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Also losing connection. I have 1gbps internet, great ping in the US. If i -ping the onehouronelife servers from CMD I get <150 ping every time, which I'm assuming is acceptable.

It happened to me three times last night, right as I got to the good parts of being a feral eve (working farm and kiln). Got too annoying and had to turn it off after three deaths to lost connection.

Discord is a great application for voice chatting for online games. It's like a free, updated Ventrilo. It's also very casual.

@Joriom, I didn't know about that on Server 11 pre apocalypse. I only played maybe 20 hours pre apocalypse, so I was still learning the struggle to survive. But I guess this would be the goal then; Experienced players grouping together to build something huge and magnificent.

Lmao maybe someday we'll meet in game!

Only flaw I see is that, say we have Joe the farmer tending to his beautiful berry bushes, when Nameless the griefer decides to start shoveling the bushes. Joe grabs the nearby bow and arrow and shoots Nameless, incurring the murder penalty. Now Joe has the murder slow, a bloody bow, and needs to find another person, then he needs to explain that he killed the griefer, and can't eat until he finds help. Though the idea is good, I feel like it does have the ability to punish the good guy, but no system is perfect.

It would seem to ruin both parties involved in a one versus one situation combat situation, but perhaps this could promote doing jobs with a group to help keep safe. After all, its a game about community. I like the idea, but it does have that unrealistic aspect: In reality, someone can stab another person and feed themselves later, so it has a rather "gamey" feel to it.

The curse or "dance on their grave" option seems to be the best trigger. The reason being, it would require community involvement. A single person cursing or dancing on a grave might not do anything, but if you used a squaring function, 5 people cursing the grave might have a 25x duration over a single person cursing the grave.

This system would benefit greatly from the ability to identify the creator of a "Fresh Grave" and a Murder Grave, and perhaps not able to pick up a grave with a basket until it's no longer fresh? Because once the grave is picked up and replaced as a bone pile you could cull that information to save server side data space.

Edit:From a code perspective, I mean even if you just attached the PlayerID int or uint (whichever you use) + the name string data, it would be just a couple bytes per fresh grave, for three minutes, right? Maybe have a server side table that keeps track of the names recorded to each playerID but I feel like that would create a lot of server side data.

Very good points, and I definitely understand the coding situation (been programming for like 10 years myself ). The attacking of an unsuspecting person is also a good point. Perhaps in the future, we could see defensive clothing options implemented up the tech tree? Perhaps an Iron Breastplate that wont keep you warm but will protect you from a flint tipped Arrow shot. It would even make perfect sense if the tech tree had rival Offense vs Defense crafts, much like real life, where technology is created to render pre-existing technology functionally obsolete, like full plate armor did to swords, and military picks did to full plate armor. Much like real life, the successful combatant would be influenced by the tech level of their weaponry or defense.

Or maybe even a Rock Paper Scissors combat interaction system? Where a player wielding a knife for example couldn't get into striking range of a player wielding a spear, as a crude example. This would even further support your "Gates have two guards for a reason" statement, where it would be beneficial to have different weapons on different guards.

I'm grateful for the detailed response though, I wasn't sure my comments would even be read this far down

Edit: After more thinking, I had a (fairly obvious) insight. One of the reasons we don't have a huge numbers of sociopaths running around purging each other in real life is because of the consequences of actions. To a person who wants to accomplish nothing more than create chaos, whether via murder, griefing food supplies purposefully or other less effective yet still annoying means, the consequences of failure in completing their task is virtually null. They could be thwarted again and again, but they only have to succeed once. It's almost like flipping a coin over and over; you might get tails 7 times in a row but statistically speaking, you're eventually bound to get a heads, and that griefer might fail over and over, but he only has to succeed once.

Also, I think experiencing a bit of grief every now and then is fine. In real life, society deals with people that do bad things. Society either deals with that person or fails. The random guy who gets his hands on the bow and arrow and shoots Grandma Hope is bound to happen, and honestly shouldn't be stopped. It's the "Oh, they caught me griefing and killed me. Time to respawn in the same village and wait to grow up and do it again." that I think the majority of people effected by it would like to put a stop to.

I mean come on, I've shot my fair share of grandmas in this game...

Some personally suggested options, if one would want to discourage specifically repetitive grief, would be:
A) Make it easier to thwart a griefer via in game mechanics once those tech items have been established
B) Use some sort of system outside the game mechanics that prevents spawning in the same area over and over in a short period of time.

Maybe give players the ability to perform some sort of "mate" ceremony, which greatly increases the chance the participating female will give birth to the next baby, perhaps even a guaranteed Queue system for all mated females. This would give males a biological use to societies, by doing a (consenting, hopefully) mate action with a female to put her on the baby queue.

Perhaps random babies can be distributed as they are currently, and the mate queue will be fulfilled first.

Also, as a female ages and hasn't birthed a child, perhaps her fertility weight increases, so that we don't have too many eve's never having babies.

It can  be frustrating playing as an Eve or the last female of a society, and giving birth to ten boys before you finally get a girl. Perhaps some diminishing returns on having the same gender baby over and over, so it wouldn't be entirely random but it would give a better distribution of genders on a short term basis.

Make it so that anybody who is flagged as a murderer can be murdered with any sharp stone or axe, while they are suffering the movement speed reduction. Killing other players would at least need some extra intelligence behind it, other than the "I have the only weapon" situation we currently have.

I mean, if someone stabbed my mom in front of me and i had a metal tool in my hand, you'd best bet I'd start swinging it at them.

Edit: also, make it so they can be murdered mid run animation. The current "If I'm constantly moving i cant be murdered" part of the system shouldn't apply to murderers with the slow.