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I thought this thread was about Chicago.

Right at this moment there are two different Underberg families. Yesterday there were two Connell families.

Is Hetuw mod client just being weird?

Ollj, I'm curious, Why cut trees along the road? I take great care to drop road tiles behind trees so it's easy for other to come along and fill in. Nobody picks up that wood, and it's much more ugly with no scenery.

It just seems a waste of ax steel. Perhaps you can tell me the upside to doing it.

It's pretty much all the time most of the things that confuse me. I usually ask babies, "Do you want to live?" The say "Y". They jump out of my arms to hump a straw hat because they want it. They shout "F" to demand food, and then they die. I'll look at the family tree and see they were a SID death. I don't get how you can come in and be that demanding as to your survival and then as fast as flipping a switch say, "Awww fuck it I want to die now." I mean, do their brains really work that slow that they take that long to realize they don't want that life? I understand the instant deaths; I assume they want a different race or lineage. Its just the wishy-washy ones that have no idea what they hell they are doing or trying to get that bug me.

I also don't get the many players who log in and then go AFK in less than 30 seconds. Did they wander away to get a snack and forget they were playing OHOL? How high are they? Are they narcoleptic and fell asleep at the keyboard? Are they intentionally logging in just to starve to mess up others genetic score like some kind of griefing? Did they get disconnected and just say, "Ugh, it takes 10 seconds to log back in, that's too much effort!" Sooooo many questions!

And whomever said, "There is no stupid questions" clearly never played OHOL. Some of my favorites:

1) The aforementioned "Where is everyone?" - Again, I see the same screen as you pal. I've got no inside info to help answer that.

2) I'm the only person trying to revive a dead town. I have a kid who at three y.o. says "Job?" - Dude, it's just you and me. Figure it out. Whatever you want to do, chances are, nobody is doing it.

3) Let me play a little, and I'm sure I'll be reminded of other knucklehead things I hear a lot. I know there are others.

Except everything you just said is wrong, and to get back to where you were usually just involves doing /DIE three or four rimes.

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I like the idea about something you can do in game to tie yourself to a lineage EXCEPT these concerns that come to mind:

1) What do you do if you want to "turn it off" so to speak? Do you need to track down your own grave and destroy it?

2) What if others do whatever it is to you and you start always appearing in a certain family, and you didn't even ask for it? Too much potential to get hijacked.

3) I think players will be more frustrated and upset if they go thru a bunch of work to make some kind of shrine for themselves, only to discover the game ignores it every time other parameters dictate they need to be born elsewhere.

4) Would building a sarcophagus only allow you to return the very next life and not all following lives? If so I foresee cities littered with tombs and countless players pillaging resources building said tombs rather than doing actual useful things. Such a burial plot would have to have a way to be recycled by other players after you are reborn (or within a short period after your death). In this case it can be kind of neat. Every city can have a little permanent cemetery of above ground tombs like my home in New Orleans does. Maybe don't have to build your own, just use one that's empty? IDK.

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It's also occurred to me that someone can use this to intentionally try to grief just one family into its doom. Of course, it would be all the more important for people to use curses to prevent this, but alas, people don't curse. Maybe the best idea is give a player who was the EVE the option to always return to the family they started as often as possible. If anyone can be trusted to do their best to help a family, it should be the player that created it. Right?

Jason

I really think you should make it so a player can go into setting and CHOOSE if they want to be born to the same family when possible or not. The default can be as it is now, that you get moved around, BUT if a player wants to try to stay in a certain linage because they have fun working hard to keep that family alive (and also usually stay in the same spot) I think this will do a lot to improve and fix some issues the game has. I shall list the things I can thing of:

1) Reduces the number of players wanting to use /DIE
2) Potential to open up the parameters for spawning so that less EVEs will spawn
3) Lineages will have more relevance
4) More happy players

Of course, there is no guarantee you'll always come back to same lineage, just that it is preferred given other metrics are within certain parameters. It doesn't help to force a player to be born to a skin tone that has low population, if that player is just going to commit suicide. A player shouldn't be punished and prevented from wanting to be committed to a certain family. This also would not be a guarantee that you'll come back to the same spot. As family members travel and spread out, you could be born to any of them, anywhere.

Personally, I'm a road builder. I need to be all races to help cross different biomes, and whites are handy too because I can speak to any traveler I meet while working. I'm not suggesting this for me, but many people have asked for this, and I think it would be a wonderful option. Please consider giving it a trial run and see how it works out. It should be simple to do. Just allow a player to turn off the criteria that they must placed in a different family from prior life, and that automatically turns on that prior life family is preferred if there is an existing mother who qualifies to have a baby given the other requirements. I'm not a programmer but that sounds like an incredibly quick bit of code. Am I right?

I am also glad its only a temp ban. Spoonwood clearly is passionate about the game, and that's good, but at the same time, he needs to learn to respect that EVERYONE asked him to stop necroing threads and he wouldn't stop, which is basically disrespectful to everyone.

It was also getting annoying that he posted five threads a day on the exact same topic. He was actually hurting his own cause, because if I was Jason I'd already be ignoring all his posts.

UPDATE: Jan 16th

Looks like all the stones I brought have been set. There is still a little area west of the current double bell town that needs stones delivered. If someone could grab a horsecart with tires and deliver that would be great.

Today I will be pushing more road westward and clearing trees and etc.

I don't think that works either. I have been born to a person I have cursed. Like, literally less than five minutes after cursing them. As far as I'm aware no person I've cursed has come back as my kid yet.