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That was apparently Bobby's wife.

My mom read through this thread and appreciates the responses, so thanks everyone! The venting and resulting sympathy helps take the edge off the frustration. She played a game earlier today and so far hasn't had any consequences, but we'll see over time. We don't actually know how many people ended up cursing her after she died. For all we know, someone wandered into the scene of the crime and calmly informed the crowd that that was the guy who had killed the wild animals and everyone repented for their sins. (Hey, a WomanWizard can dream, right?)

But yeah, I agree that griefing is a pretty major issue with this game. I've taken breaks from it for months at a time as a result, especially when I see people, including the developer, in the forums insisting that griefers are needed to keep the game interesting. I've had maybe one or two interesting griefer experiences in game, and those were more likely than not real disagreements rather than actual griefing. The rest are frustrating and/or tedious to deal with. I have my hopes that this update will give us more good than bad, but I also know that it's hard to stop humans from being humans, and humans are really good and joining the mob when something's going down (me included).

So please be alert when cursing!

Eco maybe? I really only play it with close friends and family, so I haven't seen too many of the society mechanics in play, but it has currency, laws, professions, etc. I'm pretty sure you can't kill other people, but you can work your way up different skill trees if you want and be a hunter/baker/mason, or whatever combination of professions you're interested in.

Yeah, I think I'm putting the game on the backburner again for a while. Getting new content is no fun if I'm never going to get to play with it.

I was so excited when the rift was finally gone that I started playing again, but this past week I've been non-white only two times. Those two times I tried to play around with some of the racially locked content (and I'm sorry Jason, but locking content behind race is highly problematic and "predicting people would get offended" doesn't excuse it), but then I was back to being white on the next go with nothing new to play around with.

I'm bored of it. I'm bored of not being able to do anything interesting. I'm bored of making compost every life because it's all I'm good for as a white man. I'm bored of being in the same town over and over and over again because, I assume, it's the only town that's managed to advance far and fast enough to survive after the biome locks. I'm bored.

So yeah, I'll be keeping an eye on the game like I did over the summer and hope for some new content that will actually interest me, but this update isn't it. I love the concept of this game so so so much and want to play it, but... it's just getting more and more tedious to do regular things, which simply isn't fun.

The next logical step would be improvements to farming. Why are we still doing everything with clay bowls and hoes when we have much better tech at our fingertips?

Not anymore. The game no longer supports duplicate names and instead defaults to the next closest one. You can no longer have an entire town full of Bobs, unless those Bobs all have different last names.

I still dislike it when someone names my baby though. I usually have a name picked out for them already and feel slightly cheated when I don't get to use it.

I've only really skimmed this thread, so please forgive me if I get any facts wrong or make any suggestions that have already been brought up. But it seems to me that a lot of the suggestions posted here don't really address this particular issue. We are suggesting that by rewarding players outside of their current life with blessings, better family trees, stats, etc. we can make them care more about their current in game family. And this may be true, but it feels about the same to me as only caring about our families because having a successful lineage gives us the chance to be born back later on. I guess I'm not really seeing the fundamental difference between these ideas and that one.

Where's the "real play" in these ideas that you've been looking for to replace the role-play? Caring about our families isn't some magical problem that needs a magical solution like our reincarnating griefers. We just need a better way to represent the "why" in loving our families in a video game.

I think in order to make people really care, in the moment, for their families, you need to reward them, in the moment, for being with their families. Give us some kind of speed/productivity/warmth boost if we've been spending enough time with close enough relatives. Maybe you've seen your mother/child/sibling in the past x seconds and this makes your character happy enough that they can work faster, or we feel warm inside and this spills over into our actual heat bar. Being around our families, in most cases, is good for our mental health in real life, so find a way to mimic this in the game for our characters.

This would encourage families to stick closer together, work on projects together, pick up family trades and pass them onto their kids, etc. What it won't do is encourage a mother to stick her only daughter in the trunk of a car to sneak her into a successful city. I don't think I can come up with an exact solution to that particular problem, but I feel that this at least could move us in the right direction.

Also, as a streamer, I am going to vehemently oppose your super crazy "only get one life per hour" idea, since a false start at the start of my stream would mean an end to my stream before I've even started. How depressing would that be?

I absolutely agree with you about berry patches! Big, disorganized farms kill. Well-designed ones saves lives.

Of course, getting those initial bushes out of the way can be a pain when you have dedicated berry tenders doing their job properly. I find that once you slap that first tile down at the edge of the field things ease up a bit because people can start to see what you're doing. Not everyone gets the message though.

What a shame to see what happened to that place. I had one of my most peaceful lives there, though admittedly it was probably one of my least productive.

My mom and aunt were writing notes for the shrine when I was born. I had two little sisters that I clothed with junk I found lying around on the ground and/or snatched from the corpses of recently deceased old people. My mom had a red sweater that I got to see passed down for four whole generations, reminding each one that it was a family heirloom. My great neice, who had the sweater last during my lifetime, was just telling her mother that she was new as we kitted her out with what was left of my clothing. I wish I could have stuck around to teach her some stuff, but I was just about sixty at that point so there was no time. My sister named one of her sons after me and I gave him my wolf hat, which also used to belong to our mother.

