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Definitely agreed, on 4/5 servers being too much on dead hours, and retuning them so two or 3 is good enough.  It's a good compromise from server1 being the only one able to survive nocturnal infertility, and experienced players can always just choose server2 which wasn't a great option before the population changes.

But really the issue of people thinking "not enough servers" boils down to "not enough substantative towns" or "towns dying out to lack of babies", and these are issues that do not require massive overhauls of code.  The death of eve chaining is a bigger concern than server number.  I think if this behavior isn't desired to be intentional, then something in it's place needs to be added.

It would be interesting if servers were divided into high and low tech (probably just even and odd), which makes everyone happy.  High tech servers intentionally spawn eves into exactly one area (distant towns would naturally arise as people break off).  Low tech servers are the status quo. 

Throwing players into random servers keeps newbies satisfied with a variety of lives this way, and as much as I like the growing numbers of One City Server, I would like having real towns on the main server because I sometimes miss teaching pure newbies and the chaos of it.  But I like some sort of progression at least over a few days, and that's never going to happen with the current system.

Seems like it might be busted.  We built two the same distance as the morse radios and didn't get anything when talking to it 1 or 0 squares away

As for an arena, someone else suggested a theatre and enstatite immediately suggested an arena as well.

So support is high for that :3

Yeah, you don't ask them if they're new, you temp test them.  But yeah, really it's only worth temp testing in gen 1-3.  If you've got an iron mine, who cares if you get a noob.  Griefers are your bigger concern then, and nothing creates a murder spiral easier than not feeding a kid and someone else feeding them.

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I think it would make more sense to go diagonal outwards and then circle around your home marker at a large distance slowly.  If you double back, you're just revealing already revealed territory.

That or just suicide after three minutes of going in a constant diagonal xD

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@dodge I'm talking about vanilla servers, custom servers can do whatever.  As I've already said, it is true iron is a lesser reason for town death even if it does contribute to it.  I'm more talking about how higher tech has a perverse incentive, which just feels wrong.

For instance, if everyone grew potatoes, it wouldn't be the major contributing factor to town collapse, the iron cost is actually only about triple that of carrots I think and will never reach that of oil + cars.  And yet, nobody knowledgeable grows potatoes on vanilla servers for obvious reasons even though it gives a double yum bonus:  it makes iron that much longer to gather for something trivial and can be replicated in better ways.   For potatoes, it's not so big an issue, because it's a single food item, but when it becomes "every tech introduced in the past month and likely in the future" then I think it's worth discussing.

I think the root issue here for iron specifically is that iron was nerfed to a level that makes somewhat sense just for basic tools, and then suddenly iron is now used in far greater numbers for non-tools.

If jason wants towns to potentially run out of resources and collapse, I don't mind, but this shouldn't happen when pursuing things that are actually productive and feel like they are meant to be pursued.  It'd be sort of as if you were playing Castle Doctrine, and the amount of money you spent on your castle could never bring in as much as you spent.  Why bother spending it then.  You'd do that if it might bring in more.

Well, there's probably about 1000 iron in gatherable distance of a town.  If iron gathering was a non issue, we'd see most towns with about 100-200 iron lying around.  Seeing an advanced town with more than 20 is a rarity, and I usually see them with none or a handful.  Interestingly, I tended to see mid size towns with the most iron (ones that only just recently hit oil), suggesting it is quite a large issue for larger towns.

Edit: Also, I agree that this is a lesser issue compared to some things you mentioned.  It is, however, a completely unnecessary issue.

Griefing is practically a non-word at this point in the community.  That or Griefing = "Not doing what I want you to do"

Yeah I think it's mostly jumping the gun thinking of ideas here, I don't see anything happening this week at least.  Most useful things require two towns getting both sets up, which is much harder than building a car, and both require multiple newcomen engine pats.  The receiver even requires the drill.  You'd get better results from going in a spiral search pattern with a car trying to find a town.

I think the most practical thing we'll see on the main servers, is making a light blink in town   Already got cross town communication on mine tho :3

I don't think need iron/need food would help.  Food can't be transported efficiently enough, and iron is likely to be pillaged in the radius of both towns if they're close enough.  And if they're not close, they will probably have iron closer in their town radius.

We did think of one sign that would definitely be needed "LAG" XD