One Hour One Life Forums

I just started this game a couple days ago and it has been fun, its a good concept. Tends to create an actual community that works together to survive.

However I have noticed the current incentives in the game discourage building structures outside of a kitchen and a couple fences for animals. You have one hour to do everything and after that point everything you did is just gone. You die and are born to a random family anywhere. So what you built you may never see again or it belongs to another family.

Why bother building? You only get points for keeping your family alive not for building things and it takes so long to build anything that you cannot accomplish anything within your lifetime. I've been reborn to the same (city?) 3 times between all my lives and it has not changed within any of those lives (Day apart between first and last spawn). No one builds anything new.

I think that people should be reborn to the same family if that genetic line is maintained to create a sense of persistence to what you build. Then you could build a "family house" where a family tries to keep that genetic line continuing so they can continue to reincarnate. If all family members die then they have to start over again as another random family. Then you would see people creating houses and districts for their family to keep it alive for as long as possible (as they did in real life). You might get a rich elite family running a town that hoards all resources only to face a rebellion of the other families or actual trade between families (family specialization). Families would work together and create mutual defenses or separate defenses and towns would look more like towns.

Probably have to have a way to set your primary, secondary, tertiary family incase your primary family cannot have children at the time of your death or your family just died off, or an option to keep it random.

I just don't see a reason to build half a house that you will never see again when I can just go get more food and pump out more babies for more genetic points. Not like the house really benefits me outside of kitchen purposes.