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It would be if that was the way you designed the game.

Let's say you reach your goal of 10,000 items in two years. Let's say when you reach that point there are also 10,000 people playing the game and 1,000 or more in the largest city. It could be something like this:

The problem with this, even if you make it 60 seconds infinite, with 60 minute recharge, people will just make 60 wells, or what have you, one per minute.

Life has worked out really well for billions of years, balancing resources, especially the chemistry provided by autotrophs, the primary producers of chemistry at the base of the food/life pyramid. If you really want to get a message out about sustainability, especially when it comes to organisms like ourselves, that are built from the products they provide, their role in all life's sustainability that has afforded increasingly complex beings like us the opportunity to exist, is the foundation of the slope that humanity stands at the pinnacle of. Every life form on Earth that exists in the present stands on top of them.

If we are going to survive long into the future, at least in our present organic states, we are either going to have to make their lives easier by providing for them, or, industrialize the chemical roles they have been filling for the last four billion years, and continue to this very moment.

Sorry, maybe that's all too much for you right now.

All I want to say is, look to reality; look to the history of life, humanity being just a small sliver of that; to ecology, paleontology and anthropology, and in them, you will get a sense of the numbers we would be able to live with as we attempt to rehumanize the world, if, we had to start over in the hypothetical situation you are presenting as the, sort of, plot of this game.

Sols are common because either I spend 10-30 mins as a fresh Eve, hunting for a location to start a home that I know will stand the test of time, or, the game gives me the chance to be an Eve in a town I am familiar with. Either way I keep all my kids so the players who get to be male can scout, gather and do the crafting they love while the women do what the same, as best they can, while also caring for their kids.

It's vital that the branches of the family tree be thick and strong to hold future leaves, and that means children having an array of siblings to support and compliment each other's activities.

Shaun, find a nice warm spot near where the children are being kept, to spend your last few minutes.

You get 55-60 character messages in the last 5 minutes of life; put them to good use.

Tell your story. Tell your children you're proud of them. Tell your grandchildren how happy you are to see them in your home.

Let your family know where important things are and put your affairs in order.

I generally only do this with the last 30 seconds or so, as there is always somewhere you can be useful up to the bitter end, but it's a perfect time to bond with your little children waiting to get their hands on the world and to pass on valuable information to them. Let them know about the sheep pen you've been working on, the house you tried to finish. That really sweet grassland you found when you thought you were lost, you know, the one with all the untouched soil in it? One of them could find that really useful when he's able to pull a cart load of baskets.

Your final words could save your home, long after you're gone. Share them with your family, in the warm place.

Always welcome.

Thank you Donny.

That really meant a lot to me.

I think a lot of these players started the game before me, and developed a different approach on their own, so, I can't blame them for being a little set in their ways.

Before I started playing I watched a lot of people play the game on Youtube and Twitch and learned a lot by pausing and replaying moments in their videos. I would spend three to six hours some days just watching a single hour long life; watching and rewatching, and paying very close attention to different aspects of the game. I was able to pay attention to things that you can't really afford to do when the clock is always ticking in game, and you're scrambling to stay alive. And a lot of those people, like on Youtube, just kept their best playthroughs, so I got to see what it took for them to live full lives.

This was my goal at first, upon purchasing the game; just make it to 60 years old and die of old age. That quickly changed after seeing player after player die before me in my own family, mothers abandoning their children and the real lifestyle of the non-busy players.

This game is not an abortion simulator. At least, it shouldn't be. The goal of life is to provide for new life, to have the resource and condions, so you can afford to continue the process of reproduction that made you possible. Sure, this process isn't perfectly encapsulated in the game. We're not starting 4 billion years ago, we're starting, supposedly, at some unknown point in the future, where women are asexual and can't entirely control when they are going to produce children. We don't know if Eve's had childhoods or parents, or even if this is Earth, a simulation of Earth-like conditions, or even a simulation of somewhere in our Universe. For now there just happen to be some things here that we recognize. For now, it's like chess; a crude representation of somethings we know, with some unfamiliar elements tying them together.

I'm glad I gave you a good experience.

I think every player should strive to be capable of starting a home from scratch, and every person deserves the chance to learn to do so. I want you to be a competent Eve, so that when the day comes I find myself in your arms, I know we'll both be okay.

When I'm an Eve, you are a gift; an opportunity to teach and a chance to prove I have what it takes to juggle the worst that can be thrown at me. I think I've failed to live to be 60, about a thousand times. Maybe two hundred of those thousand I was an Eve, and maybe twenty of those I managed to keep every child that wanted to be kept AND lived to see grand children. Maybe ten of those I did all that and died of old age, with a family around me.

That's the best life of all.

Coming back, in another life, being a part of your own family, it's an extension of that feeling, but it's not quite as fulfilling, at least, for me, as doing it all from scratch. Finding site, juggling the kids, building the tools, selecting the farm and forge placement, waking up the cacti and rabbits, taking in the land before your family levels it to the ground. Deciding whether a place is worthy or not of your children. I'm very addicted to this.

