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I agree completely! My lives have been so much better since the limited lives update!

And I also have mixed feelings about 1 life per 20 minutes. Too much wiggle room for choosing where to live.

I can relate with this! I have such a hard time remembering my name xD

But yeah there are some names that are overused.
Hope has definitely been one of them for a long while now!

Sometimes it might feel like wasted time, though it is all about how we perceive it.
I have grown to appreciate those moments for what they are and what they teach me:

Boring duties and times of waiting can feel boring and slow, because they are the mundane things that aren't particularly exciting or challenging.
House cleaning, yardwork, errand running, waiting for a doctor appointment etc.
These moments are great for learning and practicing self reflection, imagination, and patience.
Many of my best ideas and thoughts come during these moments!

I definitely do not enjoy deep cleaning the bathroom.
But I appreciate the opportunity to try and create my own fun while doing it.

This is 100% truth!
Unless we count sleep..
I tend to lose sleep when I'm hooked on a game.
No regrets!

I went back and forth over whether to reply to Jason's comment here OR create a new thread.
I didn't wish to detract from or derail Morti's thread, because I tend to get a bit whimsical and wordy now and then..
However after re-reading Morti's post, I decided that my reply to Jason could be at home here.

1. Play is essential for creativity to thrive. Play helps us learn how to learn.

2. Creativity is essential for putting human ingenuity to use in creating beneficial advancements in society.

No matter what, humans are going to play.
And I believe that is wonderful because it means we will continue to grow.

I like to think of playing video games as similar to listening to music.
I can turn on my favorite streaming platform, put on a random playlist, and ingest songs like fast food or fine dining.

- Some songs I can listen to haphazardly and not really give much thought to the experience in the moment.
- And then I can listen to a song that suddenly soaks into the very fabric of who I am and awakens my soul.

Movies, books, and video games have also given me experiences like this.
Some are fast food. Some are fine dining.
All are experiences we are having within ourselves and with each other.

You have mixed feelings about one million hours people have spent playing OHOL, and that's good!
Humans are messy and mixed and terrible and wonderful!

One million hours playing One Hour One Life gives me so much hope for the future and evolution of gaming.
Niche games that make you think as much as OHOL does have been desperately needed for so long.
And I don't mean "A + B = C" type of thinking. I mean "open up my soul and figure out what makes it tick" type of thinking.
The deep stuff. The human stuff.

OHOL may only be a game. But this is only life. And we are only human. Even virtual.

One million hours nurturing each other.
One million hours angering each other.
One million hours learning with each other.
One million hours failing with each other.
One million hours feeling emotions with each other.
One million hours building with each other.
One million hours hating each other.
One million hours growing with each other.
One million hours dying with each other.
One million hours loving each other.
One million hours inspiring each other.
One million hours achieving with each other.
One million hours experiencing life with each other.
One million hours being human with each other.

That is something to be celebrated!

So thank you, Jason, for sharing your art and soul with us and letting us experience it with you.
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"You will simply become completely absorbed in sound,
and therefore you will find yourself living in an eternal now,
in which there is no past, and there is no future,
it all becomes one doing, one happening"

"When we make music, we do it to improve your mind,
to improve your character, and brings us into a state of peace
where we can understand that the point of life is simply here and now.
The journey itself is the point.
The playing itself is the point."
-Alan Watts via Rameses B - Meaning of Life

Originally Jason's sales plan was $1.00 per one hour / one life.

I wonder if it would be viable to still sell one hour for $1.00
That way people wanting to test the game can buy a life (or a few) try it cheap.
Then if they enjoy it they buy it.

No idea how this would be implemented, but it would get more people to try it.

I've developed the occasional cooking time management anxiety! Where I begin to lay out everything on the counter in preparation, because my subconscious is telling me I'm going to be able to finish making my food if I take too long and the stove suddenly goes cold!

^ This feeling also temporarily freezes my brain for a moment during my above process! xD

One of the reasons the limited lives on a timer was implemented was to purposely discourage people from /die'ing over and over and encourage them to live the life they were born into. You can also no longer /die to force Eve spawn even if you had more lives. This is intended.

This is in the #live-dev-changes channel in the official discord server:

5/27/2019
"Changes to function of /DIE.  Can no longer use it to cycle through all families and force yourself to be an unecessary Eve.  Eve only spawns if there are really no available motehrs for an incoming baby.  /DIE adds this family to your family skip list.  If you eventually cycle through all families, so that you've skipped them all, and none are left, your skip list is cleared."

