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Are people regularly being overwhelmed with too many babies?

Because if so, that should be fixed, and that would solve this problem.

There is going to be some variability in how many kids each person has, due to various factors (player population change vs time of day and such).

This might be as simple as adjusting the birth cooldown to make it longer (remember that your cooldown is reset when you have a SIDs baby).

Here's an example of high variability, where one gen 3 had 18 babies, and gen 4 had only 4 babies.

http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=6256645

But we really can't give too much control to players about "not having bb", because the incoming bb do need mothers.

If half the mothers opted not to have BB at all (for gene score reasons), then the remaining mothers would need to have 2x more BB to keep up with incoming players, or we'd have to spawn a ton more Eves to take up the slack.

This is supposed to be a game where 99% of players are born as helpless babies.  The game isn't supposed to default to "eve mode" except in very rare situations.

This is a game about being in the middle of a chain.

I think we need some stats about how many BB each person has.

This graph is from last 30 days only.

Yes, someone logged 300 hours in last 30 days.

Is Morti really shouldering the wheel at that level?

It could also be a bot...

Keep in mind:

There were 3807 unique players in the past 30 days.

2915 of them had ZERO curses logged.  76% of them.

Oh, I see that about the regular skewer.... hmm...

Regular skewer should become weak after making a basket.  Thus, it won't break after that.  I'll make a note of that.

It's not true that the higher you go, the more other people pull you down.

You gain score if they live longer than THEIR current average.

You lose score if they live shorter than their current average.

So, you having a high score doesn't matter.  If you help them do better than their normal, your score goes up.  If you hurt them to do worse than normal for them, your score goes down.

Now, that said, when you have a high score, it is easier to go down than to keep going up.  You can't go up that much more (because of the cap), so your improvements become tinier and tinier over time as you keep going up.  Meanwhile, you have much further to fall, because you're so far above the floor.

So, let's say you have a score of 50, and you live two lives.  In one life, you live to 60 (so your score goes up a tiny bit).  In the next life, you die at age 5, so your score goes down a lot.  The net impact of those two lives is a drop in score.  That might not seem fair, but if your current score is 50, a life of 60 isn't that surprising.  A life of 5 is very surprising, though.

The amount a score changes depends on how surprising the life is.

Likewise, if you have a low score and live a long life, that's very surprising, so your score will go up quite a bit.

This might seem unfair to the people at the top---their position is so precarious!

But I don't think there's a more fair way for it to work.

For example, if we had the score move equally slow up/down as you got closer and closer to the top, the people at the top would be kinda protected from big drops.  But then you could get into a situation where someone gets to the top, starts sluffing off, and lets 50% of their relatives die young.  As long as 50% lived to old age, it would balance out, and their score wouldn't change.  But that's not right!  They shouldn't stay at a score of 55.  Their true score is more like 30.  So they should slide down to 30 again.  The current score system does allow that to happen.

I know the big drops from the top can be dispiriting, but I don't think there's a way around it.

Dantox, the question is relevant because you are complaining about how long it is taking to get it right.

You've never tried it yourself.  If you had tried it, you'd know that it takes a long time to get a new, unprecedented multiplayer design right.

What seems obvious to you from the outside.... is... well...  just not as easy and obvious.

Experience counts for something.... not as an appeal to blind expert worship.... but, you know, I've done this 19 times.  That means I've faced difficult design problems a bunch of times and found ways to solve them, eventually.

I've seen what works and what doesn't work countess times.  I've tried and FAILED countless times, and learned from each failure.

You've never tried, and thus you've never failed, so you don't know how common failure is.  From where you sit, I look like a bungling idiot who just won't listen.

But the truth is that this is what world-class game design looks like.  You're watching it happen, live.

I'm sure, if you ever made a game, you'd get everything right the very first time, and everything you designed would work correctly, and players would behave exactly the way you'd predict they would behave, every time.  The difficult design problems would be easy, and the impossible ones solvable.

If so, you're a way better game designer than I am, and hundreds of millions of dollars are yours for the taking.

Are you forming a posse, Lightning?

Arcurus, I'm a quantum computing skeptic....

Also, the people who say that I never take suggestions from the community are just expressing sour grapes because their favorite idea wasn't used.

The leadership system was pretty much designed entirely by Kinrany.

The life tokens by Twisted.  Also the idea of homelands.  And probably bottles, somewhere along the way.

The non-infinite map experiment (Rift) was inspired by Dodge.

The idea of tying killing to the leadership system came (this week) from StrongForce

Liquid Refreshments were suggested by DestinyCall (like the milk and broth pouch)

The food overhaul was designed with input from Fug, Twisted, and Miskas.

Way Stones were proposed by SirCaio

Remember, it's up to me to decide which ideas should be included in the game.  Also, if you call me an idiot every other post, or keep harping on the same idea over and over, I tend to stop listening to you.

Not currently.... hmm...

When you issue an order, you get an arrow to your closest follower.

Visually, you can look for people who have your same badge color.

I'll add it to the order confirmation DING:

Currently says
AS KING JOHN SMITH, YOU ISSUED AN ORDER:

Will say
AS KING JOHN SMITH, YOU ISSUED AN ORDER TO YOUR 12 FOLLOWERS: