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Dodge, how would you suggest implementing "tanking up" without allowing one adult to eat all the food?  The original suggestion was just doubling the stomach size.  Could be 2x or 3x or 4x without allowing one adult to eat everything in sight.

On the other hand, the most extreme version (infinite stomach) has the most depth.  Unfortunately, the raw griefing potential is enormous.  One guy running around eating every wild berry, etc.  It's unfortunate that every idea gets hamstrung by griefing.  "No limit" is much deeper than "limit."  But we have to deal with players who are playing sub-optimally on purpose.  I wish there was one giant, super-clean way we could deal with griefing once and for all, so that every design innovation didn't have to tiptoe around it....

It's like with chopping down trees.  The deepest option is to let you pick how many to chop, anywhere from 0 to "all of them," with some middle amount being optimal, and it's up to you to figure that out.  Then along comes a griefer who chops down all of them.  Then I have to insert some arbitrary limit on the upper end....

In Poker, no limit with the deepest possible stacks provides widest skill spectrum.  More possible choices, more gradation, more room for error.  The lowest-skill variant is one-chip poker, where your only decision is whether to go all in or fold.  The great thing about poker is that there's no such thing as griefing.  Poor play is punished by huge financial losses.  Go ahead, try to shove all in on every hand.  That kind of "broken" strategy is easy to beat long-term.  Players who play that way either weed themselves out by running out of money, or keep coming back with more money, which any sensible poker player would welcome.  It's a self-solving problem.

But in OHOL...  there's just no cost to the perpetrator for sub-optimal play, nor no benefit to the others...

Obese sprites would be nice.  But there are a bunch of problems.  First, GPU stretch looks horrible, so they would need to be hand-drawn at different sizes.  And then we have the problem of clothes.  Those would need to be drawn bigger too.  So it's a content nightmare.  Without different clothing sprites, the big body would "hang out" of the small clothes.  This would look horrible.

only the strong survive is ez if you know the swamp and stew the days of living on the petroleum nipple are ovah!

betame wrote:

What's it like?
I hear there's no oil.
Is there water or iron being found for farming?
Are people surviving off of wild food?
How do towns look?
How are people behaving?

There's still a working newcomen on the map but most people aren't near/around it. Oil is gone but people still have plenty of ponds to fetch water from if they wanted to keep farming like normal.

Good players always survive off of wild food, newer players are definitely dying a lot easier than normal since it's harder for them to get food and depend on those willing to make decent food. Towns in generally are just cemeteries as new players die, some people are trying to hunt gingers, and lack of skilled players willing to carry the end of the arc is lowering.

People are doing the normal "eNd tHe aRc." thing where they start killing off the weaker of two families. Game is far from being completely unlivable but we've reached the point where people willing to grit their teeth and keep going getting outnumbered by the people wanting reset.

Game is still 100% livable without oil. We still have a working newcomen water pump, there's still tons of natural soil, ponds are out the kazoo, and we still have untapped iron veins.

Actually, there already IS an indicator of sorts.

After all the well spots are used up:

--Dry Natural Springs remain in the area around a well

--Thoroughly Dry Natural Springs are everywhere else.

So you can kinda tell if you're in the area by what kind of dry you find.  However, I feel like you really need some kind of "gradient" to climb with more information.

Maps to find the nearest well?  Those area already in the game as maps!  Go to a well and make a map.  Or spread maps around the game to tell people where you found the well.