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Those who play differently are sent to Donkeytown, ... or they are simply killed because they cannot defend themselves due to the gang mechanic ... (a broken mechanic, magical and unfair to both parties) that's why the game is dead ... because playing the same game over and over doing exactly the same thing is boring and nobody likes to play a boring game ...

OHOL is a game without life, without stories, without challenges.

Mods cannot be played on a vanilla server

EVERYONE MUST PLAY WITH THE SAME ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES ... logical, don't you think?

This is common sense, and all serious game developers know

If you want to play with mods, you usually create alternate custom servers to allow some mods

If the mod is very successful, the developer may decide to integrate this mod into the base game itself as an update to the game itself so that everyone plays with the same advantages.

I also left the game a long time ago and currently OHOL does not have any incentive to return to play

Currently OHOL does not have any mechanism to be able to call it "a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building"
Before OHOL had more game possibilities, now it's just a food type creation game ...

I also think that when the engines and vehicles were implemented, the game lost its way and became a strange experiment with nonsense objects and mechanics ...

Jason proved that OHOL is aimless

correct, part of the charm of this game is seeing your family prosper in the future ... if the world is restored every 24 hours (for example) OHOL loses its essence completely

I even believe that the OHOL world should never be restored and it should be "natural" causes that cause this type of reboot.

I have been talking about natural disasters or climatology for a long time and I still think that it is one of the best solutions to end monotomy and boredom in OHOL, also to solve the problems of highly developed cities, to avoid a multitude of abandoned cities, to solve the monotomy of the food cycle, even to regenerate the map of natural resources

I explain:
Let's imagine a big snowfall (or the implementation of winters and summers in OHOL), this would cause that during the cold winter you cannot travel at normal speed due to snow and cold, you would need winter clothes to move and a vehicle to get to where you want to go, with the real possibility of dying on the trip

In these winters you would need to have buildings to warm up and a reserve of food (they would not grow in winter) and you would also need teamwork !!! just what ohol doesn't currently have

Imagine that the cities suffer from spontaneous forest fires that must be extinguished so as not to lose the city devoured by the flames (this would make the abandoned cities and all their content disappear)

They are ideas that (with a lot of work) can be developed and would create a unique game

It would be something similar to playing with a natural griefer, and although we don't like the idea of a griefer, let's remember that they have brought us many good stories in this game

but surely OHOL problems are not solved by changing values in an excel table (for example with the food nerf)

you have to implement new mechanics and ideas, without resorting to magic and careless patches and that's a lot of work

I totally agree with Dodge,
Jason I recommend that you use your time without a computer to create a route plan, a direction, a goal ...

Plan where he wants to lead the game and where he wants to go
I think the goal of 10,000 objects is absurd if you don't know where you want to go

leave the sloppy patches and magic solutions and focus your ideas on a clear goal
Only by knowing where you are going will you be able to make the right changes to get there.

There is still a small community of players in OHOL that supports you ... meditate and explain to us where you want to go with OHOL and the community will respond positively ...

I agree with you DestinyCall

This game started to fall when crude cars, radios and airplanes were implemented and magic is used to solve problems.

It was at this point that all the logic of the game went to shit and we discovered that the game does not have a clear objective.

In the update of the crude cars, I could observe that nonsense objects were beginning to be implemented, outside the technology tree of the current game, and I could also observe that the older technologies are not updated, they are forgotten since the developer no longer has want to work on it.

Objects are being implemented that are not even necessary in the current game, time is being wasted and efforts are being wasted in developing new objects that nobody has requested, and that transform OHOL into a lot of objects of various technologies with no relationship between these

The game does not need more objects, it needs an objective (I've been saying it for a long time)
OHOL needs a road map

I would love to see Jason work for a week or several alone on a road map for OHOL
and leave behind the sloppy improvisation

The irrigation system is another example of a poorly developed object

The only advantage of the irrigation system is saving water

But is this really any use? What is the use of saving water if the city dies before the end of the day

Do you think that the novice or the casual player will visualize that using the irrigation system saves water?

