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As much as i dislike the /die command, i do understand why it exists, so i'm not saying it should be removed or anything.
We shouldn't force a player to play for one hour in a life they don't want to, if a player wants to be ginger, to try to learn and practice oil, that's fine... but there should be a trade-off, if you want things "your way" then there should be an associated cost to it, right now, that's a penalty to the genetic score for putting your preferences ahead of the family, since every time you /die you penalize them with one less family member.

If there is no "cost" may as well be a character creation screen where you can choose your skin color, family, sex, and even your face, as removing the cost would just allow players to keep suiciding until they have exactly all the conditions they want, which as stated previously, goes against the philosophy of the game which is about adapting to the conditions you were born in.

And i would like to repeat two requests about /die:
1) If a player chooses to /die in a family, they shouldn't be born again as a kid from anyone with the same family name
(thus we respect player choice of not wanting to be there, and we don't grief families with many SID babies from just a single player)
2) SID baby skeletons should disappear after 10sec on the ground and not 2min
(this avoid nurseries, kitchens and other work places from being cluttered with many dead bodies that for all intents and purposes never were born in the first place)

I apologize but i still fail to understand what you mean, this is about baby boom, when there are many players available and being born at the same time, when there are very few players available (at certain hours due to timezones) then there is no baby boom at all, don't think much would change from what it is now. If 2 babies are born at the same minute, one family can get one daughter and another family can get the 2nd daughter which is better than giving 2 kids to one mom and zero to another.

How is that having a limit of 4 babies (that you can increase by eating cravings) affect low population times?

If there's only 3 players in a city, 2 males and 1 female and we guarantee that the female has a daughter, the city can live on and can actually focus on helping that daughter for 1 minute and not let her die because two other sons were born at basically the same time, we don't need 2 daughters to be born in less than 1 minute. That mom had a total of 25 minutes (from 15 to 40) to have kids if she had her first daughter at age 20, she can have another at age 21 or 22... still plenty of time for more babies to be born. Are you claiming whole cities would die because of no fertiles because she was unavailable to give birth for a single minute to a second daughter??

If there are 2 females and 1 male, Mom "A" has a kid, the other Mom "B" can still get a kid while the 1st one is on baby cooldown for 1 minute, much better than putting all the pressure and responsibility on a single mom, don't you think?

This is no solution at all... again, the problem here is about "baby boom" having too many kids at once, if you have 3 kids in less than 2 minutes, you cannot carry all of them in a sling can you? Also you need to feed them, get them dressed, and you can't even talk to your kids properly when you have 3 or 4 around you saying "F" at the same time. If i only have one baby, then i don't need a sling to bring him with me, i can just hold him and bring him to wherever i'm working, but if another one is born right away we're back to where we started.

I addressed that in my initial post, so i'll quote myself for easy reference here:

If the game guarantees that a family will always have a female baby if there's no young woman in the entire family then if a city dies out it's because we didn't took good care of our kids, not because we only had male babies. The game already has an algorithm to try to populate more babies in families with lesser population so i don't see why not add this clause too.

I'm only asking for a baby cooldown here, 1 or maybe 2 minutes, we are fertile in game from 15 to 40 if i'm not mistaken, that's plenty of time for you to have eight or more babies if you need or wish for more kids you can just eat more cravings to raise your limit. My suggestion was up to 4 kids limit if you never eat any craving, if you manage to eat 10 cravings, then you can have up to 14 kids.
Pregnancy lasts 9 months and it's a rare thing for a mom to get pregnant again right on the 10th month.

And again, think about the new players, so we want their experience to be being most of the time in nursery and getting stressed when their 6th kid is born? I lived 5 lives today, every single life i had new players around and tried to teach them, 3 of those lives, i couldn't teach a basic thing like making a carrot farm or making clay bowls because new player was female and kept having babies so we ran back to nursery to give them clothes, once baby had hair, we came back to farm/clay place... new baby pops out... back to nursery...

Oh, and as a sidenote, i would like to ask a request to the community.. if you see a player teaching other, let the new player DO stuff, don't do it for them, let them practice and learn, often i prepare everything in an isolated spot to try to teach, someone else shows up and does the job for us, that's just not nice, at least ask "want help?" before you take things from under their feet. Please show some common courtesy and respect for others.

