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Sometimes I name them Olujatimiley(h)in Balasubramanian.  Some babies even suicide over it.

It used to be that if you lived to 60 and died of old age, you would respawn near your camp.  However, with the recent changes to spread Eves out, that probably doesn't work anymore.  But on the server there should still be some files you can edit to spawn in the same location every time:

forceEveLocation.ini (set this to 1)

forceEveLocationX.ini (edit these if location (0, 0) sucks)
forceEveLocationY.ini

If you've found a good location, I'm not sure how to find the coordinates so that you can edit those X/Y files properly.  I mean, there are plenty of possibilities, but I don't know what the current state of things is and what the easiest way is.  Maybe somebody else can chime in?

Or, you could always just shotgun it - change the numbers and see where it puts you.

Weasel Spirit gets you out of tough situations.  More useful.

But we Weaselites keep it to ourselves.  Those deserving of Weasel Spirit's blessing will come to Weasel Spirit naturally.

A compromise would be to not give you your choice immediately, but to queue your birth until it's available.  Right now, if I *really* want to be an Eve, I can just baby-suicide until every fertile woman either ages out or gets marked as a bad mother (thanks to me), but if I could just be given a "waiting to be born" screen until I would spawn as an Eve anyway, I would be happy.

You could compromise a little more by letting the queue pressure things a bit, like if there's one person in the Eve queue there's a 10% chance that a would-be baby will instead spawn as an Eve from the queue, and if there's ten or more people in the Eve queue there's a 30% chance (with in-between values interpolated, of course).

I like your style.

I'm having a hard time keeping my mom alive!  I get born as a boy, my mom and siblings die, and I end up dying of old age in a camp nobody will ever use...

Anyway, I think people have forgotten basic survival skills, and/or came into the game late and never really had them.

Huh.  I mean, it's not like anybody is saying "OMG THIS IS THE MOST REALISTIC SWAMP TEXTURE I'VE EVER SEEN".  If it's blue, we'll probably be happy with it.

But yeah, it's his game and if he's not happy with it, our low standards don't really matter I suppose.

Are you on a laptop?  Do the following not work?: 7890 UIOP  JKL M?

No, it's true.  The camp is set in mapEveDeath() in map.cpp, which is only called if you're an Eve (see logDeath() in lifeLog.cpp).

Also see this comment in getEvePosition():

        // player has never been an Eve that survived to old age before

        // use global most-recent camp, but expand the radius greatly
        // to put them in a random clear location

Auto-naming the fresh grave (without technology) is completely believable in the sense that you can reasonably expect people to recognize the corpse of family and friends as long as it's new.

I definitely see the attraction of both the survival aspect and the social aspect.  It just seems to me that the roleplaying aspect has more longevity.  How many times are people going to build villages from scratch before it becomes drudgery?  Once that wears thin (for those that it does) there needs to be something creative to do between updates, and it is relatively easy to be creative in social play.

I think there's a "quality and quantity" thing going on here too.  It remains to be seen if there will be enough "quality" players who are crazy enough (in my opinion) to keep plugging away and keep civilization running at a given level of difficulty.  That's Jason's call, but if there aren't, I think making it a more social game gives him another option.