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So by itself a domestic bush would never regrow, unless it gets soiled and watered when empty?

Monolith_Rans wrote:

I'm an old player as well.  I've lived every kind of life.  I've been a nomad wandering aimlessly.  I've been a queen of a kingdom.  I've been Eve to a thousand newb babies.  I've applied my life to menial tasks, and I've lived lives of leisure and role play.  I have had every job from road construction, to baker, to Shepard, smith and medic.  But I have never ever griefed.  Why do people think it's fun to destroy what others have built?  Never in my hundreds of lives, did I want to hurt my family or neighbors.  To griefers I say, grow up or go play fortnite.  OHOL is not the place for you.

The last part makes it look like, that most griefers are either childish adults or little trolly 6-10 year olds

Linen plant is called flax. And yes, we need it.

Kinrany wrote:

I suggest something like the Mafia/Werewolf games where some people are randomly assigned to be antagonists.

Make it impossible to distinguish between the real griefers and the antagonists who want to bring the village down for in-game reasons.

Then design around that, and the griefer problem will just vanish.

It almost works in space station 13, except they don't have to solve it completely because they have both bombs that can blow up the whole server, and admins that can ban people before the red button is pressed.

I disagree.  It is relatively much easier to bring a functioning town down than it is to keep it going.  Stealing pies is way easier than making them.  That's a broken aspect of this game.  It takes very little effort with very little risk (IRL: getting caught, fines, jail time) to ruin things but a great deal of effort to keep things going.

Lum wrote:

If you have a knife, then sure, I think stabbing yourself could be allowed. Not sure if Jason would like to include something so gruesome and triggering in the game though.

I dont think he really cares about triggering anyone concidering miscarrige is a thing

I never understood that "don't pick the last berry" thing.

Was there ever a time where domestic berry wouldn't regrow if empty ? because when I started to play, they still needed 60 min to regrow, and you actually had to make sure to empty them as quick as possible if one berry was picked, because if one berry was missing, you couldn't fill the bowl anymore so you wanted to empty partial bushes as quick as possible because the cycle wouldn't restart unless empty.

MultiLife wrote:

Gosh, has someone taken upon themselves to teach potentially new people bad things? A whole new kind of a griefer?

I'd more think it was just someone new passing on misinformation by accident rather than people actually going out of their way to teach new players wrong. I once had a new player chase me with a knife because I was butchering naked sheep. Either someone had taught them or they noticed sheep eventually got their wool back but didn't realize it was due to being fed.

So they of course were angry spouting how I was a troll killing all the sheep when in reality I was just clearing out the useless sheep and replacing them with fed lambs to get more wool.

I have a better idea involving iron that will also make the game a little more interesting.
Have the wild animals get ornery at whoever is disturbing the ground. Pulling iron could attract nearby wolves and release nearby bears, who will also come to investigate the perpetrator.

Add a mountain lion to the game that actively hunts like the bear, but detects from a larger radius and has a dash like the boar, where he goes from slow and stalking at a distance, but his attacks are fast and long (5, 10, 15 meters) ranged. Give him evasion, so arrows don't always stick. Make it a group effort to hunt, like we had to do to remove sabertooth tigers before we could peacefully settle in any of their habitats.

Make wolves rally into packs and travel across the land together.

Cutting down swamp trees should have repercussions as well. Add a chance to release a jaguar when swamp trees are cut down.

Bobcats that stalk the prairies, randomly eating rabbits, but that get particularly aggressive when there are no rabbits. If a field of rabbit holes is left unculled, it spawns predators that, if left unchecked, would reach a balance between rabbit family holes, and predators. Remove the predators prey and they get increasingly aggressive over time.

Add gazelles, at zebras, add lions, add content that engages with content, make people excited to rally together; bows, knives, spears and shields in hand, to take on the wild and claim the lands holding resources.

Make the game more exciting over time, not less.

"Send the scout out on horseback, our resources are dwindling."

"The scout has returned!"

"I've discovered an iron node 200 meters northeast. It's surrounded by four bear caves, and a pack of wolves patrols the area. Gather sufficient food and weapons, we must take these lands, for our family!"

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"The rabbit populations have grown exceedingly large. Dozens of holes with full families will soon attract predators."

"Help" "Pls" "My" "Mom" "Died" "Getn" "Rabs" "NE." "Bob" "Cats" "Atak" "Her." "Pls" "Help"

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Come on Jason, stop treating a number tweak like 0.001 to 0.0005. Like a weekly update. Every keypress you make writing in this forum could have been a keypress into a new objects .txt file. Every hour you spend reading our comments could have been an hour spent drawing or roaring into a microphone.

Make us happy with new content and we'll make you happy with exciting new stories, new families, and new lives.

Sit down with your kids, watch a documentary, share a moment with them, find inspiration for a new idea and bring it into the game, for everyone to engage with.

Don't waste your time obsessing over the way milkweed, soil or iron works, only to find that 3 months later you've just made matters worse and now want to tweek it again. Don't play with the chess pieces on the board, make new ones. Playing with them is our job. Making them is yours.

Interview after interview, you are promising people weekly content added to the game. You sold the game to people with these statements. It's time to bunker down. 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, find what you want to add, decide on it's role, how we're going to interact with it (or it with us), draw it, give it life and set it loose.

This is your mason jar and we're your little caterpillar. Don't just put a leaf in here and watch us die. Move us to larger and larger terrariums. Forget the pet store; you are the factory, you are the industry, you can give us anything, from anywhere, from any time. Don't just leave us here in this mason jar with a leaf and a stick and expect to find a butterfly when you get home from school. We need a lot of nourishment, we need fresh air, we need the humidity and all the things that our ancestors adapted to so that we could become the creatures we are today.

Give us the world.

We're starving for it.

Give us the world!