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Remember when someone running around with a bow and arrow in town was very suspicious? Remember when someone with a knife in their pack and no reason to have it was suspicious? Remember when people would keep distance during arguments for safety? Someone could just pull a knife and stab you, just like that. A serial killer could lurk on the edge of town with bow and arrow to murder with no witnesses. I miss that drama and tension. The murder-mouth yakety sax chases were so goofy and stupid in comparison, and not murder doesn't even exist any more. People kill by building property fences and trapping idiots inside. They do it in plain sight with their name on the gate and nobody does anything about it. Nobody CAN do anything about it, because of the no solo update.

You stand there making murder mouth trying to teach noobs how to posse for ten minutes while the guy keeps trapping and starving them. It's like some comical who's on first bit. Say I join you. You join me? No, say that you join me. You join me. No, no, say the words I join you. I join you. Oh, you have to be holding something first though.

It's ridiculous and broken and stupid.

What if they're building a bear arena?

Is the bearena griefing?

Polymaths do exist in the real world. There really are some people that can do it all.

Jonny Kim for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Kim
Navy SEAL, astronaut and medical doctor.

Or maybe Ken Jeong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jeong
Doctor, actor and stand-up comedian.

There are lots of these people in the world. Multi-classing is completely possible.

I can work summers on my uncle's farm for a few years when I'm young. When I get bigger I can start handling livestock. After highschool maybe I get a job in a bakery for a few years. Take night classes and get a job machining. Take that experience and start working in an auto shop. Hey, you know what, with some hard work and learning I could probably even build an engine myself from scratch- after having a half dozen other jobs before that. It's not that unreasonable.

How many jobs have you had so far in your life? Have you ever gone hunting with your uncle or that one redneck friend? Maybe you stayed the night and started a campfire? Ever taken down a tree piece by piece with a ladder, a rope and a rented chainsaw? Baked some home made bread for the family thanksgiving? Does doing any of that mean you can't still do the other stuff too?

Right! You can't get cursed if you don't play! It's really very simple. Don't play the game and you can't get cursed. That's the obvious solution here. Anything else is unrealistic.

Once again he's revealing both his tiny offensive babydick and pea sized brain.

Will this little boy ever stop embarrassing himself? I doubt he could even if he wanted to, at this point.

Much like in real life, communication in game is often pointless. A convincing argument is more about shouting over the opposition than anything else. The people shouting loudest are usually griefers, or at best pernicious morons. That's why appeal to majority is almost always wrong. Mob rule killed Socrates. There's nothing right about pandering to idiots.

I've been saying it for a while. Ever since the family specialization update when we were all living in one or two big bell towns. It's very easy to get blocked from spawning if there are only a handful of available spots on the map. Now with the homeland update it's impossible to be born outside of town. If you bend over backwards to be nice and you only play a few lives a month it's probably fine. If you don't like pandering to noobs or you play every week there's a strong chance of ending up a donkey for no good reason. Most people are very petty and frivolous when it comes to cursing. It's not something that they use sparingly, it's something they see someone do once and copy. Without understanding how or why they just see it as a straightforward "screw you" to someone they dislike for whatever reason.

It's at a point where you can't even confront legitimate griefers at all. You can't kill them. You can curse them, but that just gets you cursed back. Is it worth risking a MONTH-LONG ban to save this one town this one time? No. Just let him wreck it and hope the next town is nicer.

So I'm thinking through the numbers a little. Diesel engine costs about a dozen iron. One set of tools costs about 10, newcomen machining set about another 10, each newc tower another 4. Let's say you build a tower for the well, for smithing and for an oil rig that's 12 iron. Plus a few tanks. About 50 total iron to reach oil tech. That's assuming you can rush sustainable mining tech rather than installing a diesel well first. Also assuming that no tools break and nothing gets lost, which is ridiculous.

Let's assume an average of 2 iron veins within the family well tapout zone. First and second stage each have 4 iron. Third stage requires a pick and supplies 6 iron. Fourth stage requires stanchion kit and supplies 10 iron. That's 24 iron per vein pre-diesel. Or 48 total pre-diesel. If your family settles in a homeland with access to only 2 iron veins it's a very thin line. We're really reaching a point where necessary resources are stretched to unreasonable levels. It's starting to become an exercise in madness.

I think some of you "people" really need to go back to reddit.

edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger!

To me, these constant constraints on resources pushes the meta towards foraging. No iron? Use wild soil and water to farm milkweed for stone hoes. Or take morti's approach. Water wild berry bushes with goose ponds and subsist on sustainable wild food.

Any decent player can run into the untouched wilderness and survive to 60. With the recent homeland update reproducing under those circumstances becomes much more difficult. When the family's territory is so restricted wild resources become much less sustainable. It forces the classical model, forming a settlement to support greater populations. Eve can't feed everyone with wild berries so you have to plant more. The poor family's runner baby that goes to live somewhere else is no longer viable.

Here two axioms emerge. Necessary resources are finite and we have no alternatives. Again it becomes a game about desperately drawing out the inevitable. We've been there before plenty of times. Before long people will figure out a new meta and normal life will resume. Then? More constraints.

I win by default. You are not even eligible to compete with someone as great as me as long as you keep cheating.

What the heck bros... I thought it's impossible to cheat on VAC secured servers...

Alright, from now on it's an automatic curse on anyone caught using mods.