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That's a wonderful idea!

If we ever got crop signs, it'd be nice if there was a new object for the sign part. Piece of bark, pulled off pine trees by hand perhaps? Paper or wooden disks would work as well, but make the signs a bit more high-tech.

Skewer + sign bit = blank crop sign
Blank crop sign + [crop] = [crop] sign

or have it work like waystones:

Skewer + sign bit = blank crop sign
Blank crop sign + [crop] = blank sign with [crop] (sitting below the sign)
Use charcoal pencil on Blank sign with [crop] = [crop] sign (black charcoal drawing of the crop)

Lay the sign on the ground and smack with a round stone to stand it up, and remove it with a sharp stone (like a home marker).

Cleanup could be using a hatchet on the sign to get kindling and a skewer. Something like that. We're missing some ability to talk with our future descendants. Other than current letter signs that take up way too much visual space for crop fields, and are difficult to make with the tedious and HUGELY un-intuitive method of making letters from letter stock.

Right!?

This sounds amazing. I think Jason's mentioned before that he wants lives to feel different. Buffing races for their biomes gives a reason to have new, different flavors of town. Especially if we had biome-appropriate building materials & livestock as well. The only thing like that so far is the snow buildings in the arctic. It'd be so nice to have similar stuff for other biomes.

Jungle biome - thatch or wood-and-thatch huts, and/or more advanced bamboo buildings. Chickens/junglefowl for eggs instead of geese.

Desert biome - wattle-and-daub huts, and/or more advanced adobe or brick buildings. Goats instead of sheep for milk and meat, flax for thread & linen instead of wool and milkweed.

Arctic - already have snow-based buildings, and they're awesome. Reindeer for milk & meat?

I love when I've been a ginger born into an arctic fishing village. Because it's a sorely needed breath of fresh air in a game where lives feel ever more similar as various nerfs restrict gameplay choices.

I enjoyed going off as a young male and scouting out iron resources for the family, but that's not a thing anymore. In a terrible village or murder-opolis I had the option of running off as a young female, living off the wild while I searched for a new and better place, and then raising children as a pseudoEve or revitalizing a dead town. Now with family wells, family iron, homeland fertility...haring off to start viable family outposts is crippled. You can't search around & settle in a spot with many ponds anymore to ensure lot of accessible wells and water for the future. You can't enter or interact with anything in the wrong-colored area anymore. Lately the game feels more restrictive than it does constructive.

It'd be wonderful if future updates made MORE things possible, rather than only LESS.

Ugh. I hate that constantly increasing scarcity has been the go-to 'fix' for fast town advancement and some people being bored in advanced towns.

It's so backwards - the fix for too-fast advancement and bored players is to add more meaningful content. To NOT make it absolutely crucial for towns to rush to the top or die out. Camps and villages should be able to sustain at the camp/village level if their population is low enough. By itself that'd give more life-to-life variety. But the speed at which water runs out forces every village into constant fast upgrades (or dying out). Taking such a heavy-handed approach to limiting water, oil, iron, rubber, etc...feels like it cripples the game and promotes more stagnation and same-ness across different lives.

The bug fixes are great, but the current overall trend of "play the way I want" via scarcity, forced advancement, and hard coded inter-family reliance is frustrating.

Good idea. If the posse system is meant to be mob 'justice' (by needing a certain number of people to allow a killing), then it ends up implying that the other villagers passively interfere with or otherwise don't permit non-mob-approved killings.

Being able to solo kill someone who killed another player (recently?) would just imply that the villagers aren't willing to interfere with a revenge/justice killing of a killer. Which works pretty well from a roleplaying view.

And from a non-roleplaying view, it's still a good way to get rid of griefer murder groups before they can chew through an entire town population. A few will die, but then one or two 'town guards' could handle getting rid of the killers.

Locking up all the knives isn't a viable strategy as others have mentioned - knives are absolutely necessary tools for town survival. Since knives are tools that get used often, and since most murder-griefers are in your own family, eventually they'll get access.

Exactly! People don't need to be forced into upgrading tech by imposing new scarcity on resources. Players will upgrade tech anyway over time, just because it's there. And a game that regularly delivers new things to create and try retains player interest much better.

