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In this life, who was your mother? If she was a blonde curly haired woman, or the afro girl, they were jerks you shouldn't play with.
That town was a town where my sister put on that crown and started insulting people about how they did nothing. Then the Eve killed me and I killed the Eve. We exchanged curses and died.
Gaytown is not a good place. Hope you had fun there.
I was cursed twice for moving the bow out of the way to make paper. I don't really know why that was a bad thing. But it seems like we've all had our share of toxic players. @originalpost
Sorry about your son! ;(
Christmas! Christmas! Christmas comes next. I'd like to see mixing dyes or a green dye so I can be a walking Christmas Sweater. Dyes would always be appreciated.
Or perhaps we can have gifts... Hmm...
Hello, Misty!
Ha ha, when we were in game I never thought that we would cross paths again after I was chased. Glad to see you!
I sure wish that I could meet the Eve of that settlement. The Roses were wonderful!
Scott! I'm so happy you're on the forums now, welcome aboard!
Your sister was very, very good at farming. She found the one pond that I used for a long time.
Those people were not very nice. I tried to help them smith, I did. But the kid there said, "go awey ik what to do" and proceeded to ruin our shovel and make a pick.
They all had enough stuff to do, and eventually my mother drove me out because I wasn't working, even though I asked around.
So I walked down a road, and worked for a blonde man. He was happy for some help, and he was like my dad. And eventually I saw the settling place and took the chance.
I'm happy that you lived long. I hope that the place goes on!
Skull cups were actually a thing in Mongolia. Perhaps our Eve would love to see her head as a drinking cup or something like that.
Now for something completely different: I made a post about towels in another topic, and you could use them as low quality rugs or for making walls warmer. Perhaps when we get orange dye we also get orange fixtures, or cloth, or something to dye?
Or perhaps we should just get dye mixing to make orange and purple and green. And yellow dyes.
Catfive, there is no penalty anymore for emptying a well or a pond. Just an FYI.
But it is very annoying to have a town who can't figure out what the cistern is for, and you have to show people before they can use it right.
Crows! Crows can eat corn and beans off the ground. You can drive them away with a yew branch, or we could make a scarecrow. But scarecrows will be complicated, unless we use a backpack and hat with straw.
But straw is very hard to get already, can we use mango leaves? Or perhaps these hypothetical crows will be rare and getting them away will be easy.
Oh, hi Dad.
You were okay. I saw you die, you were telling women to name kids Dean. It worked on my mom, at least!
Let's hope that Dean Dean XXV doesn't happen (I saw Bob Bob XXV once! )
I had gotten a bag and knife when I was a baby. I watched as someone killed a bear. The bear had killed my mother soon before, and somebody took care of me.
When I was a boy, I was accused of crime. I was the boy named Dean, I think.
I'd supposedly hidden the bow and arrows after a bear had been killed. I did, but I knew where they were and would return them soon. I never thought they would be that mad.
I was chased by a blond man, and he wanted to kill me. I was chased for ten years. It was in that time I saw Misty.
She was the image of a perfect lady. She'd work in the berry fields, and take care of abandoned kids like me. You had a say in the bear killing, I believe.
But as we fell into famine, the man found the bow, and sent someone to get it.
"You, young man, are going to be killed. We found your lame hiding place."
"No, YOU!"
I whipped around, and stabbed him. He had thought I was eating the pie that was in my hands seconds ago. He was red faced as he died, and he was angry. Nobody fed him. He had been sponging for a long time, and nobody cared. Somebody fed me, however. It was Misty, but I hadn't the time to mouse over then.
After he died, I was getting on in years and was doing pies, when Misty's daughter, nearly of age, walked up to me and told me that her mom was kinda bored. So even later, after I brought wild carrots back to camp to keep us alive and the famine ended, I walked up to Misty, with some flowers in my bag.
"Hey, Misty..."
"Hi Dean, how are you?"
"Oh, well, I was going to tell you something..."
"Hmm?"
"Well, I always had a bit of a crush on you..."
"Oh, thank you!"
I handed her the flowers, and we both went on with our lives. But when I was 50, she was very old. When Misty died, I buried her and put the flowers on her grave. I was very sad. I had loved her all life. When I was dying, I asked a girl to bury me beside Misty, and I died happy.
Misty, if you ever see this, I was hoping to see you again! The Roses were the kindest family I've been in, always asking before taking and chatting and making things happen. I hope they're still alive!
Yellow dye would be HARD. Onion skins are a viable option, but by the time the towns are at wool the onions would be eaten. Perhaps that's a challenge for the towns. Or if travel is too hard then we could get sunflowers.
And then we should mix dyes to get purple and green and orange dye. I wish there was a rainbow emoji.
We need mango pies! If mangoes are that easy to eat, they do deserve a harder recipe.
Mango cakes! We need sugar of course, but perhaps mango dust would do... And mush in a mango... And add some milk and bake in a bowl and turn onto a plate! Cake!
