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not trying to be the devil's advocate, but it is already weird that two games on two platforms have the same name, it would be worse if multiple games on the same platform had the same name. The dd people want to protect their adaptation in a similar way that you want to protect your original work.

the latest update that switched from linage to location ban might be causing lineages getting shorter. In the previous weeks players would keep getting born in the same towns (sometimes on purpose) which allowed them to keep going, since people liked playing at a place where they knew where food, resources etc are and would pick up from their previous lives. Now if a large portion of the players are playing in one town, it is almost guaranteed to die out, since after they die they will all be banned from it. Also kids being born in towns will have to spend time exploring meaning they will keep fewer children due to being far from the village, or just have worse temp / yum / die younger which all mean fewer kids.

if you clear your account, do you lose your lifetime curse score? is that a way to bypass the new curse penalty system?

I am very glad that there has been a deescalation in this conflict.

The main issue is that the truth is not clear in the mobile team's statements. So what is the truth? That the mobile version is a game made by Jason, freely adapted, modified, and exclusively supported for mobile platforms by dd. Something like this statement would in my mind be perfect as the first statement in any online store or description, or the bottom of loading screens, and clearly depict the situation.

Is the mobile game unofficial? Well, English is not my mother tongue, but I have been speaking it and studied in it for 20 years. I don't believe unofficial is the correct description for this situation. Unofficial means that it is not made in an formal way, by people who do it professionally and consider it their job. Unofficial implies bad, wrong, especially in an app store. Unofficial could be the correct term if all rights were reserved by Jason, because unofficial also implies sketchy/illegal. But the game (at least all content up to now) is in the public domain. Nothing is illegal about what dd is doing. They didn't even need to contact Jason in the first place. So there is no legitimacy or officiality order between the games. Both are equally valid, just as valid as 2hol or other adaptations are. The issue is that dd, by not making it clear they did not write the original game and that they are making alterations unrelated to the original game, are being misleading to customers.

this was a one day bug. UBI is forever, or has to be forever to make any sense. This was more like a one day carnival/feast.

I've only been playing for about 2 months. I was a noob until recently and remember spending quite some time just tending berries and learning some farming and baking. I don't remember picking up random tools and trying to use them, because I realized that making tools seems quite complicated and I don't know how to do it. So better not mess with it. I also don't remember stealing food for three people. I would go out of town to forage so as not to burden the town because I felt that being a noob I was just eating up resources.
I understand your point and I do try to talk with people first. But every so often it seems to me, better to risk killing an unthoughtful and wasteful noob than to risk letting a griefer roam.

music by playing with plates and bowls???

I too liked the update. So many fixes!

I find it strange how bitter people get about others with different opinions. There was ~130 people playing most of the time before the update, with numbers rising on weekends. Slightly more people were on for a few days after the update, now we are at ~100 the last few days. So the update knocked out 30% of daily players.
Please bitch about how much you don't like people complaining though. Everyone MUST be a baby if they disagree with you, OBVIOUSLY. It can't possibly be that the experience of playing the game changed significantly, and for many people, for the worst.

It feels strange that the license allows for your code to be copied for commercial use. For 2H1L for example it is pretty clear that it is a fan game since there are some changes and it is free. But ohol mobile is pretty much the same as your game, with delays on code updates, and some gimmicks added like the santa stuff and server events and competitions. Thing is, there is nothing to stop them from even selling it for PC. Money being involved and the concept being largely the same (not having a different idea for gameplay like 2H1L) makes people assume the mobile version is related to PC.

I am by no means an expert, but from what I understand this is why people usually pick non commercial use licenses if they want their work to be available to fans and modders. While they are a hassle to enforce, just by existing, copies tend to change their names, logos etc.

On a more practical note, I don't know if unofficial is really the best term. Official implies a distinction between the games that isn't really there, since everyone is free to make their version, there is no authority defining the "correct" game and the "wrong" ones. It also makes them hesitate to add it because it would imply to people that it is not supported and developed actively, like it is a fan version.
The distinction is that of authorship and originality. I think the best phrasing would be, "Not related to the original PC game of the same name" or "not related to the original PC developer". If they could add that to the loading screen, or even at the bottom of all screens that are not ingame, it would make the difference clear without implying that there is an order, a ranking to the two games.

It is kind of worrying, I am trying to find some sign of satire in the posts but I don't see any.

Hey, so I figured out how to use nvidia to take screens:

Bellow in the jungle is there I originally settled, slowly moved up.
You can see all the newcomen items, oil pump, kerosene converter, and the engine bellow.
There is a lot of jungle that looks like this bellow the village, I'm thinking of expanding towards that area due to optimal temp if insualted:

- It would be great if you could feed a horse another carrot and have it not run from you for 30 minutes or something like that. I'd love to be able to tie up horses inside so I don't have to keep a door open and keep fetching things in and out.

- I wish we could cut up and eat bison and cows and get cow hides. Cow leather could add another tier of clothing, breeding cows to eat them would become a thing, and you wouldn't see so many villages with just sheep.
It would also be neat that the dead bison don't just stay outside the village forever, and the domestic bison isn't just taking up space.

- Some sort of tractor that changes the game with agriculture. You could make a tilling attachment for cars which makes them go at walking speed, and needs two hoe bases to make but can tile as many rows as four hoes, or can tile shallow row as if you had already added soil and tile single soil into row (so reduce iron consumption long term or reduce soil consumption). It would make fuel worth getting to, it would mark a clear point where a village becomes a city, and it would make farming need less people which is kind of the trend with humanity.