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"Your eigth cousin" should be "Your eighth cousin".
I think this sounds interesting, but it would really suck for Eves. Eve runs are already incredibly challenging... to add in illness, injury, and disease would make it near impossible, I think.
But I like the idea. Perhaps just the knife stuff would be good - if you're advanced enough to have made a knife, then you should be close enough to having medical supplies, I reckon.
Trick wrote:Ducky wrote:I spawned to an eve that seemed to have found an abandoned town that had a LOT of written notes laying around and broken baskets. I was named Kelsey and had a sister named Timmy. When I was still baby i found a crown and signaled to my mom by using two or three letters to go there and take it. So she followed me and took the crown becoming the first monarch of this new city.
When i grew up I rapidly ,with help of my sister, started watering the crops and bringing new baskets. So i worked hard most of my young years and early adult life by making fire with my really great bro, Heloise. I helped my brother make pies and then told my mom that I was going to build a library to compile important stuff and take some important notes. Then my mom saw that I was working hard and helping so she gave me the crown and a aper that had something written in it that proved legitimacy of the monarch. When I received that I got to work and brought an escaped horse I found. So I started making papers and helping the smith, when i got the papers ready I decided that I was going to make the list of all the monarchs and put it in the library so I wrote my mom´s name as first ruler and myself as second ruler. Then when I was helping my brother Heloise he told me that maybe I should write the laws and put them in the library so I followed his advice and started making some laws. I only got to write only two with help of Heloise because I was getting too old. These two laws were: "Kill all cursed people" and "Show all babies the laws when they are born". Those laws seemed to me very important and I was going to write more but I was almost dead and had to choose an heir so I choose Great Wiza II as new king, and explained him and his sister how library works and about they need to read to the kids the laws of the land. Then I died of old age.
It was a great life I hope people can do this again of recording past events and their kings, queens and laws. Also hope that this family keeps going and that the current king or queen does the right decisions.Great Wiza II crowned me, Great Wiza IV, as his heir to the throne. He never taught me about the library, though.
Unfortunately, my reign as Queen did not go entirely smoothly. My aunt Stacy was jealous of my royal status, and secretly conspired against me to gain the crown for her line. So, she planned to murder my daughter, the soon-to-be heir, and give the crown to her own child. But any time my daughter told me of her murder attempts, I was unsure. I did not want to act too hastily. So, I waited and observed.
I caught Stacy asking her daughter to help her murder mine. When she realized I was near, she said she was joking. Suddenly, there was a lot more weight to my daughter's fears, and I became ever more watchful.
Then, one fateful day, I saw the decrepit old Stacy emerge from the woods with a bow and arrow. She chased after my daughter with a crazy look in her eyes, lusting after the idea of becoming the mother of the next Queen. But before she could make her fatal attack, I ran her through with my knife. I was not about to let her kill my daughter - the rightful heir to the royal family.
I did not want to kill Stacy. I wanted to trust her. But, whatever good that was within her was poisoned by a greed for power. She wanted it so badly, she was willing to kill and be killed.
My daughter Alicia Wiza became the Queen, as it was meant to be. My hope is that she was a benevolent leader, and the future royals will do good by that town.
I was Alicia Wiza, born to the respected Queen Great Wiza IV.
I never wanted the crown, never ruled a city. My mother told me that I would be the heir if I would prove myself worthy. Surely there will be others, sisters or brothers, that would be more worthy to the crown than me !
So, as soon as I was strong enough, I started to work and took over the compost duty. One day, aunt Stacy came to me with a bowl of stew.
"Alicia", she said "Come with me"
So I followed her, after I packed some berries that is. I had a feeling. We went north west ish and we went further away from town than you usually do when you want someone to follow you. We came across a bear cave and that's when it hit me.
She didn't wanted to talk or show me something. She wanted to kill me. She banged on the bear cave, twice, and the bear came out. I ran back, stopped, waiting for my aunt. "Surely that was a mistake", iIthought, still having a little trust in her. But that trust got crushed when I saw Stacy leading the bear towards me, stopping behind me so it would attack me first.
