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#1 Re: Main Forum » Still thinking about griefers. » 2018-09-13 18:35:45

Joriom wrote:
boggers wrote:

I think you'd do better to view griefers in OHOL as people showing you exactly where the game is broken.

I love this comment. In IT world griefers are mostly called "Testers" and they're often paid for it tongue

Developer: How can I make it?
Tester: How can I break it?

+1

#3 Re: Main Forum » Anyone else find the game unplayable without zoom mod? » 2018-09-09 14:37:34

It's physically painful for me, I honestly can't play the game for more than 20 mins before getting a headache on the default view. Something about being so restricted and how the camera moves so zoomed in just... hurts man, it hurts. I tried running the game in a window which helped a bit but, come on who does that?

#4 Re: Main Forum » In Regard to New Players » 2018-09-01 03:43:58

startafight wrote:

i genuinely think this is one of the biggest failures of this game. even with the tutorial people dont learn the basics and are thrown into a game with an increasingly bitter audience. new players *shouldnt* be expected to research on the forums and read this that whatever guide. a game should be playable with just the tutorial and then enhanced with knowledge from forum posts.

This, so much this.


Without using external sources to learn how to craft (onetech, youtube), I would have surely given up on this game before really understanding it at all. Even after the addition of the search ability it's still so difficult to learn new recipes ingame, I really resent doing it but I use onetech instead. I found learning to make a deep well nigh on impossible using the search for example... much easier to use another source.
I feel like the search ability ingame is more of a crutch than anything. I hope that Jason finds a way to make it easier to learn new crafting recipes ingame, otherwise I dread to think how it's going to look as more and more things get added..

pein wrote:

i just dont really get the logic behind peoples thoughts
dead lambs despawn, does it look good? no, but hwy does it disturb you if you not working with it?

The logic goes something like this... When I was very new to the game and didn't really know how to do much of any job in a town let alone figure out what a town needs, I tried to tidy up. Yes, this included throwing all those poor dead lambs in the trash pits. I simply didn't know any better, I didn't know that the lambs despawn relatively quickly, I didn't know that throwing the lambs into the pits will fill the pit up and let the sheep escape. I genuinely thought I was being helpful, when in reality the opposite is true... Sure it's easy but maybe stop using pits as fences to hold your sheep in, it's the only way I can see that particular problem being resolved.

#5 Re: Main Forum » In Regard to New Players » 2018-08-31 22:09:19

As long as you're using something titled "Small Trash Pit" as a fence for your sheep pen, people will fill them with trash. Does not matter how often you preach for them not to do so.

#6 Re: Main Forum » In Regard to New Players » 2018-08-31 21:56:08

pein wrote:

i explained to 5 people not to throw sheep into pits, the next one still did it, the damage is done, less than 1 hour it was ruined

I know your pain, many a time my life has ended with me as an angry old person yelling at people in town over stuff like this...

Thing is we're fighting a losing battle when using something ingame for something other than it's original purpose, it's a trash pit, it makes sense to throw stuff away into it. Now if we could dig ditches instead....

#7 Re: Main Forum » In Regard to New Players » 2018-08-31 21:44:16

Well there was no tutorial when I started playing, I just simply thought the burdock plant was decor heh. Also me saying it's easy to skip stuff in the tutorial is mostly based off my interactions with new players that ask simple questions which are explained in the tutorial.

Anyway I think the aim of this thread is about being aware that we were all new once. That the person you may swear at and curse/murder because they foolishly placed a big log on a fire you're wanting to make stew with, might be pretty new to the game and who's only intentions were to help. Being killed with little explanation except for  "f****** griefer" or something like that might teach them that you shouldn't put big log on fire if you're lucky but it doesn't explain why.

#8 Re: Main Forum » In Regard to New Players » 2018-08-31 13:47:16

You've made some good points here, as a new player the game is difficult enough without having people F-ing and blinding at you left right and centre for being a bit clueless. Sure there is the tutorial now but it doesn't actually teach you very much and I think it's easy to walk through most of it without really reading the notifications.

Someone once did yell at me for eating a carrot off of his farm, I was starving to death and it was the only thing I could see that was edible... due to being embarrassed for my ineptitude I didn't stick around and ask why I shouldn't eat the carrots (or give him a chance to explain) and simply ran off and (probably) died in the woods anyway...
I think for this reason I didn't get the kind of abuse you did, I was too embarrassed to even attempt working on something I had no clue how to do. So promptly spent most of my time foraging alone desperately trying to stay alive, I think it took me about 3 days before I found out you could dig up and eat burdock... yes, most of the time I died before age 20.

