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#26 Re: Main Forum » We got "updates" then we go silent » 2020-04-02 07:22:51
dodge pls stop writing here on the forums,
you dont give any valuable feedback, you are just an echo of jasons delusional thoughts
#27 Re: Main Forum » Update broken cant get more iron » 2020-03-29 09:34:29
Sure slinky go ahead, how would you solve the issue of players not caring about ressources like iron because there is plenty of it
Like DestinyCall said, people care a lot about iron, thats why there is a lot of iron, if people wouldnt care about it than no one would gather it.
Many people play this game because they want to help build a village / town / civilization, being part of something bigger, they selflessly gather the resources, not for them but for the future generations.
THIS is what makes the game so much fun, but some people like jason dont understand this, he doesnt understand whats the core strength of this game, and he works against his, damaging the most important aspect of this game.
#29 Re: Main Forum » Coming soon: mining changes » 2020-03-28 17:12:56
Jason you keep adding weird mechanics that are not intuitive.
Coming up with good mechanics that makes sense and fit the game is more difficult, yes,
but good realistic mechanics are what i would expect from someone with so much programming experience like you who wants to make the best game ever.
#30 Re: Main Forum » Oceans, continents and real interactions between civilizations » 2020-03-24 10:27:04
Jason wasted months working on the rift, race restrictions and tool slots, none of them made the game better.
The interactions you have with other people are now not more interesting than they were before, i would argue they are even less interesting.
If he adds this idea he will also work months on it and it will not make the game any better.
#31 Re: Main Forum » Tarr B » 2020-03-19 06:04:55
This is a bug, i thought i already fixed it, but looks like it can still happen
(for people that dont know, you can delete coords by CTRL + clicking on them)
#32 Re: Main Forum » There are 28 new piles in this week's update already (aka, DOZENS) » 2020-03-18 18:18:01
Threshed-Wheat piles pls
#33 Re: Main Forum » H E L P I don't know what I'm doing and I'm stuck » 2020-03-17 05:09:33
@SockOMG i already gave you the solution to your problem and you just ignore it, if you bought the game through steam, login with steam here and get your key: http://onehouronelife.com/steamGate/ser … nload_link
than enter the key after you started the game
There is an unofficial mac version of the game here: https://github.com/Awbz/OneLife/releases
Download the file for the latest version, in this case: OHOL+_v316_macOS.zip
Extract the file, this should make a folder, go into the folder an execute the runnable file, in this case OneLife_v316+.app
#34 Re: Main Forum » H E L P I don't know what I'm doing and I'm stuck » 2020-03-14 06:30:30
There is an unofficial mac version of the game here: https://github.com/Awbz/OneLife/releases
Download the file for the latest version, in this case: OHOL+_v316_macOS.zip
Extract the file, this should make a folder, go into the folder an execute the runnable file, in this case OneLife_v316+.app
#35 Main Forum » Well is Love, Well is Life » 2020-03-11 06:29:12
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There's only one father in this game.
He is the father of all.
His fertile essence flows forth freely, serving as the seeds for the teeming multitudes. He hath fathered over 7 million so far, and counting. He never sleeps.
(image made by Jinbaili83 from discord)
This weeks update will make it so your family can only get babies when they are in the range of your family well.
So when a family makes a well, it becomes their well and only near it they can get babies, to prevent mixed towns with different races.
#36 Re: Main Forum » Trading » 2020-03-10 06:04:10
'2303', # Firing Oil Drilling Rig
'2311', # Firing Oil PumpjackOut of approximately (I didn't set the date too precisely) 17386 accounts
So roughly 0.9%
thanks for the info
#37 Re: Main Forum » Trading » 2020-03-09 21:29:09
Whatever wrote:Please make logs to see how many % of all players have ever gathered oil or made an engine.
Technically possible now, though it would take some work. (and "made" and engine is especially tricky to measure)
Oh right, i forgot about those logs, but i think its not logging the player hash, so you cant track players over several lives.
Cant find out how many % of all players did something, maybe how many % of all lives lived made something.
EDIT: Oh but maybe you can use the playerId to get the hash, i see
#38 Re: Main Forum » Trading » 2020-03-09 21:05:30
I've been born in Qin town several times over the past few weeks, and there's always water around, but no oil. When I walk around asking people where they're getting water from, nobody knows. Where are you getting oil from? Again, nobody knows. There's no pressure currently, because of water reserves, so they're kinda coasting on the work of previous generations, for now, and they don't need to know right now.
The reason because no one knows is because 99% of the people dont know how to get oil.
Please make logs to see how many % of all players have ever gathered oil or made an engine.
#39 Re: Main Forum » How about making one week without tool slots and race restrictions? » 2020-03-05 20:02:50
Whatever wrote:People dont play games to experience real life, its the opposite
They, play, real life, to experience, games?
yes
#40 Re: Main Forum » How about making one week without tool slots and race restrictions? » 2020-03-05 20:01:27
@dodge i just saw an interesting github issue you made: https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLifeData7/issues/652
The letter system is nice, interesting to make etc.
But to make the letters to write something as simple as "BAKERY" or "TAILOR SHOP" takes a whole life (or even several), with signs you know right away what is what dont need to pick up a note but currently it's underused due to this issue.
The problem is not making the letters themselves, the issue is needing xx ammount of skewers and the whole process of getting them.
Could one skewer/weak skewer give a pile of letter stocks?
Why do you want to make it easier to make signs?
