One Hour One Life Forums

Heyo,

Game became pretty much unplayable for me since last update #91. I can not move properly anymore.

I am not having game server connection issues in general, e.g. losing connection with retry to connect window, but my problem at least feels like a connection or networking issue. I can not tell for sure though.

Problem: When I move by clicking and holding down the left mouse button at the edge of the screen, I get teleported back to where I started or a few tiles back and run in place. I run in place forever until I issue a new move command by releasing the left mouse button and click again somewhere to move.

When I move by clicking constantly without holding my mouse button down, I don't have any issues. But I really don't like that. I click items more often then giving a move orders, which is annoying. It's also way less convenient to play.

I don't have internet connection problems on my end in general as far as I know and no problems with other games or such. It is also only occuring since last update #91.

If anyone could relay this onto github, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks! Hope I can play again soon.

Ok, I get it: It is a justified concern that once a big civilization is established, long term motiviation suffers as there is not really anything vital or new left to do anymore. The game becomes too easy and is a bit boring for all players with a lack of phantasy and role playing capability. A situation that is problematic and not easy to solve.

So how to face this problem? How to keep us pro gamers busy? Two obvious ways: Add more content on a regular basis than the players can discover or make the existing game more difficult for the players. Well, one single dev can not catch up with us players content-wise and hiring 20 more guys for content creation is expensive, so that leaves only one option: Difficulty adjustments.

The apocalypse, several restrictions, general nerfs etc. are all attempts to keep us at bay. Some good, some questionable. How about this one: Destroy everything the player has accomplished and built up so far with natural catastrophes! Wuuuah! Ok, seriously, hear me out first, because I can already see the steam reviews in front of my inner eye saying „it is good until there is a tornado that destroys all progress which sucks and I hate it and I have bad grades at school and I am confused about my sexual identity as recently I discovered new hair at...“ well and so on.

It‘s still gotta be fair, right? Maybe the catastrophes would happen for a reason. For example as a consequence of people’s behaviour. So chopping down trees in a too big extent will cause climate change, leading to a long massive heatwave that grills all berries and carrots in a big radius. Or make them some sort of public events, that are scheduled beforehand on fixed dates so players at least have the chance to prepare for the desaster. For example, by hauling all food indoors before it happens as only outdoor food is affected. That would attract a lot players into the game on those days and everyone would need to work together to survive. What about epidemic sicknesses that spread out because there are always dozens of dead lamb lying around in the pen and nobody throws them into a trash pit ever? Insect plagues? Earthquakes because you dug too deep for oil... lol.

At least one more smaller thing would be much appreciated: Allow us to stack two shoes to one pair of shoes. Thanks.

Hello Community,

I just signed up because I would like to share and describe a troublesome gameplay experience, regarding the leaderboard score system and the connected tool slot system.

I like the game. So I play it quite often. Consequently, due to plenty of playtime and experiences, I climbed the steep learning curve and became quite good in surviving and contributing to civilization. Accordingly, I also climbed the leaderboard steadily. That was the case before and after the recent score reset. Everything was good so far. Up until today when I dropped from a score of 50+ to around 40 in one single instance.

Personally, I don't really care what rank I am on the leaderboard. For the same reasons why I bought and play the game. After all in my opinion, the game in its core is not about competition but about cooperation. It is about the mutual creation of something bigger, so boasting or comparing individual performances is not of interest to me. But okay, everyone has a different taste and reasons to play the game differ, so I'm sure there are a lot of players who want to express something or themselves with that, so why not let them have it. Moreover, such implementations make personal progression transparent in numbers and I can imagine it also allows an identification of player groups to react accordingly in terms of development choices and so on. So it's a good system in many ways, I guess.

Anyway, while I don't care about my rank and respectively don't care about my score in the first place, I do care about my tool slots. The tool slot system and the connection to some sort of progress tracking systematic such as the leaderboard score is actually quite a good idea for players like me in my opinion, because it is a mechanic besides the score competition aspect that rewards the player and gives incentives to game on. At least, it felt very rewarding to me, to see that I was able to contribute better and have more freedom in designating my lifetimes. I also get the bigger picture that it supports communication, co-work, and the feel of being one part in a bigger chain. I think the tool slot system is a nice design decision.

However, the tool slot system in connection with the current score system is very susceptible by the influence of players with harmful intentions towards other players progressions. I just dropped down by many points as a result of one single griefer/troll/murderer in the town. You can check my progress on the leaderboard by checking the name "Maeli Mauseth". It is a hard work to incrementally climb for more slots, mostly by +0.20 steps from elder deaths at 60. You feel better and better as tool slots increase but then you get crushed by a sudden drop of -10.0 just by having one or two lives with a troll in town. It's simply frustrating, because it is not even one's own fault.

Sure, I could go after such players, trying to curse, counterkill, exile or whatever. But often it is just easier said than done for various reasons (e.g., players being afk in wilderness neglecting babies, kidnapping babies, luring bears to fresh towns, taking items away etc.). Also, such players live of the attention that you give them so by going after them, they will have even more "fun" to play the game their way. I guess they have a right to play the game their way but then it shouldn't have so much deconstructive impact on other playstyles, such as the I guess "normal" initial intended playstyle by most players, including me. In the end, the tool slot system has a big impact, I guess especially for veterans, as they know more stuff that you can do with the variety of different tools.

I hope that I was able to describe my problem with the game I'm having at the moment. It's quite substantial for me. If further details are needed or inspiration for solutions is appreciated, let me know.

Now I'm curious what you guys think.

Edit: I forgot one more thing to say: Those setbacks, that you receive by trolls, feel even more impactful now than before the score reset and its update, because the leaderboard scores have a much smaller range now. I was in the 140s before the patch so it didn't feel that bad because I still had a big buffer.