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jasonrohrer wrote:

I'm an experienced game designer.

But this is one of the most complicated games anyone has ever attempted to design.

I get the feeling that balance will ultimately be impossible, or at least that is a kind of latent fear of mine, as more and more objects are added.

I don't see this as a problem, many paths to victory, keep the players on their toes etc.

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Organize the town as best you can.

Gather up all the plates and take them to the oven and forge,

Create a graveyard with milkweed or roses (soon) in front of the grave and different stones (flat ones work great but you can use any kind you or your loved one may have liked) and blocks behind where you can arrange your families resting place and bring kids to tell them stories about your siblings and elders.

Spread food out around the town far away from the carrot farm or kitchen where people who are working can have a nice meal so they don't have to run back home.

Make a milkweed farm near the prairie and leave an extra bone needle or two there so people can easily make their own backpacks or clothes.

Line roads with bushes, flowers (milkweed or (roses)) and wells. Make your home, not just efficient, but beautiful.

Compliment people on their clothing.

Thank them for working on the carrot farm while you were out getting rabbits.

Thank them for getting rabbits while you were working on the carrot farm.

That guy making the tools? Thank him too!

Fresh forest cut down? Make clear paths to the ponds and leave the area on the farm side clear so people can put down a basket there. You can use the butt logs as a main path and someone may turn it into a road if they come through with a froe, mallet, stake and stone.

If you see a path of butt logs going through a freshly chopped down forest, bring a froe, mallet, stake and round stone out to them and turn them into a path. IF it's a path near ponds, add some berry bushes near the ponds and leave a bowl nearby for water, if the path isn't near water, space some wells or milkweed out along it, so it looks nice.

Gather up extra clay and make bowls from it and put them near ponds outside of town, in case someone wants to start a little farm there.

Young woman bored of big city life? Make up a story and run away, then when your kids are born, tell them your story and ask for them to help you in your new life.

Young male bored of big city life? Lose iron around? Make an extra shovel, ax, froe, wedge and mallet and take them out to an area with lots of big stones and make a little castle just outside of town to make people wonder who you were.

Found a small castle outside of town, half finished? Complete it and decorate it with a sign with a lewd slogan.

Found an odd castle outside of town with a lewd slogan on a sign? Decorate around it with flowers like milkweed and roses. Clear a backyard behind it and decorate with a shrine.

Make a tiny sheep pen and instead of a sheep, lure a bear into it and close it off.

Start a town zoo.

Become a barker at the town zoo, and shout "Come one, come all. See the amazing animals at The Town Zoo!" and give free pies to adults and berries to the children that come to see the attractions.

See someone roleplaying as a hooker? Roleplay as her pimp and let her know you took care of the last John that tried to stiff her out of a tip.

Ask people if they'd like a Candied Yam, Fireball, a Leek, or a candle flame and if they say sure, proceed to give them a carrot, berry, wild onion or cactus fruit. If they say you lied, tell them your client says otherwise and explain to them how you procured such an item. Be creative.

Give someone a rock.

No really, just run up to them and say, "Here you go." and drop a rock at their feet. Then run away saying "Thanks again." Just out of the blue.

Run up to someone working alone and give them a compliment.

If you only have time to do it once per child, take your kid out to one person working and tell them how good of a job that person is doing, then continue touring around with them, while within screen of other people working, and let the child know how well each person is working at whatever it is you see them doing at the time.

Tell people about things you saw in the sky.

Take your kid to an abandoned bear cave and tell them it's your home.

Open and close chests and doors to slowed down renditions of your favorite tunes.

Compose a piece of music using the item sound effects in the game and set up your row of instruments near, but out of the way, of the largest group of people. Combine sounds that don't often go together, like pulling steel from crucibles and sheering sheep.

If you see someone running to food and die of starvation, place a carrot near their grave when you pour their remains from the basket, outside of town. Apologize to them, and yourself, silently, that you didn't leave more food out around town.

Give someone a basket of dead lambs and tell them there are no more unicorns in the forest.

Ride through town on a horse saying "The British are coming!" Then circle around outside of town, change your clothes, ride in, and ask if anyone saw a man on a horse.

Thank each elderly person you see, personally, for the work they did for the town, before you arrived.

Piles of firewood instead of every tile on a swamp littered with the stuff? A dream.

I completely agree that storage needs to be reworked. What kind of janky box only stores FIVE carrots?