Now I myself have cursed at people rather strongly a number of times; maybe it's the 8th time someone has taken a bowl or some other object I'm using out from under me in a single life. I feel bad after when I realise it could have been a total new player but ehhh...

If I'm female in a big city I'll ask my babes some simple questions, can you make compost, etc. If they answer no I'll ask them if they wanna learn, not once have I had someone say no. Also if I see someone who's dithering around a lot and doesn't seem sure what to do I'll ask them if they're new, and again ask the simple questions; these people are very willing to learn too.

I find it generally quite easy to teach them too, get them to watch you while you work and highlight key points such as "only feed the lambs". just ensure you have some food in the areas you're working (you might need to point it out) to avoid losing them as they go looking to fill their bellies. Once they've been shown how to do it once ask them to do it with you, everyone I've taught has always been super grateful to me for showing them something new.
Like that time I was nearing my death in a fledgling camp, I was making a well and knew that one of our family were pretty new to the game. With shovel in hand I asked him to follow me, I made sure he had seen the empty pond with the pile of stones, then bam! smacked it with the shovel and... he learnt how to make a well!

....I don't remember your name but I do remember your face and your manner... Here's to the shepherd who taught me making mutton pies within my first week of play, he requested that I no longer made berry pie as we had sheep and mutton pie is king. He then proceeded to show me how to make said pie in lightning speed time, asked me if I understood to which I timidly replied "think / so", at which point he ran off to tend to his flock. One of the few times I learnt how to craft anything ingame without resorting to https://onetech.info/

#9 Re: Main Forum » Jason, Why no wool pants? » 2018-08-22 01:56:55

Anshin wrote:

We need kilts.

This was my first (and most prevailing) thought as soon as I started reading this thread...

#10 Re: Main Forum » Founding a religion » 2018-08-17 10:26:49

Weed family?! Was it this family line? http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … _id=879583

I loved that little camp, am glad you guys survived as long as you did. Oh and incase you see this ma, I did bury you in a lovely spot by a tree just north of our little village smile

#11 Re: Main Forum » Question - respawning » 2018-08-07 15:22:50

If you're alone on a server it does work like that. I don't know the answer I'm afraid =/

#12 Re: Main Forum » Dying of starvation a few steps away from food » 2018-06-06 16:11:37

When I first started I honestly thought there was already a kind of hidden overflow tank, based on where the vertical line sat on your hunger meter when you overeat, heh.

#13 Re: Main Forum » Grandma Stoner » 2018-06-05 04:12:19

Awwwwh thanks so much for the kind burial, it was such a lovely run, I really enjoyed bringing you guys up. I hope that Aaron jr buries you well

#14 Main Forum » Grandma Stoner » 2018-06-05 03:54:17

Aria
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My mother birthed me in a grassy plain full of many berries, she carried me home to where I met my gran, who started it all. There were a few berry bushes down and more being planted but other than that we didn't have a huge amount, so after short time watering the bushes while I grew up I ventured forth into the unknown and quickly found what I wanted, rabbits, lots of them too.
It wasn't long however before I started birthing children myself though, but I managed to get enough fur for one bag and then some before rearing my kids, most of whom died but I did have one clever daughter and son, I love you guys!
Soon my child rearing days were over and off I went to collect more rabbits, I was so sad to see my ma had died while I was out but I was expecting it, one of my kids made her a grave which I totally adored. Our community was growing, one of my grandkids was making a well and I'd just found 2 iron veins really close to home, I was ancient by now and couldn't do much, so I passed on all my knowledge of the area to all the babes. My only regret is I didn't give grandma a proper burial sad
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … _id=253605

#15 Re: Main Forum » New Peinado family 2 » 2018-06-05 00:04:36

Dacen wrote:

Just after i died i came to look the family tree and someone named saray Peinado of my family was dead just after me. She was not in my town, i was the last elder, it was me, my two girls and their childs, so i guess the main branch live where you started and another colonized the town where i was (but didn't see any bell)

Awwh I was the last of that line of the family you speak of  http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … _id=248265
my ma had no daughters, my elder brother and my uncle all died soon after I grew up; I refused to give up and tended the place diligently up to a ripe age. As i was nearing the end i decided to move out and try to find some more people, on this journey a wolf hiding behind a tree ate me.
I didn't find any half walled off oven or a big berry farm anywhere near I started, I guess my ancestors broke away from the original area?

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