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I've personally used them to disarm people who were sitting around with loaded bows. Obviously something like snowballs were bad because they were unlimited but the ability to disarm is a valuable thing to have in game.

Some things from testing:

FIRST GROWL WINS

Whoever declares attack first always comes out on top whether you walk into their threat radius or they move into yours. If you ever have a melee weapon you should NEVER try to counter attack someone who is growling at you as they'll hit first.

Don't even aim at your attacker with bow.

If someone with melee is ever trying to attack you, you should be shift clicking a tile as you RUN AWAY This will prevent you from walking towards the attacker while auto-aiming the shot and killing them.

You don't turn yellow if bit in growl mode

This probably doesn't have any actual value to stabbing or being stabbed but is just a dumb bug.

Being hit by a snowball mutes the growl while staying in kill mode.

Not super useful but it's completely possible to stealth kill people if you get hit by a snowball before attacking. You won't be making growl sounds until the emote fades but you'll still be able to stab someone.

Snowballs act funny.

Growling at someone while trying to throw a snowball at someone seems really dumb imo. Is there anyway to not do this? Anyways if two players have a snowball attack queued up and players walk into range this happens:

Player A + B growling at each other furiously until someone steps too close
Player A snowball is launched because they growled first
Player B auto retaliates
Neither player has snowball emotes on them after both being hit.

Thus if people are actually snowball fighting you can't even see the snowball splat emote.

Using Kill command on someone off screen crashes the game client

Oops. Sorry Eve Hammer, I was just trying to snowball someone and killed the game. *Edit: I have no idea if this was just a one off crash but you CAN queue up attacks on someone from max distance off screen. Growling will be heard but anyone on default client or not zoomed out far enough is going to be fucked anyways.

Since first growl matters, if using a knife in a raid queue up on a family member before the raid hits town

Since first growl always wins a fight you will always kill the players you are attacking first. Just don't let anyone walk into your threat range or you'll attack a party member instead.

Kill command goes through impassible objects if a player is standing on one.

First off what? You cannot interact with a player on an impassible object unless it's a player wedged between a newcomen tower and some other object (player stands in the empty space.) Weapons are literally the only things that can do this in game and it's due to the auto-aim mechanic which is just weird. (Basically imagine a person being in a wall. Now imagine someone stabbing through a wall to the player this is how the interaction plays out in game.)

Bows can shoot through at a diagonal, swords and knives only work on N/E/S/W directions when attacking through a door/wall/whatever you are standing on.

Players cannot attack off of an impassible object.

So on the flip side of the last thing you cannot actually use the kill command on others while standing on an impassible object. So apparently the kill command works when standing off an object and attacks through an impassible but standing on an impassible disables the ability to attack?

Basically if Player A is standing on a closed door Player B can use the kill command and stab Player A. If Player B is standing on the closed door and tries to attack player A who is right next to the door the attack will not go through until the door is opened. So kill command can strike through to a player on an impassible but can't strike a player from an impassible.

Suggestion bin:

Lower the bows cooldown when shooting someone of a different lineage.
Lower the knives cooldown when stabbing someone of a different lineage.
Drop being able to drop swords to prevent dual wielding (no other weapon can do this.)
Add a fucking ranged disable. There should be a way to deescalate violence like you used to be able to do with snowballs.

Make fences less shitty so people will actually use them. People would rather let raiders into the town than put up fences in the first place which shows a huge flaw in fences.
Remove auto-aim on bows at the very least. All weapons at the very most.
Throw the rework in the bin and think up something better.
Make swords be able to be converted back to steel rods then make steel rods recyclable.

Just do like toxic and make an alt. As long as you don't say "I am Aurora" it's been proven you can't convince some of them otherwise.

Boy = snake
Girl = snake

Horse is love
Horse is life.

Keeping prisoners is definitely not roleplay and is definitely something I would call griefing.

While the story of murders might be interesting to you these are things not everyone wants in their game. If you would have told me this game was going to try to be Rust Jr. back when I originally started playing I would have never bought or invested time into it in the first place. In my eyes randomly murdering random people (unprovoked obviously) within your lineage is no different than the same people who would start up a game of hardcore in CoD and instantly point an rpg towards the ground and shoot.

Random murders honestly wouldn't be so bad if we had a WORKING system in place to actually deal with people doing this kind of stuff in the first place but the curse system is so gimped at this point Jason thought about just removing it which really shows how disconnected Jason is from the actual game at times. I've now countlessly failed to curse someone not because I lack knowing how to spell their name or having the token but because of the dumb as shit time limit he put on cursing. If you're annoying a bunch of players within your village you absolutely deserve a consequence for doing so and as of currently there is basically none.

The idea that a random is going to avenge your death is beyond goofy and shows why people in the community have a distaste for roleplayers in the first place. tHaT wAs mY mOm!!!11! mentality is one of the worst mentalities to have because it shows you aren't playing for the greater good of the village or lineage you're in. The idea that one asshole has more value than the people trying to learn, the people trying to have fun, or the people just trying to survive is cancerous. "Avenging" without understanding is just griefing with """"Justification""""   

Jason won't fix any of the issues with twins and twins having the greatest advantages when it comes to griefing is why people will refuse to raise group babies and will sometimes even go so far as to murder them for the area ban on the town. If you want to play in a group you have to ask Jason to fix it (good fucking luck on that front) or just accept that people will not risk griefer twins popping up in their village to arr-pee.

