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Drama queen:
only plays as girl
wanders around the camp, looking and begging for clothing and knife
raises babies while eating
generally provokes someone then spends her life to curse that person and convince his kids to curse
at 40 either dies or runs around telling people to bury her.

Baby assassin:
sees a kill, spends his life to snipe a player out, and that reason justifies for him to not work 30-40 minutes, generally kills a few more.

Roleplay doctor: saves everyone, saves the griefers multiple times
generally just makes pads all her life denying wool clothing and compost

The always late:
does everything the camp needs, just too late
generally asks for knife to be a sheperd, but is too slow so someone needs to do it properly, then he claims he is the shepherd
if you make a cart, he takes it in 2 seconds, if you make a farm plants random things into it
if you bring a branch , he makes kindling out of it
if you ever question it, he either preaches about how this is a community, to justify taking everything as "sharing" or starts insulting you

The feminazi:
starves boys, even kills them, tells people to kill based on gender.

Pedro the kidnapper:
grabs babies and runs away with them, he is naked all his life, generally makes a bow but pretty easy t dodge, he denies everything.

The "baker"
takes every cart, every box, every rope to the 'kitchen"
makes pies from whatever
fires up oven for 3 pies even
does this any life, every life, any level of civilization

The "hunter"
her mom tells her he needs to hunt, even names him that way
he spends his life killing pigs and bringing back pig meat, and running around in city with a bow
generally kills someone by accident

The royal:
Spends 30 minutes to make a crown then walk around  the city
generally gives another crown to a random baby girl
Kills anyone who has problem with it and starts cursing.
Causes half of the population to stop working.
Generally talks 20 minutes about what should be done but never gets done anything.

The survivor:
can eat, that's it. Survives anytime, anywhere, hides food for herself behind trees.

The task follower:
Can get anything from anywhere, but cant see the bigger picture so needs constant instructions. Can spend his life doing the same thing: getting firewood, getting clay, branches, iron, rabbit etc.

Carrot waterer: if seeds seeds plants them and waters them, never returns to the spot to pick them out, generally does this 3-4 times a life.

The stew maker: makes stew every time, every life, explains stew, even without a crock, takes the kindling from the forge to make stew, makes only crocks at forge, people kill each other or no soil? he just makes stew

Overly attached girl:
Goes for asking a job and follows a person around all life,  learns a job then does it for the full life. teaches her kids to do that job only. I seen quite a few nice ones who yell "uncle " every time they see you, and "we are ranchers" when sees a sheep. They are pretty nice.

Headless horsemen:
Just takes a horse and runs around with it all life. Similar to crown makers. No use of them and just occupies a tool from others.

The abandoned kid: left alone cause expects her mother will carry her all her childhood, generally saved by some older dude. Spends 40 minutes to make a marked grave even if others die around her. Spends the rest of time eating berry and gearing kids with clothes she didn't made.

The grave digger: brings back bones to camp and digs them, generally in a big box shaped graveyard. Destroys multiple shovels cause needs to "bury my cousins and ancestors ". The whole camp starves in meantime.  steps on a snake bringing back flat rocks.

Kirk wrote:

I couldn't agree more! A sandbox creative mode or challenge mode would be so valuable as a learning tool. I know I would love to play in a singleplayer sandbox where I could experiment with city designs.

the game has potential
unfortunately Jason is too busy tinkering on major changes to core mechanics, fancy tech & bugs
making everyday life worth the effort ? nah
teaching newbz to live a fun life ? nah
but if you're lucky you might live to a new weapon

Nice video!  This actually makes for a nice video of how to make things from the ground up, without using any advantages that the tutorial area offers.

Here's some more things about that area.  You can complete a stone hatchet and a rabbit snare before you reach the tutorial area.  It's a bit strange to me that there don't exist any curved branches to make a fire bow drill also at present, but that's what we have.  Also, you skipped some boxes.  In particular there's a box with firewood and kindling.  In my opinion, it's worth the time to turn that into a sledge, and then drag it to the smithing area.  That way you can get a large slow fire early on!  Of course though, that won't happen in any settlement starting from scratch.

Also, I think hot coals take two minutes to cool off.  So, you don't need to immediately throw kindling on them to keep a fire going.

I like your two kiln system and you showed off the basic tools.  Well done!

But no one is saying that? Obviously no one is going to pay $5 for a life. Even if Jason thought that before, its totally irrelevant because he has clearly departed from that model. You don't even have to pay for the game, just to play on his servers, and its never been pay per life. You two are harping on an issue that was never actually a problem. If the game isn't fun for you now, then come back after future updates or don't. I don't know about your playtime, but I know at my playtime, and Rage's, we have certainly gotten our $20 worth. I have netflix, I have soundcloud go, and a few other online services. These all cost about $10 a month and im a pretty average user of both. The average netflix user watches 40 hours a month. A movie ticket costs around ten dollars. A cheap meal at a cheap restaurant is about that much. To get 500 hours of entertainment out of $20 is a fantastic deal. To get 100 hours from $20 still outpaces a the vast majority of entertainments and enjoyable things in life. When you bought this game you knew that one person was making it, and that he was going to work on it alone for potentially the entire development, management, and support of the game, and that like all humans he has a limited time in each day to do all of those tasks.

rage wrote:

Give me a break i might be new to this forum but i am not new to this game i have probably put in 500 hours. Sure i could stay alive and not starve, but that does not mean it is fun or that i could be productive and get anything useful accomplished. Just because you have a thing for jason and his vision does not mean that everyone else does. This game is NOT FUN.

your hero jason was saying how he first intended to charge five dollars for one life on this game, i wouldn't pay 5 cents.

he has also said that he didn't intend this game to be played for long periods of time that a few lives would be worth the 20 bux. I say bullshit. I pay 20 bux for games like morrowind and i expect to play FOREVER as long as i want, and i also expect there to be quality in the game and it to be fun.

rage wrote:

i wouldn't pay 5 cents

Well, at 500 hours, and $20, you have now paid exactly $0.04 per hour for a game. FOR TWENTY DOLLARS, YOU HAVE GOTTEN OVER FIVE HUNDRED HOURS OF PLAYTIME. THERE ARE AAA GAMES THAT COST OVER SEVENTY DOLLARS THAT YOU GET AT BEST, A FEW DOZEN HOURS OF PLAYTIME. You need to have realistic expectations, and if you had bothered to you know, get on the forums in your "500 hours of playtime", and read even a few of Jasons posts, you wouldve seen this coming. This was always his vision for the game, for it to be hard. Entitled screeching just shows how far up your own ass your head is. Jason is one person, and can only really work on one thing at a time, also, you will not have forever replay-ability of this game, as he stated from the outset of this that he intended to do weekly updates for about two years. Its incredibly easy to set up your own private server now with AWBZ mod, and even easier to join some other server. Like others have stated, the game is not impossible now, there are already many towns. Eveing is harder, but it should be hard, you're bootstrapping a civilization.