I ran back home. There, I waited for my aunt at the wheat farm and told her "nice / try" before I ran to my mother and told her what had happened. Of course, Stacy said she was innocent. Mother didn't know what to do, I didn't blame her, I would be careful too if two people would tell different stories. But she got suspicious.
I continued my work, started to give birth to my beautiful children, always being aware of another assassination attempt. Stacy would come to me and call me names and how dare I tell such lies. But I brushed it off.
Years later, I saw my old aunt holding a bow and an arrow and I knew I had to run. Holding my infant baby, I ran to the berry farm where my mother was, running in zig zag. The arrow missed and the Queen saw enough. With one final stab, Stacy was gone and I was finally safe.
Following my mothers footsteps as Queen wasn't easy. She was loved and respected by all of the citizens, how could I, someone who has never reign in her passed lifes, be as good as she was ? I invited some of the people to join her funeral, saying some last words before she was put to rest. I promised to do my best and to give the crown to my children who worked hard for this community.
Years passed and soon it was time for me to pass on the crown. During that time, another crown has been forged, a carrot crown, and was worn by the Master Baker. I didn't mind, she didn't tell people to be the new Queen. I told my little grandchildren what they should do once older and they did good !
I gave the crown to my daughter October Wiza, who had been working on the stew farm since birth. I told her to tell babies what to do, give everyone their job and to always make sure that we have enough compost and food to feed the people.
And with that, my reign was over.
It was a very nice and exciting life. Thank you Trick for trusting me and killing Stacy !
Truthfully, a murder-by-bear attempt was so absurd that it seemed comical when you told me, so I was a little incredulous when you told me your tale. However, before you were born, Stacy got outraged when I told her that her children would not be considered as possible heirs to the throne unless none of my children survived. Her reaction made me a little weary, so I knew your story was plausible (albeit, ridiculous).
I am glad she didn't manage to get you.
I was Great Wiza III. Eve Wiza saved me as a baby since my mom abandoned me. I grabbed her things when she died, unfortunately I never got to tell her I loved her, and set out to help Great Wiza II smith — I’d been watching him from afar and had developed a small crush on him.
I spent the majority of my life smithing with him — we made every type of tool and soon our smithing station, once empty, was now filled with oodles of heads and metal tools and blades waiting for a branch. I requested for him to be crowned next in line, as he was a hard worker and I knew I would not be available for inauguration since I was female. Luckily, he got the crown and was celebrated greatly.
I followed him to old age, having only boys. A girl who had gotten lost had found her way back to camp and so I was no longer the only girl — she had many children. I never got to tell Great II I loved him, he died before I could feed him, which I was dedicated to doing at the time. All I could do was confess over his grave with a rose before I died next to him in my love and desire to be with him.
Sigh. If only he’d have seen how I loved him.
I buried you beside him.
I was Eve Wiza and this makes me happy! I'm glad you made the library. I spent too much time trying to find the sheep pen so I could put the note about cleaning the sheep pen nearby. Then there was the note for "the children of Eves" that I made sure was in the middle of town, at least for that generation. It was your generation after all.
Unfortunately I think the only productive thing I did as a Queen was birth children and make a wooden road at the edge of the berry farm. It was getting too big and needed to stop.
Trick, does the royal family still have the royal note? It's a very important note.
The one that said "Royalty"?
As homage, I placed it on the tombstone of Great Wiza II.
I spawned to an eve that seemed to have found an abandoned town that had a LOT of written notes laying around and broken baskets. I was named Kelsey and had a sister named Timmy. When I was still baby i found a crown and signaled to my mom by using two or three letters to go there and take it. So she followed me and took the crown becoming the first monarch of this new city.
