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Frankly, if you don't play more than 1-2 full lives a day, the limited lives really doesn't affect you whatsoever. Even if you play a dozen lives daily, it wouldn't affect you much. This is because you earn a life back every 20 minutes. That's 2-3 lives earned per full hour-long life. And it has a cap of 12.

Honestly, unless you die 10+ times in a row without a single long-lived life [in which case, I'm either going to call bullshit or think you're probably a bad player], it doesn't do much to affect gameplay.

That being said, I do wish Jason would be more open to ideas from the community. It sucks to see how his 'vision' utterly clouds his view of the actual game and how it's playing right now. He needs to step down from his mighty throne and put himself in the players' shoes, get a new perspective, and see the game from the POV of a player. Just because we don't have 15+ years of developing experience under our belts shouldn't mean our opinions and ideas are invalid.

This helps a good bit, I got as far as building the oil rig and drilling for oil today, as a boy in a p much dead town. We had a newcomen engine already and a few supplies that I'm guessing someone earlier had started on. Hopefully the one girl we had left passes on the location of the oil rig, and actually has a girl to continue the line.

Pine walls have always been too expensive, and will likely always be too expensive. At least until Jason wraps his mind around the value of milkweed and that "hurr but u can grow as much as u want no side effects smh XD" means literally nothing in terms of how valuable and necessary it is for nearly everything in the game.

This is his stance on milkweed. And I quote:

Perhaps one day he'll realize that 20 milkweed and 4 straight shafts for a single wall makes literally no sense and isn't worthwhile in the slightest, especially when we can make [eventually] permanent stone walls for infinitely cheaper resources.

Anyone here remember West? They used to be such a prominent Eve player, with lineages everywhere that were always lasting for a good amount of time. Haven't heard from them in ages.

Goodnight sweet prince.

May we meet again in the wilds of OHOL, in a time more prosperous to the long-time players and where one might enjoy their lives in peace and without conflict ;-;7

Nah actual useful content would be something to store grain in like literally everyone wanted and had s*ggested [barrel, grain sack, silo, grain piles.. something].

Instead we get a shitty noob-trap recipe because "b-but the problem was g-grain clutter r-right??? RIGHT?!!1?"

But don't take that from me. I'm not a game developer with 15+ years of experience so what do I know.

Except now killing is the ONLY choice we have, period. At least with snowballs we had some sort of non-lethal way to disarm people, even if it was overpowered with the autoaim function. Now we really have 0 options whatsoever.

Killing should be a last resort. Now it's the only resort.

I'd give you a suggestion [a bola, for instance] but I don't have 15+ years of experience and am not a game designer so what do I know :^)

Such as... the stupid grain solution you came up with?

We pinpointed the problem months ago. Compost is overpowered. Grain and mutton are automatically byproducts of it. Compost is constantly made and constantly needed in the game, so grain and mutton both build up over time. It's free food, but it takes up space. Luckily we only need to kill sheep when our pen is full or we need mutton.

Not the case for grain. We can't choose to thresh wheat only when we need wheat. We're forced to get piles of it because compost requires it, as did baskets [which were less commonly made over time than compost]

We offered plenty of viable solutions. The easiest? Grain storage. The coding is literally already in the game with buckets. Hell you could even just make grain dumpable in buckets. Case closed, no more grain clutter.

Instead you offer some stupid bullshit solution utilizing one of the most required and sought after resources in the game [milkweed] to make baskets with 1 less wheat. Because yes, that TOTALLY solves our grain problem. Wasting 4 milkweed for 2 baskets instead of making a box/bucket and a single basket for the same amount of milkweed/grain clutter is TOTALLY worth it. Definitely.

I try to mass produce anything that uses up a resource with a time limit to make. For example:

-Cooking a bunch of geese and rabbits [if we have excess, which most towns do from bp/clothes hunting] on hot coals before putting stew on.

-Firing batches of clay pottery before covering the kiln for smithing. More bowls/plates are never a bad thing.

-Firing as much iron as I can in a single forge firing. Helps a ton if I have someone there stoning the raw iron into wrought iron as I go.

-Taking out the local wolves [and boars if there's swamp nearby] when I go to get a baby mouflon. Not only do you get hats for your family, but also take out threats to anyone traveling out from the town.

-Also, taking out the local wild geese [save a few eggs for domestics!] when getting one for a file, since they'll most likely end up vanishing eventually anyways. No need to let free food disappear.

-Compost. Instead of doing one at a time I like to take a cart and do batches of 4. Same goes for feeding sheep for the dung/wool.

Tbh I see a lot of people quite literally fire a forge to make a single item.. despite there being piles of unsmelted ore sitting right next to them. Same goes for people firing an oven despite there being literally only 3 pies, or to bake a single tire.

Make more pies/tires so you can get more for your kindling.
Smelt more iron to get more for your charcoal.
You've [usually] got the time. Your family will appreciate it.

I played two lives yesterday as a ginger Pu. Supposedly there was a large city nearby, and we had a few visitors during my second life [he seemed peaceful, was stacking firewood near the main fire with his horse cart and fetching long shafts] but I stuck to our small camp both lives. Not sure if the same area or camp though.

First life, I made all the iron tools [when I was born we had only a hoe and an axe], and mined a vein nearby for a haul of about 18 iron. We also got the sheep pen built during the end of that life. Was cut short by a twin griefer after I confronted her about repeatedly stealing the forge plates. I berated her in front of most of the camp, so she shot me and stupidly tried to claim I did it/it was an accident.. lmao. Nobody bought it.

Second life I was born to a Pu from the same camp out rabbit hunting. She brought me back to camp, and I watched as the twin started sniping people from behind an oak tree in our camp. Wasn't big enough to grab bow yet, but made an arrow and managed to direct a brother to shoot her behind the tree. Unfort she already killed like 3 people, and her twin got another bow/arrow and killed the avenger before starving.

Shit's wack I guess, family's fault for keeping twins and not bothering to react quickly though imo.. They looked like trouble from the get go. Our bellows ended up disappearing in the aftermath so I wouldn't be surprised if they'd started hiding things after the initial kill.

Second life I got mouflon and set up compost, smelted down all the iron I'd mined, and helped make a few pies. Someone was working on a stone building by the time I grew old. We still had a girl and looks like they lived for another 20 or so gens, so that's nice at least.

suicide kids stink though. Even with the 15-family limit, things still don't bode well in the slightest for outpost families. In fact, they might even be worse now because of it.. since not only do kids who /die out of a city also add anyone from that family who's trying to eve to their skip list, but now, if you leave a family with 15~ members, you're not gonna have fuck all kids because of the new limit also counting you in their numbers lol.

Outposting isn't viable. Eve'ing is rare. We're never gonna get out of mega-city hell.

But why would I use a single thread to make a box when I can use 2 threads to make a box and 2 straw to make the basket?

Your logic literally doesn't work here Jason. Yes, grain-fields have been a complaint for awhile. But giving us an even worse option for baskets isn't helping literally anybody. Especially when that option uses a resource that is CONSTANTLY in demand, from the freshest of eve spawns to the largest of cities.

"You can just grow it" doesn't make it less of a waste of resources compared to the existing options we've already got. I'd rather use 2 thread on a box and make baskets combining wheat than waste 2 thread on 2 baskets for the sake of saving a couple tiles.

Would it really have been much harder to just put in a storage option for grain instead..?