Mango pies should happen sometime!
The dark skinned woman and the redhead man have to happen soon, or Jason will need to balance them out somehow.
And is there beef? We can have a beef pot pie too!
I think we owe Jason a lot. I'd love to be able to see him more often! This also means that the scattered, lonely Jason tribute buildings will have a purpose for being historical.
Jason, you have to see the Red Sox and Blue Hats elections in Dyetown. They're the biggest democracy of OHOL, and they don't get into big fusses over who won the White Shirt and the organization responsibilities. Some respectable players live there, if you look hard enough.
Flutes would be fun! Anshin once talked about reed panpipes as well. Those would be hilarious in linked towns, where someone could go to all the towns and play music for people.
I don't think music would keep children alive, but perhaps there could be some kind of a bonus related to speed, or sentence lengh if you're below the age of 20.
Old McDonald had a plant, C A B B A G E
I'm sorry if I came off as heated, I'm absolutely chill (maybe I should use more emojis
). I also respect Jason's choices, and I am personally fine with whatever happens.
Games should thrive with eustress, not distress, and it can be achieved very well in a game. But sadly in OHOL the stress turns out harmful and makes people freeze, or get frustrated with others, or with the game itself. Many of us are good with handling the game, but as we have noted, it's not newbie friendly at all, which frustrates everyone, new and old. Thus I feel like we could improve, as always, but it's all up to Jason. There is a life for everyone in the game, now people just skeleton spam their way to them which is bad for everyone.
Aye, no hard feelings. The game is distressing sometimes, I'll give you that! I'd be cool with having some way of making early deaths harder, especially with the teeny weeny hunger bar you get. Would make the game a little bit better, in the way we'd like!
Why are we making this? Look at the bottom of the Index page!
@orginal post
Sigh, my eve runs aren't that great. But once, my family was at 3 generations, and I couldn't feed my only, very vain, daughter for her. She starved next to me.
The stress is a part of the game! You're supposed to feel the heat. Without it, it's less of a fun game with friends you don't know and more of a slow, dragged-out death simulator. To be honest, the lineage ban was a good idea, but it was too long. Only 10 minutes, and we could be back within a reasonably-lengthed life before the family dies.
If you want a safeguard, kids 12 and below could have a "starving to death" state when they hit 1 bar, where they can't move, and they can be fed or let to starve if they really gotta. It should take 2 minutes or so. This way last baby girls are fed and persuaded to stick around, no accidents happen, and you're stuck with a random life, like it or not. But after 12 years, if you forget to eat while catching rabbits, it's all you.
Not looking for a heated argument. I respect you and the opinion you have.
@MultiLife
Jason has said many, many times that he wanted the situation you are in to be random. The death cycle will soon bring you back to let you see your great-granddaughters and how much the town has changed. People will abuse this, yes.
But without death, what is life?
Aurora, we still don't have a redhead male either, making redheads more valuable even with the balancing nerf. Or an African female, making darker skinned people less valuable. Perhaps we need the balance.
@orginal post
Rubber, hooray! Rubber trees and stuff. And casein for plastic. Casein is a protein in milk you can seperate with vinegar.
Don't kill each other, or ask to suicide when there are only boys left. An Eve may happen, there's one last toddler that's scrabbling by out there, or at the least you can write about your demise. You still have another generation or two if there are little boys under the age of 10. Live it up, y'all!
We'd need to weave cotton somehow, maybe a loom, or follow 2HOL with the simple weaver? And we could make cotton cloth, and cotton clothing, and, of course, towels.
Cotton towels would be good to mop up spills, like if your pond overflows or you spill your milk. We don't have spills yet, so we might have our dyes spill if we don't use them after a while and if we leave the water on the dead ashes it could spill as well. We would need to wash our towels after, in a lake maybe? (But nobody loves decay, so this may never happen.)
We could wear towels, on the chest slot. Or invent dresses and have towels take both the chest and pants slot, like a dress.
Or wrap up small things (two or three) in a towel and add them to a yew shaft to create a bag on a stick, and have a picnic! Put down the stick to create a floor with all the items that were inside on it.
We can dye towels, and if it mops up a spilled dye, it gets colorful spots you can't remove. The towel still works! You can only have one kind of colorful stain, and only get stained if it's not dyed, to keep from clogging up the recipe viewer.
And we might use towels for low-quality removable rugs or a floor that holds two items, or use the towel as wall decorations as a recipe with the wall.
These ideas would be funny for an end-game civilization, or a very ambitious Eve on Server 15. Towels should give off some kind of warmth.
On another note: Wool pants. Cotton pants. Wool skirts and dresses. Any kind of pants, skirts or dress items that are NOT rabbit fur. Plz.
Edit: More ideas for a towel. I like this idea more than I thought I did.
Re-Edit: Spacing out and refining. I promise not to edit again.
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