A short Guide to Power Gaming in OHOL

Artarda · 2018-04-24 21:23:32

If you're like me, then you like to play video games. If you're like me, then you also like to be good at video games. A lot of players are casual when it comes to video games, and this is perfectly acceptable. But if you want to be really efficient, and accomplish a lot in a little time (OHOL is all about only getting a little time to accomplish anything), then you're going to want to find ways to make the system work in your favor, or at least get the most out of any particular situation. Here are a few tips to maximizing your progression in OHOL, that I've learned both from the hours I've spent playing, things I've been told by other experienced players, and concepts I've taken from other games that apply here as well.

1) Only eat when you will not waste any of the food. This is probably one of the more well known ideas, especially for people who have struggled as an Eve. If you only eat berries when you have at least 6 empty foods, you get 100% of that food always. If you need an exact count, wait until you are very hungry as an adult and count. The numbers change every now and then as balance is adjusted, so whenever there's an update its likely for food values to change. Children are the worst in this case. I'll see Tim the Toddler scarfing a mutton pie every time he hits 3 food remaining, and that's such a waste of resources.

1.5) Bring a snack. I see so many corpses of people next to full berry bushes or the carrot farms because they didn't pay attention to their food bar, and then they get hit with that familiar starvation twang note, sprint back to the last place they saw food, then die because their latency didn't allow them to pick a berry in time. If you gotta go somewhere, fill up beforehand (preferably don't waste food), and bring a snack. Surviving to age 9 then starving before accomplishing anything is a big investment that returned nothing.

2) Manage your space, whatever you're doing. A lot of lost productivity comes from poor space management. If you're baking pies, the oven has a limited amount of time to bake as many pies as possible, especially now with tool degradation. Having to chop more kindling = having to make more axes = more time spent gathering = lost productivity. This is the same for blacksmiths, who have a very limited time to accomplish as much forging as possible while their precious charcoal is burning, and potters firing bowls and plates. Also, if you're a potter, don't forget to adobe your kiln when you're done firing that clay! Letting a kiln burn out has an opportunity cost of a basket of charcoal for the forge. This also is good for corpses, as you will want to know when someone has died so they can be replaced at their job. If you keep the work area clean of bones, you'll know when someone dies.

3) Put those children to work. Once kids are old enough to pick things up, they should be able to do tedious labor around your area until they are old enough to safely leave their camp. If the farm is built near natural water sources (which it should almost always be) they should be able to do water runs. Another one is organization; kids are good at carrying a basket and loading up the empty plates that people will leave around if the society lives off pies. If you're a feral Eve, kids should spend time bringing back nearby branches off the trees - Yew is good for a bow and after that mostly kindling. As long as there's not a severe food shortage, children should be working, not standing by the fire to keep warm. If you're just standing in the open doing nothing as a kid, then that's even worse, as you're consuming more resources without turning them into labor, and that's a waste of food.

4) Make your Farms work for you. I've noticed a general stigma about picking the domestic berry bushes in settlements... domestic berry bushes are a resource take 1 hour + 1 water = 6 berries. These are either 6 snacks or a bowl of berries that can be used with a carrot to make a sheep (best investment) or compost (better investment) or even pies (carrot + berry pie, poor investment (considering you have sheep)). When a domestic berry bush is sitting there with a single berry on it, it's not working for you; it will sit there for a million years and not make berries and people will starve. Pick that dumb berry, then water the bush; you don't have to wait for it to be dry either. Now your kids will be able to actually use the bush instead of looking at that one berry.

4) Memorize everything. This part might be hard but taking time to remember what does what is inefficient, and we're talking about power gaming to maximize efficiency. I've personally memorized the majority of things. Memorize what is crafted into what. Memorize the layout of the land, and what resources are where. Memorize who is family and who is not. Memorize where your weapons are stored. Memorize where your food is located.

5) Try to keep your kids. There's no point in playing if you aren't willing to further the line, and having the family line die out because raising those daughters would have been a setback at the time ultimately makes all your progress and productivity for naught. You never know which kid will be your last, or if you'll even have kids, so leaving them to die because your basket with a sharp rock in it is more important is sad.

These are just a few of the important things, with a focus on trying to be productive. Here's an unorganized list of random tips to be a better, more efficient player:

Bring a snack.

Chopping straight branches is bad, chop Yew and curved instead.

Curved branches can be cut with a sharp stone in order to be packed into a backpack or basket, then chopped later- this means you can bring back 6 kindling sticks to your camp with a backpack and basket AND keep your stone, instead of one.

Only pick Fruiting Milkweed unless your lives depend on it. You can always plant more milkweed later.

Always pick Cactus Fruit if you see them; currently, they don't despawn, restore more food than a carrot, and cactus provide a free one every ten minutes.

Pay attention to the cracks on your tools so you can tell when they're going to break, and make backup tools ahead of time.

Use a knife to clear out the local desert areas of snakes; you'll be thankful when you don't lose your horse cart full of resources to a random snake, plus get fashionable boots.

Mutton Pies are currently the most efficient food source: 6 gooseberries + 1 carrot + 1 wheat = four mutton pies.

Feel free to post additional tips! I might add them to the section. I have to go to work now but I'll expand on this later.

Last edited by Artarda (2018-04-24 21:23:43)

Obi · 2018-04-24 23:23:20

i got a few too!

Now with the tools decay it’s even more important to bring the tool back to where the are collected, so the blacksmith knows what the town is missing, even better if you see the blacksmith inform when a tool got broken.
When a work station like the oven or the forge is being worked on, do NOT rush to help without prior communication, you're probably gonna mess things up and anger the one who was working there.
Also stay away from the forge when lit because it’s probable that the worker there is trying to pick something behind you to forge and you are obstructing it, or you are simply confusing him when you shouldn't.

