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I wonder when we get chickens, stackable omelettes and feather sources.
And all animal bones could make stews.

I agree with this. Did you ever poll your playerbase about these things?

Village interaction and being apart:
Sure, why wouldn’t we want that? Oh right, because war sword. I wanted positive reasons to meet and mix communities. But instead of marriage, healthier gene pool, trade routes and mass transit, we have language barriers, swords and scarce resources.
I’d rather not find a village at all if there are no positives to it. I rather live in a town far away from everything than fight against sword raids one after another. I rather live far from everyone if Eves or non related griefers get away without curses.

Why is the game same:
Agreeing with Spoon, there is no variance how things are done or what resources we use. There is sameyness inside Rift, too. We need the same things at the same time and eat and build same things for same reasons. We don’t have enough challenges to conquer, like sickness (humans/animals/crops), disasters, infertile earth etc. To me, however, the sameyness was fine, because it was good mostly. Being greeted with the same good experience I grew familiar with made me play repeatedly. Nice players made me play repeatedly, too. I’d need a poll to figure out why other type of players grow bored with sameyness, and what they feel is missing here.

Why is everything we build lost:
’Cause it’s not Minecraft, right? I was devastated when I learnt that our efforts disappear to thin air. What’s the point in the long run if nothing carries over or you can’t see what your effort enabled few generations later? Thankfully things like family trees, player relationships and genes were there to carry over for us. More things like these could make the loss hurt less. Ghost mode would be great, too, and having chances to rekindle places you REALLY feel are worth it.
In the end, I learnt what carries over; teaching. So I taught players. Not all find this as a valid way of making things last so I’d ask them how long they want things to last anyways.

I wish we wouldn’t push big changes to all servers when new stuff hits, so we could try the new thing and if we didn’t like it, we could go to a server that doesn’t have the new thing. This way we could already vote by splitting into two kinds of servers; new stuff and pre-new stuff. We’d all go through new stuff, list what works and what doesn’t, and instead of stopping playing, we could go to a server without the new thing, perhaps reflect again what we like there and what we liked in the new stuff.

Haven’t played during the rift due to griefer issues, but I’m tempted to get back now that the rift is disabled.

Curse Jason Rohrer.

Aw fudge I am not in his family.
Maybe I can be born there, where is the closest bear...

I hope someone can make a mod where all sounds are fart sounds. Baby cries? Farts. Cart creaking? Farts. Snake bite? Farts. Death? Farts.

Likes:
- being efficient and helpful, and people who are efficient and helpful
- renovating bad working spaces into better ones, even moving working stations to better places
- renovating small pens into larger and better ones
- renovating small buildings into larger and better ones
- random teamwork that happens; people gather to cook pies as the oven gets ready, a smith gets a helper as he starts processing iron, a builder gets helping hands to finish buildings, a road builder gets a rock hauler and so on - it's awesome, feels good
- RNG nature (to an extent), sometimes it was fun to walk into the infinity, seeing all kinds of biome formations and RNG oddities as you passed - randomness intriques me, and the vast world being endlessly different excited me (occasional "garden of Edens" and such)
- sweet players who are not afraid to show some love and affection, even if it's just RP
- the bonus you get with good Fitness
- doing helpful projects, like turning a clay pen into an awesome maple pen
- having all kinds of options during a life; run away, craft something new, teach someone, live at an oil rig, have five professions, design a different town than meta, etc.
- seeing a family line go far after you are gone
- seeing a town after multiple generations developed it
- reviving towns

Dislikes:
- iron nerf: I was expecting to get different ways to reach iron, but it's just running around - so boring - I want to craft tools to get iron, not run around for ages; miner camps, miner towns...
- griefers: I don't want to play with them, I hate the type of drama they add - they just slow down all the cool things that could be crafted, cool stuff that could happen
- not being able to curse everyone
- war swords having magical advantage on foreigners
- the limited world, with RNG as a designer (levels/worlds need designers if they are limited)
- low options for hunting and animal skin cloth (no herds to track, no strategic animal traps...)
- low (good) options for different buildings (building materials, decoration, heating systems)
- people looking like the same characters with no unique mixing
- families not being able to come together due to griefers and bored killers
- no options for making fire, rope, ovens/kilns etc., all just adobe and such
- big rock hauling and digging, so boring, I'd rather build a mine than run around with a cart
- how roses work, I wanna crossbreed and mutate them and such, I have no idea what this time thing is with roses and their colors
- inconsistencies
- bad crafting help, also you need to be super precise to search things - even I can't remember how to use it most of the time
- watering stuff with bowls is weird, how about a crude watering can from clay and iron?
- composting requiring exact things to work
- animals eating only certain exact things
- animals living forever
- not enough dangerous environmental elements
- not enough environmental challenges (soil becoming barren when machines have had a go for centuries? Making better soil?)
- no sicknesses (crops for example, and humans only get yellow fever)
- no way to breed better crops
- not being able to have larger areas of water, like lakes; pond that is a size of one tile is so weird
- clutter, ofc, one item per tile looks funny and always will
- not being able to see through tree's foliage
- clothes becoming a death trap when yellow fever strikes; and nobody can undress you, not even you yourself
- not having things to help bonding with family
- talking being so difficult in-game (limits and hunger)
- default zoom
- game about parenting has no dads

Sounds bad, and I agree.

When the map is infinite, one could run far away to at least escape other families’ griefers (as you couldn’t curse them anyways and they’d just respawn, maybe in your family even, to kill you), but now all conflicts are forced on players even harder. No options.

If you have weapon, you are free to use it however you wish.

It is a valid reason for others, not valid for others. I could not care less if someone is killed over cussing or being annoying. A mature person knows how to handle different personalities and knows how to avoid conflict.

I wonder if people will just reroll until it's the best location in the map and meanwhile few try to make really dry locations work with constant lack of girls as most don't want to haul water and drill oil for their lives.

What I hope is that people will still rather work together than against, but if war sword loopholes and property fences remain as they are, I think griefers are gonna be like foxes in a chicken pen. We can't escape as they are either in your family or right next door.

Getting claustrophobic!

Tried to imitate Jason's style, his way of drawing hair is really hard to mimic. The results always tend to lack the certain "awkwardness" Jason's original characters have. I tried to get towards there by purposefully leaving eyes a bit mismatched and hair messy. But boy is it hard to get them right!

Phew, good. That's what crossed my mind instantly when I heard "exhausted oil".
Then it's manageable! Will suck to remove and rebuild roads tho'.

OP: oof, 50% chance? That's crazy. Waiting for fixes! (Also poop acidity aside, can we get 0% breaking chance when moving poo around?)

I also work in the game industry and Tarr has been pointing out fixes for a long time, and it's fine. Jason is a one-man team so he knows what's up and what patch and where when he updates. He has also proven to be able to ask for more info if he ever needs to. If OHOL had a team who had to communicate stuff from forums to a programmer, it'd be required to give numbers and steps and such so the guy who takes the message forward doesn't screw it up when translating it to the programmers. Broken phones happen and that's why a format for feedback is often required when there is a team working.

Also is it blaming if it's a fact that something was broken again? Why people take things to heart? It's neutral. "You broke it" is a fact, don't get sensitive over it...

Would be epic to see those connect. Will surely make a pop up town if the path lands on a nice spot at some point!