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I feel bad for your plight, I truly do. Not all twins are griefers, and it sucks that we have to punish innocents to avoid the guilty. In some cases, bad seeds can affect the entire crop, and it's unfortunate that this is currently the case.

What's upsetting is that, this will continue to be the case, until Jason takes action to nerf twins so they no longer are capable of griefing as easily as they do. Currently, I suppose he doesn't see it as an issue, or at least, not one that's very important. But it definitely should be important to him that players are being driven away from his game, due to the mechanics that allow these bad seeds to do what they do.

For the time being, I'd suggest joining the official discord. There's currently a few players willing to keep twins if they verify who they are on the discord, so that we have a better idea if they're griefers or not. It's not really a solution, but currently it's all we've really got.

Quick query. Does the "Deep Roots" section have to take in generation into account? We already have a section dedicated to generation, it feels mildly annoying that this does too.

For example, I had one of my most successful eve runs in recent times a few weeks ago. 36 gens! I'm proud of it, but it's nowhere to be seen on my all time Deep Roots.. all because, instead, it favors a "gen 40, lineage depth 4" life I lived instead, one that already appears on my Long Lines because gen 40.

I agree with Twisted on this one. One of the main premises of the game is the fact that you never know where you'll end up. Every life is different, unique, special. Some lives are better than others, but that's part of the game. And while some people would prefer to stick to the same town for hours at a time, others wouldn't.

This would also enable griefers to spawn into the same town over and over with no repercussions- something that the lineage/area bans helped prevent when they were implemented.

I think, if you did implement family locks, you'd have to be able to balance it out. Return lineage bans rather than area bans, and have murders and SIDS continue to lineage ban. This would enable us to get rid of griefers from the lineage, and for players to have the option of opting out of that family.

I do think it still has too many disadvantages, however.

As for the burial returns.. I love this idea. It'd be a great way to enable us to return to a life we enjoy, without being able to truly abuse it. The idea that it'd be out of our control, and in the hands of our family, seems to fit this game perfectly. It reminds me a bit of the "blessing" concept that cropped up when curses rolled around- a way for other players to reward someone, as well as a way for us to return to a scenario we enjoyed.

This is where, personally, I think your idea of the game is... deluding? clouding? the reality of it. It becomes particularly noticable in that 'quiz' you tried to pose to us, believing that it's even a scenario.. We are talking about the same game, yes? In what case would there ever be two families in the same town with separate, private food supplies lmfao. Even in separate towns, when would there ever be a scenario where you'd have to ask permission, when their food supply is there for anyone to take?

And you want to know why there aren't meetings, or policies, or treaties.. lol. Your idea of the game, and what the game is, are like entirely different creatures.

I can answer though. It's because they're irrelevant, entirely, to gameplay. They're a waste of time, a waste of effort, and chances are they'll be forgotten before your 60 minutes are even up. Simply put.. we don't have reason for it. Nor do we have ways to enforce it.

Why should I spend 10 minutes- a sixth of my lifetime- coming up with a policy with other players, when there's no way to enforce it? When chances are that the 'policy' won't even be remembered a few generations from now?

Most people focus on things directly gameplay related. Things such as creating tools, raising their babies to toddlers, making food. Things that have a direct impact on my lineage's success.

Policies, traditions, treaties, cultures- that has no affect on my gameplay, or my lineage's success. They might be entertaining little aspects of roleplay, but little more. I can entertain the ideas, I can crack jokes and such, but at the end of the day- I'm trying to survive, and ensure the following generations survive, and that roleplay has little place in that.

Your game will likely never have these aspects to it unless they become truly relevant to gameplay, and we have both ability and reason to enforce them. We can barely enforce the few ideals we have now, let alone your fantasized policies and treaties. Give us the means and the motive, and they might be carried out. Until then, you're not really gonna find any of these things in the game. Not as it currently is.

Open your eyes, Jason.. See your game as it is, not as you want it to be. You'll find the two extremely different in comparison.

Added note, I'm not hating on the game. I enjoy the game, and still play rather regularly. But it definitely isn't what's envisioned in this post, nor will it ever become such without some major mechanic changes.

