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I discovered a new "meta" that actually helps get a village beyond complete and utter starvation...but it's a tough choice.

If you're born as girl, if everyone around is newbie or seemingly gonna starve out, run off at 3 to a fertile piece of land and self develop as quickly as possible. This worked for me over a few lives, managed to get a few fams to iron processing at least. Was nice when people were able to survive more than 5 seconds.

Also, I second exactly what happynova said. Just try to say a word of encouragement or two while they're still alive, reassuring them this is just a nutty time and once things stabilize it will be easier to teach them. Some of the new players i had were very understanding to that :3

Also RIP gene score.

Yeah I always figured if it was ever implemented, it would have to be a relatively simple system. Since pro-creation is necessary for family continuation, it would have to be quick and easy to do so that even new players could adapt rather easily.

Mhm, to be fair I don't like the second option either, and agree with those types of issues coming up for sure. Plus, maybe it's just me personally, but I'm just not comfy with the actual action of sex being in the game. But this could just be me, personally, but I would tend to think there are likeminded people out there.

I actually see some logic in that idea of fathers simply automatically disconnecting with the family upon fatherhood, it would be a simple solution that wouldn't be hard to implement. It may not make sense from a realistic standpoint, but again its a game so its not meant to be reality, simply mimic it in some ways perhaps.

As for the incest discussion, this will just keep devolving into morals and religiously based claims so I think I'm going to drop that part of the conversation here. Point taken.

If the game isn't a social game at its core, why does the game by default put everyone on the same server?  Why do a majority of players play this way? Just because a game is able to be played single player as you pointed out, doesn't mean its not meant to be a social game. It simply means the option to play alone is there. The intent of course is to cater to a larger audience of players, or players like me who enjoy playing both ways for a change of pace.

Even the flavor text Jason has on the main page about the game implies the game is about family and interactions with others. There's no mention of playing by yourself to build up on your own.

Keep in mind when I speak of the game, I mostly speak for as it stands right now, vs. what could potentially change in the future.

Could you elaborate on this a bit more?

Of course not, again we are not going by our real life identities, but the ones we take when we play this game. Contextually, your avatar could be safely presumed to have genetics.

I will not deny that in this scenario your words hold some merit.

Keep in mind much of the Bible is telling a story of how things happened, not necessarily condoning them. Infact, most of these types of instances are there to portray the sins of man, and what not to do. If you search in the book of Leviticus, you will find that several instances of incest are condemned, some in multiple places.

I have not visited those parts of the web and to be fair, I have no intent to do so. I think its safe to say that people visiting those sites most likely do not represent the majority of people. Either way, I only brought up the incest part of things because there have been discussion on it in this forum prior, so I felt it worth mentioning.

While its easy to think so, biblically speaking, all sins are treated as equal. Either way, I'm not here to get into a huge religious debate.

Not gonna lie, your Jerry Springer reference gave me a good chuckle.

Only in the context of avoiding incest. I should have clarified more precisely.

Like I said to Morti, I'm only giving trade weight because of how much Jason wants to have it as part of the game. I don't disagree with your final statement here, however.

To be fair, if there were actual bots playing this game up until this point, I never knew that was actually a thing in this game. Interesting that people would feel the need to run a bot in this game lol.

Anyways, as far as the 'potato' aspect, I don't feel this is an accurate representation of what a bot is. A bot is generally seen as a computer program controlling something that would normally be human-controlled, to perform various tasks. I think its pretty easy to say that this is not the same as a player who simply goes AFK, or has disconnected, since at that point they perform no tasks.

Also, I never said "ruin", I said "take the life out of". There is a difference in meaning here. "Ruin" implies the almost absolute destruction of a game, "take the life out of" implies the game is still intact, but is simply less interesting.

No, most definitely not. OHOL is at its core a social game, if I was surrounded by a bunch of bot players I would rather go to low pop and play solo at that point. Or play a single player game, which is designed to be played alone.

Player population isn't the only foreseeable issue with fatherhood implementation, though.

One would be, what would signify a "joining" of a male and female? One option would be marriage, even at a basic command level, however I would think that if we're getting sentimental enough to want a father figure, we're also gonna be sentimental about who we marry in-game. Due to the (generally) high difficulty and need to keep things moving, especially in an eve camp, there is typically not enough time to to establish enough of a conversation to even contemplate any such thing. Even in a more established town, having only 60 minutes, one would tend to work on projects to the furthest extent they can before their time is up, and find that 60 minutes quickly spent before realizing they never had kids because they never got around to it.

Another approach, would just be flat out 'doing it', but despite the cartoony dongs and coochies I don't really find much appeal to that personally, and I feel many people would feel the same way. It would kind of pivot the focal point in a different direction, I would think.

This also leaves the additional problem of incest. Mind you, I will not deny that since families self-propagate within themselves, it could be said with a degree of certainty that it already does, in fact exist on a subtle level, however any sort of joining would completely bring this to the front and center, leaving the only "right" thing to do, being finding other families and mating with them. And then that goes into the race/abilites of the kids, etc etc...it becomes a long deep complicated rabbit hole.

Also, did I mention this also requires going to the other families? Back to the same problem we have with racial specialization, in a sense.

Edit: Thinking about my last statement, I am going to presume the solution to this would be ditching homelands and allowing multi-family towns again. Welp, there goes the prospect of trade again.

Think the bottom line is while it seems simple to say fatherhood implementation is a good idea (and honestly, I'm not necessarily disagreeing), implementation would be an extremely complicated task that could fundamentally change the game in many ways.

Edit 2: Bots would take a lot of the life out of the game, since as it stands now, we always know there is another person on the other side of each ingame avatar.

Ironically I just posted a story for the first time recently on the forum, about the last man standing in the Silverhorn fam. But to answer your question about images, you need to have the image hosted somewhere on the web, then use a img tag to link it in your post.
Something like...(take the *'s out)
[img*]http://www.somewebsite.com/someimage.png[/img*]

Sadly I don't remember the names but cool that I was with a forum member haha. Thank you, to be honest out of all the towns I've been in, that town had the best yum supply, and they're the "useless" race xD

I'd like some clarification on this...does this mean that mutton and wool effectively had their cost doubled? (feed adult, then feed baby)

To be honest I've had the idea of whites experiencing no homesickness in other people's villages. This way they can still be around for translation when they're needed, maybe even charge a tax in material for their homeland to keep them running? We'd have to kill paper translation for them to have an edge though.

I think it’s a good call but the problem coconut fruit mentions still stands. Trade is still heavily unbalanced to a point that gingers still have no reason to trade oil as it’s value is too high compared to any other commodity.

So following this directive, fully intending in the future to add a diesel engine to a vein so I can use kerosene to obtain iron, I started establishing an outpost. Muddy veins were near, which I checked, so that I'd be able to easily get from the well site to the vein. I brought minimal iron, made shovel on site, and dug my well, only to find the veins become "sunken" and then completely despawn. Was this what you intended Jason? I would think the veins would just change to another state similar to collapsed so that I can still add a diesel engine, but now they're completely gone and the only way I can use a diesel mining operation is to go off the premises.

Yes, yes, and yes. Glad to see you’re on the ball getting this fixed.

My first life was with a ginger family, we didnt get quite to process the iron we had when we noticed dry springs nearby, so i went to investigate. Found a dug well and camp but completely dead of a diff fam, grabbed shovel and brought back to camp, and dug our well. No matter what we did we were still homesick near this well. The iron sites had opened up but homesickness persisted. Homesickness is definitely bugged. (This was our only well, and i confirmed all online players of our fam were present with hetuw)