age (and maybe some of their children)? That would explain why there were only a tiny number of them.

One interesting thing you could deduce from this is how many people are being sent to Donkey Town - assuming that info isn't in the server logs already.

You can hold down the space bar to 'freeze' the view in place, which would conflict with an always-open chat window. Personally I never use that feature, but personally I don't find pressing enter to open chat is a big deal either and it's the standard in most games (well, not always enter but pressing a key to type is standard) so I don't know if it's much of an issue for the average new player either.

Christmas lasts the whole day surely!

This is amazing!

To be honest I kind of like the idea of being put in this and seeing how much help I can be to the village just through coordinating people: zoom out as far as practical, ask people to report to me when they find resources or need something, and I'll pass on the info / request to others when they come near. Of course you can do that without being trapped in a box, but there will always be the temptation to get your hands dirty yourself. Being forced to contribute only through speaking seems like an interesting challenge (at least for one lifetime!).

It's also annoying from the mother's point of view: if you're travelling while carrying stuff, notice a baby appear behind you, run back, drop your basket/whatever, grab the baby - and it dies. It would be a lot less disruptive if the baby just /died before you did all that.

On the other hand, at least requiring it to be in your hands means it's pretty clear what happens, that the player chose to /die and didn't just starve or something. Maybe that's the reasoning behind it? On the whole I feel like it would be better if they could /die even while not being held though.

I was there at the end of this line - I posted about it here: https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4716

Yeah, getting no girls and just knowing the town is about to die sucks.

How long does it take to die from a stab wound?

Anyway neither of us thought of that, to be honest I think we were both too busy laughing at what a stupid situation it was. Good to know for the future though!