Not even work is saved! It is easier to water 10 berry bushes with a bowl than with an irrigation system that most of the time is behind a property fence to prevent it from being stolen or destroyed!

The irrigation system must have visible advantages! (for example a more abundant harvest)
Of course, for that we also need something that counteracts more food (for example pests or freezing winters that kill the crops)
Of course, for that we need silos to store food and be able to spend the winter ...and of course we need a well developed temperature mechanics... and here comes the problem ... all this must be planned well, and it is a lot of effort and possibly you need a better game engine ... and that is not going to happen

It is useless for Jason to return to the development of the game and implement more objects without meaning and without a clear objective

OHOL has many issues that should be checked
Temperature
Balance
racism
griefers
sloppy patches
die mechanic
inconsistencies

the game needs to consider a new engine
the game needs an direction
The game needs consistency
The game does not need more magic

trade
war
migrations
adoptions
religions
have been reduced to spontaneous role-playing games
Great ideas that may attract new players, who have been burned to the ground

If you want to play a game where 80% is to create varieties of food until you get bored and role-play this is your game, but if you are looking for something else, this is not your game

I have left OHOL for a long time because it does not motivate me to play, there is no reason to spend 60 minutes making food or any absurd and useless object ...

At least before, I could kill some griefer and save a city
or save a little girl and continue the family line in a satellite city
or live with another family and create a multicultural city
there were stories to tell! ...
now, OHOL is a game that the more time passes, the less things we can do ... with each update it becomes more bland and more limited

no problems have been solved, just sloppy patches have been created to hide a reality ... that the engine is very deficient and that updates are created with minimal effort

It's like putting an air freshener in a pig farm, if you are near the air freshener it seems that it smells a little better than in the rest of the farm, but if you move away from the air freshener you can smell the reality of the place

I never understood why the genetic scoring system, a completely broken system ... is the only system that decides if I can be a leader or if I can be born EVE

It seems unfair to me not having the option to be an EVE or to be the leader like any other player

This only eliminates diversification in play styles.

Why can't a king be evil? Why can't a leader be a casual player? Why can't an Eve be a new player and hers her children help her advance as leader?

From Steamcharts you can check the players who have accessed from Steam https://steamcharts.com/app/595690

In http://onehouronelife.com/reflector/ser … ion=report you can check the actual occupation of the servers

They are almost always the same numbers:

In the DiscardedSlinky post you can begin to reveal the problem ...
https://onehouronelife.com/forums/viewt … p?id=10485
OHOL needs a minimum of 12 players .... and needs to have all 4 active families. (3 players in each family)
When this gets out of balance ... the game falls like a house of cards
The lack of new content, the lack of new challenges, the repetitive and boring tasks, and the magical and absurd mechanics have killed the game.

I stay with this phrase... jajajajajajaj

Trade cannot work in a world where everything is thrown on the ground within everyone's reach.
Remember that we are surrounded by "ghost" cities full of resources of all kinds and objects of all races in the game

There is also no solid reason to trade in the game.
Also trading with your same family is contrary to the game itself

If your goal is to keep the family alive as long as possible, you will work for the common good of the family ...
Will you sell a cake to your mother, your brothers or your uncle if they are starving?

Trading attempts are just role-playing games by some players

I advise you to try to create and sell wine with other families, here you will see the great obstacles that OHOL has with trade

You speak of creating signs, shops, paper, letters, storage of coins, etc ... to be able to carry out trade
When you have everything ready, your city will be dead or a weekly update will have deleted all your work

I tell him that to do all this, you need to have many experienced players who when they finish their tasks, perform the role-playing game of salesman, for several lives

of course you should try to convince your children or relatives to continue selling after your death and to continue the family business

and you should also consider that you must spend 50 minutes inside a store waiting for someone to come to buy an item that you do not need (because everything is lying on the floor)

I wish you luck!

even if you agree ... you will not solve the game

PD. I also think that the choice at the beginning of the game will make OHOL more boring and bland

the OHOL problem is not solved with a screen where you can choose the birth

This is just another sloppy solution (same as / die, or gang mechanics, or race blocking)