I didn't said it should be impossible to have 8 babies, just more unlikely, as each time you had a kid, your chances to have another should be lowered.
Yes, there are people with 8 babies out there, but most parents don't have the means or conditions to support so many, hence why I suggested that the minimum limit should be 4, and each craving increases your limit.

This would prevent an Eve from having so many kids she can barely move, give players some choice if they want to keep having some more kids or not, and support the idea that if you have enough wealth/resources (access to more different food) you are in better conditions to support a bigger family.

I think you may be missing the whole point of this... this is a game about parenting and family, I WANT to be able spend time with my family, with my brothers/sisters, with my nephews/nieces, if a new baby is born and i get the message "hey this player is new, please teach him?" I like to have the responsibility and ability to do so (besides babies are people and not objects to be "dumped").

What's the point of having kids if we're just going to give them to someone else to take care of them? If you want to do that, that's your choice, but I don't even have the choice of giving my kids a city tour to show where smith or farm is because 3 more popped out crying "F" before i got the chance to name and dress my first one.

Finally, because people in the forum usually tend to be experienced players, I feel they often forget to put themselves in a new player's shoes, if this is your first few lives, you may not know what to do with your kids, having just one or two may be manageable, but being overwhelmed will cause the player to panic and stress.

I already had a perfect example of a new player I've met that was new and we had a great experience together because I was able to teach her the game, she asked me for my discord and I accepted (something i rarely do) so we could be born as twins and start a new life together so I could teach her more.
Problem was, we were both born as female twins, i had 8 kids and she had 7, we spent all the time running back to nursery, she even lost a few kids, i was unable to teach her anything, and by the end of it she was so stressed out, she didn't want to play another life and as far as i know she hasn't played since. This is not a good experience.

First, because it's a game, doesn't mean it's "fantasy" yes we have some stuff like headless horsemen and apocalypse statues but 95% of the game is made to be as realistic as possible and a portrait of society and how people interact and evolve, each crafting process is as real as Jason can make it and I think that's great, we learn a lot with this game.

Second, both men and female have their pros and cons, and that also allows a different game experience, females usually stay around city evolving it and keeping it in good shape, while men can go out hunting, risking their lives exploring or trading with other cities etc because of it, which also emulates how society usually evolved in the past. And as mentioned, men also have more time to be teachers since they don't have to worry about being interrupted every minute with childbirth.

Also, as far as I know, there's no way to remove a sign from an ancient stone wall corner, making it permanent.

(took us a few lives to try to destroy the "jail" that griefers created.) PEACE AND FREEDOM! <3

I love both these solutions, more different ways to make rope and/or different ways to make stuff with or without rope (nails, yeah!). We can make baskets with either Reeds or Straw, thread from wool or water with bowl/pouch, etc.

Still these require a lot more development, sprites, transitions, etc and Jason would probably
I think it's way easier and faster to increase "number of uses" in Milkweed from 1 to either 3 or 5 since you also get 3 items from a basket of soil/coal or 5 carrots/corn from a farm, etc

It's the most boring farm in the game since it takes so much space, time and resources only to produce an item that has 0 uses by itself, or 4x farm plots just to make a single rope. No wonder so few people do it.
Gameplay should be interesting and engaging so every life is a different story and experience.
Spending at least 1/4 of every life stuck in a place just to get a rope as a result (if no one else takes it first) doesn't make a good story or engaging gameplay.

I agree here... i love to be a gatherer in this game and bring lot's of stuff back to village, yet almost every of my lives, i hit a roadblock every
time for the same reason: lack of ropes!

So for the past month or so, whenever i have kids, i tell them: "every single life, we always lack ropes" and been spending all my time in game just trying to either get clothes or to make milkweed farms which are pretty time and resource consuming.

I usually make a batch of 12 milkweed plots (4x3) so in the end i can make THREE ropes... then while they are growing i leave to get food, more soil, water, or some other reason and when i'm back it's all been picked already due to it's high demand.

So... i want to make a cart? Need rope! No rope in town, back to milkweed farming.
I want to help with the buildings, let's make a door... Need rope! No rope in town, back to milkweed farming.
We need more water from the deep well, or i want to try to finally make rubber for once... so i try to craft a bucket! Need rope! No rope in town, back to milkweed farming.
Town is naked and i love getting bunnies, can't find snare so i'll make one for myself...Need rope! No rope in town, back to milkweed farming.

