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Well, most of the time when when a baby loads in after the minute and baby speaks that he wants to die, and I ask him why, they basically say something amounting to "town sucks, bugger town".  And I see a lot of people on steam complain of spawning in small towns at night hours.  So honestly, anything that makes for more big towns the better.  Making super advanced towns by guaranteeing the town lasts forever is probably bad, but I mean, do Eves actually do this?  How many times have people chained Eve?  I've done it once and got tired of it pretty quick.

Haven't tried anything this complicated, but why don't you just make a station further down the road?  Fortress of solitude feels a bit over the top.

I wouldn't put too much work into the idea unless you're just spitballing for fun:  It's incredibly unlikely the suggestion would ever be implemented.  The entire engine is based around, probably for performance and work effort reasons, "Add x to y to make z, or x decays over time into y with no knowledge of its surroundings".  Every object added to the game uses this, even when it has super awkward implementation to preserve this (like hitting stakes with a rock 5 times to make the road type, or whacking a steel bar like 8 times to make a shovel head).  Unless you want aqueducts to give infinite water, you're basically asking for gigantic network systems, water flow,  blah blah, etc etc, which is unlikely to exist in the multiplayer setting with this engine.  You'd be better off working out these problems before selling the idea first.

Well, touching animals code doesn't seem like a big priority if things like zoom mod exist.  You have some portion of the playerbase that is essentially immune to all animals not hiding behind trees or striking during a lag spike, and making it harder on those that don't use the mod will just make them use it.

Picking resources isn't a right to do with them as you please anyways (unless you have horse carts).  There's a finite amount of resources in walking distance, so if you seriously waste them it doesn't matter that you picked them, even if there's plenty more they're that much harder to walk to.  They're not yours and if the whole town dislikes what you're doing with them, prepare to get stabbed.

Edit: nvm lionon, I just saw a town with 5 griefers over the hour -____-  Arsonist, sheep sheerer turned murderer later, etc.

I could be wrong, it's hard to tell in a game where you don't see the next generation, but I think it's the other way around:  there's less griefers than people think.

For instance:  some player said they wanted to make burritos and tacos and asked around, and I was like. "okay fine, it's an established town, knock yourself out."

Now what happens when this person dies? Nobody makes tacos and burritos, and so now you've got like a bunch of bowls filled with carnitas and lime that some intermediate player who wants to do something else is stuck either fetching more clay or cleaning it out.

Or those buckets filled with latex.  Some players legitimately want to make a bunch of tires for carts and horsecarts.  And what happens when they die?  5 buckets with garbage.

This is why I mostly just stick to the meta unless there's a dead town and I want to learn something: if you do something complicated you have to clean up your junk when you die, and you may die sooner than you expect (and most people don't think they need to clean up their junk even sadly).

There ARE griefers that kill towns by doing junk, and it's way more destructive than serial killers, but it's hard to tell the exact amount because a lot of players don't use zoom mod xD

Ooo drama.  People just taking this game way too seriously.  I give an anonymous example of someone, and you want to name and pick a fight on a forums over carrot seeds, again with a bunch of insults.  Here's the full part of my story.

Well, I'm not going to defend the reasoning, I feel I was correct for the long term survival of a town since carrots are so easy for a newbie to destroy every seed and then you potentially need horse carts for another crop, not to mention the waste of soil and iron of just letting seeded carrots decay, but I do stand by my actions regarding the insane tirade.  You stood there yelling at me for like, 2 minutes straight over a bunch of carrot seeds, using a bunch of vile words which is what ultimately drove me to deal with you. The last straw was even a basic attempt at compromise, saying I would just put the carrot seeds a little out of town limits so they don't get in anyone's way, was just met with even more crazy rantings.  Apparently you "owned" the town carrots.  Not just the seeds or carrots or tilling, even stuff that was going to go to waste that had no influence on your gameplay, I even bended to your will on the clutter by saying I would move them out of town, which was just met with more ranting and insults.

Finally, after killing you, "asshole" is the response I get, which confirmed I made the right choice.

That said, I would have preferred a civil conversation, which is why I ultimately blame this on the lack of text.  When you can't say half a sentence, nothing meaningful is said and an argument usually just boils down to a power struggle.  Even still, not even a basic level of compromise but just screaming and shouting about how I'm getting in your way (over things, again, that aren't even messing up your work) will get me to kill just about any player.  Considering I've killed like two non griefers in over a hundred games, that's an accomplishment of annoying someone.