I spent a lot of time in the garden, which we called the Garden of Life at the time. Lots of "Praise be"s being flung around that place. I carted wood to the bakery so neither of the fires would go out, made some extra pads when it looked like we were only down to one, and dug up a few bushes in the berry field because it looked like someone had been making a path and there were two bushes in the way at the time. I stabbed a man in the garden because he shot some poor woman, and we didn't have any thread by the pads to heal her. It felt so dirty having to kill him in a place that we called the Garden of Life, but it was what it was.  Some guy thought our altar needed a sacrifice and begged me to stab him. I told him it was "the Garden of Life, not the Garden of Death."

I found another batch of notes north of the shrine and brought them down right before I died. "Clothe the naked" "Teach the young" They seemed like good points, and as someone who spent his life clothing the naked I thought those ideas should be heard.

It was a relaxing life, and kind of exactly what I needed at the time. Sometimes you just want to have a heartwarming connection with your in-game family, you know? So sad to see the place griefed like that, but I suppose it was inevitable. After all, it took the town killing three griefers in my supposedly peaceful life to keep things "peaceful."

Once I was in a town that had a hospital and a backup clinic. The hospital was open and the clinic was locked, with a trustworthy person holding the key in case the hospital was griefed. Who knows how long that system lasted though.

Until we have a way to force griefers into a prison, the locks are never going to serve any kind of intended "prison" function. You can try to threaten them at knife point, but I'm sure your average griefer would rather be stabbed than put in prison, so that doesn't do much good. In the meantime, the only people who will end up rotting in prison probably don't deserve to be there. Locks right now are most definitely for griefers.

I've told this story before, but here it is again because it stuck out to me just how close of a call it was.

Back when temp running was a thing, I was born to a second gen mom who I think was relatively new. We were in a green noob camp with some super basic tools but nothing else going for it. Mom carried me around doing usual confused new player things like picking milkweed and trying to use it on burdock, picking a branch off of a tree and holding it for a moment before simply putting it down.

She was slowly moving out of the green biome and soon I found her running through the snow where, no surprise, she had a panic moment and dropped me in the snow to go look for some emergency food. I didn't know if she was coming back so I stood there for a second near her basket just in case. But it was cold and I didn't want to die so I toddled a little south and luckily found a tiny patch of desert where I stood and waited patiently for mom to return.

She didn't return. I stood there hoping maybe I would grow hair in time to feed myself but I knew that even if I did I was going to starve looking for food since I was in the middle of the tundra. In a last ditch effort I temp ran back in the direction of the camp and ran in circles around a berry bush to keep perfect temp until I grew hair. I was on my last hunger pip for a painfully long time before I eventually grew my hair and ate that long awaited berry.

Anyway, not to drag the story out too much, I grew into adulthood and later found that my uncle had been diligently creating his own camp in a spot that actually made sense. When I showed up with my first baby he was ecstatic. Apparently he'd been hoping someone had survived and I went on to populate his camp with my babies, telling all of them about their heroic uncle who built everything they saw just for us. After a lonely life of building a camp and not knowing if it was going to be worth anything, my uncle died surrounded by family who loved and thanked him for everything he did.

A close second to that life would be when I was born into a dying berry field to a mother who was on murder cooldown. My uncle grabbed me and ran me into the wild where he eventually put me down and explained that my mother was a griefer who had murdered all the women in town as well as destroyed the food supply. I was the last girl.

He fed me berries until I was old enough to take care of myself and took me back to camp where my mother was no longer standing around. She must have died somewhere because I worked my butt off to revive the bushes and she didn't show up to stab me. Being the only girl I got kitted out in all of the best clothes and was able to load my backpack with wild food while we revived the farms.

I repopulated that town and later in the day was born back into it to find them trying to make a rail. It was right after the rail update so the train was getting a lot of attention. I was just glad to see that the family was still alive.

I'm sorry you lost a function of the Awbz mod that you enjoyed using, but the fact is that it was being abused by some mod users in a way that caused others to take notice, negatively. Do you know how frustrating it is to have most of your babies shift-del on you when you're one of few women left in your town/camp? So many of these kids could be slash dying on us and giving us the chance of having another baby, but they choose the mod function instead of the in-game intended feature that works in a way that doesn't negatively impact other players. Yes, there were people who were using the feature in a way that made sense, like to come back as a different gender, but unfortunately not all mod users were using it this way and as a result it needed to be removed.

Jason is within his rights to enforce his vision of his game, even if it means that a mod loses a feature that it used to have. In the end, people are paying Jason for access to these servers, not Awbz. Feel free to create your own server that allows people to shift-del out of whatever they want, but don't force it on the rest of us.