a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building
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How about an Easter egg hunt. There could be puzzle pieces out there to find and assemble?
I had an idea that might draw weekly players into the game more often, make village life a little slower to advance. Make something life affirming available in the wilderness that can be brought back to civilization. After a very long journey. So if society gets too advanced before the next update, and people get bored, they can have a purpose to their walk abouts.
What would be something awesome to look for?
I was thinking a fountain of youth that could allow you to live a few years longer. But what about a plant that makes you immune to death in some way like you’re immune to snake bites.
I was a once a week player looking to see what updates were happening and it was really enjoyable but then I realized that what I was being a drain on society and not learning anything. The best part of the game is learning new things. Once I was a carrot farmer for my whole life and I felt happy to have helped the village, but then I died feeling empty. I would like to have had a quest. I would like to have taken a cart of food on a journey to find something that would be a boon for my city. In another post I mentioned a fountain of youth that could allow you to live to 100. I could live long enough to make it home to tell other people where to find it. Future generations could build a road to it. In a way this would be a metaphor for advancement in medicine. Currently, old age is the only disease. Maybe building a fountain of youth could be a technology, but you would need to have a special rare item. The fountains could be temporary so that people would still have a reason to leave village life.
I have an idea for how the game could be fun after villages become advanced. Fountain of youth. If I’m a man in an established village I usually try to branch out and go on a walkabout to find new places. The world is so big that I often die before meeting anyone and there is never enough time to bring people together via roads etc. I thought the horse update would help this and maybe it has, but I have not been born in an advance village since horses became major. What if there was something out there that gave life instead of death? A fountain of youth that if you drink from it you can live to the age of 100 or so as long as you have food etc. It would be a quest you could go on for fun. Once so many people have drunk from it, it could run dry and a new one spring up somewhere else. Also, it would make life harder in villages because people would leave in order to get there making it a challenge to keep children who are willing to contribute. And here is another idea, what if you could live longer if you only ate wild burdock and onions and berries for your whole life. You would have to live in the wild, but you go on living long enough to establish camps all around. This would get people out there because it would be more appealing to rough it.
I spawned as an eve and saw the Monolith with my son. Creepy.
I never abandon children, and I’m an excelent bush mom. I also feed other people’s kids who will be abandoned. Sometimes the villages I live in run out of food because the kids overrun the place and don’t help out enough, but I still think it’s worth it. I always show the babies around. When things get bad I take my babies into the bush and establish new camps. Because I’m willing to live in any situation and help other people live, I’m able to see new things and populate new places. I even saw the apocalypse monolith. I didn’t know what it was at the time, but my son and I got to see it.