Worst I've seen: Hard to think of the worst. I've seen so many... Two lives ago I watched a guy build an oven like 3 steps away from the forge, said "food" as a reason why, then starved. I suicided about 5 minutes later when I realized that eve camp was in a horrible spot, and I was male regardless.

Worst I've done: Well, a life ago I was born to a certain Eve Winter, who found an abandoned town. I spotted a seal skin coat and went to lead her towards it [I was about 2]. Instead of following and putting it on, she yelled at me for jumping, ignored my attempts to talk to her, and let me starve.

I guess I learned my lesson! Don't try to show your mothers things as a baby. Because being the esteemed players they are, they'll scream at you for jumping and let you starve Should've just waited til hands and taken it for myself.

I presume this is unfinished since right now I quite literally cannot see my family tree data whatsoever. Not via email, as you blocked that. Not via clicking the "Family Tree" button from the client. The family tree page on the download link works, but that's the only thing that works atm.

Reminds me of the Dick Church that came into being after me and 5 other adult males realized we were all that was left of the town haha. My mom'd been building the church originally for actual religious reasons [she even screamed at me to repent when I was born lmfao], and after all the girls died we kinda just took over.

Tried making children out of lambs and changing our genders and all sorts of weird shit lmao. It was a great time.

https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2227

It isn't solely for going back to a project, but for a majority of players, they have a specific play type that they enjoy. Take myself, for instance. I really dislike city play, because almost everything is done and there's little to do that feels like it matters. I consider myself fairly good at the game and often like to put my time into early camps and help give them a better chance at getting off the ground. Thus, I'll /die out of larger towns and lineages.

The problem with the 2000-tile radius of the area ban, however, is that it doesn't just ban me from larger towns.. it bans me from any nearby eve towns as well. The eve spiral is 250 tiles. /die'ing out of a single noob eve lineage can quite literally ban me from 7-8 nearby eves!

I can quickly get stuck in eve hell solely from /die'ing out of towns and a single noob eve. I got stuck in eve hell the other night because of this, after quite literally 4 /die's [3 towns, 1 eve camp that was settled near quite literally a single pond (I was male)].

In a similar fashion, people who prefer larger towns over early camps might have the opposite issue: they might not realize there's a large town within 2k tiles, /die out of an eve camp, and then get banned from that city as well, something they would've happily lived a life in.

Until Jason either reduces the area ban radius [preferably to something like 250-500 tiles, towns are rarely larger than this] or overhauls it completely, I'm better off running than /die'ing and ending up stuck as an eve.

I mean, I didn't even notice. Personally I'm glad there's a decay timer on them [appears to be 5 minutes, according to onetech]. Finally, no more seed clutter every fucking free tile around the farm!

Also, "early camps can't afford a surplus of bowls" isn't really that true. While yeah, you're not gonna have thousands of bowls, is it really that hard or time consuming to simply fire a few more bowls than you usually do..? Clay's not exactly uncommon in swamps, and more bowls/plates does nothing but help your town later down the road.

It's a game. There is no single "right" way to play, nor should there be. We play how we play depending on our personal interest, using what we're given. Killers can kill because there's weapons in the game. Roleplayers can roleplay because they're given a public chat to communicate with. Super-tryhard survival players can happily work away for an hour without even speaking to another soul. And yes, tese smaller discord communities can do what they do because the system allows them to do so.

Playstyles exist in every game, regardless of the intentions of the creators. That's the wonders of the human race- not everyone thinks the same way or takes the same actions. Creative freedom is what gives a game flavor and keeps it from growing stagnant.

There is no 'right' way to play this game, and they're definitely not playing it 'wrongly.' Just as players who abused the heat of desert edges, and those who were eve chaining on the main servers before it patched, weren't playing wrongly.

If Jason dislikes it, he'll fix it eventually- as is within his power and his rights to do so, being the game's creator. But he shouldn't have to hold our hands and tell you what is okay and what isn't for it to be 'right,' nor should you be able to dictate what's the 'correct' playstyle.