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I've noticed bots suddenly show up in the game a few weeks ago. I wouldn't have known but I was streaming and people in my chat let me know the person that a certain person was a bot.
I don't frequent the discord too often. I think there's a good chunk of players that aren't discord regulars either, so they wouldn't know. Apparently there's a list of "bot commands" somewhere but it's not actually part of the game so how would someone without yumlife mod or discord know about this? And it's not easy to find - I've heard of a google doc somewhere but haven't seen the link anywhere easy to find.
Bots zooming around the farm at super human speed (faster than Yikes!) doing tasks is just odd and so out of place in the game if you ask me.
I understand that it's a cool project for the person that is working on them, but I feel that it's affecting the core game experience on the big server. When we have high population on weekends, it's disappointing to be playing with bots. I get it if it's low population late at night and especially when bots could still be female, that made sense to me like okay sure it's a bit of a perk to not have your family die out. But even then, families dying out is part of the game. It gives other players the chance to play as Eve and to make new towns. The biggest appeal of the game for me is that it's a multiplayer game, not a game with NPC's. And the interactions I've had with real people have been interesting and fun, and have kept me coming back to the game.
Today in game here's a few experiences I had with bots --
Due to bots only being male now, I now avoid picking up male babies. I gave one a chance today because we were low on players and I thought a boy would be nice to have because we needed sulfur, clay, etc. materials from out of town. I asked if it was a bot it, it didn't respond the first couple of times, then said something like "me" which I thought wasn't a bot response, but then turns out it was a freaking bot. Why should it have to take me 3-4 times of asking if it was a bot to only get the clear response when it was too old and too close to home to kill or abandon? Why did I have to waste time trying to interact with a bot?
I have one of the bots cursed so far because I decided that I personally do not want to play with them. But I had to hold off cursing the one I encountered my last life because there were actual racist trolls we had to use curse tokens on.
Anyway, after coming to terms with the bot living, I quickly tried to give it just rag clothes before it got too old so I wouldn't waste good clothes on it. Someone ran by and gave it better clothes without knowing. Also no way to take off its backpack that I had already given it. A few things it did this life were - holding our only empty bucket, running around from the farm to the nursery with it in hand. Running at super human speeds to put down soil and quickly till the soil and water in a blink of an eye. Next thing, I wanted to replace the tile underneath the fire with wooden boards, but I gave up on that because the bot immediately throws firewood on the fire, never letting it die out. The final thing that made me annoyed enough to post on the discord and here is that I spent time making a bowl of cooked beans, one of the most annoying foods to make. It was our craving. I wanted to give it to one of our fertile females so we could get rid of the craving. We only had one. I set it down for a second to ask her if she could come back and eat it. A few moments later the bot runs up and quickly eats it. I lost my temper at that point and started cursing at the bot but there's nothing that can be done at that point.
Maybe I'm in the minority and everyone loves bots. Anyway what is everyone's thoughts?
Jason, if you read this what are your official thoughts at this point? I saw a bit of the discord conversation someone linked me to but I'm wondering if you have any new thoughts on it?
Landing strips decay too quickly. For a while I was on a small server with a group of people and we used to use air planes to travel to each other's towns since they were far apart. However, the landing strips decay I think within just 2 hrs right now? So by the time you login the following day it's rendered useless, you'd basically need to communicate with someone outside of game or in phex chat to get them to create/refresh a landing strip for you at your destination.
I think especially with the way the big server is with families that don't die off in the far east, landing strips/airplanes need to be made more useful/worth crafting.
I'd suggest maybe a landing strip that isn't removed for a certain amount of time could become ancient? (with caveat it can still be removed with pickaxe just like current ancient walls)
here is a summary: https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … p?id=10631
Interesting - thanks for the link
Slap whites + gingers together and blacks + tans together. Without even taking racism or any game mechanics into consideration the town populations look awful.
Black and ginger lineages can only have one type of female per generation which looks bad in my opinion. Your mom + aunts all look the same, you look like your grandma always dude to how female models don’t birth the same models. Jason says there’s enough models but honestly towns have looked bland since he enforced same race babies.
Actually I agree with this. I was always more fun not knowing what type of baby you would get lol
Will we ever get the option to turn down certain sounds?
The truck and sports car are so loud it hurts my ears and I often just mute the game because of that, but then I'm missing all the other cool sounds.
Some exciting highlights from my recent gameplay:
- I spent 15 minutes trying to get a lady from another race to pick up a piece of paper and read what we were trying to say. In the meantime other people got fed up with her and stabbed her because she was holding something they needed. Me and another girl had to heal her to keep trying to teach her. We spent another 10 minutes trying to teach her how to write on the piece of paper but she couldn't quite figure it out.
- Spending my life getting buckets of water from ponds because we were unable to get rubber because no one would trade us.
- Having the server be low pop for 60% of my life, then me not noticing it raised to high pop when I jumped off of my horse in the desert, losing a cart full of sulfur and bananas and eating a ton of ginger supplies because of that.
- Having the server be high pop when there is no desert family. How were we supposed to get sulfur to work on higher level tech?
Please for the love of all that's good, please make the game playable again on the main server. Either make "low pop" be 30-35 people or get rid of race restrictions.
It's unplayable especially with the new players who don't understand that people are trying to trade or that there's a language difference.
The meta right now is to wait until the server dips to low pop, then quickly pile bananas, cactus fruit, palm, sulfur, and salt outside of the restricted biomes to come pick up in later lives.
Otherwise nothing gets done and THAT is why we can't make the advanced tech like race cars that you angrily say we never make, Jason.
Can someone summarize it to me? What was that all about? What did the riddle thing lead to in the end?
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