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#101 Re: Main Forum » A StOrM IS BREWING » 2018-09-22 06:46:33

This town has amazing layout. Great use of building as "fortifications" to keep wildlife out.

#102 Re: Main Forum » Suggestion For Reworking Storage » 2018-09-22 06:41:56

I think there would be an issue on what you pick up when you click on tile. But this could work on containers - having a basket fit only three berries is my pet peeve. Especially since bowls can take 6 and you can fit three empty bowls in a basket.

#103 Re: Main Forum » New Tree Saplings » 2018-09-21 19:03:47

arkajalka wrote:
gabal wrote:

How about fruit trees? I want to plant an apple orchard.

In colder climates every apple tree is grafted. Which means that its seeable part with the fruit has had roots of a plant added from a different apple strain that withstands more harsher enviroments, but produces crappy apples.

So crappy fruit apple tree has good roots.
And the good fruit one has crappy roots.

You cut the better part of em from specific point and add em together and you get a apple tree that has good roots with good fruit.

I know what grafting is, my grandparents had tangerine orchard. One of the grafts was from a wild rose and occasionally a branch would be just thorns so you had to cut it out.

Not sure how you would grating in game though...

#104 Re: Main Forum » New Tree Saplings » 2018-09-21 05:03:43

How about fruit trees? I want to plant an apple orchard.

#105 Re: Main Forum » Why Whites are Better than Blacks (ONLY in Ohol) » 2018-09-21 04:46:18

I rarely see a town starving which has compost running, stew and ples. Infant mortality is high even with abundance of food and I don't see why would you abandon male children djece to overpopulation.

#106 Re: Main Forum » How come people die in towns with plenty of food. » 2018-09-21 04:41:08

New players don't know all food sources or wander away too far from them. Experienced players bez tunnel vision, start project and forget to eat.

#107 Re: Main Forum » Fertile years » 2018-09-16 19:28:11

I have had a baby literally seconds into spawning as Eve several times so I think you are fertile from the start as an Eve.

#108 Re: Main Forum » Hope for the city » 2018-09-14 22:09:58

I was tenth generation of the OK family, the town is doing great. One of the nicer ones I have lived in recently.

#109 Re: Main Forum » What’s the longest Generation you’ve started as an Eve? » 2018-09-13 18:08:44

24, I bragged about it on the forums. I was really lucky with amazing children, I only stumbled onto a great spot.

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#110 Re: Main Forum » Anyone else find the game unplayable without zoom mod? » 2018-09-09 07:56:49

I haven't played it myself but I saw mobile version of the game has 3 zoom options so maybe we'll get them in base game as well.

#111 Re: Main Forum » Advancing Beyond Farming Villages » 2018-09-08 19:51:48

You have to have an agricultural community, having a city in modern sense of the word. But it is obvious that until you secure stable source of food everybody is doing everything they can to not starve.
After food is stable people can work on non-food related projects. Building a road, building a hospital, creating a library, building a bell tower... The problem is the number of players who are connected throughout the day so villages eventually die out, Eve spawning in dead city and revitalizing it helps with progress.

#112 Re: Main Forum » Communication » 2018-09-07 22:53:05

I think elders were meant to pass on knowledge as they have enough characters to form longer sentences. And also, the best learning experiences I had were when an elderly uncle taught me about his work and asked me to take over after he died.

I always ask my babies are they new and try to teach them a new skill if they are interested. Sure, mainly I assign them berry field duty but as a toddler I have seen many children die because they were too far from food sources.

I find that in bigger cities people communicate less and it can get a bit overwhelming to do a task that is only a step in longer process without knowing what happens before or after.

Just keep asking how to do something, you will learn it, I'm sure of it.

#113 Re: Main Forum » I think the lineage ban hurts branched towns. » 2018-09-07 06:44:43

I think being fed and having perfect temperature helps. Last night I had three babies in short sucession (I even asked if they were triplets, it was that fast) while I was talking to a first baby while standing on a perfect temp spot.

#114 Re: Main Forum » Would you suicide as the last girl? » 2018-09-07 04:54:24

I remembered one more benefit to pregnancy mechanics. It would help with being born while the map is still loading. Even hearing the sounds while the screen is black would work with this mechanic.

