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I could imagine a setup of a number of these satellite farms with a single farmer serviced by someone running in wheelbarrows of empty baskets and running out wheelbarrows full of carrot baskets. Then these go to outposts that aren't producing food, like nursery, blacksmith, trappers (if cooks are separate), etc.

Any ability to communicate across generations would be a huge advantage and could really shift the gameplay. I think if we get it, it should be something that takes an absurd amount of work or resources to produce and/or only last for an hour or two.

This is the real solution. I've had good luck with surrounding the farm with baskets of food a couple rows/columns deep so no one ever feels like they need to go into the field to eat. But you gotta keep them full in all directions, if someone wanders in from the south you want them to see a basket of carrots first, not your seed crop.

I support the idea of leaving trolling, but making it hard work. It wouldn't be like the real world if there weren't jerks, but you should have to put some effort in. If it were more like that, I could imagine throwing myself into helping a troll mom wreak havoc. It's not what I'd normally do, but I'd help someone who is working hard at something.

If things advance to the point where there are competing lineages, a saboteur class (ie, trolls working on behalf of another lineage) might arise.

Exactly. I also wouldn't mind stopping to go raise a baby, especially if there were a custom tailored place for it. I think that's the key though, is you have to make it appealing enough that you don't have to "make" people come there, they just know that they'll have a much easier time raising their baby if they go to the Cradle.

I've been calling it dancing plague (see). Sometimes it can be "cured" if someone picks you up (if you're small enough) or feeds you food.

I've been thinking way too much about this. Especially in the context of building a society when you know there is a huge range in players' skill levels.

This is probably just wishful thinking, but I'd love to have a nursery where someone shuttles babies to after they're born. It would have one main entrance room, with a stock of clothing and a main mama to guide people along. This main room would have two sides, one for totally new players, and one for returning players, and adjacent to it, would be demonstrations relevant to each.

For the new players, as they grew up, they could watch someone demonstrating and explaining basic crafting and game mechanics. When they're able to pick things up, they could move on to another room that has baskets of things they can play around with... kinda like a Montessori school. There'd be another person here whose job is to impart wisdom. Adjacent to this room would be someone constantly showing the important rules: milkweed and family animals come to mind.

For returning players, they'd get a demo of the latest tech/discovery/technique (right now, stuff like letting whole fields go to seed, or metal working, etc). Then there would be people in subsequent rooms showing how to do various advanced stuff: crafts, techniques, etc.

This would require a ton of infrastructure to support, but you can start with a single room and scale up. First room is the nursery, second is the adjacent rooms with demos. Actually... doesn't even have to be a room. You could start a small farm (3:4 seed/feed ratio) next to a house so that babies growing up inside could see.

I've been teaching my kids "Three to seed, four to feed".

If you're just starting out, and have some good resources around you, this is the ideal farm pattern and timing I've found to get a sustainable rotation going:

Top row is for seeds, bottom row is for eating. Start 1A and 2B and the same time. Then water one in the bottom row every minute, and one in the top row every ~5 min. You need 17 seeds to get the full rotation going, but you can work your way up to it if you don't have mouths to feed. Once you have the pattern generally established, work those fields as quick as you can, even if things get a bit out of order.

This needs ~1.2 water per minute, which works out to be 3 main ponds, plus an occasional 4th backup and it produces 5 carrots per minute.