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Data in table form on Google sheet, including info about day of week (weekends highlighted) and info about content updates!

Rsquare value is too small to be considered significant over such a short period of time tho! So its not fair to say definitively that murder rate is decreasing... behavior of murder rate is inconclusive given the current data.

I would literally love to have access to a bunch of the raw data from OHOL, whip out Rcommander and study how things like certain updates and player load affect life span and type of death...............

@jason hmu, grad school doesn't start up till fall and I have a lot of pent up data-crunching energy to spend............

using "total deaths" as a substitute for "total number of players playing" (since everyone must die), murder rate vs. total number of players is thus. I'd have to do a regression to determine correlation...

(ignore the graph title I forgot to change it lol, should read "all deaths vs murder rate")

one of the resources that creates each food-niche is time. since time is so limited and precious in game, its not always just a matter of math-ing out the calories for a maximally efficient diet, but also making good use of time. In my experience, that is what dictates which foods are used, not just calorie efficiency.

Say the trapper just got back to camp with a ton of rabbits, but we don't happen to have any threshed wheat lying around. Cooked rabbits aren't the most efficient, but hey we the resources for it, so we cook a bunch of rabbits to sustain us. Rather do that than starve while scrambling to get some wheat. Or say we have a ton of berry bushes and threshed wheat, but no free carrots or rabbits... the trapper is going to need pie to leave camp, so might as well make some berry pie. Even though these foods aren't the *optimum* use of resources by the numbers calorie-wise, they still get used because they are available and time is limited.

So factoring in the time required to produce crops versus the time that food products last creates new niches. Corn is pretty quick to grow in the scheme of things (seeds are easily accessible, especially once you've established a crop, doesn't erase soil, only needs one water), so it makes sense that the food output (popcorn) is minimally helpful. Still has its place in a camp (olds and babies) but it makes sense that it's not a huge time sink.

Carrots are more of a time sink (limited harvest window before it goes to seed), but they are necessary for a number of other things.

I think in adding new types of food, caloric density vs effort required is important to consider, as well as use in other recipes! Right now corn is only useful for popcorn, so it isn't a priority. Whereas carrots are super necessary for lots of things, so they have become valuable.

As you add new types of crops, adding recipes that they can be used in is the way to make them relevant. And making those processed food products have a variety of effects to consider: how filling they are, whether they are portable, whether they have multiple uses (density).

I wonder if you could introduce more types of effects from food besides just filling. You have that model in place with mushrooms. Maybe something like coffee gives you a speed boost? A burrito makes you strong (carry dug rocks faster)?

The only resource shortage I've experienced was not being able to find any more wild saplings after I accidentally killed our sapling farm... extremely vital for sign-making, we almost died out...

There are several iron mines I've seen and I don't think we've tapped all of them yet, so I don't think we're close to running out.

We've got a pretty dang sustainable civilization going, and its a really fun little shallow end of the pool for helping new players to learn the ropes with super low pressure! We've had several new players come through and learn about pie making, smithing, sheep keeping, etc!

Every time I'm born in FUCKS town I book it outta there as soon as I'm old enough... I used to like living in towns but this one is just too wild and lawless for me haha...

smh I am dumb as hell... I just never scroll down on the main page!!! thanks haha

Mom! I got your knife as soon as you died, but the killer kept moving around so I couldn't get her. She was able to get to another arrow and she shot me while on the run As I died, another one of my aunts saw the commotion and came over with a knife. I hope she was able to bring justice! It was such a nice little town... I made so many pies...

I *love* this! To be honest I actually find myself getting most bored when I am born to the same village, because I lived my life there and completed what I wanted to complete (or didn't!), and once I died people moved on. When I'm reborn, I already know the whole layout and everything but I am a baby so it just takes a frustratingly long time to get back to a place where I can be productive.

So, I don't think the game becomes less interesting necessarily just through playing longer per day. Eve runs are cool, and like you said, it becomes more about a chance to set up your own megalopolis, having lived through others and seen their follies.

Eve-finding missions have become such a cool part of living in an established city... several times now, some of the most poignant moments of my lives have been when I was growing old in an established city and we found ourselves without the possibility for new babies. So we find the youngest of us, kit him out with all our gear (backpack filled with pies, full clothes, a cart and horse if we have it, etc), make sure his home marker is set, and send him out to find an Eve to bring back to our city. Its exciting, it's dramatic, it's sad (we usually know we won't ever see him again, but we're filled with hope that he'll be successful and reinvigorate our town)

Anyway I love this!!! I'm so excited about the potential for this to become a feature, I hate being reborn in the same town over and over and I hate it when others are as well. Its really frustrating when people get super possessive IRL over a particular settlement, and you have all these boss(y) babies running around yelling at you for making changes to their design. Ownership is fake, thats like one of the central tenants of this game, you own nothing, nothing is permanent, move on.

I almost always try to leave the most organized, well-stocked site I can for any future explorers... playing alone is really the only time you ever get to set things up exactly how you envision them, without other players moving your supplies or anything, so I actually really enjoy surviving as a lone male and setting up my idea of the perfect camp...

I like to leave a forge, kiln, and oven (plus extra adobe for covering kilns), full set of clothes (lately I've been leaving the supplies to make a new backpack too - the furs and a needle and thread, because I know my backpack might decay before travelers arrive). Sometimes a little farm plot, but tbh I don't usually get that far. I just forage and eat rabbits to sustain myself through all my building. If I've gotten a head start by spawning into a modest village, then I just try to make a complete set of tools at least.

Next time I have a life like this I think I'll start laying out a sheep pen. Tending sheep is my favorite part of this game for some reason, I just love setting up their little paddocks.