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This is my problem with the game in general - that it seems to rely on people having emotional connections with random strangers that would be better spent on real-life relationships.  It seems to encourage unhealthy behavior.

yay nature

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I added '(' and ')' (for smileys) and it seemed to work.

Since the random seed is (currently) static and known, you could generate a matching map client-side and do some on-the-fly comparisons to find your location, if your algorithm was efficient enough.  (Since we know the Eve-generation location algorithm, we could also use that to narrow things down somewhat.)  Is that what you were thinking?

If the random seed is different for each server and unknown, I suppose you could try to get enough people to use a custom client that updates a shared map (one for each server), and then eventually you could go back to your map-comparison algorithm method.  But that's one for the Discord voice-chat crowd, not casuals like me

I read a long time ago that some Commodore 64 (I think) programs would play three tones through the sound chip at frequencies higher than it was rated for, then somehow sample the output and use that to seed the PRNG (or maybe they used it for random values directly).

Anyway, if you're going to create a hardware RNG, I understand sampling background radiation is a pretty solid approach.

Edit to add: your way seems popular, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E … uist_noise

No no no.  People like that can actually turn out fairly awesome, once life has taken them down a few pegs.

To frustrated people, "listening, then not doing what I (or even most of us) want" can be easily confused with "not listening at all".

Once I realized that the game wasn't going to be what I wanted any time soon, I stopped being frustrated and just went off to something else for now.  I don't know if the game will ever be what I (or we) want, but it's in Jason's hands and he's the one paying his bills, so it works out well.

Thank you!

Also interesting how this perspective morphs over one's life.  For me, the desire to create something that can be seen from space has waned and (almost?) disappeared; desire to have little connections with people has increased.

Projecting that back on to the game: the only really fulfilling moment I can recall off-hand was being born to a new player, and after maturing, laying out thread, a branch, and a sharp stone, deliberately constructing a stone hatchet in front of her, and getting a "ooo!" in return.  Likewise with a bow drill and maybe another thing or two.  You know, simple stuff.

Then projecting that back into real life: why teach people how to create hatchets in a game when I could be teaching seniors basic computer skills in real life?

They don't move when you lead a bear onto them, I can tell you that much.

Thanks for taking one for the team.