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if newer players see a bunch of ropes on seperate tiles they try to clean it up by stacking them, turning 8 milkweeds into oblivion with two clicks each, you basically have to eighter start a forage trip for every rope you randomly need or hide them really well from the rest

im also accidently stacking them myself sometime

a new recipe to turn lasso back into rope would be great

Im really enjoying the grindy gameplay loop, however find myself without a purpose in most towns, since they already "maxed" and have everything they need.

The biggest problems causing this are:
- truck drivers mass feed new eve towns, completely skipping the towns tech progression to midgame items
half nude half rabbit towns usually already have some fully wool clothed players around, knife, froe and some horse handcarts before even starting a farm, it kills the fun and difficulty curve
- lack of endgame content(could use some hightech items that take forever to build and only enhance comfort a little bit)

This tech skipping is also overflowing into other issues:
- due to the early availabiliy of horse handcarts and tools, veterans dont have to help with early tech things like rabbit catching or tool smithing but can right away go into mass construction of rooms and food variety producing, meaning that both surviving in the town becomes too easy aswell as outside(as foraging has been almost non existent)

The only thing that is currently lessening the issue is that families die overnight due to low population and ppl dont want to transport everything over so they only take the high value items. So the issue does not get out of control, but it does remain stable meaning that 95% of the gameplay time is being in an advanced town, wandering around, trying to find a job thats not already been completed, which is boring and likely not what you were aiming for.

possible solution inspiration to the eve town feeding issue:
- limit trading in some way, perhaps to only biome specific items, or only between similar tech tier towns
- some tag on all but starting items, that disallows families to use them, only to be removed when a family member itself crafts one of them
- enforced isolated start(temporarily removed from world or some barrier), only allowing other towns to interact when they have i.e. a radio
- not letting new eves spawn until all families perished(waiting players can play as enemies to help clean up the server, like in human vs zombie gamemodes)
- new eves spawn in an isolated part until all 4 races are there and stable and then the next eves will again spawn in another isolated part

possible lategame inspiration:
- large statue that saves the family name, date and personal quote into some hall of fame website
- portal for teleporting(without handcarts or trucks) to other towns
- cryopods that allow the family to retire, put the whole family to sleep permanently(kinda like a positive apocalypse)
- super expensive robots, that can automate a small part of the more boring tasks
- lategame biomes north and south of the race bands with difficult enemies(maybe even a boss?) and lategame ingredients(think of minecrafts nether&end)