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breezeknight, how can I support your suggestions. Do you place them on Reddit? Do you give a link to upvote them?

AstroTitan
Your suggestion would match my about life tokens beautifully. More experienced players will have more tokens, making them more able to start in developing villages. I will post it on Reddit in the evening

Only moving poop to sheep does not cover all our needs. Still, making clothes would be tedious. What if all animals would be skinnable? Cow and pig skin may have the same uses as rabbit furs, which would allow us to craft pouches and backpacks, at last! Also, i would change food for cow or pig, so corn will not be overused.

The need for new BIG technology tree is bullshit. Once there is an oil pump and a water diesel pump, a water can be brought in great amounts to any biome. The compost cycle remove dependancy on green biome. The problem is, this is very high tech and requires already build, established and sustainable city. But if there is one, why build another? No early camps in dfferent biomes though. But it can be changed, with only few changes to early tech.

Golden ancient times
A long time ago players could place well anywhere. So, they were stacking wells in green biomes, to have easy access to branches, soil and regrowable berries. Jason changed it on 30th May 2018, so now wells can be placed only on dry ponds. But now, as we have a new pump wells, I think the old system can be restored, so we can place wells anywhere again. This way, early Eve camp will have to stick to swamp/green biome as always, because of initiall need for wild soil deposits and ponds, but later camp could be build anywhere else (except ice and desert, cause to temperature).

There is only one problem: Jason spent many hours trying to balance water supply, as this was an limit to city sutainability, just like today it is iron. He may be hesitant to change it back.

Different technology trees?
No. We always need resources from different biomes. Green/grassland/swamp borders are the best, because of access to rabbits, water, branches, soil, regrowable wild berries and lack of dangers. Everything else we gather from other biomes. So, add technologies:
1. Juniper and pines produce branches for kindling. Or allow us to cut down tree with hatchet.
2. Place wells anywhere.
3. Add to badlands, grasslands and swamps one regrowable wild food source, like cacti and berries. Maybe fishing in ponds?
4. Add soil deposits to grasslands and swamps. This is real life friendly, as soil in swamps and praires is usually much better than in forests.
5. Make possible to craft backpacks from bisons, cows, boars and pigs. This one may be a great technology tree due to tanneries.

EDIT: where does Jason take his soil from?
There was a suggestion to remove soil deposits and allow to make tilled row by just hitting a ground with hoe. I argumented, that people do not move soil in real life for farming and Jason responded, he moves soil in his garden all the time. I would still insist a free soil to come only from composting, but nevermind.

However, if Jason want a wild deposits of soil to exist, more real life friendly would be to extend their appearance, or completely move it to swamps! I can bet Jason, you garden soil was taken from swamp peat

I would suggest otherwise. IRL there is sheep giving enough fleece for 4 sweaters. However, you need 3 goats from Cashmere to make supersoft woman sweater
http://bedtimemath.org/fun-math-sheep-and-sweaters/
In OHOL you need 6 sheeps to make one sweater, which is very tedious. I suggest, that using spindle should give you a stack of six ball of threads. By right clicking you can add/remove balls from stack, by left clicking you combine them into small balls of yarn leaving the rest of crafting untouched.

What if you made a step transition instead?
A + B = C0 + D
C0 + T = C
Where C0 is initial version of C with no wait time, but immediate transition. This second transition has T as biome influence. Can be temperature.

Just make a grave dissappear after 24-48 hours, leaving a flat stone This would release tracking the data of buried person

Such a road should also give speed bonus, just marginal. Otherwise, people will be buildng single path tile in close proximity to each other to save resources and labour. We need continuous roads

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From happy hippie communas we will go to Soviet communas, where rulers owns everything and other players are equally a piece of shit. This cannot end right

Invisible, untradable locks are terrible idea! I want someday be offered a key to locked chest without knowing what is inside

The problem with lock, it is very easy griefing tool. To fight it, I proposed making lock installation a long, loud process. Details here, in section Access.

If you want players to do something, reward them for it! With things, players are requesting for! I've brought once the idea of life tokens.

How to loose it
1. Once every hour a life token is lost.
2. Once per death a life token is lost, unless it is from the old age.
3. Being cursed enough times.
4. With the extinction of your last lineage

How to gain it
1. Receive enough blesses
2. Die of old age
3. With every generation which is born to your last lineage

What to spend them for
1. Extended lifespan
2. Extra hunger pip
3. Being reborn to chosen lineage or closest woman to the chosen grave or home marker
4. Ability to make full sentences as toddler
5. Golden speak bubble (extremaly costly), so other players will see how skillful you are. This will give a real authority golden crowns are lacking, so we can have real rulers and prophets

This system is flexible. If you see there is too less/much of certain behaviour, you can adjust prices for rewards or change the rules for gaining/loosing them. This will also make this game more rewarding to power players, people will have progress posiive feedback. You will add some grind to the game and reasong to take care about developed cities.

What this system lacks, is detection of sophisticated events, like trades or truces. It for sure it will be a way you Jason can show us your will and convince us to do as it pleases you!

Ocean and river trading was better IRL, because you could move big cargo at low cost. Here in game moving cart is free, so ships would need even greater load capacity. The problem is, everything must fit one tile. So no ships, maybe boat which may be container possible to stack like 20 items and a sailor himself. Sounds crazy, but I like the idea!

But this is not a problem. If trade would be profitable, it would occur even without oceans. In Europe-Asia there is proof to long land trade routes even in paleolit era, before agriculture.

The problem is economic I believe:
1. Trade would be beneficial to village, but not as much for trader. Imagine your village is lacking soil and somebody brought a full cart of it on its own. Will he be rewarded? Or the villagers will take everything as their own, because it is considered a village property? This is, because game design discourage ownership (My thread about it).
2. Comparative advantage. You don't need a monopoly on carrots. You don't even have to be better in making carrots. You can be worse than your trade partner. If comparative advantage is big enough, the trade will occur and you will sell carrots to your partner. The problem here is meta, because successful villages are always formed at forest/grassland/swamp border, because access to rabbits, ponds and soil/food is crucial for survival. It was suggested to Jason multiple times, to make each biome sustainable on its own, then the trade will occur without further changes, because of limited access to certain resources. I will make thread with maths in my FTW series about it.

Jason, the community supports you, but do not enforce them either way of gameplay!

Enforcing players to continue the lineage will prohibit them from challenging Eve's run! Such an innoviation will make half of players griefers, trying to completely kill off their own families. You would have only civil wars, much toxic behaviour around players and you will have to abandon it in shame. I completely agree with Whatever, that much better would be a possiblity to be reborn to one of the families you already lived within!

But, not for free. Make two deals at once! You can, Jason, apply here still lineage/area ban (but make it apply earlier, like after 10 min, so no work-suicide chain possible to do by Tarr), and allow to disable it for certain area/lineage as a reward for:
- living to the old age
- being buried
- being blessed by enough family members, just an anti-curse system

This way, being nice to other players and making close relationship will be crucial to allow you to continue your multigenerational projects! You can make connection between roleplayers and powerplayers, many of us requested for!