See a pattern here? And as a gatherer i confirm what people say above, once i'm old enough to grab a cart, i go into the wilds and bring everything i find back to town, seals, rabbits, iron, branches, etc... no milkweed in sight despite exploring all the green biomes i find, at most i found two and brought a tread back. All wild milkweed was taken already.

So... my question is...why milkweed only wields ONE item, when you need FOUR to make a single rope?

Here's a sugestion:
Why not 3 or 5 milkweed stalks from a single plant?

A single soil pile is enough for plenty of farms, a single pond has ton of water.
Almost all other farms (gooseberry, corn, carrots, etc) wield 5. Heck, even after you get 5 carrots from a farm you can replant them right away.
With milkweed, you have to make a new farm next to it every time you pick a single milkweed stalk or wait for it to despawn (if there's a trick to do it quicker, i'm sure it requires tools which is even more time and resource intensive.)

A single wheat farm wields TWO items (Threshed wheat that can be turned into flour that gives up to FOUR pies AND Straw for compost that gives SEVEN piles of soil) and all that for a single bowl of water and either 1 bowl of soil/2 uses of hoe or 2 bowl of soil/1 use of hoe... you need that amount for 1/4 of a rope, and there's no other use for a single milkweed stalk, you can replace 2 milkweed with wool if you need thread, so you'll ALWAYS need a batch of 4x milkweed farms to make a SINGLE item that everyone has need for! It's insane!

I really really love this game, but spending 4 hours, 4 lives where i was unable to make crates/cart/door/bucket/snare/rubber, etc because we always needed a milkweed farm wasn't very fun, and neither was scouting for 15 minutes (25% of my life) only to find two wild milkweed stalks was not enjoyable either.

I'll end my rant here, so i'll say: Rope and Sheep Pen hate aside... keep up with the great work Jason, you really have something special here.

Amen to that! Agreed 100%

Sadly i also have NEVER built a sheep pen for the exact same reason, i built walls, floors, doors for buildings, but the two times where i attempted to make a 5x5 sheep pen out of wooden fences in my life just to see how it would go, i failed miserably and even if i had succeeded, it wouldn't have been a very useful pen.

Agreed! I was Loveah and went through the same, walls had to be destroyed so that babies and nurses could get out, i asked around how to make a lock removal thing but noone knew how.

We should close doors to keep warm temperature in, but then it becomes our death trap if a griefer comes and locks us all inside, nothing much we can do against it, and someone breaks down the walls with a pickaxe to rescue us, we won't be able to keep the warm temperature in.

I've seen locked doors in some other life where someone probably attempted to lock people inside buildings too, but it wasn't as bad as this. Any suggestions about what to do?

I got this game on May 3rd (luckily a month after the previous APOCALYPSE) and it quickly became my #1 favorite game, sadly i can rarely play it besides one day during weekends, but i try to play it whenever i can.

I've been loving all updates every single week so far, and i have to say, this is the first one i really dislike.

I fail to see the "point" of the Apocalypse... things decay and decline pretty quickly in game already and at least to me, the beauty of this game is the cooperation between players to achieve something productive, i try to be as productive as i can in every single life... and this is just basically... destructive!

@Tarr: From what i read on the forums, i see you are a very respectful, skilful and friendly player, but out of curiosity, if you say you don't like the Apocalypse either, why are you working so hard to cause it? It's like building a Nuke just because you can.

One thing i would really love to see is relationship between nearby villages/cities, either trade, war, migration to refill population, different families living in the same village, increasing it's odds of survival, etc....

But in over 6 months, that is yet to be. People rarely build walls or buildings because they consume lots of time and resources and will decay if unattended. The Bell is always too far away to allow anyone to go to another village and return back, and since it takes the "slot" of home marker you can't have both destinations to avoid getting lost.

I see many people trying to build roads (some even tried to build railroads) out of the village in hopes that in several generations those may connect to other villages... what's the point of working so hard if in the end we get a reset and all our hard work is erased? Knowing that all my hard work can be cleared up, makes me feel that my one hour... one life... was wasted!