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Wrong.  The basis of trade is any economic exchange.  The legal details of ownership are secondary.  Communities can trade just as much as individuals. Every act of contribution is trade in some sense.

Jason is fairly capitalist, I believe.  And he tried to add private property to the game with fences.  But the thing is, this is a game.  People do not put up with exploitation like in real life.  So the capitalist can lay claim to whatever he wants, but he has no right, or legal recourse, to labor like in real life.  So he can produce nothing in his 60 minutes by working his private property alone.  No one will go work for him and his private property is worthless as a result.  The community and its pooled resources are much more valuable.

Jason added trade to the game with biome restrictions.  It's controversial, and probably rightfully so, but it does force "trade." At least so long as there are enough players on.  Mostly this "trade" is people going to ask for resources from biome families, and they either have it or they don't.  It's still an exchange, but due to the necessary nature of all families except one, again, it is in the interest of all to cooperate freely. 

I think Jason actually dislikes the amount of cooperation that occurs in his game.  But communalism is the natural form of organization for most of human history.

Spoon.  It's very simple.  Jason wants us to use oil.  You can come up for reasons why we should stick around with stone age tools, but he designs advanced technology around oil. 

You are coming up for reasons with why we should avoid using oil to acquire resources and while they may technically exist and they may in your opinion be viable, the fact that we have to discuss such things means there is a problem with lack of the resource that Jason intends to be the end game resource, oil.

Yes, they /die to get to ginger.  If Black fam had access to oil too, they would /die half as much.  Thanks for making my point.

Iron is just as important in late game towns as water.  So no, these are not real solutions.  In fact, if you wanted to play optimally, you've just made points as to why you should do these things for water and save all your kero for iron, but we both know that's not the intended game design either. 

Ponds give two buckets of water on average.  They are not a real solution and only should be used for emergencies.  I've seen people do nothing but get water from ponds and it hardly even keeps water levels above usage rate.

Wells are viable in the sense that they provide enough water, but you are forgetting the time factor.  How much water can you provide to a town by ferrying from new wells? The first few wells, quite a lot, sure.  But then after that?  You would have to be doing this for your entire life as you said, and how much water could you provide your family in that time?  How long would it last them?  I'm betting no more than an hour's worth, which means someone born after you died would have to do this again.   Dedicate their whole life to getting water.   

So towns would need a 24/7 water ferry-er to keep them going.  The logistics of that would fall apart very quickly, and it's why it doesn't happen.  Also, it's boring and not fun gameplay.  Again, you've made points as to why this is optimal, yet neither of us wants to do this every single life, but we should if we were really trying hard to make towns last as long as possible.

Jason has clearly designed the game around reaching oil technology and having an on-demand supply in town.  This allows water to be refreshed quickly and efficiently provided there is kerosene.  Alternatives are often used in emergencies, but they are not real solutions and not fun gameplay.

I'm positive they are recycled sprites.

This is the kind of feature that sometimes you want and sometimes you do not.  Seems like we're just flipping to the other side of the coin now.  I do not think it fundamentally changes the way players will play at all however, if that is your intent. 

For instance, I do many of the things you think this update will cause already.  I care for my kids.  I always instinctively have my family's best interests at heart and favor and dote on my own children.  None of this has ever changed before or after gene score or likely will with this update either.  These things are the reason I play this game. It has never mattered to me that in the next life I will be somewhere else or have a different lineage.  It's One Hour One Life and that's the way I've always played it.

For others, that are more task-oriented and love the crafting/building aspects of the game, they will absolutely love this update.  So I think you've made a popular choice for them.

wtf

Meth doesn't read the forums.  I don't blame him.

Can we be kind while people are spouting hate speech? 

No.

Life is cheap in this game.  It's not a big deal that this person got stabbed for saying something ignorant. They can respawn. 

What matters is that we don't allow our community to be overrun with such behavior.  Hopefully this person learned their lesson and can be both a productive and respectful player in their subsequent lives.

Maybe I should have been more clear. 

This is objectively wrong.  It benefits the mother who is able to put an end to annoying behavior and get back to living their life instead of chasing after babies or having a repeated SIDs that slash dies every time they get picked up.   

The baby is free to continue respawning as long as there are mothers with patience to put up with its behavior.  So in actuality, it hurts no one and benefits the mother greatly.

You guys are forgetting that just because a mechanic exists in game, doesn't mean that the abuse of that mechanic can't be griefing.  Be considerate of other players and you won't have any problems.

Nah, curse my baby is for runner babies too and people should be able to choose the type of player they play with.  Repeated SID babies are incredibly annoying and it's definitely a form of griefing if you do it more than a couple times to the same mom.