#115 Re: Main Forum » Switching items in backpack » 2018-09-06 17:06:12

Damn it, and I asked about it in discord.

#116 Re: Main Forum » Would you suicide as the last girl? » 2018-09-06 12:34:12

Anshin wrote:

I still believe a 45 second pregnancy would really help people cool off and get a sense of their new life. Where the new player can see what the mother sees, and the mom gets a chance to prepare for incoming baby. Consider it a warm up tour smile

I actually quite like this idea. I would certanly not start a trip to find iron if I see my character is expecting a child like it happens every single time...

#117 Re: Main Forum » Would you suicide as the last girl? » 2018-09-06 10:00:41

I have never suicided. Even when the situation is horrible I try to make a best of it.

For example, I was born to an Eve which didn't have a clue. She settled next to some berry bushes without a pond in sight. I abandoned her after I couldn't make her realize location is awfull, took a bowl of berries with me and settled on a better spot as a Pseudo-Eve.

Even when I was born a boy and Eve died right after birthing me I didn't give up as my sister fed me berries and we established a village together.
I think you can learn more from starting in bad situations and feel more pride of your accomplishement then to suicide and wait for perfect birth.

But that is just my opinion, everybody is entitled to play the game as they see fit.

#119 Re: Main Forum » Where is the fun in Big Civilizations ? » 2018-09-03 21:29:13

True, I just lived a life in which mom was Eve in every sense except the name. Well, she had more clothes then Eve usually does but apart from that it was an Eve run.

#120 Re: Main Forum » Where is the fun in Big Civilizations ? » 2018-09-03 10:18:48

Playing in cities is the best time to learn a new skill in my experience. Your basic needs are usually covered and you commit yourself to a project of your desire.

#122 Re: Main Forum » In Regard to New Players » 2018-09-01 06:47:34

Actually, the best learning experiences were in-game when somebody took their time to explain stuff to me.
I still consider myself new to the game with only a month since I started playing it.
I was reading composting guides on forum but it wasn't untill somebody asked me in-game do I want to learn composting that I got the hang of it. I'm relatively new and I still make mistakes even though I try to read up on the guides. For example I filled up trash-pit with dead lambs because I read that you should clean the pen or the dung won't appear if there aren't free spaces. I have never before seen a filled trash-pit so I had no idea they could get filled.

But yeah, I try to approach each life as a learning experience. For example, in one life I decided to spend that life trying to craft my own backpack so I could learn it. It took me 30 years, I spent a lot of time trying to find a needle but in the end I managed to do it and now I know how to craft it and it doesn't take me that long.

Maybe I'm lucky but I was rarely yelled at (even when I ruined the sheep pen) and never killed by another player. Besides, you never know when you will get a chance to learn something new. I was last fertile female in a town and when no baby came the village smith took his last years in a dying village teaching me basics of smithing. I was son of an Eve who died before spawning girls, I spent my life practicing "how to Eve" without the burden of taking care of babies as I had plenty of berry bushes around our camp and all that full hour just figuring out what to do in what order helped me a lot.

This organic learning experience is what I enjoy the most in this game. I love learning new stuff and passing that knowledge to the other players.

#123 Re: Main Forum » The Yum Bonus » 2018-09-01 06:19:10

I don't know, I think using carrots in a pie is a waste of resources necessary for composting.

#124 Main Forum » Am I doing something wrong? » 2018-08-31 08:49:29

gabal
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In a life I had last night I gave birth to 9 children. The town was prosperous and there was plenty of food around. Every child which spoke got a tour of the village and I told them what needed to be done around the town. Yet, when I checked out afterwards how the village fared after my death (I died to a snake while scouting for the iron we needed) I found out that only one child I nursed died of starvation in the middle of village with several food sources. They weren't suicidal, with one of them I even discussed what tools should be forged so I guess you can't tell they were all new players.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I nurse children even after they can pick stuff up and feed themself? I noticed a high infant mortality rate before as well but this was the worst expample I experienced.


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#125 Re: Main Forum » Missed Connections » 2018-08-31 08:42:29

Was it a town with five belltowers? Last name sounds familiar.

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