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I'd imagine that by the third iteration the first would be largely irrelevant.  Because by then whatever had happened in the first would have either been incorporated into the second (i.e. someone finds an old village and reinhabits it) or it would have been abandoned for so long that it was wiped.

The problem with simply making the interface more international, like making the recipes pictures instead of words, is that it would still make it difficult for players to communicate with eachother.  And communication is very important in this game.

A better solution would be to have servers specifically meant for non-English speakers.  That way players could play with people who speak the same language.  I would also point out that we shouldn't expect Jason to do this.  I don't know if he speaks or knows enough about other languages to do it, and even if he does we all probably want him to be working on more content instead of more languages.  But the game is open source and it's possible to set up your own server, so other people could do it if they have the skillz and want to put in the work.

That's a very difficult question to answer.  Too easy for who?

Ultimately, I think the new food doesn't benefit Eves as much as it does her first set of kids.  Because experienced players are able to survive setting up camp either way, and beginners are likely to fail either way.  But the strategy for many experienced players is to abandon a lot of kids.  Child abandonment is frustrating for people trying to play the game, unable to find a mom who will keep them.

With the new food, an Eve is less pressured to abandon kids, and it's easier to be a kid, with hardly a food bar, trying to explore and help mom without starving to death.  It's way easier to be a kid when you have a basket of carrots but Eve's first children don't get that so the wild food helps bridge the gap.  Eve has a big enough health bar to find the next berry bush most of the time, as long as her player is actually paying attention to it.

Edit to add:  If you want to help Eve, and only Eve, what she needs is more time.  If she spawned in a few years younger, she'd have a few minutes to get her bearings and work on a few tools and find a good spot to start a village.  As things stand, she often has her first kid as the game is still loading.  That's a bit rough for both players involved.

Honestly, I think that Jason understands exactly what kind of a game I want to play - a lot the more controversial changes that have been made recently seem like fantastic ideas to me.

Like the fully developed towns that were everywhere before the apocalypse - I didn't like them.  Yes they were cool monuments to everyone's hard work, but what can I contribute if everything has been done already?  I also didn't like that the best Eve strategy was to wander around until you find a ruin to reinhabit, because you'd probably find one.

In short, I like a challenge.  I like to have problems to solve.  I do like to have my efforts rewarded by things becoming easier... for awhile.  If they stay easy I get bored.  If things are easy for the moment but I know that there is a new problem on the horizon, I have something to do.  And of course I like new content and having a bigger tech tree to play with, but I like not actually being at the top of it because the top is a dream - if I reach my dreams, what do I have left to do?

The only thing I really don't like about the game as it stands is the current situation you get into if there are people in the village, but they're all male or old women.  Because then you get into a situation where you feel like it's all pointless now because the village will not only not continue with the current family, it's so unlikely to be found before it gets wiped that why should you even bother trying to improve the village?  Yes, I didn't like being able to count on finding a ruin as an Eve, but since the recent changes I have NEVER found a ruin.  I don't like that balance - I'd like it to be something you can't count on, but there is more than a remote chance.  Like maybe a 1 in 10 chance.  That would make me happy.

Pretty much everything else that's going on already makes me happy.
(Except Jason definitely needs to clone himself so that he can give us new content faster.)

Well, I'd consider that to be a valid strategy in certain situations, but that's not what I really mean by a migration.  If you're still close enough to loot another village for an extended period of time then you're probably also close enough that you're competing for resources when you forage.

Pro tip:  Cooked mutton fits in baskets.

You can always have the kid chase after you while you carry the basket.  Also a good survival test to see if the kid is worth raising.

I was able to fix this issue on my server by creating a file in the OneLife/server/ folder named serverCodeVersionNumber.txt with the contents being the version number that the server should be - in this case 73.  I only vaguely understand why it works - all I know is that the game code seems to expect a file by that name to exist, and it didn't exist in my server files, so I added it.

Hmm, all I'm seeing here is a player who can dish it out but can't take it.

Pro tip: If you're about to die and there's others around to clean up your grave, die in an open spot.  If you're about to die alone, take off all your clothes and don't carry anything.  That way someone can find and reuse your stuff.

If you want religion in the game, you could always make one...

I like the direction of this thread.  And I thought that I would add this to discussion.

Back in the middle ages, there was something called a hue and cry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue_and_cry

The jist of it is that if someone, whether they were officially a constable or a private citizen, witnessed a crime they would say so to all bystanders and all able-bodied people able to do so were required by law to assist in apprehending the criminal at that point.  This made it possible for law and order to be enforced even in a small medieval village that was too poor to support anything resembling a modern police force - the entire village was the police force when they needed to be.

Of course, in the context of this game, at least as it currently stands, the only way to stop someone is to kill them.  Which means that if you wanted to make a hue and cry possible in a village then everyone would need to be armed or have easy access to weapons.  Which I don't think is a crazy idea - the vast majority of players are not griefers and would only kill another player in defense.