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I dont miss the days where people built farms in the middle of a grass biome, and then I had to go on a hike with those damn things.

Thats part of the fun of it futurebird, the town leader can either be a prgmatist who assigns jobs based off of merit, or an ass who does it based off of grudges.

That would make each life interesting. Thats for sure. If a baby lies to you and says it knows how to smith, but it doesnt, then the other villages with a competent smith will have a leg up on you. Your family can still use the forge and make normal tools, but the ones made by a smith would be twice as durable, allowing for better iron usage and a stronger civilization.

Lol.

Don't forget the murderers, tool hiders, racist sleezeballs and religous cultists pein

Or Ninjas in the case of your avatar

I am one of the few long term users I know of who actually cares A LOT about my families from what I can tell, that is not a diss on anyone else, but I see a clear difference in my play style compared to that of others. I find rote building and crafting to be very boring. I would rather make a friend with a fellow baby at the fire and then hang out with them, building stuff and partaking in some light roleplay together. There is also nothing more satisfying to me then seeing my kids grow up. I literally believe that children are the most precious resource in this game, they are awesome. Who doesn't want to see their kid grow up and pass on the family name, and become surrounded by kids of their own?

There is a big problem here though Jason, and that is that the majority of the power user community does not like roleplaying, and many do not like being parents. There are only a handful of us veterans out there who would rather hold our children at the fire and tell them the history of our family then work on building pet projects. Im not hating on other veteran users, or saying that they all dislike raising kids and partaking in LIGHT roleplaying, but my observation is that most do not like the kind of "story" based gaming you envision. That is their right, and their playstyle. They are all cool people, and I enjoy talking with them and playing with them none the less.

So my recommendation is this, you need new family mechanics in this game that encourage people to get to know one another.

I do believe it is time to add an adoption mechanic of some kind to allow male players the right to formally adopt abandoned babies, and have these babies appear in their family tree as adopted children.

I also believe that it is time to have defined community roles. A family head who is bestowed the honor by the previous head, and creates an unbreaking succession of leadership. Actual cooks, farmers, smiths etc, roles given by the head. These roles would not have to mandatorily be followed, but there could be incentives or disincentives to make the player follow their role (ie berry bushes planted by a non farmer take longer to generate new berries). If they dont like their role, they can leave and after clearing so many miles from the village, their role could vanish.

I believe that placing spawn points closer to existing camps would also help to cause more tensions.

Please consider adding some new family elements. I think that would be much preferable to completely redoing the map, which is much beloved by the community.

Good to talk to you again Hooper. Pretty sure that was my most unproductive life in a long time. I did next to nothing. It was nice to learn gate making though.

Thats another problem with fences, they promote laziness.

Mega props to you for inventing a griefing method that actually takes time and effort, much better than the usual low IQ griefing methods.

Don't pretend however that this is about population control. For one, it took you 45 years to complete this greifing. Clearly, if the village was desperately overpopulated during that amount of time, it would have hit a famine and collapsed, but it didn't. It was therefore not overpopulated, as it did not surpass its carrying threshold.

Secondly, if a village really was on the verge of collapse due to overpopulation and the area ban, then anyone can leave and start a satellite village. As a female during your second life, you could have done this, or you could have convinced your family to do it. I happen to know that there is another small camp to the WSW of this particular village along a partially completed road. You could have just gone there and kept building.

I want a camera in gam

This is amazing!

Some rubber dough

Crrashing the OHOL servers aside, I was able to get my stats thanks to Thalos.

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Date 2018_03_01 - 2019_03_14
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portager
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firstEntry: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:39:22 GMT
lastEntry: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 05:23:14 GMT
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births: 1070
deaths: 415
timeAlive: 9d 11h 20m
males: 438
females: 632
males/females: 0.69
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avg. death age: 32.87
Death by hunger: 282 -> 67.95%
Death by oldAge: 122 -> 29.40%
Death by killer: 11 -> 2.65%
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ignoredUnderAgeDeaths: 427
ignoredDisconnects: 224
elderDeaths: 122
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born as eve: 229 -> 21.40%
avg. generation born into: 5.67
longest generation born into: 66
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kids: 1170
kids per female life: 1.85
avg. kid lifespan: 12.48
grandkids: 791
grandkids per female life: 1.25
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kills: 5 -> 0.47%
avg. victim age: 28.87
victim female probability: 80.00%
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I'm pleasantly surprised to see that I have played way less then I thought I had.