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Well if we're in this for the long run lets discuss what ideally should occur in each different part of the arc and how we can make this a little easier on everyone else.

Part one: The Eve Arc

At the start (or before the start of the arc) the first thing players who are serious about playing should be doing is taking a look at the map of the Hell Cell to plan where they'll be heading to try to set up. I had specifically for the run decided to go to the grassland in the SW corner near the badlands and deserts but this was a high risk - high reward play on my part which didn't end up paying off. While the Eve window is open I actually don't think players should be keeping kids at all since everyone can just spawn as an Eve and what not. Obviously a few children need to live to prevent the auto-apocalypse from happening but someone out there is bound to have a heart and will raise a few.

Instead players in this phase should be focusing on securing a plot of land via fences and a simple lock system that requires a tool to get through with the simplest being a one way door set up with an adobe oven base/wall as means to lock the outside of your fenced area. Proceed to basically play solo OHOL up until you feel like you're ready to accept children into your home (requires some food grown and potentially tools.) At this point we should hopefully have a few stable families which can support players a little longer and we'll see some actual growth on the map.

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Part two: The Highlander Arc

This arc is the struggle of each family striving to survive in a world that cannot handle so many players. This arc begins once the Eve window has finally shut and now the baby bombs start going off. Optimally, I believe this is played best by just trying to end all the other lineages ASAP if possible. Why? This removes the function of war swords (one of the most op weapons) while also allowing players to finally have a working curse system in place. Unfortunately, this plays into the drama Jason loves but it's probably for the good of everyone to essentially genocide all the other lineages. If not going the genocide route this arc potentially plays out for about four hours until we finally start losing lineages one by one as the constant influx of babies kill off all the weaker towns on the server.

Again I believe this is an arc where you just don't keep babies or you only keep babies when your fertility is basically nearly up. Either someone else around the server will raise them or they'll run out of lives trying to get into a town which is neither your concern nor problem. I'm starting to get a feeling that the best way to play the game is basically just don't raise children at all right now.

Part three: The Enders Arc

This is the arc I believe we're in right this moment. We're currently in the death throes of the server as players are currently trying to do whatever they can to keep the one lineage floating in a world full of griefed resources. My last life I seen a grand total of four maple trees with three of them being griefed within my lifetime. Players will slowly bleed out resources in this stage without escaping the Hell Cell for resources which can only be retrieved via escaping to the tutorial for goods that are no longer abundant within. At the very least the curse system actually works at this point in the game and war swords are no longer needed but at what cost?

You aren't going to believe this but I still don't think you raise babies unless you're nearly infertile. All it takes is one woman keeping all the children in a village for things to start crumbling, especially if these people don't work very much in their lifetime.

Basically just don't raise kids is what I've gotten from my time playing within the different periods of the game as someone else will (over)do it anyways.

But Jason makes sure it's screwed up anyways.

Glad to know cursing does nothing in the Hell Cell.

What I assume is happening: Eve window is closed at this point which redirects the child back into the major population because the donkey can't spawn as an Eve.