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I was killed today for not doing THE SPECIFIC WORK that my adoptive mother was telling me to do. It’s my game to play too. If I want to live a life where I go hunt rabbits, let me do that. I don’t have to water wheat fields (which I did) or make berry bowls (which I didn’t do - and by the way, crazy not-my-Mom, I’d you’d just said “do you know how to compost? I woulda said yes and done it, but your micromanaging was a little much for me).

Standing around and just eating is a form of griefing. But geez, let people show their colors. I died at SIX because I didn’t want to do the task my stupid non-mom was giving me, because it was the first decent spawn I’d had today. Geeeeeez.

People who just talk about bears.

If a bear is attacking the village, either A) hunt it and kill it, B) help lure it away, or C) go about your regular job while being careful to avoid the fucking bear.  Stop standing around talking about the bear. Ooh, bear. Bear. Bear. Bear. Bear.

Yes, we get it, there's a bear.  Get on with it.

This was my experience too. I yelled at the screen a lot - my partner kept saying, "It's not interactive!" and I explained my frustration.

Me: "It says 'drank breast milk' right at the bottom of the screen! They aren't observing anything. They need to stop MOVING!"
Partner: "Okay, yeah, but you lived for thousands of years in that game. What were your first lives like?"
Me: "... Shit."

Point 5 isn't *terrible*. Milkweed tends to be underestimated as a crop until people are desperate for it.

The rest of this... well... I'll post separately.

This. It's depressing AF.

Yeah.  Death by butter knife is weird, because you can keep doing things after you've been stabbed by a butter knife.

And I walked into my kitchen at home and had my partner stab me with a butter knife. I'm not dead yet!

I just read through your recent topics and posts . You haven’t posted since 7/30. I’m sorry you feel you’re being bullied. I did see one post where I thought people’s responses were a little odd, but there wasn’t a racist tone that I could read (I’m a teacher, so I look for these things). If you can point to specific instances where you felt attached, that might add truth to your claim.

I'm sorry.  I was Nara Green.  Jalon tried to abandon her first child in the wilderness because she "didn't want to raise no n****r boys" and - being childless at the time, I ran and grabbed him.  I took on her other two abandoned children. One starved quickly.  Her oldest wound up capturing a horse and working with my youngest on the sheep pen.  But I should have explained more clearly to them that their mother was a griefer. Maybe it would have made a difference, maybe not. I'm sorry about James.

I spawned again there recently. They've had more griefer trouble. I wonder if the town is cursed.

Could you make it so:
- new users cannot post new topics?
(or)
- new users can only post one new topic until approved by a mod?

That would cut down on spam and moderation. (The second solution might just make it so they are creating more fake accounts, and my experience with forum spam says they have no limit on those so that's likely subideal - that was just a thought based on new users posting 'I'm having an issue with my game' type posts.)

I personally hate it when people continually tell me to put on clothes.  I'm in the damn desert.  It's not helpful for me to wear a rabbit loincloth and a sealskin coat because you don't wanna see my johnson.

That said... I agree with Turnipseed.  Floppy hats, reed skirts, and some light colored shirt should reduce heat.

Many things should be stackable.  Plates.  Bowls.  Piles of seeds. 

I feel like there should be some way to make sure Eves spawn within reasonable distance of something that has potential for a homestead.  I feel like half the time, I wind up running for so long (after landing in the arctic) that my Eve spawns are pointless. I'd love to have a higher success rate.

It feels like there's a birthrate problem - or ... something. I was living in a great city that had potential to keep going... and the six dudes living there realized we were the last among us. My brother and I were young, we lived out our lives and organized and prepped the place so that some fortunate Eve can some day spawn there and find a windfall.  But for thirty minutes I wandered around wondering... what went wrong? what is so hard about communal child rearing? why are birth rates even in cities? how can the game adjust to help "fix" and keep cities alive?

Ultimately I've been playing for about a month (two?  who knows!) but I'm getting a little bored. It gets samey-samey. I keep challenging myself to learn new skills, but there are times when I've been lineage-banned from the good towns, or there just seem to not be nay productive cities happening... and so it's just a lot of farming and spawning, gathering and spawning.  I want us to evolve; that was the lure of the game. We don't seem to be forwarding the motion much.

On naming: I've been your kid (I'm assuming) in that I've been Yicheng. I didn't find it off-putting at all; I was pleased.  I like a name with personality and Yicheng tells me something about myself. I'd like to see more names from a variety of cultures, but I'm not sure how many people are in it for the naming. That was - oddly - a big draw for me. I get to name 5-10 kids in the course of an hour?? HELL YES I WILL PLAY THAT GAME. I will pick a theme every time and have so much fun with that, all while making stew.