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I didn't really get to say any proper words, as I realized too late that my time was up, but good luck to my boys, Sheena, Billy, and Gregory - in this life and the next! I know I had to go fast for a lot of the lessons, but I hope you picked up some things. Sorry you didn't get a name until too late, Greg.

Sounds good to me

As long as it doesn't interfere with the lineage ban, this might be neat

Right, but it looks like you would still be able to have a positive balance (greater than 0), correct? I think that would help shield good players from groups of griefers and also any misunderstandings that might occur during the chaotic murder-mystery solving that often goes on in-game. Definitely agree there should be no visible effect to positive karma, but I think there are benefits to it existing behind the scenes.

I like the individual 'mute' ideas as well. It would prevent people from ganging up on someone wrongly by error or by spite, and thus prevent innocent players from being caught in the system in their next lives - and as you said, if a person complains/curses too many people they'll find themselves alone a lot. I like the idea of giving the next group the griefer gets stuck with a heads up via the "everyone sees" system, but the individual system has some good advantages, too.

With the personal system, I think there would need to be a way to see who you've cursed (when the other person is offline and/or not near you), though, so that if you decide that you acted rashly after calming down for a few days you could give the other person another chance and bless them later (or the person who realizes they're alone can rectify things).
Could it be so that we could log into a section of the website with our ID to manage a page with cursed users, and maybe write a short note to the side as to why we cursed them? (Billy was being dumb and annoying, but not significantly detrimental, so I'll give him a second chance. Jim murdered the whole village and uprooted all the bushes, so he's out forever).
Or even just a command in-game that clears all the curses at once so you can start fresh would be really nice, and probably a lot easier to implement.

Combine these, please!

I curse you second cousin Bill Jones!
This might also help resolve the nameless problem, although it's entirely possible and even likely sometimes to have two "great aunt Nameless".

Maybe one blessing/curse per life, then the ability to "purchase" one more through some kind of ritual that's expensive and/or time consuming to make? Shrine/demon sacrifice circle/whatever would destroy itself when the person who adds the last piece uses the curse (tied to that person so it can't be stolen), so only one curse from one person per shrine -- maybe it even kills the user as part of the sacrifice, so they better be really sure they want to bless/curse that person -- maybe they sacrifice their own karma in addition, and lose a point of karma regardless of whether they bless or curse the other person; a true blood grudge/self-sacrificing blessing. Would make a maximum 2 votes per lifetime, and if it kills the user and/or adjusts the user's karma it would be difficult or impossible for the griefers to take advantage of (heck, they'd even take themselves out of the town they were griefing and only mildly harm one person in the process, if the other person is a 'legit' player with good karma!). Still very limited, but in the case of paired griefers you can still get them both without having to coordinate the town on who curses whom so that both griefers suffer the consequence. Or maybe you just love/hate that person that much.
Maybe it has to be built upon the grave of the person being cursed - would add to the "town tradition" aspect. And they would have to remember which grave and which name it was, in the case of people born after the person died, since graves don't show names for them - so the tradition would be even more important to the townspeople.

Maybe the shrine's not really necessary, but it'd be fun. There are some instances I can think of where I might sacrifice a point for someone I really liked or hated, especially if I knew or felt that my karma was in a good place. Would have to be a high-tier goal to work for, though, like Apocalypse and bell tower. Would be a neat new use for the crowned horse.

Would we be able to see our personal karma balance somewhere? Maybe on the death/respawn screen?

I wouldn't, personally - especially if born as a triplet/quadruplet. I think most people would, at minimum, finish whatever task was at hand before moving on, which wouldn't necessarily be possible with broken heart as described. Many lives are short (<20-30 years), so it would be pretty easy for the other person to play a few short lives while waiting for the living twin to die so they could start again. Maybe even add a "when available" check box so that the pair/group spawn together automatically whenever you both/all die within ~1 minute of each other?

