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I completely agree, bears only purpose atm is a tool for griefers.

I'd LOVE to see more good benefits for bear killing to help balance it out. Ideas:
* 8 slot backpack that can be made from bear hides, or a jacket/baby sling. So that it keeps you warm but can also carry one baby (limited to only babies that are you gave birth to)
* Bear meat & fat used in a cooking recipe.
* Cave paintings could be added to the walls of empty caves which would cause bears to not return to that cave.

As a griefer killer, I get a good amount of curses and have spent some time in donkey town. I'll answer your questions and provide some random info about donkey town.

1. Do you spawn in the same distant location when you have to serve multiple hours in Donkey Town? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

2. If multiple griefers banished to Donkey Town play at the same time, will they spawn in the same location? Often yes. If so, does this mean griefers banished to Donkey Town can cooperate to build an endtower? As far as I know, yes.

When I end up at donkey town its very similar to spawning as an eve just really far away. Usually there are a ton of bones around from other donkey people who died nearby. You'll often find some abandoned camps. Occasionally you'll find a well built up city complete with farms, livestock, perhaps even a bell tower and yes as far as I know they can also build an endtower but like anything else it requires a lot of coordination because its hard to find people and it can only be done with certain races and requires knives.

Last time I was there myself and two others were playing together, one got old and died and was born right outside of camp. I too got old and spawned inside of the camp. Since we are all "eves" we don't speak the same language unless we get a white player in town.

At donkey town you are never a child so you can't slash die but your gene score doesn't go up or down.

Usually the only way I know where I might be on the map is when a normal bell sounds and its usually like 28k away in a certain direction. This is how I know I don't always spawn in the same location. Sometimes the city bell will be 28k north east and another donkey life it could be 30k to the ENE.

I don't usually see more than 3-5 donkeys in the same area.

When you see families going to war...it's often two donkeys doing that just so the entire map will get the "X and Y families are at war" message.

All donkeys are women because they are all eves.

People who just eat and talk aren't griefers. They are annoying but they aren't griefing. The real griefers are the ones who bring bears, who stab people for fun, who kidnap children, who steal horses, etc. There are lots of things that can be done with just use of a hoe or shovel.

I think there is an easy way to fix this.

I'd made the suggestion awhile ago that anyone who releases a bear should be given a curse automatically by the system + an additional curse for everyone who ever dies from that bear. And Jason should implement this SECRETLY so that all the jerks end up in donkey town and stay there because they keep doing their jerk behavior.

Because it's not fun and you cant store it in a backpack

This is another system where the changes to iron were way more complicated than they needed to be. For most resources finding them should be easy for new players...refining them and building advanced things should be hard, maybe even have a failure rate the more advanced it is.

I completely disagree with this but I'll explain why. Yeah that can be fun once...now do it again, and again and again. It's no longer fun. Almost every life is now like this and is not fun. It makes civilization building and parenting take a backseat to basic survival.

Rather than making existing systems harder, what we need is new content. Make beginning systems easier for new players and make new "end game" content. These are all the recipes that new players can't build and advanced players will happily focus on because it is new. Feast tables, oil rigs, radios. These are recipes that are fun and challenging but you keep making them harder and harder to accomplish because we can't make those things if we're starving.

We also can't teach new players if the town has no water, it makes for a bad new user experience. We're not saying get rid of the changes, we're just saying it needs some adjusting.

I played for a few hours today and starved quite a lot. I understand the reason for the update but I think it was made to be too restrictive.

From what I've seen, towns have a very difficult time creating enough food to support it's population. As an advanced player, I would choose to be the one to go out in search of latex and sulfur, etc. to keep the town from starving. I quickly found that the food in the wild is almost non-existing and you HAVE to have a full backpack of food before leading town otherwise you will starve, even on a horse. Berries don't grow back fast enough and they only fill like two pips so you have to clear a while bush to get full.

Usually an abandoned town is stripped of tools first, now it's stripped of food. I found a horse full of latex in the wild, exactly what my town needed to survived but starved on the way home because every berry bush was empty and every wild food was eaten between towns.

People spend their entire lives making pies and they get eaten so fast we can't keep up. Many people (especially new people) are eating the last carrot or killing the last sheep out of desperation to stay alive.

If I stay in town as a mother, I now have to make hard choices for the sake of the town's survival. A baby that doesn't respond is getting dumped in teh woods, we can't afford to feed an afk person. I get the message saying that a new player was born to me...if you can't cook or make stew I'm probably going to let you starve. I hate doing that but the town can't support you and I definitely don't have time to teach anyone.

This update really needs some balancing changes.

You have zero data to assume "most" babies that slash die because of looks. I also have no data except my own experiences. I don't slash die often but since I've played a lot, I've slashed died for many reasons:

* Mom or other family member is a jerk
* I wanted to play a different gender (after a string of same gender)
* I wanted to play a different race (such as I found a tarry spot but died before I could make a map, now I want to be ginger again to make the map and start building the oil rig)
* I see a lot of names with black text and don't want to be surrounded by drama

Basically I'm much more likely to stay if the life looks like it will be FUN and INTERESTING and KIND, I don't care if it's pretty

It doesn't, their name stays the same. I honestly don't know if me cursing the same person twice counts as two curses or does it just refresh my curse?

Awesome!