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floofy you're a noobie yourself, how could you know what's good for beginners? I've seen too many "guides" on the forums and instructions from new players who still dont know all the advanced portions of the game or even all the starting things.

Making kids do jobs they don't know is a horrible way to teach them, when I played recently, I made sure to show step by step how to do everything, even if they were sponges, it doesn't matter. You can't place yourself on a pedestal and expect everyone to just work without having the experience. Take time to teach, and learn all at once, telling new players to never leave berry farm isn't how we teach them.

I would just be mindful about what you post, some people actually dont understand how to do certain things and need a bit of support, I don't think this is how we do it.

Well I've been playing regularly for a week now and not seen a single bell tower.. or "heared" one.... Or an actual town (as in multiple finished buildings... ) So I've not seen this issue of late civ boredom yet.

I guess this may happen once the game advances into more advanced tech to do later on until you build the computer to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. Or such.

So i'd say the most important tip for newbies is to regodnize where you can learn a new high tech task...

I'm not saying it's way too hard, it must be made easier. But with the current player base it certainly isn't too easy also, so i'd caution to introduce new challenges, just because vets feel it's too easy for them... should the playbase mature and get bored, ok. Maybe it happens in the future, maybe it don't once the game is more popular and there is a constant flux of players coming in (and going out)...

This whole concept is ridiculous, now we are actually considering implementing a system to make the game easier? Floofy you are a new user so i i don't excpect you to understand the game the way i do right now. Jason has tried over many months to make the game MORE difficult because before steam release and before a lot of present mechanics, the game was simply too easy. Now trying to hold an eves or a fertiles woman's hand would make the game even easier and not the direction this game should head. I can understand frustration with only boys, ive had lineages die out because of that, but if you think about it. Now with steam release there IS nonlack of girls, there is simply the incompetence of existing girls to which they die to stupid reasons and is completely preventable by all means. Instead of pushing new players aside and hoping for better girls being born, why dont we cherish the women we have? Try to make sure they survive and have kids of their own? Do we need to give everyone a get a girl free card? Even if you have no women, thats simply life, many parents wish they could choose their baby's gender but it is simply unrealistic. The struggle of having a woman to reproduce adds intensity to the game! Makes it possible for 30 gen+ towns to fail, so many people complain about the game being easy in later gens, this is an aspect to make it harder! Why ruin it???

AlanB wrote:

Yesterday, I found an awesome spot as an Eve. A mix of various biomes. A lot of water. Had everything going real quick. One issue: had all boys.

And, I like the fact they were all boys. That's part of the game.

When a game starts getting 'tweaks' to make things easier/predictable you start losing emergent gameplay.

My favorite/most memorable moment was when I had a 'newb Eve' pop me out as a girl, then a few moments later another girl. Our Eve mom died shortly after due to starvation trying to support two of us. We were both still infants, but I grew up just in time to find a nearby berry bush and save myself and my little sister.

We ran around as kids, barely surviving, helping each other until I was 17 and had a baby girl. Then... a wolf got me. We said our goodbyes and my sister grabbed the baby. Went on for a few generations after.

These types of moments will get ruined if the starting/Eve mechanics were to change.

IMHO, it's the unpredictable moments (even in village building) that makes this game good. If things become more predictable and 'easier' then it'll kill the meaning of the game. Which, IMHO, is about the struggles and not the need to build a super-civilization.

I know where you're coming from with that - however what I like about this suggestion is that Floofy isn't asking for the ratio of males to females to be modified - players will still be assigned male or female 50/50. It's just where they're allocated. If every fertile female in the game had x+2 amount of sons and x amount of daughters the next players to join would still have equal chance of being male or female - it's just that once the older women have a kid the younger women have a higher chance of getting one too.

To hammer it home - in a scenario where a woman was 28 and had no kids - she will have a higher chance than her younger sister to have a child. But this older woman would still have nearly the same chance of having 5 sons, no daughters while her sister may have two daughters and no sons. All that is being proposed is that a more equal chance to have kids exists - and then in conjunction with that you have a better chance of squeezing out one daughter because your spawning rate is higher than someone who already has one.