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Looks like you named people in alphabetical order for the most part. But I am surprised there is no Bruce Lee!

We will not have trannies.

So everything i made just got destroyed?

Antichthon wrote:

On Server 2. I had to know what it did, and to prove that one person can cause an apocalypse mere hours after the patch dropped.

So, uh. Yeah.

I was on server two. Thanks for blinding me...

Antichthon wrote:

Alleria wrote:

This isn't 100% true. The game spawns in more Eve's than IMO it should. I'd prefer to wait a minute or two and be able to help a dynasty, than spawn immediately as an Eve and be in competition to that dynasty. A lot of the time a dynasty ends because they are outcompeted by an Eve. Regarding the dynasty that lasted 31 generations (I was the last or second last dynastic member), the town didn't end there. An Eve came and helped me repopulate. If I was born a girl, the longest dynasty would have been longer, but alas... So although the dynasty only lasted about 14 hours (I was present close to the beginning also), the town was continuously populated for over 24 hours. Murdertown/Trump Town has pretty much been continuously populated for a week (empty for a few hours here and there).

I strongly disagree with your assertion that without Eves servers would necessarily go extinct when it's often Eves (and the children they take by virtue of existing, from established towns) who cause the collapse of dynasties and towns (Eves often grief, or produce griefers because they are outsiders). Of course over a long enough time and given the stochastic nature of the game, you're right.

Oh, towns are continuously occupied for longer than 24 hours, sure. Probably never a few days, though (Being empty for a few hours still counts.) And yes, the spawning mechanics are most certainly different with Eves than without Eves, and it can't be mapped directly to saying "the game would not last longer than 31 generations." but even with these considerations, I'd never put money on any server being populated after 48 hours, tops, and that's being very generous.

And if I'm wrong, then why don't we do away with Eves, save if the server is entirely extinct? Put a spawn timer on children to avoid Eve being flooded with children (much like reality), go from there. It would certainly fit Jason's MO of trying to capture realism. For that matter, why wasn't it this way to begin with?

There's a reason Jason went out of his way to avoid the obviously more realistic angle in a game where he values realism: Because it doesn't work.

I think the real reason Jason did this because he didn't realise how popular this game would be and he thought there would be dead time (which there is on servers 4+). I think it'd be totally viable, and at least an interesting experiment, if there was a popular server that wipes every time the last player dies, and there's a limited amount of Eves that can spawn (higher Eve rate a start of server decreasing exponentially).

I'd definitely put money on a town, and even a dynasty lasting more than 48 hours eventually. Especially once the average player skill increases. If the average player was as skilled as you or I, there wouldn't be any town massacres, because they'd be stopped rather quickly. The problem is that once I (or my mum in the 31 dynasty scenario) stop a massacre, often I'm the last person left alive. If I'm female, then I repopulate, but if not, the town dies out.

Lexyvil wrote:

Portager wrote:

It would be cool if the trigger was us, and our reckless use of the environment.

I have a read a comment somewhere that mentioned that Jason once talked about adding a doomsday device that could be made and triggered by players. I love that idea so much, mainly for how it'll probably be very far in the tech tree and the players will somewhat have to work together to ensure it's not activated, haha.

It better be super difficult to create, especially with our griefer buddies hanging around.

TrustyWay wrote:

Antichthon wrote:

No town is always populated. And all you need to do is look at the longest generation line to see that we are still dependent on Eves; 31 generations in longest family line. Even being generous that means the longest unbroken chain lasted less than a day. Disable Eves and all servers would be extinct by this time tomorrow.

Yeah you right, if people knew there were no more eve they would start killing everybody just like berry diggers and fences remover right now.

This isn't 100% true. The game spawns in more Eve's than IMO it should. I'd prefer to wait a minute or two and be able to help a dynasty, than spawn immediately as an Eve and be in competition to that dynasty. A lot of the time a dynasty ends because they are outcompeted by an Eve. Regarding the dynasty that lasted 31 generations (I was the last or second last dynastic member), the town didn't end there. An Eve came and helped me repopulate. If I was born a girl, the longest dynasty would have been longer, but alas... So although the dynasty only lasted about 14 hours (I was present close to the beginning also), the town was continuously populated for over 24 hours. Murdertown/Trump Town has pretty much been continuously populated for a week (empty for a few hours here and there).

I strongly disagree with your assertion that without Eves servers would necessarily go extinct when it's often Eves (and the children they take by virtue of existing, from established towns) who cause the collapse of dynasties and towns (Eves often grief, or produce griefers because they are outsiders). Of course over a long enough time and given the stochastic nature of the game, you're right.

Antichthon wrote:

FounderOne wrote:

The sign and the city is awesome! You did a great job there.

Yeah, I wasn't expecting to populate it yet, but an Eve showed up and I'm not about to turn her away. One thing led to another and now Ovenpost is thriving.

Be sure to visit the field of tongs north of Ovenpost, where we praise Tong, the god of tongs! Tong road, the three-wide road leading into Ovenpost, is named for our great and powerful protector.

(A griefer turned all our fences into tongs. I cleaned up and made the best of it.)

I saw all of those tongs while I was streaming! I was so shocked and knew it had to be griefing   Thanks for all of your hard work! Ovenpost is my favorite town so far.
I messed up and called it OvenPORT in my stream at first, but I was overly flustered from being excited to see it again xD I later corrected it hahaha.

Antichthon wrote:

Erudaru wrote:

I did too but Sheeport already stuck. And yeah, it doesn't matter as Sheeport has been "ovened" and permanently abandoned and Woolville is left to rot as it seems that Eves rather choose the northern Wellington or Junktown which continue to thrive.

Anyway, does anyone know this town? I assume it's one of the old ones because I've seen it before the big update.

I was trying for days to figure out how to reach it from the new villages.

http://i64.tinypic.com/fc4g9i.jpg
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That's Ovenpost. I built the vast majority of it myself over many lifetimes.

Ovenpost huh? That's awesome! I spent some time there recently too! It's easily the most beautiful village that I've had the pleasure to be born in! I can't wait to return!

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