When i grew up I rapidly ,with help of my sister, started watering the crops and bringing new baskets. So i worked hard most of my young years and early adult life by making fire with my really great bro, Heloise. I helped my brother make pies and then told my mom that I was going to build a library to compile important stuff and take some important notes. Then my mom saw that I was working hard and helping so she gave me the crown and a aper that had something written in it that proved legitimacy of the monarch. When I received that I got to work and brought an escaped horse I found. So I started making papers and helping the smith, when i got the papers ready I decided that I was going to make the list of all the monarchs and put it in the library so I wrote my mom´s name as first ruler and myself as second ruler. Then when I was helping my brother Heloise he told me that maybe I should write the laws and put them in the library so I followed his advice and started making some laws. I only got to write only two with help of Heloise because I was getting too old. These two laws were: "Kill all cursed people" and "Show all babies the laws when they are born". Those laws seemed to me very important and I was going to write more but I was almost dead and had to choose an heir so I choose Great Wiza II as new king, and explained him and his sister how library works and about they need to read to the kids the laws of the land. Then I died of old age.
It was a great life I hope people can do this again of recording past events and their kings, queens and laws. Also hope that this family keeps going and that the current king or queen does the right decisions.
Great Wiza II crowned me, Great Wiza IV, as his heir to the throne. He never taught me about the library, though.
Unfortunately, my reign as Queen did not go entirely smoothly. My aunt Stacy was jealous of my royal status, and secretly conspired against me to gain the crown for her line. So, she planned to murder my daughter, the soon-to-be heir, and give the crown to her own child. But any time my daughter told me of her murder attempts, I was unsure. I did not want to act too hastily. So, I waited and observed.
I caught Stacy asking her daughter to help her murder mine. When she realized I was near, she said she was joking. Suddenly, there was a lot more weight to my daughter's fears, and I became ever more watchful.
Then, one fateful day, I saw the decrepit old Stacy emerge from the woods with a bow and arrow. She chased after my daughter with a crazy look in her eyes, lusting after the idea of becoming the mother of the next Queen. But before she could make her fatal attack, I ran her through with my knife. I was not about to let her kill my daughter - the rightful heir to the royal family.
I did not want to kill Stacy. I wanted to trust her. But, whatever good that was within her was poisoned by a greed for power. She wanted it so badly, she was willing to kill and be killed.
My daughter Alicia Wiza became the Queen, as it was meant to be. My hope is that she was a benevolent leader, and the future royals will do good by that town.
Somebody just put my name on a note for cursing, so I might get to experience what it's like to be cursed.
I had one of the best OHOL experiences I've ever had! (Albeit on of the least productive)
I was an Eve in a (semi)decent spot and all my babies deserted me except for Hope Kiah. As a baby, she heard the bell chime and we were surprised by how close it was! When she was grown, we set off south towards the bell. I had a son along the way, but sadly he died from starvation when he couldn't be fed. (Sorry son. I love you.) Soon after I was killed by a wolf that lunged at me from behind a tree. (I still have a grudge against that wolf. Evil thing.) Hope promised she would continue the journey on her own.
I was then reborn in a city and named Wolf. I set off to make stew. After years of stew making, there comes Hope, claiming she came from far up North! I told her who I was and we were both so surprised! I was even able to meet my grand-babies and great-grand-babies as time progressed! I have to admit, I spent a good deal of my second life talking, which is unusual for me. (I am usually the hard-working no-breaks compost guy.) It really is situations like these that make the game for me though.
Hope, if you see this: Thank you so much for being so awesome! I'm so proud of you! Because of you, the Kiah line lived on. It was a pleasure playing with you!
Ps. To the person I promised I would make stew: I'm terribly sorry. I failed you. I did pass the gauntlet before i stopped, but I'm unsure if they continued themselves. Again, I sincerely apologize. Thank you for teaching me how though! I will definitely take that knowledge with me in future lives.
I almost ran off into the woods to die when I was born, but you were so insistent on catching me that I felt bad for running. Wasn't thrilled you named me Hope, though.