I actually know this entire story, as I took some part in it.  I've been recording my lives on the steam forum, and I assume you were the "flake" here and tiffany, the other blonde, is the one that stabbed you.  Copypasted story below.  It's confusing as fuck.

TLDR.  They had their reasons and they might have been wrong xD  Everyone was wrong actually.  Fun stuff.  I have no idea who did the right thing there.  In any case, it's funny when someone thinks people are just griefers when there are potentially good reasons to all of their actions.

Edit: If anyone's curious about the other two people in lineage, Lila state, Jakes son, is the newbie she was teaching compost and fire.  And the brown haired girl who killed her son afterwards is another of Jake's offspring.

*****106 Jake State II (male) RIP 60
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=2458351

Murder town!  Interesting one too.  Lies and murder everywhere.  And crazy people.

Born into a revived town.  Just revived and long dead, so first job is massive wheat fields to get baskets going and making sure compost can be revived.  No existing ripe wheat seeds so I need to get some.

Big sister is kind of a flake.  She's teaching some newbie to compost while her daughter is running around yelling F.  I manage to get a berry in her and say her "guess your mom doesn't love you" and she says "no prob"

Some brown haired girl picks up a knife and drops it a bunch.  I hastily pick it up and drop it out of town.  I had a knife, but that's not quite enough for me to kill someone over.  Very suspicious.

A bunch more time passes as the town grows.  Brown haired girl says the town is boring.  Several times.  I say "maybe you're the boring one" she says "maybe"

More town work.  Then a death scream as someone is murdered.  I see Big sister knifed and some blonde running away with a knife.  If you kill someone I know is innocent AND you run away with no words, you're dead, no questions asked.  Luckily for her, the game is seriously underdeveloped when it comes to pvp and as she's running I drop my knife trying to right click her a bunch while she's running.  The neewbie from earlier gets in a a hit.

Brown haired girl shouts you idiot! a bunch and stabs the newbie.  i then stab the brown haired girl.  Hey, you wanted excitement remember? Well you got it lol.

I decided to look up the lineage and check out the murders.  Looks like I was in the right.  My guess is, either

A) An out of towner was killed by big sister, which would not show up in lineage.
B) Brown haired girl was just trolling us.  Seems likely due to previous behavior
C) She mixed up the two blonde women.
D) The "innocent" did something not innocent other than muder.
E) Brown haired girl was muttering something about starting an arena, maybe they were killing each other in sport.  Too bad communication and FOV is garbage in this game, so there is no way to do that without people thinking it's a murder.

Well everyone besides me is dead so case closed lel.

The last remaining girl starts going crazy and picks up an arrow when she's old enough, and starts running around. with a bow in circles with a horse cart, claiming she's preparing for "world pvp"  Okay.

I hand my knives over to some guy before dying. Crazy town.

Edit: Okay I figured it out based on their final words.  Tragic story.  Tiffany, the girl I was trying to stab that the newbie got, was the the girl I fed with berries from the beginning.  Her final words were "Love your daughter", and Jake says "Well I don't".  But, looking at lineage, the flake wasn't actually the mother, it was eve's last daughter, who must have grown too old to feed Tiffany, but I assumed my big sister was the mom because she was the closest female at the time.

See, now that took 140 characters, you failed to convince me or provide any reasoning whatsoever, and you were extremely hostile. 

With 30 characters at a time spaced 2 seconds apart, you can't say anything useful.

It isn't just a tool for griefers, it legitimately makes things worse on a planning level.  What does walls and a door around a bakery do?  It subtracts that much room for boxes is what.

Yeah I haven't tested it, BUT I think I will try the reverse that I discussed:  murder/sabotage to save at least one or two large towns during dead hours.  It is funny that what is normal gameplay for some (/die to Eve) is basically griefing, and what is griefing (sabotage wholescale during the night) is actually saving an entire family.

Well you actually can organize town meetings right now.  Admittedly, I've only tried it while wearing a crown which maybe had more weight, but just shouting "Town meeting at bakery" gets you a bit of a crowd.  The meetings weren't that productive, though, since everyone usually disagrees and the text limit makes drawn out disagreements just awful.