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how is it working?
ive been in three towns that died from lack of water
yeah, its working all right

Make the map limited with limited ressources, earth is round.

An upgrade to the iron mine maybe with a diesel engine that uses kerosene.

Oil nerf but balanced so that getting enough iron is possible

Something beyond oil but very hard to achieve like electricity maybe

A possibility to either win or fail, Sustainable ressources trough making the right choices vs Using all the ressources and running out

Watch everyone cooperate or fight over the limited ressources

Spoonwood wrote:

Reed skirt maker, why god why!!!???!!  What a use of rope that... I'm just kidding with you Destiny.  I'm sure you've heard people discuss reed skirts before and understand the cost well.  I've also decided to make a reed skirt when traveling between towns before (I don't need to take a needle or adze from my family to make it, and that milkweed might not get used otherwise) and in low population play.

I enjoyed reading about your play experience Destiny.  Thanks for sharing.

I regret nothing ... viva la reed skirt!

In my defense, at that point, we already had all the fire-making tools and a snare.    And we were miles away from where we ended up settling so all the milkweed was just sitting there unused, begging to be turned into a reed skirt.    A little bit of clothing can help soften the hunger drain when traveling long distances through hostile environments, so I definitely recommend seal skins and reed skirts for migratory Eves or small children abandoned in the forest.    Once you settle, rabbit is the better way to go, obviously.   But if you don't have a bone needle yet, your clothing options are quite limited.

It was my pleasure to share.  That was a fun and interesting life.

DestinyCall wrote:

I think this is a big part of the situation.   If you play OHOL repeatedly for days, weeks, months, years ....  you will experience thousands of unique individual lives.   But every one of those lives will not be precious and extraordinary.    Most of those lives will be similar, even repetitive, maybe boring.    The first time you make compost, it is a fun and interesting challenge because you are learning a new skill and gaining mastery over an important job that is helpful to the village.   The five hundredth time you spend your life making compost, it just feels like drudgery and you'd probably rather be doing something else, but the village needs dirt and no one else was willing to do the job.  If your only major accomplishment in that life was "made a lot of dirt piles", you probably won't look back on your memories of that life and feel nostalgic. 

Likewise, the first time you are the last person left alive in a village or the first time you are the victim of a random act of violence or the first time your baby dies in your arms will feel significant and terrible.   But the third time it happens, it will start to feel familiar.  The thirtieth time it happens it will have become routine.   And the three hundredth time you deal with one of these personal tragedies it will have become almost inconsequential.    As a new player, you will probably care about each life much more deeply than a veteran player, because each life will bring with it many new experiences.   Many things will happen to you for the very first time.  Everything is fresh and new.    But if you have been playing life after life, you might get to a point where you don't want to play in early villages anymore, because they are all pretty much the same.     Or you might reach a point where you don't want to deal with hectic big-city life, because they are messy and full of griefers.   Each life is technically a different experience, but if you play enough, each life is pretty much the same ... it follows the same path from start to finish.    The lives that really stick with you later are those rare lives where you experience something special or unique.    And that just isn't possible every single time you play.    Some lives are going to be too short.  Other lives are going to be too mundane and uneventful.    And still other lives will be too similar to your previous lives.

While I agree with you somewhat, I feel like YOU make every life mean what you want it to mean. Every life I play still feels new and exciting to me.

You gave the dirt pile example, and I have solid memories of doing massive resource making just to see if I could. I still remember a life where I wanted to see how many carrots baskets I could get (before the piles...oh man) and somehow cranked more than I had ever seen but still wasn't satisfied and wanted more carrots. Even other people can remember things like that.. I bet tarr still remembers making his wall of sauerkraut. I sure as hell do and remembering how awe struck I was to find it.

While some lives obviously do blend together, I still have more positive memories than I can even think about. Sitting here now trying to think about them all makes me nostalgic as hell. I'll take the blending bland lives for a chance to get amazing ones anytime.

If you ever feel burnt out take a month break and you'll come back to a different game everytime.

Yeah, swords are dumb.
They really don't belong in this game.

It was one thing for us to realize that we could accidentally kill people with a bow and arrow, it was another to make the knife able to kill people, but reintroducing the butter knife in the form of the sword is just stupid.

What's next, armor? Guns? Cannons?

Atomic powered robots who's sole purpose is to defend our town?

Is that where all this is going? You want us to make terminators and drones to fight wars?

When there are 30 people playing, how do you think that's going to turn out?

You sold the game as a parenting simulator; people want to care for each other, and you're going to let the ones that kill people turn them away. Then you'll be left with another dead game, like all the other garbage you've made.

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I'm sorry but the property fences and the weapons are the wrong direction for this project.

You should have stuck to making food, clothing and the technology for people to keep each other alive. That way new people would have felt welcome and needed and the game could have grown with the growth of the player base. Now you're just going to turn people who want to care and work with each other, a goal we all already wanted, away from one another.

You can't run a simulation meant for thousands, or even millions of people, with ten. What happened to humanity over the last ten thousand years just cannot be reproduced this way. Even if 1 in 10 people decides they are going to murder people, the ratio of murderers to mothers is already orders of magnitude too high, compared to that which gave rise to mankind.

Forget your lesson, make a good game for people who want to do good things.

That is what has kept me playing for over 2000 hours now, and that is what the vast majority of players wants to do.

That is what the vast majority of people throughout time, have wanted to do.