Normalizing griefing only makes people think its acceptable behavior hence why we've seen more griefers pop up onto the forums bragging. When you let low quality posts and bait posts into a community people start to think its acceptable behavior and will attract more of the same like minded individuals. Ohol is not a game about roleplaying (Jason doesn't even like roleplay in the game anyways), it's not a game about DRAMA, and it's certainly not a game about ecks dee random murder. OHOL is a game about coming together in a harsh world and building something beautiful where there was once nothing. It's a game about connecting with people and creating something not a single soul could create by themselves. It's a game about parenting and creating, not destroying and murdering.

When someone like you comes around and says "murder good!" the community should ALWAYS hit you back with a resounding NO. You are the one in the minority and should be reminded your ideas only work to taint an already shrinking playerbase and you'll be the ones who run the rest of the peaceful players off. It's a combination of your sort of mentality, Jason's content droughts, and "rich & interesting dynamics" that will kill this game for a second time as I've already seen it once before, and while the numbers stay close to the same that's because new players flood the game just about as quickly as players leave the game and don't return.

There are different channels so you aren't receiving garbled text when you try to talk between towns. In an ideal world (basically impossible for ohol) one town will have one type of transmitter and two to three receivers. You should have a speaking transmitter as one type and your receiver(s) should be the other types to prevent trying to talk over each other on the receivers.

This of course means ideal towns need to be set up like:

Town A.
-High Transmitter
-Low Receiver

Town B.
-Low Transmitter
-High Receiver

But of course this is way too much to expect out of randoms doing stuff as only the receivers are easy to fool around with (since its just changing an antenna vs changing capacitors which takes much more effort.)  So basically to make sure everyone is on the correct settings you either need a whole lot of guessing OR communication outside of the game and at that point why do you even want radios? I don't think having multiple channels is a bad thing at all since it allows you to talk and listen at the same time vs trying to read chat bubbles that get mixed up.

However, due to constant wilderness reclamation and how easy it is to grief radio stuff they're basically toys you shouldn't ever make.

All channels are global. They work exactly how you think they would work in game: channel 1 vs channel 2 vs channel 3. I thought it was just a distance thing originally but it's just so if they ever were used (LOL) you could talk in between towns without everyone making gibberish essentially.

It killed my cat and I don't even have a cat!

How much of the negativity is truly unwarranted though? The fifteen years of experience comment came off as telling the community we're a bunch of idiots who cannot understand how or why things are the way they are. Jason comes up with a wonky idea at 3 am and decides that would be a weeks content (fences) with people repeatedly telling him they're a bad idea. Lo and behold, they were a bad idea and better yet he leaves them bad because that's how he likes them. Jason then comes up with the idea of language and swords with people being iffy on language (was a good update after the second week) and people directly telling him swords are a terrible addition. Lo and behold he purposely makes swords busted to try to get people to use fences.

I understand not holding him accountable when something accidentally broken comes into the game (stacking carrots, infinite bananas/mangoes, the first butter knife incident) but it doesn't take a genius for people to step back and see something isn't right. I had to spend a week and make a video of me shitting all over the fun of random people to get him to even take a LOOK at war swords in the first place. I killed ninety players that week. Ninety different times people had one guy come to their village and just massacre everyone or nearly everyone for no other reason than to try to get Jason to understand this was not okay.

I am all for praising Jason whenever he releases a good update (check news threads where it was a good week) but at the same time I'm just as happy to tell him what is wrong with an update. I just want to see OHOL become the best game it can possibly be at the end of the day, it's why I've made sure to out any sort of the dozens of bugs I've found ranging from the mundane (making talking tools, freaking out the game client through flight, and different animals leaving invisible wounds) to the absolute gamebreaking (Latest snowball bug, shooting through solid objects, duplicating items, deleting all sorts of items, etc.) Hell I even reported the twin thing I was abusing to play in the same city repeatedly, the perfect temperature server, and even the last coordinate leak. I want ohol to be great, not just something I bitch about because of bad changes to the game.

Even if you took that city over and lived there depending on how many players were on at the time you area banned 10+ people (about an eighth of the population at time of posting) from being born there for six hours.

Kerosene pump is basically dead content at this point because of how water works.

Basically you get to the basic newcomen pump, proceed to rush out the diesel pump and then live with that. If your newcomen fails before diesel you just go to the next closest spring or die off if people are lazy. Making a kerosene newcomen is just a waste of time and should instead be used on making the diesel pump or getting the iron for it.

Hey now, don't be so sad! Jason """fixed""" the combat system! While dancing was a little dumb at times at least there was some skill involved with it. Counter play? Not in my ohol! Peaceful ways of disarming people? That's not allowed anymore! :^) Also why weren't you carrying a bow and arrow while catching rabbits huh huh huh? You were clearly asking to be stabbed by trying to catch rabbits out there.

Auto-aim was a dumb thing to add.
Removing the only way to disarm was dumb.
Auto stab was an okay for stabbing in melee range but auto shooting when in someones threat range is pretty dumb.
Basically anything related to combat changes (besides the early balancing) has been done terribly.