Why dont you ask people to help you make signs? It would go much faster if you ask people
"whatever i can just do everything lol"
#41 Re: Main Forum » How about making one week without tool slots and race restrictions? » 2020-03-05 11:15:28
dodge i already answered all your questions.
about real life:
imagine there was a game that is able to simulate real life to 100%, you connect your brain to a machine and it will be just like real life, no difference. Why play that game? There is no reason.
People dont play games to experience real life, its the opposite
#42 Re: Main Forum » How about making one week without tool slots and race restrictions? » 2020-03-05 11:02:33
dodge why do an empty line after ever sentence? group things together to make them easier to read, but dont put an empty line between every sentence
If you cant make something, you can ask someone to do it.
What's the difference?
Its like someone comes to you and breaks your legs and now you need another person that moves you around in a wheel chair.
If you walk or someone moves your wheelchair what is the difference? what is more fun?
Btw what you call "forced restrictions" is really subjective it's like saying in real life i want to learn baking, smithing, tailoring, astrophysics.
You can learn all of these things if you want, there is no magic barrier that restricts you
for example:
Galileo Galilei was an Astronomer Mathematician Astrologer Physicist Polymath Philosopher Engineer
(source google)
But you should not compare the game to real life that much, its a game not real life, many things in game make no sense compared to real life,
a game should be fun, that is what is important.
#43 Re: Main Forum » How about making one week without tool slots and race restrictions? » 2020-03-05 08:25:26
Why not remove the food bar? What a stupid restriction to be needing to eat food and why not infinite water and unbreakable tools too?
You are confusing something,
Race restrictions make it impossible for you to do the certain things. The same with tool slots.
If all your tool slots are used it is impossible to use another tool.
But a food bar doesnt remove anything from the game, it makes it harder, the same with needing more water or breakable tools.
If a tool breaks, you can make another, if you run out of water, you can get more.
Forced restrictions that take away your ability to do something are not fun at all, its fun to interact with other people, yes, but not if its forced and you can do less because of it.
Its like someone comes to you and breaks your legs and now you need another person that moves you around in a wheel chair.
#44 Re: Main Forum » Sorry, folks, another server restart tonight » 2020-02-29 08:08:04
+1 to destinys idea
Problem with that is that like half the people would bail, and then you have a bunch of zombie people standing around with no one controlling them.
When i restart my local server it takes 2 seconds, idk maybe it takes longer with the public servers. But i think as long as it takes less than 15 seconds most people will stay.
Even if half of them became zombies i would still prefer this system over the current one, but it was just an idea, its not so important.
#45 Re: Main Forum » Sorry, folks, another server restart tonight » 2020-02-29 06:10:29
Could make the server restart mechanic so that as soon as you make the server restart it kicks all players and in the client a message appears "waiting for server restart", than as soon as the servers are online again the client reconnects and the player gets back to the exact same life they had (same age, same character, same position)
#46 Re: Main Forum » Jason's misunderstanding » 2020-02-20 15:48:44
In game you only belong to a certain village for one life, after that you might be reborn in another village.
If you see another village and they need something that your village has, why not give it to them for free? You might play in that village your next life and than you are happy that you gave it to them.
If you could only respawn in one village, than this village would be your village, you would feel more connected to it and less connected to the other villages, maybe than trade between villages could happen.
But I dont mind the way it works now. I like to improve life in all villages, its nice.
#47 Main Forum » Jason's misunderstanding » 2020-02-20 08:24:19
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OHOL is a very unique game.
You get born to a random person every game and you can only live 60 min max in each life. In other games like minecraft, rust, WOW... you can keep returning to the same character, there is no old age.
When you do something in the other games, you do it for yourself, for your character, because you want to be it better in the future.
BUT in OHOL most people when they do something, do it for the greater good, not for their character, their character lifespan is very limited.
Most people work together to build a great civilization.
This is a nice game mechanic, but it makes it so that trade and property is pointless. You play as all characters and in all villages, no point in trading with yourself.
This game fundamentally doesnt support trade and that is OK. We dont need trade, trade is not what makes this game great.
But jason still tries to force trade and property, with fences, rift, tool slots, race restrictions...
This goes against the core design of the game and does a lot of harm.
Jason please realize what this game is about and focus on its strengths.
Follow the flow of the river, dont try to redirect it forcefully.
#48 Re: Main Forum » People AFK from birth to gain Gene score » 2020-02-14 19:34:45
we need bots that farm and feed the afk
#49 Re: Main Forum » hetuw mode » 2020-02-10 08:12:09
Is there any way to remove a coord from the coords list?
i just made an update, you can now use CTRL + Mouse Click to remove a coord in the list. (idea by DavidJ361)
Is there a reason my screen keeps shaking after installing the mod and running it. it only shakes when im idle and only when it wants to as it seems.
I have never heard of this, i dont know why it happens. If more people experience this pls tell me, and tell me since when.
Where do I find the file for the language spamer?
I would like to make a noob teacher out of it
sry there is no file
#50 Re: News » Update: Family Specialty » 2020-01-27 07:52:50
Racial lock was doomed from the start because it wasn´t designed to give each race something special to work with, it was designed as a restriction. The same happens with tool slots, the don´t incentive work specialization: they just block other jobs, which is frustrating and enraging, not rewarding and fullfilling.
Yes it would have been much better if it was designed to give advantages instead of restrictions. For example if you use one tool often you get better with it and can use it more efficient, maybe the tool has a lower chance to break and you can produce more stuff. (but you should not be forced to use one tool often to do something)
The same with races, advantages instead of restrictions and you should not be forced to be a certain race to do something.