Do NOT misplace tools that are obviously needed for specific jobs like the bowls, plates, round and sharp stone near the ovens, go get another one, make a new one, or if your task is short bring it back as soon as possible.
If you think the worker there has too many and could spare some ask before taking it. In this category also falls the advice not to change the order of tools in a workstation when it’s being worked on (usually ovens and forges), even if you have a more efficient lineup of tools it is better to tell to the person thats working there IF he d like to use a more efficient setup or if he'd like to do something else and let you do it instead and then rearrange stuff to your satisfaction.

Lastly if you are born in a struggling community (now commonplace), only try to convey important stuff like for example if you were there in past life and got killed by a bear or murdered to the east, died while bringing a cart of seeds or something important near village... don't waste people's time with unimportant info!
Asking for directions to farm, water, savanna or cacti when you can type more than three letters is a good practice... this info should be conveyed anyway by the nurse if she's just feeding children by fire or by old people about to die... to better prepare the younglings for what's coming xD.

If you are old, do NOT risk dying on the farm just to water one more carrot row, cause all your gear and knowledge will be gone... It’s better to go by fire give your gear to a child and tell them what they need to know, or what needs to be done for village and maybe find a replacement if you were the dedicated worker on what you were doing! If for example you were the trapper it’s good advice to find a boy willing to follow your footsteps, give him your backpack and inform where the snares and rabbits are. If there are no children atm inform the ladies of the job opening.

JS · 2018-04-25 02:43:54

1.
Are you lacking a reed?
If you hunt rabbits, write your backpack AS a new basket.
Discard rabbit clothes, make water pouches and backpacks.
Backpacks last two hours and can hold four things.
The water pouch is stronger than steel.

2. Put on clothes that will not be destroyed.
According to information on the forum, the easiest clothes to make are reed skirts.
(Forum) Unbreakable clothes with sheep skin and Mufflon skin.

(The wolf hat is not destroyed by what I hear.)

They are luxury brands that are handed down from generation to generation.

3. The carrot farm makes you a SERF WHO working 23 hours out of 24 hours.
The cactus makes you a lazy bourgeois landlord.

The carrot farm now suffers endless housekeeping, collection of consumables and failure of seed management in the overflowing garbage dump.

If you need carrots for sheep 's food, build your farms gigantic or operate them secretly.
Beginners and those who do not work rest assured that they see the carrot farm.
The efficiency of the carrot farm is so low that even the diligent farmers can not feed enough of the adult population, including those who are lazy.

The carrots easily float.
When famine sweeps, children and women are the first to be at risk.
Lazy people make all the berry trees dry.
(People who do not work can go out and collect food, unlike a child or mother.
but they do not.
They only get rid of all the food nearby.)

A much easier way is the cactus.
The desert is warm and it is good to raise children, and adults eat less.
Since there is no need for clothes, there is time to make other non-destructive facilities.

Especially if you are a mother OR eve, the cactus is a nursery for them.

When you first discover a cactus, you need time to look around and get the fruit to ripen.
Eve puts the child down at the edge of the desert (middle temperature), explores the desert, and eats berries, onions and burdock in the woods.

If there are few cacti, the help of other food is desperate.
Still, you still have time to lay down your kids and scout around and find another desert.

Cactus Farms need only a cactus.
If cactus farms are not suitable for farming, Ambitious children go to the pond and become separated.
When you raise your baby and have a white head, you can look around when you want to find traces of children who have attempted BUILD NEW CARROT FARM.

Last edited by JS (2018-04-25 03:16:54)

pein · 2018-05-10 13:46:46

location location location

if your mom has a bad location, move
if all the wells go dry, move
if you see a better spot, move
if the family is too big, move

there is no point sending others, just take a bowl, a basket, set up farm and show someone, they will move

space out things, dont fill every single tile with garbage, most successful players are organized, you shouldnt put your rabbits next to the forge, its totally fine 10 tiles further, who wants to find it finds it
keep the forge in a room, keep the bowls, plates needed inside, its not for pie making, its for crucible, respect personal space, know the process or dont take their stuff
better to have two small farms than one big, even more small ones would be better

respect private property, if others dont, make them respect, by not giving things for free, no gearing at birth: i understand that new players need to play but they need to understand step by step, how clothes work and get on their own. if someone walks a half screen and gets the gear before others, usually means he is more experienced and he can use it better

always check the town before choosing work. there is always need for a janitor, who just organizes things, but there is no need for a baker when you already got one, instead if you got sheep pen, feeding sheep and composting is a lot of job
clearing pen, use sheep bones for temporary "rooms"

power gaming means steal all shit for yourself and hide it for general players, make it harder for them to do so
make smart, optimized systems, if others recognize it, they worth investing in, working together is necessary, people can make food for you whle you do the advanced stuff, kids need to farm, teach new kids to do so

dont expect they understand everything you want, keep it simple, seeds separated, in a fence, farm is for picking all out, seeding, watering from cisterns, water runs and well pinging is separate job, make it easy for them. fence near cistern, pouches in basket, baskets in cart, fence near ponds, closed wells into rooms, ping it, take all out except last, close it

make locks, close other important stuff, if you are good, its not hard to carry others, but others need to understand there is a risk of opposing and a reward of cooperating, so they need to ask permissions and need to re-compensate for your work

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A short Guide to Power Gaming in OHOL

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