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This is one of my favorite playstyles, although I don't think it's a good option atm due to how the fertility mechanic currently works. Last I read, warm moms with bigger yum chains were prioritized, meaning babies tend to be born into more developed cities with rooms, clothing, and more food options. I could be wrong. Glad it worked for you, though!

If I don't feel like living in a city, I will almost alway start an outpost, even if I'm not confident I'll have kids. I figure it's always nice to give someone else a foundation if the town gets griefed or someone gets lost.

My favorite game where I "eved" I was actually a boy, and convinced others, including females, to come with me to start a new town. It started a huge back-and-forth lineage split that populated and repopulated two cities (Storm City and Cafe Town) over the course of 50 generations and (I think) multiple Eves.

Storm City:
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2255

Cafe Town:
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2262
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2263
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2272
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2274

This is from back when the forums seemed to be much more active. /sigh

Also interested in this, but in particular, I'm interested in whether you're now reconsidering the value of something like CC-BY or GPL as opposed to CC-0. I'm fascinated by your decision to release your work into the public domain. I'm not at all a gamer outside of OHOL, but was immediately drawn to OHOL when I learned that this is how you operate.

This is a cool idea. I'd say it should probably be much higher on the tech tree than knives, though, probably more like a bell tower (or maybe the bell tower is the thing itself). I'd also say that no one should have access to the time-lapse (or whatever) until the lineage dies out: this would both incentivize longer lineages ("oh sweet! this place has a watchtower! the longer we live the more we'll get to see!") and discourage babies cycling through lineages to get back to the city they just saw pictures of. But when the lineage dies out, everyone in that lineage gets a notification and access to the time-lapse.

I do worry though that this'd also incentivize many different forms of griefing, as their "contributions" will be documented for all to see. Buildings walled off, sheep pens destroyed, various forms of graffiti (profanity or hate speech on signs, buildings in the shape of phalluses, etc.).

A similar idea would be to have some kind of totem or archive that permanently stores whatever notes are fed into it, and the whole archive is readable upon lineage end. Not the same, of course, and maybe they'll be full of nothing but spam notes, but it could be cool.

I don't think anyone is saying you need to teach them every mechanic, every crafting recipe, every nuanced efficiency consideration; rather, if noobs are willing to learn, let them stay and help, and maybe teach them one little thing--how to keep berries alive, for example, or how to build a fire. If they die, that's how it goes; if they massively screw things up or do wasteful, unnecessary things, that's more a consequence of bad leadership, not inexperienced players.

Whenever I have an Eve run or start an outpost outside of a big city, the first thing I do when my kids can feed themselves is ask them if they can make a basket. If they say they can, I tell them to go and come back with one. If they say they can't, I show them how. Either way, another basket is almost always needed, and it won't be a complete waste of my time if I have to teach them how to do it. Once they have a basket, then I just tell them to start gathering food or branches or clay while I do the more essential things and raise the other kids. In time, that kid will grow and will be able to at least watch me do a few things or ask questions of their more competent siblings.

Keep your kids, give them straightforward, simple tasks, and thank them for helping when they do. Explain simple things if you have a second. If they screw up, gently correct them--never yell or make them feel bad. (Compare "omfg why'd u put two kindling on that fire?" to "We need to save kindling, so only add kindling to coals, never to fire.") Most people perceive yelling as a threat, which throws our brains into fight-or-flight mode, shutting down our learning faculties. Everyone can contribute, and no one will learn if we're impatient or insist that noobs aren't useful in Eve camps.

Still going! Gen 48 as of this morning.

I was Joan Eros last night. I left town with a basket and a pack and went due north to start an outpost. I only had two daughters, but they were both new and both died young. My sons and I scraped together a little camp with an impressive berry farm, if someone is born into the family and wants to play at a different speed. http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=3258968

And another thing: I love that we can take wild plants and domesticate them for use (teosinte to corn, etc.). I think it'd add an interesting layer of complexity if for some of these species (maybe something like flax) we needed one or two generations of plants before the plant was fully domesticated. Once domesticated, though, the plant would require fewer inputs or produce large yields. It might take someone an entire lifetime to domesticate something like flax, but doing so might be an accomplishment of the same magnitude as establishing a sheep pen.

Ten bucks this has all been a giant social experiment and we destroy the fictional planet with fossil fuel emissions before we get to atomic powered robots. Soon we'll start to see ice biomes receding, ponds becoming fewer and emptying faster, mouflon herds shrinking, grassland temps becoming uncomfortable even naked, desert temps becoming outright deadly.

But we'll be riding in our gas-powered Flintstones cars, running over snakes like "beep beep, bitches!"

I remember these guys from my parents' record collection.

Congratulations everyone we've officially stretched the most tedious complaint into three pages of commentary and bickering

nailed it!

Lot of folks are saying tortillas/tacos/burritos. I recently saw a town where someone had filled like 6 bowls with carnitas, and I was DETERMINED to make some masa for pork tacos, even if just to get those bowls back. Took forever, but I got the masa made. I looked pretty foolish trying to make the damned tortillas, though, not knowing you had to smash them with a straight shaft. Someone else actually cooked them for me. I won't be trying that again any time soon.

(And +1 to keys & locks, signs, and antivenom.)