What if broken heart wasn't applied automatically, but had a high chance of occurring at the time of the first twin's death (50+%) and then decreased a few percent per year lived (re-roll chance every minute on the 'anniversary' of the twin's death, when they're reminded of their loss - but heal with time)? Could be multiplied for each loss, too - have to roll twice if you're a triplet who's lost both your siblings, etc. and the percentage re-starts at the highest value with the most recent death. Would significantly increase the odds of larger groups dying within a short period of one another, but not make it absolute. If you've lost two siblings, then when the second one died you'd only have a 25% chance of passing both rolls and NOT having a broken heart (assuming 50% chance immediately after death and rolling once for each death; the last quadruplet, assuming they survived the years and losses between, would only have a 12.5% chance immediately after the third death).

I actually really like this idea in general, although is there a way to change the Email associated with your account? I'd love to use this, but not with the same Email I use for PayPal (and therefore currently this game).
Raising 4 kids would be a heck of a challenge, haha. I'd want to pull my hair out and at the same time be pretty determined to keep them all alive.

Fraternal twins would be nice, or a mix of identical/fraternal (so only 1 of opposite gender per 4 babies, 50/50 chance on each roll until a second gender comes up, then the rest go with the originally rolled gender? So like -
Spawn 1: 50/50 boy, 50/50 boy, 50/50 girl, automatic boy
Spawn 2: 50/50 girl, 50/50 boy, automatic girl, automatic girl
Spawn 3: 50/50 boy, 50/50 boy, 50/50 boy, 50/50 boy

Odds could be tweaked in favor of identical, obviously, so that identical is more likely to happen (50/50, 30/70, 20/80, 10/90 goes from ~6% chance of all same gender to ~30% chance, for example, if I've remembered how to do math right, and could be made even more extreme and/or combined with the aforementioned "only roll until second gender hit, then all default to first gender" idea so that even if they end up fraternal, there's only one odd man)

But even if they *have* to be identical I think it's a neat idea.

I've suggested this on the Reddit section a few times, I think it would be great!
There are many styles of hobble that do not involve metal, however, as metal can actually be dangerous to the horse's feet. A strip of hide/leather/rope will do just fine. Two lassos, maybe? Seal hide cut into strips with flint and sewn? Bear hide, if you want to make it harder? We don't have too many uses for bears or seals yet, rugs and coats aside.
http://www.thinklikeahorse.org/index-12.html

Sorry, Ma, that I didn't get to finish your nursery. Thank you for giving me to Pa.
Sorry, Pa, for not saying a proper goodbye. Thank you for raising me well.
I didn't pick up the pie fast enough
Probably one of my most heartbreaking deaths. What a lovely family I had! And my first father, too.

An interesting challenge. Best I've got so far:

In the span of an hour you will be born, learn the meaning of hard work, how to raise children, and how to say goodbye before starting anew.

To my aunt - Carrie? I'm pretty sure that was you. Funny, I realize now that I told you how to name your first daughter! I'm glad you and our daughters lived so long after I was gone.

I'm sorry I starved before showing you how to make a bow. I hope you saw where I hid my arrow before I died, but I had to feed little Ven before she starved, too. At least one of us could live. Maybe I'll get to show you in the next life.
Vengeance, Revenge, my sweet girls, carry on your mothers' legacies! We were the last after my stupid brother Finely's antics.
Great Uncle Clyde, thank you for giving me your hat before you passed on. It was the only reason my mother kept me - because you chose me to pass your belongings to. The siblings that came after me were not so fortunate. Finely would have won if not for you.

Started noticing things going missing on my runs in and out of the main farm area. Noticed some burnt rabbits. Then more. Witnessed someone burn multiple rabbits. Pretty soon, all but three of us had starved.
"REALLY, BETTY?"
"DON'T TOUCH MY FUCKING PLATES"

Yes, she killed the entire settlement because of a plate.
I'm still not sure if I should be annoyed or amused.

It's only as unplayable as it was on the first day it was released.
Jason is going to balance the feature in an upcoming update, I wouldn't fret too much.