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How about this: you can reach max e.g. 7 yum, but when you do you 2 or 3 bonus pips. So it rewards diversity, but not at pathological level.

This will allow town to specialize in food production as there will be no point to make all kinds of foods but some diversity will be very rewarding. Of course that limit and bonus can be tweaked, but 7 seems like reasonable challenge with nice reward of additional pips.

Exactly: each biome has unique resources, but those in jungle are higher in the tech. Noone will settle there to rip benefits generations later. Just walk to jungle. And we can plant amngo trees I guess...
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Wow, only now I noticed that circles in background schematics create halos around heads making the whole art resemble madonna with child painting.

How can new players "EASILY switch servers or quit and re spawn". They usually don't fiddle with settings or use mod - they are new.

Yes, this happens and is not intentional I believe. That's why I sometimes add line "don't starve" in a situation where they might miss it e.g. waiting for something in a desert with hands full, focused on learning. When they realize they are about to to die they might panic. I might even feed them just in case sometimes.

Recall yourself day one - it happened, didn't it?

Ok, so I guess that old post by Jason is no longer completely applicable.
Still, that would be nasty workaround

50% virtualization overhead on CPU usage? Even when usage within your VM is below 1%??
Jason, something's seriously wrong on the Linode's part and it would be good to ask them for details where  this monster overhead comes from. I have never seen anything like this while managing VMware virtualization. Sure, intensive disk usage or even network (even memory) creates CPU overhead, but if your case was anywhere near "normal", virtualization would never be such a great tech.

Those stats show most certainly problem on their part and they should be more eager to work on their side instead of throwing it on you. I don't want to jump to any conclusions but it would be embarrassing to show clients that their 1% CPU usage in VM generates 50% usage by hypervisor - without any cause presented.

I suppose warning emails are courtesy on their part not to to cut you down to contract quotas immediately, right? Because you can set quotas, limits etc to ensure noone gets to little or too much.

There are so many things that can be wrong here. But one thing good for single thread application (when it runs efficiently) is that it's single core VM can be more easily squized into hosts CPU, while e.g. 4 vCPU VM needs to wait for 4 cores available - when there is resource contention between VMs. While going from 1 to 2 cores might be not big change in this, now your VM would be subject to (in VMware terms at least) CPU co-stop - situation when one vCPU is ready to go, but another is pending resources from the host. You don't want to do that on single thread application. Even when one vCPU does heavy lifting, both need to be scheduled on physical cores for VM to run.
That's why increasing vCPU count on VMs that don't efficiently use it usually, counterintuitively, decreases performance, if there is any contention for resources between VM (and there always is unless someone pays extra )

Sure, they use different technology, so I don't claim it's all applicable. But from both business and virtualization tech perspective this amount of resource waste/overhead doesn't seem viable.

You would have accomplished if it stayed you Vs 50+ players server, wouldn't you? Only moving all players to one server stopped you. That's not enough? You almost did it.

From what you say if there were 2 more players similar to you cooperating with you then you would manage. 3 players Vs ALL other players to accomplish this is way to easy.

And yes, I think it is in the spirit of the thing to require at least small (5-10 players?) organized *civilization* to trigger the most challenging thing in the game - civilization wipe. I think that might be still  too easy, maybe not. Do you think, in the spirit of this game of civilization building, this should require anything less?

Don't get me wrong, it would be awesome to be part of it and 3 players cooperation seems like huge boost thanks to backup plans and shenanigans with meds.

When I realize the place will die out (no girls) I switch 100% to teaching mode - or learning if there is opportunity. I ask if someone wants to learn this or that or whatever they choose.
If this happened with someone building the radio then I would ask them to teach me.

Not sure if its to this extend, but i agree in principle. Neglecting or even worse, killing new players is terrible for at least two reasons:

1. This game is dead without new players. It's like abandoning kids in real life because they are useless at star, soak up resources and attention of adults. Such a short-sighted approach. New players will quit if treated that way.  New player is annoyance because you cannot finish engine or bring cow? What's the difference? Even if this helps your village in a meaningful way this place will be dead in a day or two anyway. Knowledge you pass on will endure server wipe.

2. This is sooo against the idea of the game - building civilization for another generation, not just for yourself. And for me the most memorable and impactful moments in this game come from interaction with other players, usually when I am teaching or was taught.

Though experiment: if all experienced players for a week spent 80% of their time teaching new players, what would be the result? What would be the worst? What would be the best?
Chaos, towns in ruin or abandoned? We sort of have that now. A bit bigger player base with considerably higher average skill level? Yes please. They will be more likely to stay in Eve camp, be useful in town, less likely to grief and more likely to just be in the game.

Let's keep it civil ok? Yes, your list was for food including all different factors, that's why I mentioned a few. Taking all into account, how exactly did you end up with rabbit berry pie as top tier?