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Could you make dogs kill bears and wolves? Then towns would want to breed dogs to keep safe.  It lines up with farm dogs role of protecting from predators.

Skim Milk is now better than whole milk.  If you make skim milk and 8 slices of buttered bread you get (10*3=30) + (8*12=96) for a total of 126 pips.  If you make make whole milk and 8 slices of plain bread you get (10*5=50) + (8*6=48) for a total of 98 pips.

I think you can insta lose your homeland if someone upgrades your well.  If that were to happen the only fertile females would be the ones who are outside the homeland and were sick when they left.  They would then proceed to spew out bbs until someone makes a new homeland.  It's a weird edge case and probably not worth fixing.  Might be what happened thought.

Morti, Maybe what's happening is Jason is trying to develop a great game and when he comes to the forum to get feedback he just sees a bunch of personal insults.  Comment on the content, not the creator.  If you don't like X, give reasons why you don't like X.  If you say "I don't like X, Jason created it because he's [insert insult here]" he's obviously not going to listen to your feedback.  I've read your posts, Morti, I've seen what you've built in world.  it's clear that you really love this game.  Now think about the fact that this has been Jason's primary focus for years.  He clearly loves this game, too.  If you look at his recent changes, he's reworking core systems of the game.  He's not some end of cycle dev just throwing in some new hats before he halts development.  He is actively trying to rebalance the game.  This is a huge opportunity for us as a community.  If we can come together now to give Jason respectful feedback about how the game world is playing out he'll be able to fix things much faster.

The Eve towns all get flooded with bbs because the towns are dying off since they can't get any iron and can't upgrade the shallow well to a deep well.  Some Eves travel really far to find a natural spring and set up shop.  Those towns can get iron and upgrade to deep well, but need multiple races to get to newcomen stage, so those towns are dying off when they can't sustain the rubber requirements because too many towns are dying off. Also, since there are so many Eve towns with dry shallow wells all of the natural food is getting eaten. Its a cascading failure caused by the well grief.

It's an effort/reward thing.  Instead of blocking off the mines, you could just block off the well spots directly.  But to cover the same amount of ground as the well tapout exploit you would need to block off 25x as many wells.  The community has tried to block off nosaj's in the past and it didn't work.  I've seen walled off tarry spots so people have tried it, but it didn't really seem to do anything.

Allowing the wells to generate Iron if they become a primary homeland would solve some of the problem, but a griefer could try to set most of the wells up in bad locations without nearby iron spawns.  Finding these abandoned wells as an Eve is pretty difficult, especially if you have to scout each one to check if it has nearby iron veins, whereas the griefer is presumably on a horse cart and check it much faster.  If that's an easy fix it could slow the problem down.  Another quick fix would be to reduce the tapout radius.  Because tapout radius is squared, dropping it down to 80 would make it require 6 times as many wells to cover the same area.

A long term fix if you want to keep it similar to current tapout radius would be to remove tapout radius and make it so you can't build wells in current homelands.  An hour after the griefer builds the well, no bb is born in that wells homeland and the land becomes fertile again for eves.  You could get into situations where a town has more than one well, but you won't be able to build a second well to stave off a water shortage.

Easy fix, once you kill someone it no longer takes a posse to kill you and you can't be healed if killed.  Boom, problem solved.  Why go through all the effort to meet up in a town if you'll only get to kill a couple players?  Besides murderers are the least of our problems.  Bobo took out a single town using a gang of three people?  Meanwhile there were significantly worse griefs happening yesterday that I don't want to mention  where Bobo reads lest he actually learns how to grief effectively.

Water pouches fit in backpacks.  It would be great if we could fill them with edible liquids too.  Milk pouch, broth pouch, stew pouch.  It'd extend the usefulness of rabbit furs after your town has enough backpacks.

Restricting water isn't a great strategy for making the game fun.  The issue is that it's a problem solved by a small number of people.  A single trader bringing back rubber.  A few people with a cart full of buckets getting water from ponds.  Once the town has water again it's business as usual.

The other problem with water limits is that it restricts people from doing things to help their village survive.  Don't grow crops other than corn, it wastes water.  It's boring being in a village with water and food, because you know that you SHOULDN'T work because it's a waste of precious water.

This is a better direction to go.  Make water plentiful and go with the gradual devaluation of food.  Towns will have to stockpile more and more food to survive.  Now the town really has to come together.  Regularly feeding and butchering sheeps to get enough mutton becomes important.  Having bakers making enough pies to keep satisfying the demand is important.  Having carpenters build boxes to store the food so the bakers have enough room to make the pies is important.  Having tailors keeping the population clothed is important.  You can get the same tense survival aspect, but now the whole town has to pitch in to solve it, it's not just something solved by a pro player on a horse.

Going with food devaluation kinda makes sense from a real world perspective. In the real world, as civilizations advance, food demand grows to keep the expanding population fed.  Since the population of towns is mostly static, food devaluation works as a sort-of stand-in for a growing population.

One way to make leadership useful would be to add a "my allies own this" command to property Gates.  Make it so only people that have been in the leadership chain for at least 3 minutes can use it.  That prevents people from just temporarily following you to get gate access.  It can still be abused by quickly following someone and running away before they see your name.  Babies follow their mothers leaders so by the time they are old enough to use they gate they will have access.