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I actually really love this idea. We could also place a job board next to a smithy and make requests for tools as well. No more having to smith hoes when I'm busy making compost!

It could have a double function, general job board and serve as a way to communicate with people holding a specific job in the town! Again, a great contribution!

I agree with this forum, I want fancy clothes to be more relevant. I'm tired of working on the diesel engine with only a rabbit loincloth to my name

To address some of the things I've been seeing:

* The true purpose of the throne would be to organically provide clear direction to the village. Feel free to come up with different ideas that accomplish this same goal. I know someone suggested a board, that's great, how would you implement that into the game? If calling the "boss" of the village a king seems like it will cause too many issues, how about renaming it to Shaman or something along those lines?

1. Players who prefer to do their own thing would (most of the time) not be hindered by the throne. Only those who wish for direction would be given it, after taking the oath. How many times have you had your children BEG for a job or you've been uselessly walking around the town not knowing what to do.

2. Like any change to the game, it could end in disaster. I believe the king would definitely find himself at risk of being assassinated. However, people would get tired of going after the king over and over, and this provides more reason to have dedicated guards in the village. Think about all the different stories that could be made! Murder is already an issue, happening in almost every life I have anyways. I don't think this would make it much worse.

3. I don't expect this to actually be implemented. At least not exactly how I described it. Maybe this will inspire something down the line though, I know I've seen Jason on the forums talking about ways to spice up even one more of your lives and mentioning leadership a couple of times. I believe the rulership system would be a step towards that goal. In fact, not every town is going to have a throne anyways. They WOULD require a decent amount of resources to make. If balanced correctly, you won't have to spend every life rebelling

I think leadership is a long time coming and needs a push to truly happen. Here is my idea https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6554 but I'm sure the community could come up with some even better ways to implement leadership. Imagine what a village could do under some sort of official direction!

This also leaves room for more roleplay-like elements without hindering the tech-obsessed vets. Politics could even become a thing in megacities with people trying to gain votes of some kind. Wars could be fought, involving everyone, because of the direction a leader could potentially provide. Most importantly, cooperation might become typical among towns.

I have to write simply to provide an opinion against "life tokens". The problem we are supposedly talking about, which is making a player born as a baby feel invested from the start of his/her life, would not be solved by this method. People would simply /die to the life they want and get their token in that life. The problem still there. As the game developer said, people usually live out their lives past childhood.

Some bad ideas for preventing players from /die:
1. Option to directly be born as eve in the menu
2. Double popup menu forcing the player to confirm that they wish to die, word it in a way to make the player feel almost guilty doing it (Are you sure? Your family is at a greater risk of dying out... blah blah blah)
3. Death animation for the baby when it /die
4. Penalty for /die
5. Remove /die (unpopular opinion but pleaseeeeeee)

Some bad ideas to make players more invested in a new life:
1. If a player has been born in a village before, they will feel more invested in that life
2. The life they find themselves born into is having some sort of problem, threatening survival (for players like me who enjoy that part of the game and saving the village)
3. The player is within a life he/she prefers (I've heard ideas addressing this in the forums)
4. More social aspects in the game (like emotes which were an amazing addition to the game!), we the community LOVE making, a meaningful, hour-long connection with one another

Personally, I love being born into a village suffering from a water shortage, or where nobody knows how to build Newcomen machines. I feel important, like what I'm doing is important, and enjoy watching the village thrive when I'm done fixing the issue. Being born into a social conflict or strange predicament always spices things up and makes for an amazing story to post on the fourms later on

I have a solution that I personally think would be worth a try (to make swords less of mass destruction weapon, you're on your own for the combat running issues).

In real life, soldiers would need to sharpen and maintain their blades to keep them at top performance. How about trying to emulate this by reducing the effectiveness of the weapon after a kill or two is made. For example, maybe after the first kill, the sword requires two hits to kill (the first temporarily wounding), much like a bear requires two arrows (naturally this solution makes killing people running around harder, which is counterintuitive.) The sword can be put back to its one hit kill status when it is sharpened/tempered in some way. Of course, swords are too easy to make right now for this to work, so the recipe would need to change IMO.