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Raiding and killing towns to “Force a reset”... or more accurately just because it’s too easy to. Problem being that dual wielding swords is way too devastating during a raid (by dual wielding meaning having an extra sword or 2 in a horse cart, and dropping after a kill and switching to the one in the cart to kill another, and etc. Solution, not able to drop a sword after killing someone. I’ve also heard rumours about putting a bloody bow in a horse cart after a kill too but can’t confirm that.

Cutting all junipers (most common at end of the last arc). Solution, either junipers are hungry work or map culling makes a return somehow.

Turning a LOT of wrought iron into crude pistons (or any other newcomen part). Solution, a lot more iron things need to be recyclable like rods, wick housings, all newcomen parts... and not nearly half a diesel engine.

How positive. Asking for or trying to make a sword in a mixed town to “defend” is just asking for trouble. Imo Arthur Royal very likely wasn’t a bad person, just looking out for the peace.

haha you just have nothing interesting to say most of the time
Boom, roasted.

Yes to reset.

I’m never going to change my mind - swords either need a significant nerf or a decent on-the-spot counter. Fencing off towns does not work against someone dedicated to blocking in a town. And you can’t run away as people with swords seem to be much faster than those without. The person running away or defending should have some kind of advantage against the person attacking, not the other way around.

Just had an idea, what about an escort mode? While an unrelated family member is under escort from one of your own family members, you can’t use warswords on them. You can still however use knives and bows, but this kills the person escorting, not the unrelated person.

An unrelated person being escorted would work similarly to how you hold a baby, except of course you don’t actually hold them like a baby but instead hold them by the arm or something., and can’t move by themselves without breaking the escort. However, they can interact with everything in adjacent tiles. To avoid this being abused, the unrelated family member can’t pick up swords while under escort.

Yeah that’s very true, it’s far too easy to kill/loot than it is to trade. But there hasn’t been content in a long time, and rather than get bored and get lost I’d rather test out other ways of playing, even if knowing that they’d probably fail.

While the game is set in the future, I think it’s safe to use historical context for a civilisation-building game. Back during and before the bronze age, the successfulness of a “nation’s” (or people’s, empire’s) trade relied on the strength of it’s military. Trade is supposed to encourage mutual benefit — if there’s a chance you can just take their stuff you will, because you don’t care what that group of people thinks about you because they pose no threat.

Imagine being able to date notes from the date that the family’s Eve was buried. Then you could potentially start the age of recorded history, and start recording trade deals by date. Or, official declarations of peace or war by date.

Simple trading can be viable if done correctly in bulk (like you said, production time must be more than trading time). If one town can spare the resources and time that another can’t, and there is a profit in terms of work put in against what your time could have otherwise been spent on, then it can potentially be a net gain for both towns. If one town has an abundance of water, and makes water-based products that another can’t, and the other town has an abundance of non-water related produce such as rabbits or other skins,  then both towns can benefit. That’s why I did paper — firstly, it’s something that’s not often made, as it’s not a necessity but a luxury. You rarely see it except for the equivalent of shitposting notes. Secondly, you can transport it in bulk (9 baskets of papers, 12 if you have room in a backpack for translation notes).

Another trading idea is dyes. Since there’s definitely a finite number of alum in the world (with the deserts now being quite small), having a monopoly on all of the necessary requirements for dyes could be quite profitable if another town can spare the resources, wants to actually trade, and you can protect your caravan.

Also it’s fun to try something different, as a change to clearing up after or fuelling other peoples projects and work without any reward. It might not be completely viable, but it doesn’t hurt to experiment like that since the rift will eventually get reset.

Fundamentally, shouldn’t the fail condition be the very last person dying, because the area has run out of resources and it’s literally unliveable?

There needs to be somewhere for the spare babies to go. Would it make sense to start another rift “round” early while the current has met it’s failure, or in this case overflow conditions? Then the older rift has a chance for the final family to die out and spend the rest of it’s resources?

What if, with the current system still in place, extra babies above a max limit of 4 per mother start as Eves in a new rift, opening up another 2 hour window there but babies can still be born in the older rift? Also, maybe there’s a maximum number of families present in one rift for this to be allowed to happen? Additionally, what if killing the last female of a lineage gets you-rift banned, and instead of donkey town griefers get confined to their own rift?

Then, when the family actually dies from the environment, that unpopulated rift is then reset like culling used to work (the trigger being lack of people in the rift instead of a set time), not the entire server?

Seeing all those kids chasing me was hilarious, I was laughing so hard lmao. I took screenshots but for some reason they bugged out and were all of my desktop background.