As a kid I used to build forts, all over town. Every patch of woods had the potential to be a home, every hole in the rocks, every tree. But I had to be picky. I didn't just want a place for myself. I wanted a place I could bring my friends. Start a community, and if things were different, a family.

We can't really do this IRL, at least, not in the US. You can't just run off into the woods as a child and make a town from a fort, but if any of you were boys like me, I bet you wanted to. Some instinct inside of us, pulls us away from the group, and out into the land. To find better. To begin anew.

If I can help you, feel you are capable of that, so you can do it yourself, then I think I've given you the greatest give of all. And you can then go on, to pass that gift onto others, so that they may too, fulfill their instinctual desires.

At least once.

Final words: "Fire the nozzle"

I remember that. Did you carry on teaching your brother how to smith?

I wasn't making tools, for the sake of making tools, I asked him to make them so I could work the farms, and he said he didn't know how.

Whenever I meet someone who doesn't know something I do, I generally put the game on pause and switch modes. My life then becomes dedicated to passing on information to this person so that they may acquire new knowledge about the game. Jupiter was the person in this case, and I wanted nothing more with my life from that point on than to make him feel he was capable of providing tools for his future families. So, I set everything else aside and step-by-step set out to teach him how to make tools, starting with gathering clay and reeds to make adobe, on up as far as I could possibly get in that life.

I felt really terrible tho, dying so young, when I could have spent a few more seconds going to the farm to grab a carrot and in return been given another ten minutes to teach him how to find iron, build up charcoal and forge his first smithing hammer.

I know you wanted to get involved and, to be honest, I was a little upset by your intrusion into the process of education. I know you meant well and wanted to get smithing up and running as quickly as possible and knew just what to do, but I wanted Jupiter to make it up each step by his own hands.

Thank you Tea, for sharing this story and reminding me of that life.

I'm sorry I didn't stay around longer, and I'm sorry I didn't do more to keep your sisters alive until you and your brother could be uncles. Some times I give so much of my life to the nonhuman parts of my settlement that I overlook what is happening with others and things can and do, end, with just my boys. But I would always rather have all my children than just the girls.

Boys are always welcome in my family.

Please, players, name yourselves as soon as you start as an Eve, or, at least before naming your first child, so we get a unique lineage surname.
It just takes a few seconds or less to type "I am [insert your name here]" so that your sons, daughters, and all their descendants, get a unique last name that we can find via the new Family Tree.

I'm generally always Sol (the Sun) as an Eve, and I accept that. And my kids are named after planets, moons and Greek titans, gods and goddesses, as well as sometimes astronomical objects like stars and constellations.

If you are ever born a Sol, it would tickle me to look on the family tree and see you carrying on this naming convention. It's easy to find names, if you don't know the planets, moons, asteroids, Greek gods, stars or constellations, you can get ideas for names just looking up lists for them. Lots of great names to choose from, from all that, even if a lot of them sadly default to stranger names on Jason's short list. I mean, come on, what kid wouldn't want to be named Uranus? But no, he has to be forced the name Urban because x people in the world never bothered to give their kids such a stellar name.

Jason, please include more names on the list, with each update, if it's not too much trouble. Then maybe someday, when I get up to my sixth boy, he gets the name Neptune, instead of Nephi.

I was Ginger, your sister, I went exploring south south west and while checking out the town down there had my first son, who should have been Mercury but I was so busy telling him all the things I learned about the two places that he was too big by the time we got back to Fuckstown and I went to name him. Then Venus was born, in Fuckstown, and we adventured east, after Mercury (Nameless) went on to work at Fuckstown, took the road north, with her still in my arms, then on the way back down south (not much up there0 she grew too big too hold, so when we got to the intersection East of Fuckstown, where the road continued to the East, I asked her which she'd like to do, go back to Fuckstown, or continue our adventure East, see what was down that road. She decided we go East and we ventured on to a place called Topseed (the only sign there). A much nicer place than Fuckstown, imo, but less iconic, and a lot less cactus fruit. Seriously, if you ever go to Fuckstown, pull the cactus west of town and add to the fruit salad strewn across the desert that people just neglect for the poorly placed in the cold, carrot farm.

I have to admit though, maybe a week ago, when I was first an Eve there, and the farm was located between the sheep pen and the smithing station, on the edge of the desert between the well walls, I gave one of my kids the order to expand the carrot farm to the east side of the well wall so it wouldn't be confined to that, at the time, narrow spot, for our huge family. Then every time I respawned there after, I've regretted making that call, as the farm gradually moved entirely outside of the warmth of the desert, and the area south of the smith, just filled up with unorganized garbage. But that was part of the reason for asking them to move it outside, was so, the smith could have more space to work on tools and such, just below the kiln and forge.

Lot of good memories, lot of lifes; short, and long, thanks to Fuckstown.

