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Did you notice this is a topic about racism in different cultures and no one here really discriminated anyone besides some jokes? If you go to such an topic, expect experiences to be told from different countries. My brother was English proficient enough to understand most dialogues in movies he watched and considered "nigga" to be equivalent of "buddy" or "dude". I found it amusing and decided to share. Do not expect people to undestand US culture code just because they use English.

But I find your butthurt even more amusing If you don't like topics about how racism is being seen in different cultures and countries, do not read it. But describing such phenomenons is not a crime.

My brother had an English exam and he had to describe a picture with two black-toned guys sitting in from of the destroyed shotgun house, clearly after one of American tornadoes. He started "in the picture I can see two niggas". He was very surprised by teachers reaction (one was laughing, one was angry). When I explained him how offensive it is, he replied: "The fuck! They are constantly using it in movies and no one gets offended!"

Speaking about words that hurt
Consider the video
and the picture

The words may say how nasty is the speaker, but why any decent person would care about nasties?

Also: Slav is offensive? I am the fucking Slav! It is not like Gypsy or Kebab, which is clearly an offensive attempt.

LOL you digged that topic. But it's fine you remember what players want and need

During choice we are computers. We analyze problem and choose solution, no time for cry. We can be emphatic when there is nothing we can help

It's hilarious how Jason is not keeping his own promises regarding game design. It gives me hope, as he basically has implemented most of my suggestions, only twisting the original mechanics and balance :) It happened with multistep cooking, with medicine, with more violence options (even if swords are twisted so much my proposition could not work). Now it happened with phantoms, invisible objects utilizing to interactions between players.

Jason, drying out springs are the equivalent of red wires from Minecraft, something you promised you will never implement :)

Hereby, another suggestion for water management. Do not prohibit building wells (in free place, dry pond, spring, doesn't matter). Make water a global resource. When well timer runs out, it is requesting the next unity of water. It is granted by probability engine basing on remaining not full wells in the world. It can be different timer basing on technological advancement.

Chance to get water = 1/number of not full wells

If timer were quite high, like 2-20 seconds, the first few wells would provide gigantic amounts of water. But every next well would downgrade all other existing wells. Abandoned wells would fill up eventually and not affect others.

Advantages over current system:
1. It still allows for Eve camps or outposts, as new digged shallow and deep well will start full of water.
2. Water becomes a resource villages may compete for. A raid to destroy/downgrade neighbouring well makes sense.
3. There would exists some wells surrounded by abandoned settlement, so exploring for them may be lifesaver.

System is easy and global. Tweaking timers would be the only thing necessary to tweak difficulty, making it more balanced with each arc.

New players are not staying, because OHOL is a fraud. It promises to be about parenting and building civilization. It is none of them, because "everything runs out".

How to break parenting
1. Restrict toddler speaking. It is adorable and touchy maybe first 10 times, but getting more frustraing with each attempt.
2. Make game so hard, that experienced players which can teach have to spend all their time saving city from destruction (hi pein!)
3. Make offspring a budding bacteria, not something two players try to give born to. A random child during forging? Great idea!
4. Keep each life unique a way, your offspring success does not affect you. Now there is the useless score. Maybe some players are developing their characters and skills for achieviements, but most of us enjoy rewards much more

How to break building civilization
1. Make Eveing the hardest part of game. Hunter-gatherer lifestyle is essential to allow building outposts and make long-distance travels, to enable wars and trade.
2. Eveing was the most fun part of game. It was already made nearly impossible excluding OHOL hardcore players. Rift makes it even worse.
3. Condemn everyone to inevitable doom. If you think that encourages people to build civilization, consider this video

And a bonus, how to piss of playerbase
1. Tell a solo-made indie game must have declining playerbase after 18 months. Consider Minecraft.
2. Tell how complex this game is mentioning all semi-states. Ignore that items in other games are state machines increasing complexity to levels not possible for OHOL
3. Tell you are the best solo designer (I've spent 173 hours in StarDrive 2, 17 hours in OHOL since Steam release. Also Steam Charts says, SD2 is better )

4. Disregard zoom
5. Give them "dogs" and "potatoes"

This is not bugs nor design which breaks OHOL. It is it's philosophy.

