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Most of the people I've cursed so far haven't been bad enough to call out, but here's a heads up on:

BLOOM MEAT: bear griefing, killing, destroying a paved road, thinking it's somehow funny to pretend to molest babies, being stupid enough to come back to the same village next life for a second round of curses after we killed him the first time even though we immediately knew it was him, and general eyeroll-inducing shitbaggery.

Thank you so much, Jason!  I think I regard it as something of a minor miracle if a brand-new player actually lives to thirty, no matter how hard I try to keep them alive.  They have a tendency to do things like trying to attack bears with axes or randomly deciding they're going to wander off into the woods to "start my own civilization!" (with blackjack and hookers, I guess) and  immediately starving to death.

OK, I just had a life where I tried a new approach: I made a training camp about a hundred tiles from town, with a little practice farm -- it helped that a found a spot that already had some abandoned stuff, but I imagine there's a lot of that around at the moment -- and took a pupil up there for some one-on-one lessons.  It worked astonishingly well.  Quite possibly that kid is going to go back to town now that I'm dead and actually be able to be useful.  Even if he's not, he learned a whole bunch of stuff no one would have had time to teach him in town.

I don't entirely disagree with your main point, because while I have no objection to the sports cars and such  it would be great to have higher tech options for some of the still ridiculously primitive things we're using. 

But I did want to say, hey, don't dis adobe!  It's actually a great building material in the right climate (and OHOL's complete lack of weather of any sort surely qualifies), and it's still very much in use.  I've lived in an adobe house.  It makes for great insulation!

That makes sense of why they're not on the gene score, but they still ought to show up on the family tree, right?

A couple of additional tips here:

Yes, only playing when you've got a full hour to spend really is the best thing to do, so as not to end up being a burden on others or a detriment to their gene score.  And not usually too hard, I would think, since you do have that hard upper time limit and no need to guess how much time a game is going to take.  But if something comes up IRL and you do feel the need to wander out into the wilderness to die, please take your clothes off first and leave them in town!  There is no point in taking valuable resources out of town with you.

Also, if the town is very low on fertile women and you happen to be one, you can still be an asset, even AFK, because you might still get babies.  Take off your clothes so others can use them, and stand next to the fire so you require less food.  If you can, tell someone what you're doing.  And be apologetic about it, maybe, because it kind of does suck to make someone else have to take care of your babies.  But it's probably still better than letting your family die out because you had to go take a phone call or something.

I haven't tried it out yet, so maybe I'll change my mind once I see it in action, but am I the only one who thinks the craving thing seems a bit... overcomplicated?  Especially as, the unpopularity of ice cream notwithstanding, it seems to me that the yum system in general works really well to do exactly what Jason wanted it to do: to encourage and require making and eating a wide variety of good, not just endlessly spamming whatever is deemed most efficient, while making for some useful and fairly interesting gameplay.

Well, I guess if the idea is to eventually have more food in the game that anyone could ever possibly eat in a lifetime, it makes a certain amount of sense.  We already seem to have more food variety in the game than we do variety of anything else, though!

Thank you, Wondible!   I wouldn't have known which files to look for, but, sure enough, they weren't there.  How incredibly odd.  Maybe I should try reinstalling the game.

I'm on a low-salt diet now and not allowed to eat pickles IRL, so I will look forward to some virtual ones.

Others have said lots of useful things.  I'll just add a few comments:

A baby demanding that I give them my clothes is the absolute surest way to determine they won't get them from me.  Hell, at that point I'm probably not even going to bother looking for clothes for them.  Entitled, demanding behavior gets no reward from me.

I will, however, sometimes give babies my clothes if there aren't other clothes available, just because  I do want to give them every chance of surviving (unless they're entitled and demanding, in which case I figure they'll probably just grow up into entitled, demanding virtual adults, and who needs that?), and clothes really help.  Especially when they're small.  I figure, I'm an adult with a big stomach and (hopefully!) a decent yum chain, plus there's a very good chance that I'm much more experienced than the kid, so they probably need the insulation more.  But I'd say that until you get to the point where you're a good enough player that you almost never starve accidentally, even when completely naked, you are better off keeping the clothes yourself.

Although I will add that if you have a kid a ways away from town, while pulling a cart or something, clothing them will mean they need to eat less often, which means you need to stop and feed them less often.  So that can be worth doing, especially if you know you'll be able to reclothe yourself as soon as you're home.

