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As far as I remember there are roughly 1000 unique players per day. The number of game keys sold is in the tens of thousands. Like maybe 50000 by now? Don't have current data at hand though.

I haven't seen a genuine water crisis so far. I exhausted two Newcomen pumps, but both times we had at least three full cisterns. One town had a crisis incoming with a dry deep well, but we built the Newcomen before I died.

I haven't gotten to oil after the apoc, but I guess the oil tower could be run from any spring or ponds close to the tarry spot. So you don't depend on the water you stocked up before.

Place the springs in an irregular pattern instead of a grid and a little further apart (like 100, not 1000) and it should be fine IMO.

No, they have a 5% chance to break on each firing, even the first one.

EDIT:

If that can't be worked around, the following is moot.

How about a time-based decay for the Newcomen Pump?

Say you have half an hour to crank out as much water into cisterns as you can, but then it inevitably decays into a broken pump. Maybe increase the time for the firing pump from 15 to 30 seconds (or any number that makes more sense) to reduce the maximum number of buckets you can get out of it.

In the optimal case where empty cisterns, charcoal and a bucket are available you might need 5 seconds for emptying, refilling water and charcoal and firing. That would be 1800s / 35s * 2 buckets = 103 buckets of maximum water gain. In reality you would hardly have charcoal and cisterns ready all the time. So in a well-run town you might expect 40-50 buckets with a hefty investment of lifetime and kindling.

Would you guys be interested in a Python script that downloads logs between any two dates and arranges them in a CSV file for easy Excel import?

You would have to install Python, if you're on Windows.

Why not? Sounds pretty straightforward. Eves could still settle at a pond cluster, but later generations would have to locate a spring and either move the farm or transport water to cisterns. (And let's not forget that awbz-powered Eves should be able to find grid-placed springs pretty easily.)

Maybe dig up empty ponds for a little bit of extra water before they disappear.

Great you found that useful. Looking forward to reading about your newest insights.

I came back from a long trip a few days ago and have now found the time to jump back into OHOL.

Same. I imagine that making veins even rarer but upgradable with machinery would make the game more interesting. Setting up and feeding permanent mining outposts would be the kind of stories I would prefer over the current property fence weirdness. Towns might even compete over them or trade iron...

1. Nice work!
2. I was your first mother in that video and you were our last girl. We died out. /angry
3. Sorry for calling you an idiot kid.

That would be the ideal solution, I agree. I would be AMAZED, if he would be able to pull this off all by himself at this stage of the project.

Ah, OK. You're probably right with it being the same person, if it happens multiple times, especially during off-peak hours when sometimes there are only 20 or fewer people on a single server. For what it's worth I have opened an issue asking Jason to treat the underlying "malformed MOVE message" that awbz (ab)uses as a disconnect instead of insta-killing the character. I agree with you that this is an unfair exploit. (Except for Eves maybe, but hey, how long does suiciding as a grown-up really take? Two minutes?)