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Have you thought of dealing with curses with a positive/negative spectrum?

You would need a 'blessing' thing, much like the curse, but used as a reward instead of a punishment.

Did someone save the town from a bear, teach a new player, kill a known griefer, or make someone's day? You give them a Blessing.

Did someone purposely kill all the sheep, kill the last girl, or steal and/or hide all the tools/bowls/plates? You give them a curse.

This could be used as a spectrum, with each curse equaling -1, and each blessing equal +1.

Someone who gains a total score of -8 or whatever could get sent to donkey town, or any other consequences decided upon.

Someone with a score of +8 or whatever could receive some bonuses, even if purely cosmetic. The old curse system is example enough that cosmetic changes are motive enough. These cosmetic changes (such as maybe a different colored speech bubble), would allow others to know that they have a player who has helped a lot of people.

This itself could cause drama. Will this person continue to be a good person and help the community? Or will they use the 'blessing buffer' to grief, as they can afford to get more curses without going to donkey town.

Not only would a system like this help prevent good people from being sent to donkey town for being wrongly accused, it would help usually good veterans roleplay a less than ideal character once in a while.

In short, it allows the drama you want, while avoiding many unnecessary consequences.

Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate the work you do.

The problem with dogs was that they take up too much space and give nothing in return, company or otherwise. I have a companion dog irl. She doesn't keep me from putting objects down. She also prefers me over other people. Dogs in the game simply caused too many problems while giving nothing in return.

Now, if they were given a benefit (like maybe they could attack snakes, bears, wolves, or boars) people would actually use them.

If you are truly going for the companion dog route, you should allow people to name the dogs and become their masters. As it is, it is impossible to tell one dog of the same species from another, so it is very hard to become attached to them. A dog should prefer following their master (the person who named it) over other people. The docile dog should be able to stand on occupied tiles. Maybe even allow your dog to be seen on the family tree (this might be a little much?). They would still have no purpose, but at least they could make people happy

The dog update was huge, and I'm really sorry it didn't go over well. I think the biggest problem was that you understood people's want for dogs while missing the reasons they wanted them.

Also some of the things you mentioned do have a purpose.

Paint keeps adobe walls from crumbling. It is very useful in that regard. The issue people have with it this time is that it is too costly. One bucket of paint for a one meter wall (both sides), so one bucket for 2 meters of wall. That is a lot of paint on a single wall. I could easily paint an small room with a single bucket of paint irl.

Dyes reset decay timers, so are useful for keeping clothes for longer.

I'm not trying to complain. I really appreciate all the work you put into this game. I can't even imagine how hard and time-consuming it is to do all this on your own. I just hope that a little constructive criticism can help point you in the right direction when it comes to new content.

Same with me tbh. Although I am taking a small break from the game, but that's simply because I was playing to much. Anything can be boring if done too often.

I have nothing against the newer bug fixing updates though. There were a lot of bugs and mechanics that needed to be fixed before new content was added. I was starting to worry this game would go the way of Sims 3: adding more and more content without fixing bugs and flaws in the game, resulting in a massive broken game. I am extremely happy that Jason is addressing the flaws in the game rather than focusing on new content at the moment.

That being said, the few content updates that have come out recently have been iffy, which I am guessing is what you were referring to, in which I would have to agree. Dogs were the worst. They became pests rather than lovable pets.

Truthfully, I think we may be arguing two completely different things. I don't disagree with anything you are saying.

Whether these issues are separate or intertwined, or whether one is the sole reason or not, or whether one causes more of a problem than the other or not, was not the point I was trying to make.

My point was that Jason is putting solutions into effect for both. The issue will be remedied regardless.

I am aware that our player base is small, but Jason is launching the game on steam which will help. This will increase the number of players who may want to stay.

I am also aware that the people who are suiciding are keeping babies who want to stay from being born to mothers who need them. The /die command will help this. It will prevent suiciding players from keeping mothers from giving birth to players who want to stay.

Both issues are going to be rectified. That was the only point I was trying to make.

This definitely is a factor, but so is suiciding babies. Due to my not having a set sleep-schedule, I play at completely random times of the day and have experienced both quite regularly.

I've had lives where I had over 10 kids who all suicided. That means I pretty much had a baby right after my birth cooldown ran out each time. The people who were suiciding constantly were preventing me from giving birth to a player that wanted to stay.

Other times, I have gone whole lives with only one kid (suicide or no) due to lack of players.

Either way, Jason is currently thinking of ways to help solve these issues with both the steam release and the possibility of a /die command you can use as a baby that bans you from a lineage.

I think it would be okay as long as they aren't too closely related. I've seen 14th cousins in the game before. If you think about it time-wise, you would have to go back about 300 years to find a common ancestor. They are genetically a stranger at that point. Irl, many strangers you see in your day to day life are probably more closely related to you than that (Assuming you or your family hasn't immigrated to a different country in resent history).

But why kill people who where uninvolved? It's not their fault your mom was mean.

Wait... Most people won't force you to stay. Please don't punish everyone because of the actions of a few. I personally have never forced anyone to stay. I even stab to give lineage bans to those who ask. Please don't turn into a greifer because of a vocal minority.

I hope it wasn't my last comment that caused this response. If I offended you I'm sorry. It wasn't my intention. Maybe I should use more smiley emojis?

Suiciding is still very possible, it just takes a little longer since you have to starve. I have had many babies whose first words are  "N-o" and I let them go. Simple as that. Most of the mothers I've had have asked me whether I want to stay. I did say no once (I didn't mean to start a new game and needed to go.) She let me go right away.

If anything, the biggest change that this update brings is that towns are now less likely to be filled with the bones of dead babies, since they now run off to starve. Just please don't release bears before you die. I've seen so many bears since the update. So. Many. Bears. Why do people punish me with bears when I was nice enough to let them go? T-T

It also gives the opportunity for mothers to explain to the last girl why they are needed before they suicide, so that they may choose to stay at least until they have another girl.

Again, I'm sorry this update took some of the fun out of the game for you, but I sincerely hope you can still enjoy it regardless.

I was there for that. I was a kid at the time. I was one of the first to investigate when someone claimed the sheep were killed. No one saw her do it. One girl testified against that poor woman because "she was the only one with a knife" (that was a lie). Everyone believed that girl regardless. I tried to tell people that no one saw her do it. No one listens to kids.

I was there when she was killed too. She claimed she was only trying to help get more sheep, which I am inclined to believe.

To be honest, there were a few new players in that town. I'm not even sure it was done on purpose. If it was, I would be more likely to suspect the person who was trying to create drama about it than the one who quietly tried to get more sheep.

Back to the original topic, I personally love seeing people working to keep a lineage alive. A long lineage is one of the greatest accomplishments you can have in this game in my opinion.

I also always love lives where people are kindly working together to accomplish something. Whether it be getting an early camp started, a project in a large city, etc.

I always hope I will meet kind players when I spawn in. Whether they be new players that I can teach, experienced players that I can work with to accomplish something, or any players who simply remember to treat others well.

Just be careful not to get sent to donkey town....

I remember you! You were the little baby with the chef hat! Your mom named you after Gordon Ramsay. I think I was Cloud West (I'm really bad with names, and being sick today didn't help...)

Anyway, its sad that this line died out. I think that makes two or three lines that I played in today that died out because of lack of girls. It happens. I hope an eve finds it!