Thank you for this.
As Eve Sol;
boys named Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune;
girls named Venus, Terra, Gaia, Rhea and sometimes names like Persephone, Athena, Aphrodite, Io, Europa, Ganymede, many of which default to the nearest names in the list,
it is a pleasure to have given all of you the opportunity for a new life. I never discriminate by gender, my first boys Mercury and Mars, are often vital to my success when they are productive players who can not just stay alive, but take on the vital roles of turning the milkweed I've pulled with them in my arms, into tools, gathering the adobe and clay for the first kiln, kiln seal, bowls, plates and charcoal, or out there gathering soil, carrot seeds and snaring rabbits for those first needles. You are all, all my children, vital to the success of my first homes, and I will always, accept every one of you or die trying, until we make a home that stands the test of time.

Most often I have to go with a fresh start from scratch, after 10-30 minutes of searching for conditions I am pretty picky about; has to be on desert (you use half the food naked in desert as you do naked in all other biomes but Tundra, and that extra time for each pip to last is crucial for avoiding struggle), has to be near a large green biome with 12-20 milkweed, at least, lots of wild food and soil, and near swamp, with at the very least three ponds, but thirty plus is the dream for long term water supply. If the deserts have lots of cacti, I'm out there every ten minutes pulling them, especially if I have a child. I feel it's vital that children know where emergency wild food supplies are if a carrot seed crisis ever emerges, and it also gives those hunting for resources a nice, warm, place to fill up their food meter and pull some cacti for the future, before setting out to gather iron, rabbits, or any other resources, in the future.

Occasionally I am gifted with a dead city, whose location I have not chosen, and as such, I can't always vouch for, but, I like a challenge and am not adverse to travelling long distances for resources, when and if needed. Just give me a few desert tiles here and there and I am your runner. They are like bus stops, gas stations, or subway terminals for me, at least, that's how I look at them. They are the hearts of the circulatory system when it comes to the transportation of goods.

Lately I have been trying to get my kid, my family, to store up excess carrot seed so we never have to rely on plots for seed when no carrots are around. I have accept that the carrot farm is the default go to for food and as such, a person who is dead set on staying alive is going to pull from that seed plot and potentially force everyone to either scatter for food, say their last words early, or fight over the last scraps of food around; wasting time and effort in the process, and just making matters worse for everyone who stops to read what they say or, to try and pin the blame for murders. I don't want my children to ever have to struggle through those situations, and as such I am keen to get carrot seed surplus to become a thing.

With that comes more challenges however, soil and water being obvious, but there is also the often overlooked things like sharp stones for stone hoes when there are not iron ones around, rope for stone hoes, and baskets for storage, so people aren't using more than a carrots worth of energy just to pull one carrot and transport it ten tiles outside of the farm that is encircled with a halo of carrots and seeds.

Pein, based on your description, I may have been gifted the town you were in, as an Eve spawning in a dead city, but I also spent the day yesterday building that town up. It was one I found myself in as the child of an Eve and played a big part in whoever's decision it was to settle there.

Also, when I came back the last time, as a revisiting Eve, I spent the last twenty years of my life, mostly hauling soil from a large, nearby sprawl of soil to ensure that the kids had ample food when I was gone and there would be no, or at least, minimal, arguing over seed carrot plots. I did not have enough time to start a second carrot farm as the soil and water were at opposite ends of the town, so I chose to dump massive amount of soil into the main farm before I passed on. I also tried to start a berry farm far east of the sheep enclosure, near a few separate ponds, that I had envisioned would be used, mainly for berry bowls, as the massive carrot farm should have sufficed for the food for at least long enough for someone to tame a muflon kid and get sheep and compost up and running.

Had I not dumped so much soil into that farm you may have never known that town as a Sol. Or any of the adventures you were afford in that life there after, so at least I know I did enough for you and the others to live long enough to have a future.

I am all for spreading out and making multiple carrot, berry, milkweed and even wheat farms around a town, heck, if we can, even have separate sheep pens for composting and wool production, that can compliment, and back up each other as either one's resources are depleted by uninformed third parties.

Let's do that, let's try to have backups of everything when we are afforded the opportunity to do so. Some of the longest lived towns I've ever known have been spread between two, three, even more settlements where ample soil and water have afforded people the opportunities to tack on additional farms and resource supplies to preexisting communities.

Maybe one day soon, if we all get things right, we can know an hour where the whole server lives within a single community, and can thrive together, as one, great family.

Just once, can we do that?

Can we all be happy together and not squabble over things?

I know we can.

Could you share the location(s) you found this information?

At the moment I'm looking at the objectBank.cpp https://github.com/jasonrohrer/OneLife/ … ctBank.cpp and Ctrl+F'ing for biome and heat and trying to make sense of what I'm seeing here.

I don't have any experience with ANY d arrays, so, it's all wizardspeak to me. I just accept it for what it is and what little I can glean from it piece-by-piece.

I'm also new to Github and wondering if there is a way I could, say, search all of Jasons folders (or maybe just specifically the OneLife ones) for strings of characters like biome, heat, temp, etc. ?