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This doesn't really solve the problem as I see it.  Mango says I was way off on the amount of oil there is now, but regardless, I still think the problem is there just isn't enough oil on the map.  It's not really an issue of people not getting the oil that is there due to biome restrictions.

I still like my desert oil idea, but a modification of Sage's idea is that the North band for ginger could be infinitely northward, so arctic stretches forever in the north direction.  And the south band could be infinite desert southward but also add oil to the desert.  I think that would be cool and make some sort of sense geographically. 

The most critical use for iron is hoes.  If a town does not have iron, it cannot make hoes and therefore it cannot farm and therefore it will starve. Alternatives like saplings and stone hoes are not efficient enough to replace themselves. 

But I suppose you want us to have dedicated skewer and milkweed ferry-ers as well along with the water haulers.  Why even build a town at that point?  We can all just get in a big caravan and march west to never-ending fields of untapped resources.

Spoon, a single oil well provides 572 water buckets.  A well provides 46.  That's the difference.  Over 12x the water.

A single oil pull might last a family an entire day if they manage it properly.  While a single well will last maybe a couple hours at best.  And you still need oil anyway for iron.  And there are still 4 families to divide both wells and tarry spots among, so they will run out quickly regardless which is my point.   

I really don't understand why you are arguing so much against adding more oil into the game as if well spots are any substitute.   

It makes all our lives easier and I think having both the northmost and southmost families with access to oil would be a good balance.

There's more to it than that, Spoon.

First you need a mod that tells you family player counts.  You want to play when player count is the lowest, this is usually early morning US Eastern time.  This decreases the chances of having random players as relatives. 

Get born on your gene score farming account and do like you said.  Run out of your band to get homesick.  Now get your main account ready.  The one you play all the time and is in the low 40s score because gene score.

Dip back into your homeland on the score account then immediately spawn on your main account.  If you're lucky, your main account will spawn to your score account.  Congratulations, you just got guaranteed score for two lives.  If not, then SIDs on your main account and get out of the band on your score account ASAP.  Rinse and repeat until you make it happen.  Once you get your main account as your child, you will keep it out of the band for its entire life so you have no more children and both accounts can live to 60. 

Now, sometimes it doesn't work out and you have unaccounted for relatives... what do?  Well your score account is always leader... you can just kill them...  So kill any fertile females you don't have control over.  Careful though, that's a good way to get cursed.

Since you did this at low population numbers, your accounts may be the last fertiles for the family too and your tactics may end up killing the family from lack of babies.   Doesn't matter.  You're not a griefer, you're the #1 score in the game.

The only crop I think this matters for is cabbage because it's the only one with a low seed ratio and also is a high turnover crop.  It takes 3 plants to seed to replant a 9 row plot, and then you have 3 seeds leftover.  8 plots in the standard 3x3 format with a hollow middle is I think optimal for cabbage.

Those are all recycled sprites that someone made in image editor.

Good tip. Thanks, NTP.

ACorp used to build the roads a lot, I think mostly by himself.  He doesn't play anymore but he's still in discord.  If you can get a hold of him maybe he can give you some tips.

Also, if you ask in Phex for paint, someone in brown fam will usually make it for you.

Hailerm is X BOOK ARMY X !

I'd say about 1 out of 2 people make that mistake.

Anyway, cursing is a way for the player to say I don't want to play with this person anymore and this game would be unplayable if it did not exist.

I also don't think SIDs is as annoying right now as it has been in the past.  There was a time where SIDs babies would /die and then spawn seconds later and do this upwards to a dozen or more times.   That's not happening as much as it used to.  Not sure if it's because player count has gone up slightly or the new band update makes it easier to find mothers in a homeland or what. 

Sometimes this is the result of a bad player who has been cursed by every mother on the server and you just happen to be the one who hasn't cursed them yet.  I see it a lot with new players getting this as a result and you can tell it really affects them because they don't understand what's going on and you have to explain to them so they don't feel horrible, then they too are annoyed once they realize what's happening.

Bobo doesn't play as much anymore but he was on last night and killed a family.

I misunderstood and thought you were talking about climbing leaderboard and not worried about the minor perks you get in game from gene score.