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Hi, welcome back!

Thank you, Legs.

Is it strange that I generally imagine that you look like Garfield in real life?

Glad some folks are liking this update!

No, progress is NOT reset if you skip a generation.

You inherit your mother's progress, even if you never hear the language yourself.

So if you learn 10%, and your great great granddaughter is around the language, she will bump up to 20%.

Today, there are 3422 TXT files in the objects folder.  These are object that I created by hand in the editor by pressing the SAVE NEW button.  One year ago, there were 2384 TXT files in the objects folder.

Over the past 365 days, I added 1038 new objects to the game.

During that time, I took 6 weeks of vacation or sick time or speaking trips or whatever.  I count 45 weekly updates in the past year.

That is 23 objects per week, on average, over the past year, which was not a year focused on content.  I failed to deliver, missing the promise by 1 object per week, or 45 objects total.

Let's roll back the full two years, though, when we only had 610 objects in the game.

Over the past two years, 2812 objects were added.

There were roughly 92 weekly updates over that period, for an average of 30 objects added each week, or more than 2 dozen.

The first year was a content-focused year, though, with 1774 objects added in that year.  There were roughly 47 updates that year, for an average of 37 per week, or more than 3 dozen.

I added the following note to the Steam page to clarify this:

Some people, apparently, take things very literally, and can't read between the lines, or understand basic implication.  When I say, "maybe someday" in the trailer, they don't know what that implies.

Some people, apparently, think that 30 objects EVERY WEEK for 92 weeks would be superior to 30 object average over that same time span.  Some people, apparently, don't see the importance of other non-content code changes and improvements, nor do they understand the need of a solo developer to focus on one thing at a time and not spread themselves too thin.

Some people need it spelled out for them, and would only understand the trailer if it said this:

Some people cannot understand why doing that in the trailer would make it worse.  For 99% of people, they don't need it spelled out like that, so it doesn't make it LESS misleading for them, but all that extra verbal clutter makes it more confusing and harder to understand, and the core point is lost:  this game is updated a hell of a lot.

But for that very dense, very literal 1% of the population who is confounded by such details, I updated the Steam page, just to be sure that NOBODY is confused.

Sorry, I didn't explain that correctly.

After an hour of not having a BB in that homeland (around that well), it becomes abandoned by that family.

So if you want to keep a well outpost going, someone needs to be living out there, having BB.

This prevents "conquest" of the map, building wells everywhere, which would block other fams from having homelands there.

After an hour with no BB for that fam, well becomes abandoned and can be claimed by another fam simply by using it.

After a fam dies, they will definitely go an hour with no BB.

This has been fixed in this week's update.

Yes, I did consider that.

However, I thought it would be too brittle and hard for players to understand.

If the game is measuring majority in an area around a mother, if she takes one step to the left or right, the race of her next baby might change.  Majority in an area is a fickle thing.  Hard for players to know where the boundaries are.

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

After two days in the desert sun
My skin began to turn red
After three days in the desert fun
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead

Probably these other players just don't have the knowledge to even understand your request or how to fulfill it.

I've been born in Qin town several times over the past few weeks, and there's always water around, but no oil.  When I walk around asking people where they're getting water from, nobody knows.  Where are you getting oil from?  Again, nobody knows.  There's no pressure currently, because of water reserves, so they're kinda coasting on the work of previous generations, for now, and they don't need to know right now.

So if you go to a brown village and ask them for rubber sap, most of them probably don't know how to get it, or what it even is that you want, or why you want it, or why they'd want sulfur in return.

This is one reality of a multiplayer game with new players coming in ever day.... and it's okay, I think.  It's not all that different from going into some isolated jungle village in real life and trying to get them interested in some lithium ion batteries.  They're like, "Huh?"

Also, this is part of what I mean about the "social challenge" of this kind of cross-cultural cooperation.  Once you find them, there's no guarantee that they will cooperate with you, for a whole host of reasons.

Maybe you have to teach them how/why rubber is good, across the language barrier...  and THAT is what I mean by "social puzzle gameplay."

It's the kind of thing you read about in philosophy or anthropology books.... but here you are, actually doing it, in a video game.

Standing there shouting "gavagai".... (look it up)

Thanks, everyone!