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I lead a lot in game. It's less of a factor now for me because I spend most of my time in game building small military outfits, but I used to aim for making larger scale decisions in towns.

Like what? Building plans, resource management, and job allocation.

People don't ask for jobs much anymore, but there was a time around a year ago where noobs were everywhere and people would always ask for jobs.

One of my favorite positions to have filled in a town I ran or helped run was the barker.

Picking out a kid from the berries while he tries to water an empty bush and telling him to be the barker is great because as other threads have pointed out, communication is very inefficient in this game. Especially trying to fill a position like a smith, baker, or builder without knowing who in the damn town can do what because they're all over the place, or they're babies, or whatever the issue is.

Ok, you get it, barker is cool. What is it?

The town barker, when I've had one, has been in charge of town wide communication. The person in charge talks to the barker, and anyone who reports an issue or suggests a multi-facetted course of action can prioritize the barker as easily as the leaders themselves based simply on proximity. oh, the barker is right there i'll ask him.

The barker acts as a proxy leader / glorified secretary that lightens the social burden off of leaders and skilled players.

Realistically, I think this is about as good as you can get duties-wise.

I've used a barker for the following tasks:

"Find two people who can build and bring them to me"

"Tell everyone we (insert important or dangerous event i.e. bear or new hospital)"

"Find two teenage girls who want to populate a satellite"

Without any instruction, the barker has on occasion also come to me with specific problems that need to be addressed per request of different individuals.

Anyway, my point is that most of the times I used barkers was pre-sword and pre-property. Now, with the reality of raids almost every life, finite resources, and complicated & compact city design a barker in every family would be wildly useful.

A low skill cap role with large impact. You talk to the townspeople and gather requested talent. You make important announcements. Warn about raids. Declare the town's intentions. Anything more you do is just to fill your spare time enjoy it.

Think about it. It's at least one step up from corpse-master ---- great job. very important.

Next step for you new kids is librarian. Barker first though.

Jason has handcrafted a path for any nihilist to 'ruin' the combined efforts of hundreds of players without any real repercussions in game (I'm being melodramatic. Griefers only really hinder the progress of a town as towns survive independent of lines and are almost inevitably repopulated).

The path not to take is one that directly conflicts with your own line.

Even now familiar people to your family can take curse action against you.

But still, under almost any circumstance, there is a violent course of action you can take without really risking a trip to Donkey Town, our own in-house AFK simulator.

This path becomes safer and more defined with every update.

Now, as long as I bring loot back from a raid, or that I at least have the intention and means within reason to achieve such an outcome, I do not see slaughtering a city as griefing. And if I die losing my city's loot, at least I know that my efforts were a calculated risk with opportunity to succeed.

These actions are elicited in accordance to the game's intention: advance your immediate and long term family by means available to you.

Towns that do not properly engage with the game will create windows for grief. However, well-planned towns will develop to thwart aggression by plugging holes that griefers expose. Without the griefer mentality of deriving enjoyment from punishing misplays and enacting aggressive strategies, your town has no x-factor enemy. No mob in this game will replace the tactics and decision making of another person. The game environment may have aggressive features, but the only real opponents are the players.

The builders will need some time to learn the best practices when it comes to multigenerational defense strategies. The big players in leadership will need time to develop more efficient methods of information distribution and decision making. Intermediate players need more time to learn the signs of a raid or an internal grief. The community needs time to iron out what is meta for multi-family communities.

But ultimately it's the griefers who will give everyone else a reason to actually get better.

As a result, when I have nothing to lose in a game, I do everything within my power to punish every player I can for their decisions, whether it's a forgotten gate perm or trusting a random man with a sword.

Survival of the fittest. I'm making you better.

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I started as a child with s sheepskin in the wilderness. I ended as a successful, vengeful warrior.

After scrounging for clothes and a pack, I was able to make my way to some docile yet advanced towns. I got my hands on some steel rods.

I was abe to escape with the rods and a horse, make my way to an abandoned town, fire up their forge, and make two swords. I was the son of a dead eve with no ties. I was out for blood.

The monument is always helpful. I can navigate to about 4 towns from there easily. Even some habitually abandoned spots that used to be towns.

With two swords and a horse, one man can take on a village if he strikes fast.

Through some navigations and clever drops, I pillaged an 8 person village, and moved on taking on a counter raid on my way out. I made my way to the town I stole the rods from and died three kills into another rampage. I died of old age.

The issue? I don't know how to find out whom I killed so I can't give a count. If you know how, the link above is my line. I think it was something like 11.

Get angry if you want. But I had no line and no common language. I am constantly killed if I do not fall within a towns borders, and even then, only if my family has numbers. My family died long before I did. My mother died with me in her arms.