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Didnt even know there was a map or a border to the game world? How big is the actual map?
This is a number one priority that needs to be fixed (as well as netcode ofc) if civilizations are to advance.
Not much else to say on the subject, but I hope its not as intended.
A toggle would be nice.
Clueless eve players are half the reason villages fail
The way I see it, hunger is far too ridiculous and stupid as it is right now to keep enough people interested.
Every time me and my friend play together we manage to get a civilization going only for some ignorant morons to come along and eat all the carrots from the farm not letting any seed and breed like its the apocalypse and allow the population to surge to unmanageable heights.
There is a funny moment we had where our farm was becoming overrun with idiots who were just eating all the carrots (there was around 10 people) and not doing anything to add to the tribe. We told them short of 50 times to stop eating from the farm, bring some soil back, bring some water back, make a fire, find some milkweed e.t.c. but all they did was take from the farm and do nothing. So we saw the impending doom and took a cart of some carrots (before they were immediately eaten) and camped by some berry bushes for 2minutes. Came back to the village to see all the morons dead (I call them morons because they would not listen or help) we got the farm running again.
Then a woman and her child stumble upon us and start eating all the carrots from the farm and breeding like crazy... so we gave up.
The problem here is that it is just a video game. People will start thinking its so 'hardcore' without even trying and just taking and then they will stop playing and the game will die.
It is like you say, there needs to be a strong and CLEAR incentive for people to actually help and stop being ignorant idiots.
Something needs to change and I hope Jason finds a solution because the story I just told happens to 95% of the camps me and my friend find.
EDIT: Hunger is far too much at the moment, at least for a naked person.
The amount of steps to do something dont matter if people actually keep a tidy and organised base but right now the mentalilty of most players means this will never happen.
The game is actually easy, but other people make it immensely difficult
Lag and desync dont worry its an issue right now everyone has although Jason sent out an email stating he has rolled back the server version.