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The data is also incomplete, unless steam accounts for people who play on the nonsteam version of the game aswell.

Because there are too few people in villages. You can hardly even call them villages, because even these in real life have in average hundreds of people. They also often don't last long enough for one group of people to consider themselves different from the others, which are in fact still their relatives. And when they do last long enough for that and you get several private properties, they usually die out soon after.

Basically, it's more efficient to share everything for the current size of settlements.

Buildings to protect against players, you can see in real life how that went. After all, wars existed because people could conquer others even if they were defended by castles. Even Constantinople fell, with its mighty Theodosian Walls. So pretty much yes, any kind of security is hopeless because it is so in real life too. Every lock can be opened or broken, every building can be demolished. As for castles, I guess you heard of sieges. They weren't always won by breaking the castle walls and storming it. Sometimes, the besiegers would simply wait for the defenders to starve. Farms normally are outside city walls, but ingame you get that by the fact that you need to get out for iron and other things. What's the difference between people not getting out because they'll be killed by the attacking army and people not getting out because they were sealed inside, in terms of result?

Unlike real life though, there'll always be a mole inside the settlement that will simply want to ruin it. And if someone from outside could lock down a fenced settlement, you can bet someone from inside could do the same.

I did mention before making use of nature to require buildings. I don't think you'll have as many people complain to you if you make buildings and fences required to protect against wild animal attacks. Or against weather even, since getting wet makes you lose temperature, and fires don't go along too well with water. After all, people didn't build shelters to protect themselves from other people initially, that came much later when settlements grew, but to protect themselves and their belongings from nature's wrath.

I can't say what changed from your previous games since I know nothing about them, but what changed within OHOL is the direction, basically, and people who got used to the game as it is will obviously not like that. And the fact that you seem to not actually listen to what the players are saying when it comes to major changes. Then comes releasing content that fits a weird niche within the game (property fences) or that is completely unbalanced (swords). And going against what you advertised the game to be (instead of having people build civilization together, people are building their private properties - which don't actually contribute often to people working together - or going on crusades). You get the idea.

It happens to bigger studios aswell. Two particular cases I witnessed happened with Stellaris. The devs changed core aspects of the game at least twice since the game was released, and there was lots of negativity both on the forums and on steam. First time it was removing core mechanics in order to make improvements in certain directions (like "terrain" and static defenses) viable, but many people obviously didn't like that. Second time was requested by the players, but it was released in a hurry and the game was basically completely broken for many playstyles, and the team went on winter holidays right after. The devs would often stay in touch with the players, but that actually became rarer for a while due to the negativity on the forums, so it's laudable that you're still around talking with people. The difference is that the devs did come back to fix the broken stuff, and started implementing neat features, so the things cooled down. Ever since discussions regarding fences appeared though, there hasn't been enough not controversial stuff to stop people from complaining.

If you want the game to be enjoyable, there has to be a balance between the things you want and the things the players want.

I mean, it is a good warning of what to expect in the post

By this logic, many very popular multiplayer games need to be changed, just saying.

The game you are given is like a library or an api. It has a set of methods and variables, stuff it can do and objects and what not. It has defined functionality, and it's up to you how you use it. Try go beyond that, and see how it fails. You can't just send requests to an endpoint you "made" for an api you don't own and expect to actually receive something but errors. That's what playing the game is. You have a set of limitations and you have to stay within them for proper functionality. Sure, you can make your client show 1000 tiles away, but you'll still only get to actually see what the server gives you.

The only case when your analogy is correct is when you are given code to modify. That's when you more or less have free hand on what to do. In this case, you can make the client see 1000 tiles away, but you can also make the server send those tiles to the client.

So yea, as a programmer, if I'm given an object to use, I'll ask what it can do. If I'm given an object to modify, I'll ask what I could make it do. We are given the game to use, not modify. Even with the mods we have now, to be able to play on the main servers, they all need to stay within the limits defined by the them.

You may have a point with not always using stuff the way it's meant to be used, but the programming analogy is kinda wrong.

Since freedom of speech is such a great issue for the forum, we should encourage people who want to spread racist ideas and what not, right? Since, stopping them would deny one of their rights, and we cannot allow that to happen.

Because it's basically killing people with extra steps. It was his choice to plant food, he could aswell have left the prisoners starve. And also, the trapped people can't do anything for the village in the time they're trapped.

As far as I know, there is an editor available, but I never tried it

It's not starvation that always kills civilizations. What I noticed often is people killing eachother, SIDs and too few births

For people who don't know why, what he means is that, you can use two bowls of soil and one hoe use instead of one bowl of soil and two hoe uses. It's more efficient iron-wise, since you can make compost, but there's no way to make iron. You could also use a hoe on 3 bowls of soil (one basket), but that's a waste since you only need 2 bowls.