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"what's the purpose of males or gender at the moment?"

Perhaps the above "berry muncher" example can give us an idea about how males could end up in differentiated roles based on the current game dynamics. Say such a berry muncher tribe exists but they are preyed upon by a technologically superior tribe which has a thing for genocide.

If the only imperative was reproduction, the men (and menopausal women) would be pretty much useless and would perhaps just be better off left to wander into the desert and die. But in this case since a threat exists to the women -in the form of the "Genocide Tribe"- the men could form a warrior cast in order to protect them. Because the men are inconsequential to population growth anyway, them taking risks while the women are more conservative makes sense. (It's worth noting that after child bearing age the women and men are pretty much identical, so perhaps the warrior ranks would include grannies!).

Of course this would never actually happen, no sane human being would submit to berry munching and baby production for an endless, tedious hour while their male counterparts run around playing war.

Unless the males forced them to?

I like where this is going. Josh's assessment "building stuff while not forgetting to eat" pretty much sums up the state of the game at the moment. If you feel inclined to build stuff which you think at least will give you the advantage of having to remember to eat less often you find that all this distracting technology stuff you have to deal with makes you forget to eat thus perpetuating the problem. Perhaps the irony of starving to death while attempting to make a delicious pie is amusing the first couple of times, after that the joke wears thin.

If indeed the civilization producing the most fertile women will "win" in the long run then the perfect strategy at the moment is a no-brainer. Do nothing except sitting around berry bushes eating and popping out babies. A more 'advanced' civilization will struggle with ever increasing cases of technologically induced forgetting-to-eat syndrome which will decrease its child producing capacity so its demise is inevitable.

Perhaps the more advanced societies could counter this by hunting and killing the technologically inferior "berry munchers" for sport?

It seems that the problem is now, um... worse! If I don't change the compatibility settings to allow the application to handle scaling, even if I have windows dpi scaling at 100%, scaling reverts to the default 125% (and over enlarges the game) when and only when I run the game. Strange huh?

Also, it's worth saying that I'm pretty sure this is an issue with all of your games. Although I don't have any others on my computer at present I've have memories of a similar problem occurring when I was running TCD. That was on a different laptop, so it's not just my current computer playing tricks.

It looks like you can disable dpi scaling for individual programs in the compatability options. I guess there must be a way to do this code-side as well.

Yeah I just killed a lot of babies! At the moment there is no real indication that you're feeding the babies when you pick them up. It just looks like, well, you're picking them up. Perhaps some better feedback would at least reduce the problem.

Or perhaps you could make it so that new players won't have babies until they themselves have been raised at least once to self feeding age. Then at least they probably have some idea about parenting before they try and start their own family. I mean, that's how I figured it out.

Why not throw this on the wiki? It will do as a place holder until someone can come up with something better.

Given the intentional minimalism of the crafting system I'd be intrigued to know a (probably hypothetical at this point) crafting tree for something complex like, say, a motorcar or a smart phone. I'm guessing to make it work there will have to be a little artistic licence like, say: cart + engine = car?
Oh, and have a great holiday!

Too many questions!
1. Will objects deteriorate in this world? Will hammers break? Will walls crumble? Will civilization need to be maintained, not just built?
2. How awful can we be to each other in this game? Can we kill each other? Can we steal each other's stuff? Can we burn down down houses? Can we enslave our weaker neighbors? Can we do even worse?
3. Is crafting as simple as A + B = C + D? Can it get more complex? Does it take time or expend energy to do?
4. Will our interactions with the world (not other people) be limited to crafting? How else might we engage with this world?

Enough for now.

The world you're creating is...VERY BIG. Effectively that means that no two Eve spawned civilisations will ever conceivably meet.  At that point why even bother with such a huge world? Why not spawn each Eve in a new world altogether? I mean, is there any reason why you're making it so HUGE?