Gene Score Advice: Don't Play Again Right Away

Spoonwood · 2020-11-10 20:22:52

It often happens that one or some of your relatives will die for one reason or another well before old age. Possibly, they will die before they reach their teenage years or thirty. Gene score calculations happen as soon as a player dies. Thus, any characer who dies "young", so to speak, will have an immediate and more pronounced effect on one's gene score than anything else. If one logins before other *long-living* relatives die out, then one's gene score ends up lower than if one had waited until those long living relatives had died out. So, if one wants to have as high as possible of a gene score at the start of every life, it's best to wait an hour or two *after* one has finished with a life before playing again. At least if playing only on a server with 15 or more players where gene score is relevant. One might also alternate between a high population server and an expected low population server.

I'll use my most recent life as an example. I played as Summer Jane http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=6739430 (my final words were from some map). I had checked the family trees before and had hoped to get born into an early type camp, and drew the family I wanted by luck, but they had moved to an older town with a diesel water pump. But, I digress. My gene score was 50.157 before I played: http://onehouronelife.com/fitnessServer … tail&id=55 I gained + 0.148 from my mother's death, had - 0.775 change of gene score from my niece Sabrina's death, - 0.943 from my grand daugher Trisha's death, - 0.984 from my grandson's Thomas's death, - 0.498 from my son's death, and then gained + 0.277 from my own death. Had I played again right at that point, my gene score would have been 47.106 for my next life. But, I didn't play again right away. I gained + 0.271 from the next familial death, then + 0.265, then + 0.26, then + 0.254, then + 0.236, then + 0.244, then + 0.213, then + 0.234, then + 0.228, then + 0.224, then + 0.219. It says my gene score is 49.812 on the leader board. So, I have 2.7 some extra gene score points for the next life that I wouldn't have had if I clicked 'reborn'.

I suspect that if you check through your genetic score history you can find similar examples suggesting that if one wants to maximize one's gene score at the start of every life, one shouldn't click 'reborn', and should probably wait to play an hour or two (or maybe even three or four), before playing again.

Rookwood · 2020-11-10 21:14:20

I don't think that's how gene score works. It doesn't cutoff the last life's relatives as soon as you spawn a new life.

I checked my own leaderboard and found this as an example.

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Spoonwood · 2020-11-10 22:30:02

Rookwood wrote:

I don't think that's how gene score works. It doesn't cutoff the last life's relatives as soon as you spawn a new life.
I checked my own leaderboard and found this as an example.
https://i.imgur.com/qhjSMBl.png

I'm not clear on what happened with respect to your gene score, as it seems rather partial. I find it conspicuous that which Carrol you were was not included. I don't see how you can infer that gene score gets updated *for one's character* from that.

If gene score gets changed for the active player as you suggest, then it would be possible that for a 59 year old with say 5 pips maximum, all of a sudden, their maximum amount of pips could jump to 6 pips. Or for a 55 year old with 8 maximum pips, their maximum amount of pips could jump to 9 maximum pips all of a sudden. I suspect that neither has ever happened, though to speak surely, I don't know.

Also, remember that if active, tool slots got got/get tied to gene score. I don't recall any evidence that a player's maximum tool slots ever increased during a life. And some players who played during server reset knew that if they were the first Eve, or I think one of the first 15 players on a server, then they wouldn't have any tool restrictions.

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Spoonwood · 2020-11-10 22:33:35

Added information:

It says that I died 504 years ago on my game screen. The last relevant death to gene score was my great grandson who died 445 years ago.

(- 504 445) = 59. So, waiting an hour after one's death seems like an appropriate rule of thumb to maximize one's gene score at the start of one's life.

Additionally, even if one's gene score gets changed during one's life, who gets leadership inherited, I think, gets based on the player's current gene score. That can happen during the first few minutes of one's life easily. If one wants a strong gene score to maximize one's leadership probability, thus, waiting an hour in between games seems like a suitable strategy.

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DestinyCall · 2020-11-10 22:41:18

Even better Gene Score advice ... do not stress about gene score.

Spoonwood · 2020-11-10 23:01:14

Also, Rookwood's example of Dan Banar comes from 6 days ago! http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=6726092 Consequently, that certainly isn't an example of him observing a change in his gene score getting applied to his current in-game character in real time.

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Spoonwood · 2020-11-10 23:04:16

DestinyCall wrote:

Even better Gene Score advice ... do not stress about gene score.

Well, I think gene score has gotten called useless before. At least in it's present state, it's looking worse than useless. It's looking like it discourages people from playing sometimes if taking seriously. This is also after it having existed for something like a year and a half.

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Rookwood · 2020-11-10 23:40:46

I misunderstood and thought you were talking about climbing leaderboard and not worried about the minor perks you get in game from gene score.

FishRfriendsnotfood · 2020-11-11 02:03:01

Yeah but what about the goose?

Spoonwood · 2020-11-11 02:59:39

FishRfriendsnotfood wrote:

Yeah but what about the goose?

Uh... goose > fish.

FishRfriendsnotfood · 2020-11-11 05:09:33

Sometimes, goose is >fish, but sometimes fish is > than goose.

Spoonwood · 2020-11-11 13:42:47

FishRfriendsnotfood wrote:

Sometimes, goose is >fish, but sometimes fish is > than goose.

Eh... I guess that's right. But... hjonk!

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