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Maybe also decrease eve window back to 2 hours? 2 hours should be more than enough to have sustainable towns and if players get too dispersed in new families each will die out faster from birth starvation.

I suspect part of the reason the reset is being so recurrent is so griefers can eternally spawn as eve to grief penalty free, 8 hours a day.

Maybe you could "area of effect" on renewals? Like hitting a fence would propagate the hit to nearby fences (1 tile away should be enough).

I reckon that is because you have been playing the game wrong, granted that perhaps by no fault of your own.

I see you (and a lot of people) treating as if it was minecraft:
1. Ability to respawn in the same village after you die;
2. Huge focus on building projects like parks, monuments, buildings, etc.
3. New shining blocks to build with;

Even your main complaint seems to be about not having enough things to build. And the assertion that is what makes the game repetitive and boring.

As I interpret it the game is about having experiences.

How you relate to others, how you as a community relate to external threats or opportunities. Relationships you form during your life, the laughs, the rage, the disagreements, the overcoming of challenges, the failure to survive and feed your children, the fuzzy feeling you get inside when you work to clothe your child and she smiles as thanks, or when a new player is super happy for being able to plant berries and make compost.

That moment new players (probably in their first game without instant dying) experience their first child being born and for a moment they just stand there staring dumbfounded at the screaming baby, half lost, not sure what to do. Picking up the baby, giving them a name and seeing the baby do the /love emote or smile. Sometimes they even try to emulate the telling of the story the town, give them a tour like they got, or brag to the babies about what they are doing with a sense of pride. How they die of old age surrounded by their children right as the song ends (very awesome touch Jason, that song is spot on, always gives me the feels!).

I remember a lot of my first lives, how many times I died for not being used to hunger, that time I tried to plant berries by digging a wild bush out of the ground (I asked someone how to do it) and carrying the dug bush to town asking how to replant it next to the others. (I'm sure to the great amusement of quite a few people)

I remember finding lost relatives in the wild, one time even a full family, and bringing them back to town, the joy everyone had, the reencounter with old friends, finally not having to be hungry again, not having to live going from berry bush to berry bush, finally having clothing for your children and a fire to place new ones.

Another time two sisters on their 50s exchanged happy greetings for the first since their teens because one of them left to explore and got lost, only to be found by us by accident and being brought back just in time for thjem to say their goodbyes.

That time we had one girl on awbz but didn't have any girl on the village. I managed to find her using a horse and a lot of luck, brought her back and everyone was ecstatic for town not dying after all, the hope of our village, only for the girl to randomly die 2 minutes later. That amused resignation as we cleaned up the town in hopes an eve would take it over someday.

That time a stranger helped our mother survive in the wild and find us a town and then helped us settle in. To be hailed as a hero and mourned by our mother after she came back as my baby. The town thriving and the tale of the hero being passed to past generations. A grave with history, visited by many.

That moment when people get stabbed and already gave up, saying their goodbyes to their loved ones only to be save at the last minute. Being able to continue with their lives in everyone's company. Where a dark hole was forming, only the scar of the trauma remains, but a happy experience all the same.

As much as people like making many engines and then bragging about it, or making huge monuments, buildings or parks, the only lasting thing you can really take out of the game are the memories of the experiences you had.

Not saying we couldn't use more content here or there, but I think it's important to keep focus on what the game is for (at least for me).

Area or lineage bans can be dangerous. What if a griefer who has been cursed a lot slips into a mom? Suddenly a large part of the population would be banned from the town entirely. This could even kill towns on its own.

Maybe a check not only on the mother but also on the grandmother and brothers? It would probably minimize cascading effects but still allow some herd protection for newbies.

I quite like the idea of resetting after any number of X time since Y. Fire, sheep, milkweed, steel tools, etc.

Do people really need to be born when that happens though? There could be a prompt saying no available families. Maybe a retry or autoretry.

It is a bit oitside the scope but maybe players could wait a bit to be born? Like when playersare forced born into noms despite their cooldowns.

Newbie players will end up being griefer breeders. (edit: lets be very careful about making new players non appealing to normal players)

I don't dislike the idea, its a bit like the "avoid" feature in overwatch which I also like and feel it works. They only have three avoid slots to avoid something like what you said and the avoids auto expire after a week.

Maybe you could allow players to clear all the curses they did?  zand/or have them expire after a long time, like 3 months or so.

Difference is that in rust it is much easier to build than to destroy. FC even had to add timers to prevent players from building in response to raids. It is the inverse in ohol.

Killing all sheep. takes a few seconds and clicks. To get sheep I'll probably  need to plant mw. Make arrow, rope, prepare food for sheep, search for it, wait for baby, kill it, drop bow, carry baby all the way back, feed it and then go back for bow and back to town again.

Using up all milkweed only takes picking it up, making ropes, tying ropes to long shafts, and cleaning any seeds from bowls. 10 seconds is enough most of the time. To fix it one nedds to go search for milkweed (good luck with that) get seeds back, spend soil, water and time, hope you have hoes, plant everything and wait. Then stand guard to make sure no one picks milkweed in the wrong state so you can get seeds.

Destroying forges and furnaces only takes a pickaxe laying around and a few clicks. if you then also make ovens out of the extra adobe on forge area and pickaxe that you effectively delete adobe. To fix that people will need to search around for clay which is usually far from town, find straw or tule and bring it back. This is usually 10+ adobe to fix what was destroyed. Griefer can even then use pickaxe to block entrances by making ovens and taking the pickaxe with him.

A single griefer can do all of the above and more in 60 seconds. There is effectively no counter. Griefing is too easy and effortless, fixing griefing too labor intensive.

Give us more information about who is born among us and we can then deal with it ourselves by prevening serial griefers from even playing on our town.

I would rather use a "money" resource for a sort of collective learning of recipes. Maybe a family could "research" recipes somehow based on how much work they did.

Maybe an Eve Window could be open once per real life day for 1 or 2 hours instead of constantly?

That would freshen things up while keeping the eve chaos confined.

What a week indeed.

Well done Jason!