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... and then the game will be hard and fun again

Yeah, once you have your server set up, you can edit these files in the settings directory:

forceEveLocation.ini
forceEveLocationX.ini
forceEveLocationY.ini

However, if you're the only one playing, you shouldn't even need to.  By default you'll spawn near (0, 0) and once you maintain an Eve until death at 60, successive Eves will spawn near her camp (which is based on where she created objects, I think the computed center).

I love the idea (not mine) of the worst murderers having to spend five hours of wall-clock time as a carrot plant ^_^

But for the most part it would just shift murderers into other forms of griefing that are harder to detect programmatically...

I was born to a bustling village that got completely wiped out by a bear because everybody freaked out and ran around rather than just standing on objects.

I spent my last years pulling carrots and transporting bones.  Then I died.  Yay!

Yes.

I'm "good enough" at this game, and it still feels way too serious to be a "fun community game" (so I don't play it much anymore).  Don't get high hopes.

Anecdote: we had that "horses" update recently, but being already tired of this game and its demands, I didn't bother trying to work through the tedious craft chain to get a rideable one.  Today I logged on as an Eve, wandered around, found a few ghost cities, found one with a tied-up tamed carted horse.  Tried to fill its cart with bone baskets; got frustrated with how finicky horse movement is.  Rode it for a bit.  Had a baby; raced the baby (I won).  Ran into a bear and died.  Said, "okay, that's about all I'm going to get out of that update," and quit.

In my experience, this game has successfully incorporated a relatively high proportion of life's frustrations and a relatively low proportion of its rewards.

I don't slaughter, but if I don't have a first and last name I'm pretty likely to run off into the wilderness and starve.

Of course, I'm pretty likely to do that anyway, just less likely if I have a first and last name.

Check the name list.  They're all valid.

How sad.

Oven bases are extremely low-tech.  Not sure if you can shoot through them though.

Sure, I omitted that to stay brief, but the code counts how many children of yours are dead (really, your total children minus your alive children) and then compares it to a limit based on server population: 2 + numPlayers / 3 with a ceiling of 10.  So if there are 10 players and you've let six or more children die, you're a bad mother.

The comment regarding the population-based limit says:

    // lower the bad mother limit in low-population situations                                                                                                                                       
    // so that babies aren't stuck with the same low-skill mother over and                                                                                                                           
    // over

I wouldn't say that you have an increased chance of popping out of a good mother exactly, since the limits are so high and I suspect the "bad mother" clause only gets triggered rarely except on very low-population servers.

It's probably more relevant how well-fed the Eves are.  If you don't want babies, stay hungry!

NSP - no stab/shoot please