Beautiful discussion, no doubt! I enjoy reading valid points, like poor tutorial and tooltip. But this game would not need any of them, if it was successful in parenting part. I will keep looking to the forum sometimes, feeding my salty satisfaction how OHOL is dying, just as I expected it will.

Nie wiedziałem pein, że piszesz po węgiersku. Szkoda tylko, że po przetłumaczeniu w translatorze wychodzi z tego bełkot. Czy oryginalna wypowiedź miała sens?

Estas stranga por mi neniu uzas tiun lingvon

I am totally against craftable zoom. This would benefit only late game, while zoom is mostly beneficial for early settlements.

Game has low resolution and looks like crap on big screens. I know people who use tv hanged over PC desk. I personally cannot stand the aesthetics of default zoom, so I play mostly at 2x zoom. So, this argument is valid only for watching gameplay on mobile devices.

No. You Jason don't get this, but zoom mods are scalable. Hardcore players are zooming in for conversation and crafting. We are zooming out for gathering resources, finding tools and building. None of those 3 things has anything with close-in experience. In fact, we enjoy the game more, because we can see the city layout, we see beautiful landscapes created by your algorithms. And, this is funny, we are involved in more close-in experiences, not less. I often see far away bubbles, but on zoomed out view it is hard to recognize who is talking about what. So I often stop my work to come close and participate in griefer judgement, help somebody looking for tools (I almost always am rewarded with 'Thank you' or 'Tx'), or just look at beautiful stories being told. All this close-in moments are exclusive to us, zoom users, who can notice them and come to dive into them. Vanilla players don't even know how much beautiful storylines omit them.

You don't give us zoom, because you want videos without them. Yet, youtubers, even on modded versions, are mostly playing zoomed in You don't trust your players enough, but we will continue to proof we will not overuse zoom

Zooming out when playing roleplay is inconvenient, so you would still get good stories with good look even in zoomed vanilla. But, if there are guides, zoomed vanilla would be more beneficial.

You are still loosing the point. I may even agree fixed 2x zoom would harm the game. But scalable zoom, in which everyone chooses what pleases them, for sure would increase playerbase. I can bet you lost many, many players annoyed by rapid deaths caused by animals during traveling or angry about next hunger death just near to food, because they spent last seconds searching in pointless directions. You call it a good drama, I call it disrespect toward players. And people felt disrespected are leaving the game. You don't even know how big is this lost playerbase, because they do not contribute to the community.

Stupid deaths are happening to me sometimes even when I use zoom. But now I can blame only myself, when before I was quitting for entire weeks blaming you for poor design.

No one wants fixed zoom. But give playerbase a little trust. We will zoom in for close-in moments, without doubts.

I would say, a simple mine update would require each time a stanchion kit, at least a fence kit. It is to make a skeleton of underground corridors. You need new iron? Make new corridor, put there stanchion kit as skeleton.

If each iron gathering would require a new stanchion kit, you would need to establish a new city around the vein. You will finally have a city with great comparative advantage, so it would enable intervillage trading.

Yes it will. But notice, that an entire town can react at spot to such behavior. Currently, if griefer gets all the knifes, city is doomed. With non lethal violence even armed griefer would consider dealing with the mob.

But more important, it gives a more gentle way to deal with low level griefing, like stealing or poorly placed buildings. Killing is too much a punishment, so a common agreement across game is to leave stealing not punished.

This is different from prison. Prison is, when somebody gets caught, trialed and transported to prison. What we have currently, are traps, blind for criminal past of victim.

You are right. And wrong at the same time. In chimapnzee groups 30% of deaths is when ape kills ape (remember, they do not have medicine, they are biten by leopards and snakes...). In Amazonian savages 15% of deaths is when man kills man. This includes very late birth control with killing infants. The Great Northern War killed 1/4 of Poland citizens, II World War "only" 1/6. With every technological advancement our culture is advancing even more. So, even if reasons are different, ingame griefeing is lower than present in some human societies.

You never know if it is a joke. If it is, "I feel disturbed, please don't do it" sentence may work. But real sexual harrassment is about shocking, dominating and terryfying. In that case he will be rewarded.

My wife met a flasher in real life. When he flashed to her, she laughed about him. It was not my wife, who ran in shame

What about ingame options to turn it off?