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You really need to stop calling the beginning the end.
I don't find playing in megacities repetitive at all. It's like people are so used to village life that they cant handle the complex endgame.

'It's meaningless', I hear them say all the time (I do not comprehend this).

My problem isn't how complicated it is to heal the wound, but how quickly someone dies because of it.

Dying fast from a knife or sword is totally reasonable, but dying from an arrow within the same timespan suggests a bullseye headshot.

If one would die more slowly from an arrow wound, surely we would be able to heal them, nerfing bow and arrows in the process.

I would've loved it if the rift was actually expanding or shrinking (earthquakes?), both types leaving a natural state in their wake. This way there would have been a controlled flow of new natural resources, while "living on the egde" can be taken literally.

Players would experience both: resource shortage and abundance, depending on their life.

It has a very real resemblence with nature, as you find most marine life around coasts.
This way, the middle of the map could become a hot spot, but the rift does not need to be a rectangle, it could also be a convex shaped ball encircling the villages.

Sorry for just pasting it here, I just do what I love to do.

I'm not sure about the other epochs, but this one is a baby zombie survival lol.

Lol and here I am, no more Lifes to spend, always killed way too early by some monkey coming from the woods. Guess I must've been unlucky.
Griefing lets you live longer tbh.

Being sad about something does not equal to being intelligent, quite the contrary actually. To me, you sound very much less intelligent than the rest of this playerbase, simply by asking us for confirmation about having an opinion on a subjective matter.

My opinion is that you shouldn't judge somebody simply by the way he/she thinks about you. It's your fault for trying to listen to him/her and integrate him/her into your life. You wouldn't kill someone just for failing adding up two numbers, would you? Yet, you would kill someone for failing to see your true self.
While I do stop listening to people who are in the wrong, I try to tolerate them to a degree where their inferior intellect does not matter. Killing would only come in handy when finding yourself in a situation where you are CERTAIN that you can't get out of otherwise. It just doesn't happen.

The word in question is a multidimensional tool, by the way. Obviously you can use it as a slur. But maybe, depending on the context, it could be the final piece of a puzzle to finish up a perfect sentence so inspiring, as if it came out of gods mouth. When that happens, I wouldn't want to be the one to have a bias towards the wording, I'd rather be as open about it as I can be.

TLDR You're cutting out a big piece of art and complexity from your life if you constantly think this way. It therefore is the way of the less intelligent.

Lately, I've been thinking about the 'chores' of this game, like:
- Farming
- Cooking
- Gathering
(...and getting angry about no water, hungry sheep, no shovel, no hoe, no axe, no kindling...)
Engineering has certainly been given much more interesting things. The diesel engine alone relies on complex machinery that needs to be built previously.

Still, I do find myself soiling and watering the berries in the first minutes of my life. Why is that?
Being a kid is uncomfortable, you do not posess enough stamina to start doing great things.
But great things are a matter of perspective: Building a berry farm from scratch is actually an achievement.
This gives us a solution on how we could deal with 'chores': There should be no other way to avoid it.
Therefore, I think chores can exist in this game, especially when theres nothing else for you to do. In a well built town, first you only get to do the 'boring' stuff.

How could we implement such a thing more clearly? -> Harsher age restrictions for 'great things', as an example.

There is a saying in ohol that if you force feed someone often enough, they will leave a piece of high quality foie gras when reaching age 60.

Jokes aside, it really did occur to me more often than before, but I just can't link it to any form of griefing.

To be honest, I loved that "real goodbye" when first playing the game, only to find out later that you can still get yourself into that same family by constantly /DIE-ing. At first, it made me upset, it felt like I have been deceived, and my urge to punish those who spam /DIE grew inside me.
But I can tell from experience, that those "punishments", fueled by hate, are just shortcomings of me trying to find a solution. It's like giving up trying to create an intricate system.

My actual problem is the desire to want more of that "real goodbye". I just cannot let it go - it has to be in the game, I mean, it has become a trademark of sorts, hasn't it?
But what if you wouldn't fear your own death, but the death of your entire family? Wouldn't that be much more devastating? Wouldn't that be the "REAL goodbye"?

Imagine I would be able to reconnect to my last family as a new child. It would still be "One hour one life" - you trip, you die, you (have to) respawn:
- My urge to protect this family has grown - everyone knows me, as a part of my name will not vanish when dying - and I know them.
- Griefers have long been cast out of this family by democracy (too many curses), they are no longer able to connect to this family.
- Protecting the "family" means protecting the "family name", which in turn could be a placeable thing, a banner, or artifact of sorts, first held by the eve.
    - This banner can be destroyed by other families. Protecting this banner adds another layer to the survival part of the family - true warfare. Upon destroying the banner, players lose their family names and cannot respawn to that family, as it does no longer exist. This would urge players to fortify their belongings.
    - Coorperating families merge their names, just like their language. They end up having the same banner, meaning that one banner will vanish. The merge is in favor of the longest existing family name.
- /DIE will no longer need to exist

Honestly, I wouldn't try to tinker with genetics very much. That system would just seem too rigid, whereas human families are rooted in a much more complex environment. A family name is, like in real life, virtual. It only exists on paper, yet everyone identifies with it. It is the essence of motivation.
And boy do I want to see a family trying to sneak their banner away from their hometown during a heavy siege .

Having infinite time in this open world would seem bland at first, but that's just because there are too many resources around. "Why do I have to stay in this rotting village, when theres untouched wilderness just 100 blocks away"?
Well, why would you live in a city, when you can get a nice house in the land? Because the city provides more "TECH", and it cannot be moved around that easily.
I for one enjoy playing for multiple hours at a time in the same village. It doesn't become bland at all - actually, the only thing stopping me from having fun is the sudden realization that this will not last forever, or shall I say: whether it lasts forever, or not, ->is not for me to decide<-.
As other players get to know each other only by session (1 hour), and not by family names (possibly infinite - fueled by my very own upkeep), everyone gets the feeling that they are alone in this world, and not part of a ->bigger thing<-.

Sorry for just spewing out my ideas, it is one of my offensive traits, haha. But I would really like to see something as unstable as this implemented, who knows what could happen?