Also, I may be in the minority, but I think if a kid starts spelling out insulting crap at you, abandoning them in the jungle is an entirely legit thing to do.  Use your judgment, obviously.  A kid calling you ugly may just be bored and have a stupid sense of humor, but if they're cursing you out, saying seriously nasty or racist things, you can be pretty sure they're not going to be anything but trouble and you're better off not having them around.  Do be sure to curse them if you do that, though, so they won't have the chance of coming right back.

And for what it's worth, I, uh, would not take Legs as a role model, lol.  First off, feeding your baby without waiting for them to say "F" used to be decent advice, but since these days feeding them won't work unless they're starving, it's not any more.  Most people learn "F" very quickly, but if you get the new player notification, it's a very good idea to let them know they need to F when the food meter starting dinging.

And while you can't always help new players very much -- sometimes there's just too much chaos, sometimes you might not know enough yourself, sometimes they refuse to actually pay attention -- it's very much a good thing to look after them a little extra.  Teach them if you can.  Check in on them.  Make sure they have food in their pack. Give 'em the lecture on yum chaining if they don't know it already.  Stop and help 'em out if you see them flailing, like if they keep taking off their backpack trying to get food out.  It doesn't cost you anything to take two seconds to remind them to right-click.  This sort of thing is the decent thing to do, it'll help turn them into useful players more quickly, and it's good for your gene score.  I believe the game sets a new player's life expectancy at 30, and complete newbies are likely to not live that long if left unsupervised.

As for leadership, yes, you do not have to do anything at all with it if you're not sure what to do or you don't want to, and you can pass it off to someone else if you are certain they're trustworthy.  (Everybody's right about being careful with that, though.  Much better a leader who does nothing at all than one who is actively destructive.)  But you can also think of the leadership position as just a way to communicate.  You could always say things like, "Order, I'm still kind of new, is there anyone who's willing to come teach me about Thing X?" or "Order, please come tell me what you see the town needs, and I'll pass it on."  In my experience, there are often people who are entirely happy to come tell you what they need.

As for Bobo, he's just an idiot who apparently thinks it's worth paying for multiple accounts just so he can keep pretending to stab people who are pretending to farm carrots.  I tend to think of him as very much the equivalent of a toddler I once knew, who couldn't resist knocking all the pieces off the table any time the adults would try to play a board game instead of paying attention to him.  He's not a boogeyman, and he's not interesting.  He's just kind of pathetic, and I don't know why people give him the attention his toddler self apparently craves.

Hello there from your liege, Pepe!  Thanks for all your hard work and helpfulness, especially with getting iron, as I never did manage to find the time to figure out exactly what our iron situation was.

Yesterday was my first time playing in a coupe of months, and I have to say, while I wasn't sure about the leadership system when it was first rolled out, I am very impressed with how well it works in its current form, at least when people are willing to use it.  I felt like I was able to help usefully coordinate people's actions, which was very seldom the case before.  But in this particular life, someone went around and made a note of what tools we needed and reported back to me, and I was able to give out orders about it, and it all worked great!

Interesting addition to this story: we had a trouble-maker in town who trapped your mother, Rona, in a fenced off area when she was a kid.  I was able to exile the person responsible and to give out orders to the town about her, and within moments she'd been killed.  (Shout out to Brutus for both that and the tools thing!)  And then ownership of the gate passed to me and I was able to let Rona out, which was very handy.  In other words, everything seemed to work exactly the way Jason wanted and expected it to, which I gotta say did surprise me a bit, based on past experience.   But it was nice!

(I did then proceed to embarrass myself a tiny bit later on, and frustrate my dear old mother by not remembering the correct procedure for removing a fence.  Well, like I said I hadn't actually played in a couple of months, and I think I only ever actually did that maybe once, back in the early days of fences.  Aside from that, though, I do like to think I was a decent leader.  It helps when you have competent people listening to you.)

I haven't seen much actual griefing lately, but I'm thinking this may in fact be a good idea, anyway.  I played quite a bit over the weekend hoping to take my mind off the weird and disturbing state of the world, but while it sometimes works, other times it just makes me feel even more stressed.  And if I get impatient or annoyed with people in the game, I feel extra terrible about it afterwards. They're probably already stressed enough, too.