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SHIP FOAM - Bear griefer, and smart enough to hoard knives and arrows. Wiped out most of Pickens town as Vanya Pickens. Fathia Lownes on the leaderboard.

I'm a fairly new player (had the game for about three weeks), and I agree with DestinyCall on this. I really like learning how to make new things and be useful to the town. It's also satisfying to know that I've learned something well enough to teach it to a newer player. I think if you're looking for interaction, this kind of community is more important than forcing trade and related interactions.

If I'm in a town with an exhausted deep well, I can't solve that problem because I don't know how to make an engine. But, I'll go around asking people for help, or to teach me how, or to let me help them make it. However, if I'm in a town with an exhausted deep well and no gingers, I won't even try to solve the problem because we might build the engine, but what good does that do us if no one can get oil?

I think the complex crafting creates better interaction than "trade" does. And I think using the restrictions that are fundamental to the game (you only have an hour, and crafting is complex) to create situations for interaction are less frustrating than more artificial ones (tool slots and race restrictions). For example, let's say you want to build a room with plaster walls - it takes time to get the adobe and limestone, and someone needs to build the walls, and cook the quicklime, and get water for the plaster. This would take one person most of their life, and they might not live to see the project finished, and the unfinished adobe walls might crumble. But if you collaborate with other people, you can finish it in your lifetime. In this scenario, you're interacting with other people to convince them to help you craft or gather things: you have to convince them that your project is worthwhile, and that's an interesting interaction! Or, you have to convince your descendants that your building is important enough to finish. Or, your town only has one cart, and you need to get the person who's out collecting eggs to let you use it for limestone instead.

I have a lot of interesting interactions when I'm learning or teaching or collaborating. When my town is out of rubber or oil, and we don't have all the right races to get them it feels like there's nothing we can do about it except hope that we find someone or someone finds our town before we all starve, and that's not fun.

I opened an issue on the OHOL github https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLifeData7/issues/639

(Should this be in program issues instead of content issues?)

Hello yes I have a very serious and important suggestion for the game: