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I just took a moment to think about how huge this game could've been if all the people, who genuinly enjoyed it, wouldn't have left out of frustration. The most i've seen on server reflect is 100-120 players at a given time, for like half a year now. The least being like 30 in the rift age. It could've easly been a several thousands.

I remember I was playing it a few times at my parents' house and my little 9yo brother was watching me. And he was asking to play. He had watched some youtube videos of it, so he thought he could've handled it. Normally i let him play stuff like modded minecraft or don't starve and i like when he enjoys it. But i couldn't bring myself to let him play OHOL, because i knew that it wouln't been fun for him. He'd just get stabbed for no reason or get kidnapped and starved. And he'd come to hate this game. It's such a beautiful game but he'd turn away from it 'cause of dumb shit like that.

Can we have an F for all the experienced players who left 'cause of greifing and also a hugeass F for thousands of new players who could've enjoyed OHOL and maybe created wonders in it, if they hadn't quit <24 hours in 'cause of all the frustrating stuff piled on new players, such as dumb killing and senseless cursing, but also hate on berrymunchin and, huge, unintuitive tech curve (that one has pretty much no way of exploring without using outside-the-game info or having someone teaching them and nobody got time or patience to teach noobs over and over), sense of disorientation that the vanilla client gives and lots of dumb shit such as anger at them for taking stuff from the floor or from eating berries 'cause they dunno what a pie is?

Goddemn am i depressed now.
Also... fucking necros.

Let's keep it on ez so we don't scare the new ones
I love having more players and once they are hooked we can get the challange back

jasonrohrer wrote:

Essentially, here's what this game is:  A collective roguelike.
By "collective," I mean that the "player" playing the game isn't an individual person, but a whole group of people working together and spread over many hours and generations.
The "player" in this game is a village or family line.  The death or failure condition is when the village or family line dies out.  The village is the organism.

And yet, your romanticized gameplay appears contrary:

jasonrohrer wrote:

In my last life, I was experimenting with building a private piece of land to have food for just my offspring, to see how that helped my gene score. 
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I completely failed at what I was attempting to do in this life.
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BUT, I made mistakes along the way, and learned a lot for next time.  My fence was too close to the town center, I should have recruited someone to help guard it before I left to look for supplies, I should have explained myself better to this nosy woman from the town, and so on.


Consider me the nosy woman from the town.
How is private property supposed to help your gene score?
How is private property supposed to align with the success of the “collective?”

What is your game, really?

I've kept my mouth shut through the shitshow that was the rift and again for the pain in the ass skills update, but man what in the fuck is this shit? Why does Jason like making this game more and more of a chore to play with each update? I just don't get it.

I would rather wait another week or two weeks for the worst bugs to get caught and removed, instead of routinely finding the game in an unplayable state right before the weekend or when I'm trying to show it to a new player.   It is very frustrating and unprofessional.