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I never had any situation I couldnt explain or present my side of the story.

My guess is that you are/were overly aggressive. Whenever there is conflict calling them idiots, noobs or starting to stab them right away isn't really a valid social behavior, and will be frown upon by your peers, specially when they don't know the whole story.

Here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind:
* Only stab right away when there is an urgent need, eg: griefer killing all the sheep,
* If someone is giving you or the town trouble, talk with other people and let them know whats going on.
* If you need to stab someone in an emergency, instead of running away and trying to hide, run towards everyone and explain your side of the story.
* Try not to be a dick to everyone. If you already given everyone a reason to dislike you, no one is going to be on your side when push comes to shove. No matter how right you think you are.
* If people are doubting you then offer to disarm. This will give you credibility and/or give them some assurance you are not a threat to their families.
* If someone is harssing you, expose them to the rest of the town. More often than not others will tell the harassing party to stop.

This game is a social game. You are not supposed to be judge jury and executioner all in one. Antisocial behavior will most likely land you in hot waters.

I'm pretty liberal with knife ingame when the need arises (including troll babies. racism is also grounds for instant stabbing) and while I have been stabbed back plenty, very rarely I get cursed at all. Usually just as retaliation for my own curses on them, or some griefer payback for me getting them which is quite rare.

There is going to be random variation on your lives. The fitness score function is not so much to rank you properly along other players as it is an incentive to make you always strive for better fitness.

Don't worry too much, at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. I've been top 5 since my last life (I don't play everyday anymore) and was mostly due to a ton of great nieces/great nephews (which I don't even remember meeting) surviving to 60. In reality I had next to no impact on their life expectancy but still scored a lot because I was related to them on paper.

A good change to make the system better reflect your "gene fitness ability" would be to only include family members who were alive at the same time as you.

Still hoping Jason revisits the non breakable yum chain suggestion.

Force feeding some dude next to you is a great way to get rid of that extra berry you picked when you spam eating berries. Or that last piece of pie when you need the plate for something else.

Finding empty tiles to drop that berry is hard nowadays with all the ancient clutter laying around.

Lukily I pretty mich stopped yumming now that having more children makes it very hard to maintain your score high because there won't be clothing for a ton of babies, might as well invest heavily in only a couple of them.

Maybe hatchets are better overall than axes? I guess you mostly trade labor and water for iron.

I've encountered quite a few towns with an exhausted well and various levels of diesel engine completion.I would guess most towns are still dying to wells going dry too fast. Or perhaps the population of players who know how to make an engine is too small.

I was thinking early on start making a sort of translation area right next to the fence. border. Havent dwelled much on radios but could be a good infrastructure for multi family/trading towns.

Most issues seem to occur with the occasional griefer (which already happened before) or outsiders coming to steal or kill.

Having multiple families living in a town seems to work fine even with the language feature.

Jason finally succeeded in making fences relevant and probably essential. Almost every town without surrounding fences I have been suffered from serious theft from outsiders. I guess new eves find it easier to just take from existing towns than make stuff from scratch whenever they want to build their own town.

Ironically it seems that what made fences relevant wasn't language, lineage bans or the existence of fences themselves but the fact that so many eves spawn close together.

While you are at it why not replace the home marker with the eve spring.

1. I'm a pro-yum.

2. I don't always yum high unfortunately. I try to do it as high as I can with what I have available but unless we need babies I don't go out of my way to make new stuff. I usually play on eve camps and try to get it at least to 6 or 8 before needing to restart. If I'm fertile and town needs more children I'll go up to 16 in a life and stand by the fire.

In those situations I'll usually go with the following foods in no particular order:
1. berry
2. berry in bowl
3. carrot
4. wild carrot
5. wild onion
6. burdock
7. banana
8. cactus fruit
9. carrot pie
10. berry pie
11. rabbit pie
12. berry carrot pie
13. berry rabbit pie
14. carrot rabbit pie
15. carrot carrot rabbit pie
16. cooked rabbit
17. omelette

I'll cut off on the pies or wild foods if I have stew/mutton/corn/green beans available.

3. I've spend a considerable amount of time organizing/zoning and farming the past few weeks. I usually go for iron at least once per life as well unless I'm needed in town for some emergency. There is usually always someone on cooking and smithing so unless something more advanced like newcomen stuff is needed or if town is low on food I I usually leave those tasks to whoever is there already.

I wouldn't go that deep into the rabbit hole. Maybe just have your native lineage language by default and get progressively at understanding other lineage as you hear them speak. If they hear you speak they start understanding you. Maybe do it by number of lines that was spoken or something, with a time requirement included (5 levels of comprehension in which each level required X lines to be spoken within 2 minutes for example).

No. The sad truth is that property fences are essentially just roleplaying items and offer no real benefit to anyone.

If a group of people came and we hid on a property fence we could be shot via arrows. Also property fences too work intensive to be worth maintaining over long periods of time.

While differences between lineages are probably a good thing. We are still missing the core component of societies: families. My children should matter more than my cousin 4x removed's children. Even my nieces shouldn't be nearly as important as my daughters.

Most drama should probably happen within the same lineage. The internal politics and conflicts are strongest between members of the same tribe and that's where the vast majority of interaction happens.

My first reaction was a big resounding LOL irl.

I don't completely dislike the idea of items having different effects depending on the actors' families. Might actually be fun.

Combat, such as raiding or fights, need to be counterable though. Ideally you would still be able to heal people as a sort of a medic.

Perhaps one effect of such a sword effect could just put you on the floor bleeding and a medic could use a medkit to stabilize you. The victim would still need pads and needle after that but they would no longer be stuck on the floor while dying.

Maybe doors could only be used by the family that created them? And maybe the sword could be used to tear it down during attacks.

Maybe the same would go for any item that was placed. Such as fences. Other families couldn't uproot or change the fence to a gate, but they could come in with a sword and do damage to it.

Maybe you couldn't use a pickaxe on walls from other families but maybe you could use a "hand ram" to tear it down.

EDIT: It could be that even if the sword didn't slow you down you would still have the same effect as the murder effect (holding the bloody knife for a certain amount of time), but walking at normal speed.