One Hour One Life Forums

I think that's a little harsh.

But tone aside, I do agree. I think Jason would do both himself and his users a favor if he planned his release schedule such that it includes potential support time immediately post-release. Dropping an update and then heading out the door is bad planning, whether you're going out to dinner or going to a conference.

It's not that complicated and it's not a secret.

Any time you would have otherwise been lineage banned, you are instead area banned. The bans kick in when you have spent 30 minutes in a life, when you are murdered, when you murder, or when you use /die. That has not changed at all.

When you are area banned, the location of your birth is remembered (whereas with lineage bans, the lineage you were born to is remembered). When the game is choosing a mother for you to be born to, any mothers that are within X tiles of any of your banned birth locations are removed from consideration as a possible mother.

X was 2000 tiles, but it was just changed to 200 tiles.

Each individual ban expires after 90 minutes of gameplay. So if you are born in some town, and live to at least thirty years there (or are killed or kill someone or use /die) then after playing for an hour and a half in other places you can go back to being born there again.

The wiki is not official and is not Jason's responsibility to keep up with. It's a decent starting point but you can't rely on it to be accurate, as it gets out-of-date if nobody steps up to update it.

Jason has not typically provided detailed descriptions of all the content included in an update, nor has he provided detailed lists of bugs fixed. The new update doesn't contain any new content other than the emotes; the rest of the update consists of bug fixes.

If you need that level of detail you can find it where it has always been available: onetech and github.

Hm. Also from that update:

Seems like that should also apply to squash seeds, no?

Whenever you spot an iron vein, mark it with a long line of limestone leading up to it. That way you or anyone else who passes by there again looking for veins will be able to find it quickly.

Please allow some time after the update and before you have to leave, in case things blow up!

AND HAVE A GREAT TIME AT GDC

Horsehockey.

The effect of the area ban on Eves who spawn near each other is minuscule, since very few players will be removed from the pool of children due to the area ban because very few players will have been born into the nearby Eve camp, because EVE CAMPS ARE SMALL.

The same is also true of Eve camps that are near towns, or towns that are near Eve camps, or even towns that are near towns. The effect of the area ban on fertility is small because the number of players banned from your camp or town because they got banned from the other camp or town is small relative to all the other players on the server who aren't banned from either one.

So what's the real effect that people are complaining about? Why, it's this:

You see, the problem is not that the area ban keeps players from being born into your town. It's that the area ban keeps YOU from being born into the town that you'd LIKE to be born into, because you inadvertently /died out of a town you DIDN'T like but it ended up being too close to the town you WANTED to get to.

I'm actually sympathetic here, because I too use /die to try to reach the kind of towns I enjoy.

But I bet Jason considers this a positive effect, because as we all know he would rather that you have no control at all over where you get born.

Sometimes stone block pens get broken by accident. If you're holding a shovel (for moving poop) and misclick on one of the stones you'll dig it up and allow the sheep to escape. People who break it probably don't even notice what they've done, or even if they do they don't understand that the dug-up block is now a hole in the pen. And even if they do they probably don't know how to fix it, so it goes unfixed until someone with a clue notices the problem.

Once more, I'll point out:

a) The area ban removes from your pool of children only those who have recently been in the hypothetical large town nearby.

b) Servers have many towns, and most players will not have recently been in the town near you.

c) The number of players removed from your pool of children is much smaller than the number of players still in your pool.

Therefore:

d) The area ban has little effect on your fertility.

I think the side-effects are in people's imaginations and the actual effects are very small.

Pretty much everything Portager said is speculation at best, nonsense at worst.

That might just mean that nobody was hauling meat from the pen to the bakery. In my experience it's very common that meat gets produced much faster than pies consume it and you end up with a huge oversupply... but nobody likes hauling the meat from where it gets produced to where it gets consumed.

Huh. I learned something. Thanks.

Also...

There is a kind of "fair use" exception for patents: experimental use. It's restricted to "amusement, satisfying idle curiosity or strictly philosophical inquiry" that are not "in furtherance of a legitimate business purpose", and where the use is "in the case of an individual’s general interest without any intention to profit" and is "only de minimis, small-scale tinkering".

http://nysstlc.syr.edu/experimental-use … ringement/

But, yes. If your intention is to use a patented machine for a useful purpose pursuant to its patented use, it doesn't matter whether you buy the machine from someone or build it yourself using your own materials. In either case, the use of the patented machine for the patented purpose infringes on the patent.