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We do have the numbers. The second longest running dynasty (about 70 generations) survived partly because the family was split up amongst 4 towns. During off-peak only 1 or 2 of those cities were occupied. I doubt we'll ever have a megalopolis with 10 satellite towns though.

Also, you made the argument that you're being selfless by raising every single child. That's hardly accurate - you do it because you feel bad when your inaction causes another player to die (which is healthy). With your playstyle, I don't see how you can spend quality time with every child. When I have a child, I will tell him/her the story of the town, what generation it is, and pertinent information about the lay of the land. Often, if I have time I'll ask if I can teach them something. By limiting my reproduction, it means the children I do keep, have a higher quality experience.

Also, it's nice when I actually do work and contribute to my family rather than just creating extra mouths to feed (my own included).

You just to watch the world burn, methinks!

Calories are what hunger bars are often called, yep. It's not realistic that you'd ever have more than 2 seed rows though, so moot point. In a hypothetical scenario where the whole server lives in one town it still wouldn't make sense to have a dedicated seed guard. At that point, you may as well just have a full-time carrot farmer (oh wait we usually have half the town farming carrots...). If you have people eating from the carrot row, then you're low on food, and seeds aren't your biggest concern...

Being a seed guard means you spend five minutes of your life protecting 7 seeds. This means you're costing your civ about 60 calories - that is a lot!!! If you're really in such a food insecure position, you should be culling the herd, not wasting calories. You should always have a backup seed row hidden away anyway. You could spend those 60 calories foraging for seeds as well.

If you let a 4 carrot row seed, then you should be killed (pls don't take out of context).

Sounds nice in theory, but it'd be difficult to regulate and balance. For example, if you had tons of thread around, someone could "craft" it all into rope. Or someone seeing an axe, could chop down all the trees (easy fix though, could make it a karma hit to chop useful trees). It'd also incentivise people into "high karma" jobs like carrot farming, even though it's not a very useful job.

The great thing is we don't even need yeast. I think a way to solve the excess flour, would be to add a bowl of flour into a bucket of water, then wait. In IRL wild yeasts would colonise and ferment the mixture. It wouldn't be beer, since it doesn't have malt or hops, but it'd be alcohol. The resultant mixture could be contained in either mugs (new sprite needed), water pouches (cool meta), or bowls (kinda like a mug).

Bow range is three tiles, so nope. However, this is hugely advantageous for scouting and learning the layout of your area. I often spend the first few minutes of a life working out where things are, and this mod would mean I wouldn't have to do that at all. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it definitely changes the difficulty of the game by a huge degree. Would do a lot to making griefing easier to identify, and aid in communication - both huge pluses both for balance and for RP/culture. Hypothetically, I think it'd be fair to remove the food bonus entirely, if this was made widely available.

There's two glaring problems of the permanent lineage ban that nobody seems to be addressing.

1. Jason's maths doesn't account for off-peak, which is about 30-40 players and lasting for a few hours. This already "culls" the less desirable civilisations from the world, as a much smaller playerbase is born to the same amount of cities. Also, how many of these players have been hit with that civs lineages "ban"? I doubt we'd ever see a dynasty last more than 18 hours ever again.

2. This would make migration or forking the population an inherently bad thing. I personally like to splinter off if my civ is in a suboptimal location and I think I can find a better place. However, this would mean that my new civ would be in direct competition with the old civ for babies. This means we'll be cycling through the potential players at double the speed as before. No longer will I be able to tell girls to migrate out of the city and form new settlements, and instead when it comes to population management, my only options will be either to murder, or create conditions in which they'll starve to death. There'd be no longer a means to pleasantly solve overpopulation... A new "grief" will emerge where when born as a girl, you migrate and waste that dynasties babies.

One pro is that if Eves did coord track and find their way back to the civ, it'll mean there's an incentive to keep around non-dynastic members. I think there'd be great RP value to running around your village seeing the Smith family and the Deatherages coexisting. The problem with the current meta is that bell towers would not enable this, since a dynasty will no longer survive long enough to complete a belltower.

Another thing we'll see is tech stagnation, and Kubassa rightfully pointed out, once a civ has cycled through the "good" players, they are just going to fall down and collapse. This isn't an IF, but a WHEN. The average player eats more than they produce in labour.

This is really not the right place for this, but you've brought it up. You're coming from a place of low information - as is everyone except for those directly involved (Vaidisss and myself). I apologised for the main two things I said, and that apology was accepted (he changed his mind after the fact). If you're going to harass someone for most days for a week, expect retaliation. Genocide in the context of the game is when you wipe out a village that's being mismanaged, often before repopulating - I don't know who coined the term. I lost my temper, said mean things, and I regret it.

Also, I keep hearing about a "threat". I never threatened anyone.

Edit: I should be the one apologising because in retrospect it turns out I brought it up in my previous edit lol...

Instead of making this about your opinion of my character, or assumptions about my beliefs, you could have stuck to the point. There is always going to be a degree of toxicity - especially in a game that enables griefing. The topic at hand is about the relationship between freedom of speech, "toxic speech" and the ideal balance between the two. Empower the mods to give official warnings in extreme occasions, sure, but banning people for holding an opinion you disagree with? I hope you can see the irony.

Edit: It's interesting to consider that if threatening to grief or bragging about it were "bannable" then this shit show wouldn't have occurred in the first place.

Poop is overproduced in a late stage civilisation. Definitely not a good idea to worship literal shit.

Would be fascinating to get some real results, given forum users are significantly more skilled and knowledgeable than the average player - so we're gonna get some heavy selection bias.