That's when families started getting way too big and we ended up with the same 2 families lasting days and being the only option. Then Jason made this change:

5/29/2019
"We now add a new Eve whenever existing families have more than 15 players each on average."

You can still play as Eve on one of the empty servers if you wish to.

I did a quick search for "bigserver1" in the OHOL discord and found this:

This suggestion should be on the /r/OneLifeSuggestions subreddit so people can vote if they like the idea!

Often times when people try to help it is because they don't fully understand the job and wish to work with a pro so they can better learn the job.

This is a direct result of lack of communication as a whole.

If someone is trying to "help" you try asking them if they are new and wish to learn [insert your current project job here].

If their answer is "not new" or "sorta new" (ie: they've done a little before) then ask them to do something that both gets them out of your hair, helps you with your job, AND helps them feel useful.
- Building Road?   "Can you get me boards?"
- Smithing? "Can you get more kindling and stack it over there?"
- Baking? "Can you get me the mutton from the sheep pen?"

If their answer is "yes new" then tell them to just watch and ask questions if they have them.

Because of this experience they will be more likely to communicate first and ask before barging into someone's job.

TL;DR:
Society needs communication.
If you're a Master. Teach.
If you're a Student. Ask to learn.

10 would be insane, yes...

But what if she got 2, 3, or 4 babies?

How about if we add in a low % chance for births with natural multiple babies? Twins/Trips/Quads.

Not the "Friends" option that we can choose, but could possibly borrow the same code to be modified/merged with the current birth rate / Eve spawn system.

Having only one baby at a time should still be mostly the 'norm' because we don't want to overdo it..

Which is why it would start out as a very low % chance that increases when certain factors are met:

How young is the mother to be?
How full is she?
How warm is she?
How fertile is she?

I found this article to be fascinating and we could borrow ideas from it for birth rates: https://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/ … ving-twins

A few snips from the article that could translate into code:

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That way we could lower the chance of random Eves, making them rare and special again. Extras can still spawn if no fertile mothers are available or everyone is on birth cooldown, but I think the twins/trips/quads would help ease the Invasion of the Eves quite a bit... Without removing the possibility of a new family sprouting up nearby (gotta get new blood somehow to marry our kin off to! )

Plus the thought of being surprised with an unexpected sibling, born at the same time as me, is thrilling!

I also like ideas others have had that would go nicely with this:

Pregnancy.
Mother-to-be gets Pregnant Belly instead of babies just popping out right away.
Pregnancy lasts for 1 minute and the future baby's player is carried in the belly for that 1 minute.
Mother-to-be can continue working, give village tour, and talk to unborn baby(s) about what life is like.
It's a fantastic learning opportunity for new players even if the mother decides not to say anything.

Adding in your idea with a twist (see below) could also add to this.

My twist:

Using /DIE in the Pregnant Belly
- Would behave as it currently does and Lineage bans player from that family/Area.
- The Eve that spawns from doing this is AREA BANNED and spawns somewhere in the wild.
- This lets people wanting to legitimately play as Eves play how they like.
- Reduces the amount of Greifer Eves.
- Reduces the amount of Baby Bones.

Using /DIE after being born
- Would add family to the SKIP list.
- If people run out of families, they don't become Eve.
- Their SKIP list is cleared, and they start over again, going through the families.
- Running out of families for the second time does NOT clear the SKIP list.
- Instead they get a temporary, non-cursed visit to Donkey Town for one hour. (No permanent record)

Took the words right out of my keyboard! I remember being new and feeling frustrated over being abandoned over and over. Yes, it can be frustrating. Especially if you are playing with the mentality of "This is a game therefore I must feel complete JOY during my entire play experience."

This game is more of a society and civilization simulator and you are supposed to feel a mixture of all of the emotions while playing it. The good lives make the bad ones feel so worth it.

When I finally found my first mother who kept me, raised me, took the time to actually teach me a few things.. Oh boy was I super excited! After cycling through several moms who couldn't keep me, it felt really special to finally be kept and cared for.

So far OHOL is a pretty damn spot on society and civilization simulator when you really really think about it. Not many babies (or mothers) survived back in the caveman days and early civilization.

That's just my two potatoes.