This game has so many new players that buy the game, run a handful of lives, and then leave. This means:

1) the game trailer and marketing doesn't accurately represent the game (arguably true at the moment)

2) game is too difficult to survive in for new players (which is a legitimate problem, one that might be helped by having a more comprehensive tutorial or a no-hunger/no-death sandbox zone supplied for learning)

and/or

3) there just isn't enough interesting or creative content to sustain player interest

Many people either gave up on the game completely, or just aren't playing for long periods of time because there's nothing new or interesting going on. Restrictions on top of restrictions, nerfs on top of nerfs...that can make the game harder and more complex. But IMO those DON'T make the game more interesting. They DON'T have a draw that encourages people to play more often. Content is king, and our king is missing.

These are amazing ideas!

One of the things I hate about the specialization update is the magical uselessness of being in 'unfamiliar' biomes. Can't gather, can't interact with anything, can't even hold an item. That massive nerfing "update" locked away large parts of the game for players each life. But making the special biomes more hostile overall while giving the associated race a buff to working in that biome is much less irritating.

Perhaps along with being less affected by temperature extremes and hostile wildlife, the appropriate people know their biome well and get full amounts when gathering resources. And the wrong families for that area get reduced results - only one bowl of sulfur from a spring? Only able to collect bowls of latex instead of buckets, or new partial buckets? Higher chance of failure when going for oil?

With mechanics like that things are still possible. MUCH more difficult, and much more risky for the wrong races...but still possible. If people absolutely need resources for their village to survive, they can find a way to get them. Yet it still encourages inter-family trade, because having the right race harvest a biome is going to be much safer, and with a higher output.

I know Jason is trying to improve the game...I suppose. But I swear that some of the changes are purposefully, pointedly antagonistic towards the player base. A "whack the players with a big stick so they fall in line and behave how I want" approach, rather than giving us more constructive or productive reasons to behave in whatever way. A lot of the game changes just feel very heavy-handed and many times poorly thought out when considering how those changes interact with other parts of the game. I dunno. It's just frustrating sometimes.

I dunno, I think it'd be nice to make temporary straw bales to easily move multiple sheaves of straw. Sure, you can load some into a cart to move (if there's a cart available), but there's nothing wrong with having a little variety in the game. Some different approaches to achieving the same goals. Why not?

Threshed wheat storage would be amazing. I think better storage and transportation of goods is a cornerstone of being able to specialize - easier for farmers to stock the bakery with grain when it isn't taking up all the bowls and floor space, and easier for someone to be a dedicated baker if they're not having to run back and forth to-and-from the wheat farm for materials...like...a farmer.

Buckets and boxes are a bit weird for wheat storage though. It'd be nice if we had a jute plant harvestable for fiber, similar to milkweed. Harvest jute fiber, work a bunch of fiber on the loom to make burlap, then remove and sew to make a burlap sack that can store some amount of threshed wheat, cleaned dry beans, corn kernels, etc. That'd be awesome.

Also, thirding the needle thing - They do get made in bulk, because various rabbit hunters, accidental picker-uppers, doctors, and the "I just wanna sew this one thing waaaaaaay over here" end up carrying a bunch off to all corners of the map. It's always nice to have 6-10 near the sheep pen so you're pretty much assured to find a needle when you need one later.

Thanks for the info everybody!

So far I'm quite liking the homelands update - it encourages more towns, family cohesiveness, and gives a bit more importance to male children since they can be important traders or resource gatherers far away from town without losing out on producing children. Also love the previous change to tool slots! It's really nice being able to do an occasional one-off thing without messing up my tool slots for the profession(s) I wanted to do that life.

Will a new Eve need to solo through making a shovel and digging a well before she can have children?

Wow, I'd forgotten about that post.

It's interesting how the August-2019-Morti post and March-2020-Morti posts sound like they were written by two completely different people. Not just the content, but also HOW they're written - the phrasing used, conversational method, and apparent train of thought are really quite different.

Open Steam. Click "Add a Game" down in the lower left corner. Choose to add a NON-STEAM game. Click browse, and navigate to your OHOL steam folder location*. Select the OneLifeApp_H_windows exe. Open. Now it should be checked and at the top of the list, click Add Selected Programs. Now it's in your steam library and can be started up like any other game. You can right-click and go to Properties to rename it to "OHOL with Hetwu mod" or whatever.

*If you don't know where this is, in your steam library right-click on the game, go down to Manage, and Browse Local Files.

<3 this post, especially the pen diagram and general workflow layouts.