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Yay! I've been suggesting this since almost a year ago

So we want to encourage players to care about their descendants. Two questions: how, and what does it mean?

Starting with the second one, here's a relatively simple proposal.

1. Alice is an Eve -> Alice's genes are 100% Alice.
2. Bob is Alice's daughter -> Bob's genes are 1/2 Bob and 1/2 Alice.
3. Charlie is Bob's daughter -> Charlie's genes are 1/2 Charlie, 1/4 Bob and 1/4 Alice.
4. Alice spawns again as Charlie's daughter -> Alice's new genes are 1/2+1/4 Alice, 1/4 Charlie and 1/8 Bob.

The general idea is that every time a new player is born, their genes are 50% (or any other ratio) their own and 50% their mother's.
This way we can track how much player A's current character is related to any of player B's previous characters.

Now for the second question: how do we encourage players to care about having more characters with their genes?

The most obvious idea is to make it possible to tell how much someone is related to you by writing the percentage next to their name.
The next obvious idea is to have leaderboards sorted by the aggregate amount of genes in all the characters currently alive.

The older idea is to change the "magic" parts of the game: spawns and karma. For example, genes could be used as the chance that the player is allowed to be your mother this time. For another example, genes could be a karma modifier: you have more influence over your descendants, and they have less influence over you.

P. S. A not directly related, but interesting article about evolution: No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices

The best and easiest solution here still seems to be changing the name and the graphics.

You could start using a genre name like "OHOL-like". I'm pretty sure Jason's game *will* spawn a new genre sooner on later.

The easiest way to let people know that the mobile version isn't yours is to contact Youtubers. Should be especially easy if they think you're the author.

Add some info they can cannibalize into stories for their audiences, and even those who don't care about public domain will trip over themselves to spread the news.

What's the point?

Having one or two of the biomes be a hellhole or a wasteland is fine.  There's no reason to conserve virtual space, there's no reason why every biome should be hospitable enough to live there.

It would be nice to have no hidden temperature state.  I'm reasonably sure it won't make impossible any of the desired outcomes.  It would be easier to understand body temperature if it was a pure function of the surrounding tiles and their contents.

For example, the doors:

Let's say a tile "has a roof" if there's a wall in 3 tiles or closer.
Let's say a person is "outside" if there's a path shorter than 20 tiles to a tile that does not "have a roof".
Let's say a person is "inside" if she's not "outside".
Give a flat +0.2 heat bonus to everyone who's "inside".

So you need a wall around you to stay warm, but you also can't block yourself off completely.  And being "inside" only 95% of the time is good enough.  Boom, toggleable walls are useful.

A simple model like this will have weird edge cases, but that's fine and even interesting as long as exploiting them is impractical.

Wow, makes sense.

Another option would be having recipes made of three parts, e. g. axe + log + deck = damaged_axe + log_half x2 + deck

Connecting the towns might help in case one of the towns runs out of food or something.

Trade in the usual sense is impossible without ownership.

I strongly disagree.
I believe Jason is trying to simulate parts of the real world, just like any art worth seeing does.
But even if he didn't, in the spirit of the "death of the author" I think this game is about the relationship between human civilization and technology, among other things.
And new tech being worth inventing is really, really important.
In the long term new tech being worthless is a disaster for the game.

I really like the idea of turning the apocalypse monument into a general purpose wish-fulfillment artifact, where causing the apocalypse is just one of the options.

The other option is to add tools for being creative, so that there's something to waste spare resources on. That's what will happen IRL, anyway.

It would be nice to make it possible and profitable to visit and explore ghost towns.

(See also spider infestations in ruins and more opportunities to explore ruins reddit threads.)

Hmm, wouldn't it be enough to just set the Eve spawn location to (0, 0)?

All other towns will eventually die out anyway, so changing baby spawn system too seems unnecessarily restrictive.

You could also move the spawn point slowly over time.