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I guess we'll have to see for ourselves how long the ban lasts, but it won't be permanent thats for sure and if it is, he can just create a new account without any restrictions. Just like OHOL where if you get cursed into oblivion you can just get unlimited accounts as long as you got the money for it and still be able to go on with your inner Joker desires, till boredom consumes your will of playing and you get a refund of your money.

Pretty convenient for those who are willing to do such actions.

I find it quite amusing seeing how many people come to back up Spoonwood for who he is, knowing how he has behaved throughout the years in these forums, lets say he's not really somewhat of a saint himself being that he constantly bluntly criticizes Jason for the way he wants work on his own game proyect and for him to do changes to it acordingly to his viewpoint and the current game status.

Its funny because i thought more of Spoonwood when i red Eve Troll's post about people critcizing other people and how it says more about the person doing the critique than of Gogo and his post about him being overall annoyed of Spoonwood shenanigans.

Im not saying that something should be done about Spoonwood's way of being, since people are just the way they are and they have the freedom express themselves in this forum even if its unpleasent for others but afterall you can just ignore his posts if they are particularly bothersome to you.

Even though he could be a friendly guy now and then, and that he has done some "good" contributions to the forum's community, i cant find it adecuate to excuse his way of being by saying stuff like "he just likes to criticize a lot " because theres crearly ,many many, ways to criticize something you disagree with and some of it can help, specially if its in a constructive way, but spitting criticizm to the developer in destructive sense and overall ways that are really uncalled for doesnt serve much purpose but to make a fool of yourselve like Eve Troll mentioned, aswell as making the community a more hostile environment to participate at, and i wont even go in the details on how recurrently he necros posts that were done and gone for good, it has fooled me more than once .

btw thats a lot of using the verb criticize in this post XD

Hmm... wouldn't that make OHOL a completly different game though?

Yeah, maybe thats what people need afterall, some new content to enjoy to, not necesarily changing the mecanics of the game, but rather offering actual enjoyable content.

A breath of fresh air.

Maybe ? , nah im just messing, its just that i didnt knew that he was the one who "inspired" the whole experiment, it probably was along with other people aswell, but you mentiond him as the "father"... interesting... to say the least.

Why do you keep pushing the subject of Hp system and combat into the table, he just wont do it, he has already talked about the matter a couple times already, and its probably for the best anyways, this game aint about generic combat systems, for that you got PLENTY of games to choose from, games that could be better suited to your likings... than just a modified version of OHOL for combat purposes.

People tend to figure out stuff by themselves with time, just like most stuff that have been added to the game, but players need to familiarize with the concept first, aswell as, actually giving TIME for them to adapt to the changes, otherwise this could turn out to be another "posse system balance", and that really wont work anymore.

Its up to Jason if he wants to aid the players to understand this new mechanic or not, if the concept is too complicated, he could try expanding the tutorial, with this new possible addition, just like he did with curse mechanics, and i would recommend doing that, since we have already used quite some time in all these recent conflicts (not even mentioning the confusion), time that could potentionally have be used on bringing actual content to the game.

If its a good and interesting update it can, possibly, attract people back to playing again, aswell, as bringing some relief to the accumulated discomfort of the community towards the killing topic.

Looks promising, but ill have to wait and see how it turns out to be in the end, before saying anything else.

Jason, You're pushing the limits of a system that wasn't meant to work in isolated cases like these, where a community of griefers, gather puposely to kill people... now we cant even kill anyone without spending most off your precious lifetime, trying to gather a posse(and we cant even guarantee that that will work).

The posse update helped restrict the amount of total casualties by solo killing, but now we dont even have that, the new concept is totally alien from what we had before, and this new addition, is totally wothless against other more direct methods of griefing(removed killing but at what cost).

The killing mechanics, back in the day, were meant so that we, the "normal" players, could sort out the problems DIRECLTY, the posse update helped to restrict when you could kill someone.

If now, we would like to eliminate some griefers from our gameplay we could simply  curse them and spread the word to others, on why that person should get cursed, to further punish the undesired player, hoping that he would end in donkey town.

But cursing only worked in the long run terms, (and it too could be abused or misused by players)for example: it doesnt help you when you're playing with the actuall griefer, sure, you can curse him... but he will continue to do his thing... thats when killing mechanics entered in action(balanced the equation).

Besides, the curse system doesnt even work for players that keep getting new accounts at will, well he could tire of buying new account but we really dont know that.

Yes theres quite a bunch of mentioned changes, i was mainly replying to Jony Skys and Dantox. To Jony Skys, that brought to the table some of the main restriction changes made to the game, and Dantox , since along of what he said about "game is worse now than ever" he mentioned the restrictions, along with some other factors, as the main causes of the games decline.

So i mainly explained my viewpoint about, the possible reason on why we got these restrictions : the family biome specialization(races), the tool system implementation(cant make any items at will), the homesick update(cant have one city to rule over all the races) and the overall changes to food and water values.

Well the trailer is one thing, and the CURRENT developpers words are another thing. You can't just hang on the trailer's advertisement as "the promised lands", the game has changed, different scenarios paint different results, sometimes what we are promised with can change and turn into a whole different result, depending of a variety of factors that we cant always control.

We can only hope that, eventually, he will add some new and fresh content that will make us forget about the bad days, such as the rift, for good.

I believe it was, after what i explained in the corresponding post.

Notice how i said in my post "such long time" and not "forever", yes he expected people to stay around but not for for that much time, not for time some people have today as playtime, with players having probably more than 800+ and even more... whos knows. Thats what i meant by that.

A multiplayer SURVIVAL game of PARENTING and Building CIVILIZATION from scratch, i think those are the main goals of this "sandbox game" as you call it Spoonwood, since it cant even fall on that category with the current restrictions to gameplay mechanics, sandbox games are supposed to be a "do whatever you may please" but OHOL falls short on  total freedom.

Difficulty may not be the what drives interest in "sandbox game", but it can be an important factor in the gameplay aspect, its for example, one of the factors that separates  the audience of the game “Rust”, a hardcore survival, skill based sandbox game, from an audience of a game like Minecraft, mostly a pve survival game of block building : it’s the way that the difficulty is oriented in the gameplay fashion. where the main focus of rust is to be in a hard environment to play at(everything is against you), compared to Minecraft that looks for other ways to entertain the customer, rather than just being difficult(mobs are the main hassle but it’s not limited to mobs only).

Of course, Minecraft has stuff to offer that rust doesnt ... but thats the whole dynamic of "different games" having "different stuff" and mechanics to offer that makes their gameplay unique, pretty simple. Just pointing out on how difficulty can attract different audiences.

Well for Jason it was a problem at the time being, if not , ¿why would he even have bothered at all to make his game less enjoyable, for most of the players, if that could potentially have shattered  the community ?

Is there anything wrong with it ? i think that its up to the players to decide what they want to do with their lives. And besides, colors can bring sparks of joy, sometimes, to such a blank environment.

You are right about it, although, you have to take into consideration that, RIGHT NOW, your average "Joe" player either doesnt know about posses, and you have to practically teach it to them, or just that they dont mind about it till the problem is big enough. the solution to this can only come with time(eventually most players will know about the mechanic),as it has always happend.

Well i know that you are a much older OHOL player than i am, and im curious to ask,(not that im doubting your knowllege) what you do mean by "griefing what we had before" timewise speaking.,before we had curses? or before we had changes to the kill system? because curses, (an effective way of dealing with griefers) is the only example that really changed the game in comparison to what you had before, and it even needed to get polished quite some times before it could actually become viable.