And then the bell tolled and I thought, "well, at least we can always go to the city".
Leading us on the journey to the big city was exciting. You and my little brother, tagging along behind me as I led the way - we had big hopes for what was to come.
Then Ezra died.
And then the wolf attacked.
I was crushed and I almost gave up. How could I go on after my Mama had died in my arms?
But with the city so close, I just knew I had to make it. So, I mourned the loss of the only family I ever had as I trudged across the dangerous terrain. I couldn't even count the number of times I nearly died - snakes, boars, wolves, and two bears! I was actually trapped between the two bears for quite a while. Sadly, two of my children were born during that time, and met their sad end as a result. Sorry babies.
Eventually, a strange man on a horse road by me. I called out to him. He reassured me that I was close to the big city, and then gave me his horse and told me to keep going.
Against all odds, I made it! And just as I did, I gave birth to my sweet little Evelynn, who I named after you, Mama.
I was so excited that I had made it, I wanted to tell everyone in town. I was an immigrant to the city - I had traveled so far, and I finally made it!
I was completely stunned when you said you were my mother - you looked much older than I would have expected you to be. Apparently my journey lasted longer than I had realized.
Normally I am a workhorse, but after having spent the vast majority of my life traveling to get to the city, I just wanted to relax. So, I spent the rest of my days trying to find myself a husband (Tonny - you missed out), and showing off my awesome backpack that was definitely better than everyone else's.
That was a good life. I enjoyed playing with you as well!
The 'curse people with notes' thing should be fixed, for sure. It's totally open to abuse.
Sorry you keep getting cursed. What was the name? If I am in that town and I find the note, I will take it off into the wilderness and lose it somewhere.
Oh look... a griefer who actually thinks that griefing is too easy.
Perhaps it's actually a real problem, then?
The greatest man of all time! A writer, a poet and a father!
His works of art shall be known trough the generations!
That's all!
There was an axe that made me say "come". I had people following me out of confusion.
lol
The derpy flat-earthers would be pleased if it was.
I think to get the most out of OHOL we need to all strive for that perfect work life balance. I’ve tried in the past but I always get carried away with work or just end up doing nothing while saying dumb stuff to my fellow villagers. There has to be a good inbetween where you can develop relationships and get the most out of the social aspect of the game while still doing what it takes to keep the town running smoothly. Have any of you found this balance?
It really depends on my mood and the village I am in.
If it's evident that work needs to be done for survival, I bust my ass (or suicide if I am just not feeling it).
If I am in a thriving town, and I don't have a particular mission in mind (i.e., building a house/road/track/etc. or whatever), I might just fuck around and roleplay a bit with people.
But if I have a mission, I am pretty tunnel-visioned and will slave away to get something done.
Basically, if I can tell that fucking around is not going to actually hurt the village (i.e., my efforts aren't being depended on for the survival of the village), then sometimes I just have fun with it. Otherwise, I work.
Xan wrote:We just tested it out, and when you shoot someone with a note it makes the victim say what is on the note.
You can also use notes to curse people. If you are old enough to read the paper and have a curse token available it will get used when you pick up a note that says "Curse ....."
So griefers can shoot someone and force them to waste their curse on someone else at the same time...
I lolled at the GIF.
But yea, this sucks.
First of all, saltwater ponds move. They have for as long as I have been playing, so I always assumed this was normal. However, I am beginning to think that there is some sort of glitch.
In the Pharo city, there is a stretch of road that seems to have attracted a ton of ponds. The ponds have all conglomerated along the road in the middle of a grey biome (so the snow biome isn't actually that close). It interrupts the road speed, and it seems to be getting worse over time (i.e., more and more ponds are collecting around the road as time passes).
I don't know why it would be doing this, but it seems strange that the ponds are just collecting there. It's also strange that the ponds move around to begin with. It's extra strange that they don't stay in snow biomes.
Is this a glitch?
