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i also agree that to a great extent murder is supposed to be part of how the game works. For example, ambushing a person in the woods with a cart of tools and stealing it is well within the period of the game (though still generally being an asshole). And really, if you're ambushing someone with an arrow in the woods it should be an easy kill.

People intentionally planting mass wheat or blocking things with construction (for its own sake) is more of a problem of abusing the mechanics just to mess with people.

And seriously, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. I mean, in any cooperative game you CAN screw over your own team. For example, in a first person shooter you can massacre your team at the spawn point. It's within the mechanics of the game, and isn't a flaw that it's possible. In most strategy games there are ways to misuse/waste resources. There is no good reason to do these things.

Honestly though, since this is supposed to be a social experiment, how to deal with terrible people is clearly part of it. The few people here like Jorion who try to justify what they're doing as "necessary" are clearly just awful and enjoy inflicting misery for its own sake. Such is life.

the attitude of a few people on here absolutely amazes me. Like, are you just the type of person who wants to do every bad thing because it is possible to do so?

And it seems clear to me that Jason is saying major aspects of this are broadly working, as murder is difficult to deal with in real life.

That's amazing Jason.

I had a game where i was born to a mother who told me she wasn't allowed to have a baby (even though I was a girl). She said i could go back when i was older. She named me Whisper. i didn't find out why she couldn't have a baby there but could come back with me when i was older. I told her in kid talk i wanted freedom and didnt want to live under fascism.

i went north to new territory and managed to survive making a basket and filling it with food, but kept not finding anywhere with sufficient berries, and was killed by a wolf at 9.

Sad, because I was excited about starting younger than an eve and getting a good camp. Amazing experience, definitely not like anything else in the game.

The totalitarian population controlling cities always remind me of Watership Down.

I really don't get it, because if people work hard it's easy to produce an abundance of food and societies rarely last long enough that you run out of the ability to get soil. I mean, even with current restrictions, how hard is it to send people in carts for soil and then worms. Or start farms and trade. The cart and four baskets really allows a lot of transit.

Outside of early on before getting to farming (and even so) i don't know that I've ever seen a society die from food collapse besides people just not bothering to produce food. (though, freeloaders are a major problem in the real world as well lol.)

yeah i'm not so into advanced crafting or building civs, i fundamentally don't get the intense population limiting as even a child can produce a food surplus relatively easily. But there are so many useless players. I very rarely suicide unless i know i'm being rejected.

hah yeah and other times you can't have babies when you want them. I esp hate when it's going well and a server reset is clearly coming.

yeah men are crucially important for the division of labor. I mean, if I have three sons in a row I often won't keep the last one in order to preserve the family line. But the men are so much better for hunting and gathering. Having babies is really prohibitive to women accomplishing things. I really don't get the man hatred in the game. [and I don't mean that as a broader comment about society or anything lol]

Anyway in that situation i totally would have ran away into the brush lol. if you leave as a little girl you have a much better chance at getting a good camp going than if you spawn as an eve, esp if you run off with a basket

I don't think that the empty trees actually regenerate slower, however it's good to always leave one on for emergency situations.

Something not a lot of people seem to think about is that stuff can't replenish if it's full. I see people empty a wild gooseberry bush while another is full and thus not regenerating. Similarly, empty a domestic one all at once and water it right away it respawns sooner. Split up the ponds you get water from when reasonable to do so. I throw a lot of branches down from trees for the same reason. And pick fruiting milkweed whenever you see it (unless you may die of starvation)  because it will regenerate sooner and you always need it.

I should add, similarly, with the new burdock and wild onion, don't pick them unless you need to. I mean, it doesn't need to be desperate to pick them, but no reason to pick them if berries are right there. Especially because food pressure can build really fast and being able to gather those could save your village.

I would point out, since apocalypse i for some reason spawned as eve in a large settlement, i was actually quite bored and just raised kids and then quite at menopause sine I know other people miss big civs and I figured I'd repopulate it.

i think the main thing people want is for the tech tree to continue to grow.

oh yeah, totally, i mean, one shouldn't rob the nice stuff from a village and then flee. In this case i would either make the items or make sure that the civ didn't need them (Those items are not that scarce to a flourishing civ) and tell people what direction i was going to hopefully some contact could be maintained. I think around 2 minutes in a straight direction is probably far enough to avoid most resource competition.

also i don't that commonly play two games truly in a row, for some reason i often find it disappointing to come back to the same place. though i'm not much of a crafter/advanced builder. i still haven't learned how to make metal tools (well, i mean, i understand the sequence well enough i could figure it out, but by the time it is necessary someone else has generally already done it/will do it) and my building is generally limited to gathering adobe for unfinished walls if there's a food surplus.

I really like starting new colonies/working on newer ones and I do a substantial amount of gathering as a task. (which of course, has increased in importance in latest update.)