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I think it comes down to  how many times it happens to you, and how many similar experiences you have. If someone overreacts and leaves due to one experience then they are immature and not really capable of giving the game a fair chance, and they will probably have the same experience with other games and maybe even in real life until they grow up more. On the other hand the community of the game has some responsibility for its success in the form of striking a compromise between their personal enjoyment and that of learners. And of course not all learners are the same. And of course it need not always be a compromise, sometimes cool moments come together or someone gets matched to the right person and interesting stuff happens.

From what I've seen there's an ongoing debate regarding what the game is "about", centering around the fact that different players enjoy different aspects of the game, and the fact that it is very hard to reconcile the approaches these players enjoy. The RP vs skillplay debate. I think these two sides are bound to have disagreements because these orientations are largely hardwired in a person's personality, and personality changes (to the degree it does at all) over years, not one-hour-one-lives, and doesn't necessarily change in the way YOU would like anyway (whatever camp you happen to be in). It's a very hard problem, but usually it's much more functional for both sides to engage in some sort of dialogue and debate, and hopefully with the shared knowledge that this communication is useful in the long run if it doesn't break down and need not be mere bickering. Compulsively hard workers also do an unequal part of the work in real life, some of which allows for the incredibly reliable infrastructure that gives creative types room to flourish (and also to be ungrateful).

I think actually that this clash may be part of Rohrer's design intent. After all, he's the one who made the game force players into a social relationship AND a survival challenge at the same time. In part I'm sure he just wanted to see what would happen, maybe learn something. It's part social experiment, much like The Castle Doctrine appeared to be (I haven't played that though, so this is just my impression).

I might make a post laying out my thoughts in more detail sometime. Not that I'm sure they're super important or insigtful, but may as well throw them out there.

Agreed, I quite like reading people's stories in dynamic games like this.

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As I ran around with Wisdom looking for the car, I said, "You gotta be this tall to drive." I wonder if they will see one of these threads.

It seems like you'd need lockpicks to counter griefed locks, but then you've countered your own legitimate locks with a new tool for griefing. I don't want to say much because I don't know how door locks work yet, but my intuition is that if you need a specific key for a specific lock, then having some high-cost way to make a lockpick might be good. Hard as in time-consuming and too obvious to go unseen for a griefer to attempt, but much faster for a groups of player cooperating to stop a griefer or undo their damage. That said I'm a newb who hasn't tried forging yet (aside from one item when someone was teaching me).

Agreed on all points, and I would add that as an extra layer of defense if you know your present situation is vulnerable to people taking stuff for some reason, you might want to consider repeating a polite statement that you are using them for something. This is also easy, since you can type it once and just press up to say it again. Of course not everyone will heed you and you have to be aware that greifers might take it as a challenge. It just returns to your point that being able to read the situation well is the real key. Paying attention.

And if you like baking baskets and there isn't excess, when you're done with your current baking tend the wheat and make some, or ask the farmer if they're willing. I personally like the feel of rapidly baking a bunch of pies from baskets I've lined up around me, but I also get your point. It's not like I automatically DESERVE those baskets just because I like them. My feelings on the issue aren't that strong or important. I was however quite impressed by the bakery in one town, to the left of which were four or five wooden bins for storing baskets of ingredients and finished goods. If you can reach that point, cool.

I just want to mention how cool this discussion is. It speaks a lot for the uniqueness of the game, how well it creates a microcosm of real life in some ways. And I find it absolutely remarkable how cooperative this game is. After give or take twenty lives so far (including early deaths), I can't say I've experienced or even witnessed much ill will or belligerence. Could be luck of course, but the towns I've seen chugging away suggest it's not all luck.

One line got taken out by a griefer (last words, "what have I done" lol, at least they roleplayed it), partly because I was too nervous about taking quick action (was gifted a knife by mother earlier) without knowing what was going on for sure. I should have acted when my family first said "kill him", but at least it was a learning experience. Probably better than being the stab happy type of noob, though I feel for the other players I let down. I'll crank up the "stab happy" gauge by one notch. I recall the griefer's name was Bambi, any idea how I could find that line again to get to my family tree?

On the counterbalance to that, one of my mothers (Adorable Passante) became barren with no surviving daughters. We'd been living at this abandoned village she found, and population dwindled to just her, me, and one other son. While we were talking, she tried to do something and accidentally stabbed the other son. We were all shocked, and after clearing the confusion it turned into a touching moment of farewell. After he died, she demanded that I kill her that she may atone, but bid me travel far north, to try and rejoin the rest of the family. I gathered a cart and wandered the wilderness the rest of my days before starving, but the only sign I ever found of another's presence was a single cut reed patch. My only regret is, for roleplay I wish I had said "Forgive me mother, I just can't do it!", dropped the knife and ran off to the north anyway, then finished it off with some lasts words referencing my search for the other family.

Yeah, I'm new-ish and have been puzzling over the clearly common problem of girls dying off. It seems important maybe to emphasize that each girl is potentially crucial to the village, so they know that keeping theirself and their children alive are more important than anything else, barring situational emergencies. Obviously some productivity is ideal, but if the choice is that or village death.

As it is I only mostly hear about it when a line is down to one girl. Some players might mention it if they specifically want *their* children to have a line, but this is less common as far as I've seen. It seems to me like an interesting scenario might involve having one or more mothers managing the berry farm while also serving as an information hub. If at least some of the other villagers reported in occasionally about the state of things (especially locations of resources and new village features - and any signs of griefing so they can survive), then the farm or nursery could become a doubly useful thing. Has anyone seen anything like this?

Of course I realize discrepancy in skills, smarts, and intent might make this difficult or nigh impossible to pull off and maintain. Ideally you would have a message each generation received, maybe elders would be tasked with "reading out" a basket or two of notes to the babies at the farm. After all, important info gets lost in "verbal" telephone games. Just fun ideas to think about, I don't know if game society is stable enough to support that sort of thing.