I, Monica Just, was there during her rampage and was also trying to kill her. It was very strange. I would try to stab her and all of a sudden she would disappear and then reappear a few tiles away? Could that have been some kind of glitch or something to do with lag? I’ve seen plenty of lag but nothing like that
I do have to agree with you Doctor Steve she is terrible
I just witnessed this with a cursed player. People were chasing them around, and there were speed moving around the map and disappearing. It was weird.
Booklat1 wrote:Why would you place roads on the sides of berry farms? that autowalk sucks when you are about to starve (and wood floors are just better to keep it's overall space defined)
lets keep roads efficient, shall we?
Autowalk is the best! Gets starving people to food extra fast. Just step off of it. Couldn't be more efficient.
This. It gets you to the berries even faster.
I was born in a big town with a road. The first thing I noticed was that my mom, Bear IV, had black text. She picked me up and ran into a locked building. She told me that there were too many knives in the town and people were killing everyone, but we were safe. I asked, "Y cursed?" and she said it's because she killed griefers. I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt. When I was a toddler, she ran me north to a safe place at the end of the road, where I milked cows and tended the berries for a while until I had my own daughter, who I named Betsy. At that point I noticed my mom forgot to name me, oh well. Right after I had my second daughter, Amy, my mom came back and Betsy went nuts when she saw my mom's black text. I said, "It's ok, she's not bad." Mom tried to tell her too, even gave her clothes and a pack. But Betsy got a knife somehow and killed my mom. A guy in the town saw it and killed Betsy. My mom gave me the key to her house with her dying breath.
Eventually, griefers killed whoever didn't die of old age, and I think when I died it was pretty much me and my lineage left. I had IRL stuff at 53 years of age, so I had to starve away. It was an interesting life. And it turns out that my lineage continued for a while.
Betsy is the hero of this story.
Trick wrote:pein wrote:alice here
was a message for granma, the racist, shit talking coward who chases a kid because she told that a cistern near ponds is useless
by not doing anything during that shit show, you were defending her
justice was madethe only awful thing is your pvp skills and the lack of attention to your surroundings
and the bear was there, hence i wasnt the only one who was treated like that
sorry but not sorry for any of the dumb cocky players thereI should have known. You're a pretty toxic player, and you seem to be proud of it.
Destroying an entire town because one player was unkind to you is vengeful and childish. None of the rest of us did anything to you. I had no idea your grandmother was unkind. Yet, you took it out on a bunch of innocent players.
Your shitty behaviour makes the game unenjoyable for others. Not sure how ruining the game for other players is fun for you, but it speaks to you as a person, IMO.
your prejudice and stupidity shines
i should of live to 60 and bear her name to make her proud or what?
i also kill the eves who are asshole, and the towns where they sacrifice boys, etc.
ending your lineage means you wont go back to a city, so yeah, im happy i ruined her day, and you didnt lost anything on that shit camp
people burning butt logs and an empty cistern near 3 ponds with no bucketgen 6 with a level of gen 2
i wouldnt say that others didnt do anything, cause they were pretty cocky about it until they met their ends
it took 2 minutes to kill 2 females, the little girl ran away at age 3.5, all she had to do is quit
when the two guys started cursing and telling that 'this scared her for a while'
on that point i decided that i settle it, all of you seen a stupid grandma chasing a kid with no reason, none of them did anything about itguess what, im better at building stuff than you
and better and destoying it, so dont piss me off, if you curse someone, expect that you gonna get killed
you already accepted as a challange, you lost it, and come cry to forum like a whiny bitchin other runs i kill off this dumb granmas so wont annoy the babies
you dont think about what you done, or what you havent done, just play the victim card
guess what, i was the victim of harassment and in return i proved her wrong, you were collateral damage
You genuinely sound like a child. How old are you?
Maybe I need to remind myself that I am playing with actual kids.
You guys are saying that there's simply no way to handle this problem yourselves, and you need me to handle it for you automatically.
In real life, there is no curse system, and no justice is automatic.
