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I don't mean just this week. I mean all of time.
I get that mods are people, but they should be able to tell troublesome posts without having to have them reported. They should be watching the forums, as is the job they were trusted with.

For example; Explain why these posts were tolerated at the time. I searched one word to find easy examples; these definitely aren't the only offenders. The serial "grief braggers" are generally people I'd have cracked down on hard for spam in the mod's position.

And yes, it's a shame that Morti was banned. They were one of the few people here capable of coherent speech and argument, but I'm happy to see the mods doing something about spam. The fact that Morti was one of the only people hit for it is what's the saddest part.

Forum title: "Fag"
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7351

It's like this forum is frequented solely by children and lonely old men... which might not be too far from the truth.

And before anyone claims "language policing," I'll say this: If you wouldn't scream it to the heavens in a public space or in the middle of class, don't say it in what should be a semi-polite conversational space. I get that arguments online happen and are healthy parts of discussion, but the way some people act here is just... something else. I'm especially looking at the people who insult Jason at every turn, without giving anything constructive past "ur game sux u sux fuk u loliolol," which is exactly how I read half of these posts.

It's making a bad image for anyone new to the game that comes here.

I think it's a lovely idea, but with how easy it is to remove roads I'm just waiting for a griefer to come along

This is actually a very touching tribute. :')

I'm going to ignore the rest of the post for a moment, Jason, and point out... that you're wrong about being the first!
A lot of that was done by Faerie Tale Online (which is text based, more RP oriented, much slower, and managed by a rather conceited/controlling man) some years ago.

Its crafting trees can be as complex as OHOL's and one game day lasts 12 real life hours with 12 days in a year, rather than an hour being a year. Different races live longer or shorter lives. Information about the game world is scarce outside of private circles, as it was a bannable offense to share details out of the game. It's still running to this day and was the main reason I was so interested in playing OHOL when I first heard of it being developed, as the player base slowed down significantly.

Different languages weren't a mechanic, they were created by your family's players (if they wanted) and potentially learned by you, the player. Other races rarely interacted enough for any of it to come into play outside of your own family's roleplay. Babies, of course, could not speak until they reached adulthood.

I remember being a dwarf girl, a mix of two different races in fact, and struggling with ostracization. My brother took after the minority and was kicked out, coming back later to murder our parents. There were no griefers in the game, due to the slow burn nature of it, and the player was well liked among the group even after the fact. Murders were rare and always for a reason. A friend lived a life as a mer-person who's village was set upon by some of the roaming animals in the game, forcing them to become nomads in search of a suitable home in the ocean. She was separated and lived to old age by herself, calling into the ocean in the hopes of finding them again. Another life I lived as a beggar lizard-boy in a desert, my family left without me one day and I wandered for three days before starving.

I enjoy both games for the same reasons, of course, but I felt so much more connected to my family in FTO than I do in OHOL. When my mother died in FTO, I did mourn. When she dies in OHOL, I don't even realize. I enjoyed this game when I began playing it in January and will admit to not having the time in the past week or two, but I found myself enjoying it less lately. I don't really understand why, as I had no true issues with any of the updates. It's... odd. Burnout, maybe?

I know when I began, I saw a lot more roleplay happening in OHOL, which I loved, but lately it's all silent work. Nobody talks. My daughters don't come to me with plans to tame horses. My sons don't check on me. They don't respond when I greet them. The game got more impersonal; people don't want to talk in game, they want to make planes with the Discord. I can only assume everyone else is voice chatting and I'm the odd one out, playing with no mods and no interest in meta contact?

But I'm going on a tangent.

What I'm saying is, you might have a kindred soul in that developer. He seems to have chilled out over the years and would probably enjoy your project.

https://steamcharts.com/app/595690

At least on the Steam version, which I'm assuming is the most played. I'd been on the mailing list for the game before release, but still chose to purchase through Steam rather than Jason's website after all. I trusted it far more than I did a creator who, at the time, I knew very little about.

You can see the steady, alarming decline in players that's been going on since November 2018, we're at an all time low. In October, the game had nearly 600 people playing at once. It's actually the dropping numbers that's caused me to play less and less each day, villages don't feel as bustling as they did early on. It's gotten too quiet and too cliquey for my tastes, given that most players seem to chat in private through Discord or other means while I choose to play without meta, given lack of a better word to use.

Okay, this is the point where I really do begin to wonder exactly why Jason doesn't moderate his forum.

Some of the language being used here is disgusting and has absolutely no place being used, nor tolerated. I think this might be the first time I've felt truly ashamed of him.

You're children.
You're not funny.
You're not edgy.

You're embarrassments.

You don't need to pass it down if you just use it for your own personal projects, once you die those are done. If somebody intends to use fences as a trap, they'll build their own anyway.

> Forum complains when Jason adds property fences
> Forum complains that people touch the things they're working hard on
> Forum wonders how to fix the issue, keeping people away from their hard work

Maybe a.... barrier of some sort might help you?

Or rather, make a sling to put babies into.

I'd also suggest a season idea as a possible fix for the issue.
Maybe they would change every six or twelve hours so that every day/two days sees all four, but you're unlikely to experience them all in one day. Every map reset starts the game in a random season, so that you would have the chance to play them all eventually, and each offers hurdles in the way of resource gathering.

Spring/Summer could be a "resource reset" in which things replenish once and then deplete as it nears fall and winter; added to a finite map, that'd eliminate the need for manual resets every time wells and rigs run dry. Unrealistic for oil to refill itself in spring, sure, but that's unimportant for a game. I might also, selfishly, want to see white rabbit clothing.

It'd also make each play session feel more unique than "grassy/plains village life #23443"

You've been making a lot of pointless threads.
How's about you stop?

I enjoy yum chaining, it adds something to work towards on top of all my goals. Instead of mindlessly eating the same pie, I have to stop and think about what I need to eat next. The extra babies I get out of it are especially nice! I try to bring different food types towards nursery areas to help out expectant mothers when I can.

And it helps when I need to explore for resources in tiny settlements, I've only been bitten by mosqitoes a handful of times (I'm thinking single digits) since properly learning how to avoid them and each time was far from home. My yum chain helped me live through it.

But I don't have an issue with the occasional forced feeding. It happens, I know I've mistakenly fed people once or twice while making pies or standing in crowded spots while eating. Lately, sure, forced feedings have gotten to a point where it's been once per game, but it's nothing to get furious over.

Restarting my yum is annoying, yes, but I don't get so mad as to think "they broke my yum chain, they don't get to play the game here anymore!!!!! REEEE-" It's just as easy to walk up to the person and be all "Hey! fyi It's super rude to feed people, you could break a yum chain they worked hard on and some people can get violent about it"

If you stab someone over a feeding, they're going to think "wow what a griefer" as they die regardless of what you say, because they're probably new. You can say "you fed me," "dont feed me," or "you broke yum," but that's not going to mean anything to the truly new. All they know is that they were murdered over a berry. They'll do it again next life because they think they're being nice, or because they dont realize that clicking people with food is feeding.

If you calmly explain yourself, they might actually learn from the experience and you won't have to deal with it again from them if they didn't know before. Their reaction can be telling; understanding for the truly new (or clever) or something like "lol" or "whatever" from the truly malicious. If they do it again at that point, after the warning, then go ahead with the stabbing.