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But look at this amazing story that came from it all. It's a tragidy, for sure, and there was much unnecessary suffering. But what a story, what an experience.

I do hope you decide to do only good in future lives, to balance out. Spread also love, and joy, compassion, and sharing. Humans are capable of both extremes.

My head cannon for this record family lineage: They were all telepathic!

What a great story I got to be part of.

I was born into a sizable family village with no last name. I was named Evelyn. My grandmother was reborn and grew up to give me a gold crown. I'm not a great leader, though. I get overwhelmed in big towns. We seemed to be doing ok, though. But suddenly, I was killed by a bow.
I was reborn as Quentin (meant to be named Queen). I was told I was the villages last girl, so the future was up to me. But no pressure. I didn't want to be queen, though. I just wanted to be a baker, live a simple life, providing pies for the village.

But, sadly, that was not to be. There was a murderer on the loose. He apparently killed everyone, except for me. I ran far away. I had two daughters and explained the situation best I could. I named one of them Savior. We went back. The killer was still there. Heart pounding, I managed to kill him with a knife I had found outside the village. Justice! Or, the closest thing to justice I could get.

The farm was in ruins. Most of the carrots went to seed. I was old now. There was just me and Savior. To be honest, I didn't have much hope left for the future of this village. One of my last daughters born was actually the killer. They said something like "Just another boring village," and then ran away.
I died there assuming I would probably never see that place again.

A while later, I was reborn in the same village again. This time I was named Lilly. It was thriving once more! Savior was still alive, and now she was my grandmother. I excited told her I was her mom. She said to me "Did I do good?" Yes, Savior. You did good. I was so happy the place was still going.
By chance, I guess, I was given the gold crown again. I passed it on to my daughter, Gladis (I named her Glad, game changed it to Gladis).

I tried to tell my children to build outwards, to put little starter villages outside the main town. I thought this would help in the case of future attacks or famines.
I stayed and raised a few children, and eventually left on a positive note.

I think we should be polytheistic and worship/respect/sacrifice to all these gods.
But why isn't there a god of fertility? Or agriculture? Human development?

Men in the game feel pretty useless. The only thing good about them is they can travel far without worry of popping out a kid. But at the earliest stage of starting a settlement, that doesn't help very much.
So, either have men help with producing children, or get rid of them all together. A world of all women sounds pretty nice.

I think we were seeing the earliest stages of class division, with some players wearing a crown, claiming to be queen, and passing the crown to one of their children, and a player who always rode a horse who everyone else fed and called their ruler.
But I image some players living in mansions while at the same time other players live in dirt shacks, and you don't know which group you might be born into.
It's not fare to every player, but it is very interesting, and I think experiencing such vastly different lives through accident of birth will be (and is to some degree already) a large part of the fun of playing the game.
And then further in the future of the game world, some people might fight for equality while others fight against it (not only because they happen to benefit from it, but because as players they feel equality would be boring).

And maybe, in some ways, the players will become generally more compassionate and understanding because they have shared similar experiences with everyone else in the game.
For example: One time I was born in a city as a boy, but my mother let me starve. I thought "Well, I guess she wanted a girl. I understand, I've done that too." And then I was immediately reborn as a girl to the same mother, and she confirmed that was the reason she let me die. She was trying to revive a dead city. I got to tell her I understood, and I had no ill feelings toward her for it.

Could this potentially carry over into real life and help people see other's point of view? Unfortunately, probably not. But I can hope.

Wait, wait, why do we have to work so hard now to not progress? Is the only sustainable civilization one that eats only the basic starter foods? This sounds broken to me. I have to assume it's because the game is still in early development.

I also agree. Add items like "old rusty knife" and such

Hooray!
I tried playing earlier, before this announcement, and it felt depressing and pointless. The people were struggling so hard for a meager existence that would likely be wiped away. I didn't even care I had no name.

Alright, just read Jason's explanation for this and how it will work in the future. It makes more sense to me now.

I'm... still confused? Why is this a thing?

I managed to actually shoot a bear last game. And yeah, apparently I only shoot it from the square right next to the bear, which is odd, and very dangerous. I have to be careful and shoot immediately after the bear stops moving, and then quickly move away. It seems if I time it slightly off, the bear will move towards me and kill me.