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I've had babies "F" me while I'm still holding them, and I got the point.

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I was Penny, and I don't know how I feel about this.

The town was a giant mess and I was too busy popping out babies to clean it up, but deep inside I was hoping that it could be saved, so I hung around and tried to raise all my kids to toddlers in the hopes that some would survive and revive.

I was amazed and excited to later see you grown with a (first?) daughter of your own.  I was not a great mother, after all.  But you were a great daughter.

Your Aunt Lily (who mostly raised me, and had real hope for the town) ended up the matriarch of another fourteen generations.  So I was wrong after all.

I'm sorry I wasn't more like Lily to you.

Don't forget that the novella is being heavily edited, so by the time you've finished reading it 10% of it has changed and you have to go reread those parts and reintegrate them with the parts that haven't changed.  And repeat.

I like summoning bears but generally don't do it near towns.  I just like the excitement.

Nope.  The smart/aware ones will do what YAHG said.

And besides, it's not "necessary" to save a town.  If it's too broken to survive, let it die.  Not your problem.

Since you admitted killing out of boredom, I think you enjoy killing and have just found a way to (poorly) justify it.

Forums, 2018-05-19

He thought about things some more and came to some new conclusions.  No big.

That was my mom; she birthed me in the wild, and told me about her huge city that she couldn't find anymore.  By the time she was talking about starting over in the wilderness, I was old enough to fend for myself (I had a backpack from an abandoned village we had stumbled upon), and I really wanted to see the city.  Since she obviously couldn't find it, I ditched her when her back was turned and used my leet tracking skills (AKA "luck") to find it, so far away that I was nearly bald by then... Crowntown.

I felt a little out of place and the city was a mess, and I kinda yearned for the simple life, but there was my grandma, my uncle, numerous cousins, so I decided to make it my own.  I looked for a sapling to make a home marker; none around the city.  I ranged farther and farther out, far enough that I feared losing the city myself, but the land around was completely denuded.

Well, everything runs out, right?  But that wasn't the game I wanted to play, so I gave my mom (unknown to me, long dead from a snake bite) a chance to know the good news:

"I found the city, mom"

... and went off to wrestle with a snake.

You were Uncle Grabhands??  Ashamed of you, brother.

I named all four of my kids (two daughters) but three of them got killed by wildlife.  I tried.

My thought, too... but if only deaths are logged, won't this break if the deepest descendant pre-deceases an ancestor?

Seems like logging players at birth would fix this (as well as other family-tree weirdnesses - why does somebody need to be dead to be on the family tree?).

This post got me to switch my review to "recommended".  Even in its current state of "initial burst of excitement followed by occasional checkins" it's probably worth the money to anybody interested in the concept.  It's not good for indefinite enjoyment right now, but few games are.

As an aside, my best model for an "indefinite enjoyment" game is Nethack, which is also difficult... and loaded with varied content.  OHOL doesn't approach it on the content front yet, but it's moving.

Well, yes.  And maybe some people have no better place to give their love than to random strangers in a game.  But to build a game on the expenditure of a precious resource that can probably be put to better use seems kinda... wrong.  Games already suck up time and effort; now we're to throw in emotional energy, too?

I mean, I found helping people in OHOL mildly satisfying, but it still felt like I was wasting my life.

Luckily, I've deleted the game already.  Wonder if I can do that for this account?