Justice is one of the most interesting aspects of civilization. It's a hard problem to solve. It may be THE main problem that civilization faces.
And here you are, facing it. It's tough! People are hard to catch. The innocent get hurt, and the perp often gets away. Some people feel bad for the perp and give them additional chances, etc.
Sounds like a really interesting problem to me. One that I don't want to solve for you.
The curse system is there to make up for the one small difference from real life: reincarnation.
If you have people in your village who are raising cursed babies, and you think that is wrong, what are you going to do about it? Argue with the parent? Kill or curse the parent? Start a committee to inspect every newborn baby in the village? Then a mother notices her cursed baby and rushes into the hills to hide it from the committee?
Interesting....
Sorry Jason, but real talk, that sounds like a giant cop-out. You know this is a problem, which is why you created the cursing system to begin with. It is not working the way it was intended (i.e., to discourage bad/toxic gameplay). If you don't actually care that the system you spent a bunch of time creating and implementing isn't working, then why not just remove it. What's the point? Obviously, you wanted the system to act as a deterrent, and since it isn't effectively doing that, it only makes sense to modify it in a way that achieves the intended purpose.
I get it, you've got a lot going on with this game. It's easier to shrug your shoulders and say "you deal with it". But toxic game environments destroy games. There's only so many times a person will tolerate being griefed before they find something else to do with their time, because everything they do in the game will get destroyed by some childish 12 year old boy anyway.
alice here
was a message for granma, the racist, shit talking coward who chases a kid because she told that a cistern near ponds is useless
by not doing anything during that shit show, you were defending her
justice was madethe only awful thing is your pvp skills and the lack of attention to your surroundings
and the bear was there, hence i wasnt the only one who was treated like that
sorry but not sorry for any of the dumb cocky players there
I should have known. You're a pretty toxic player, and you seem to be proud of it.
Destroying an entire town because one player was unkind to you is vengeful and childish. None of the rest of us did anything to you. I had no idea your grandmother was unkind. Yet, you took it out on a bunch of innocent players.
Your shitty behaviour makes the game unenjoyable for others. Not sure how ruining the game for other players is fun for you, but it speaks to you as a person, IMO.
Honestly, 10 keys really is insufficient. Would be nice to build an ancient walls building with a locked door and feel it is secure. Even if you put multiple doors all someone has to do is make a few keys. If each key had a 4 digit code it would be near impossible to guess the combination. Also, griefers love to block or remove doors with lame items like chests, marked graves, that cannot be removed. What sense is that? Oh my castle is no longer accessible because someone put a chest in the doorway. Oh well. Make marked graves so you can walk on them and chests so you can dismantle.
Why would we want to make it so that buildings can never be accessed by the town?
What happens if you build it, lock it with your 4 digit code, and then forget? Then you just have a giant building wasting space and hoarding stuff from others.
Personally, I don't think we should be able to lock doors at all. All it does is deny access to other players. Boxes? Sure - you can safely keep knives, etc.. But doors? You end up removing a bunch of space, resources, and render the area useless. Sure, you might be able to figure out what the key is, but then you now have a dangerous building that, if you don't have the key, can become your murder jail.
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Alice was the epitome of awful players. She griefed in every way imaginable.
Cut up all the furs into 4 pieces. Placed as many seeds as she could all over the place. Force fed people to get rid of all the food. Aggro'd bears. And of course, murdered all the females.
Completely decimated the entire lineage.
The cursing system is not a good enough incentive for people to not act like shit in the game.
It should be 5 curses = 1 hour where you can *only* spawn as an Eve. Currently, cursed players are being born as babies in larger towns, and idiot players are letting them stick around (some even go as far as protecting the cursed child). It actually almost incentivizes getting cursed because they become the center of attention everywhere they go, and too frequently, people are willing to "give them a chance".
Again, the cursing system doesn't actually work. It doesn't actually punish bad behavior, so it doesn't prevent bad behaviour.
It *NEEDS* to be fixed.