I want to go back.

futurebird · 2019-05-14 19:42:31

I want to know what happened to the town where I had triplets and made 12 buckets.
And to the town where I made a sheep pen with property fences and worried no one would take care of it.
And I want to know if my great grand daughter who I only met at the end of my life really did become a wolf hunter.

I've been back to towns that I've lived in before only a few times in all of the many lives that I've lived and it always surprises me how much they are transformed. Some of the time it's sad, some of the time, I'm proud. But, it's one of the most rewarding aspects of the game and I feel like I'm fighting the game to get there.

It's so good I think it could be instructive for players who *never* think about going back. The lives where I cared the most were those 2nd time lives.

And don't get me wrong I don't want to just camp out in the same town forever... but I'd like to go back.

What if:

-If your town survives x more generations you get to go back?
-If you are buried by your family you get to go back (after 30 min of real time pass min.)
-If a line that you were in before is down to 1 or 2 fertile women you get sent back to revive them.

I guess picking the name from a list could be OK. But, it's nice when you just end up there again... especially if you are needed.

spurofthemoment · 2019-05-14 20:24:59

I really like the idea of burying allowing players to return. It would give burials a purpose, whereas right now they're only aesthetic. It'd be fun for the players who get to return, and good for the town, since returning players are already invested.

Maybe the probability could go up for each step of the burial...if within 15 min of real time of your death you're just buried in the dirt, you have a small chance of returning in your next spawn after 30 min of real time. If you're buried with a gravestone, you have a medium chance of returning. If you're buried in a marked grave, you have a high chance of returning.

Doing something like that would really give graveyards a purpose. I like it.

Last edited by spurofthemoment (2019-05-14 20:25:48)

Psykout · 2019-05-14 20:39:41

The only problem with burial bringing people back is how long it takes to be buried. You either have to arrange a funeral so you know you will be buried right away, or play the guessing game of did it happen yet before you choose to respawn. If it acted to shorten the ban timer, it would need to be from 1.5hrs to 1hr, otherwise people would feel inclined to suicide after thirty minutes somewhere else to get back as soon as possible. What if burying someone made the timer go from playtime to realtime? That could work nicely.

I used to call for ways to get back, but really it can do a lot of damage to people trying to make a town survive, because people are choosing to go back to one town. Often I ask myself, do I want to get back to keep at it, or just to see what happened.

What if when you are buried you can "ghost" your gravestone and see whats happening there, but not be able to be seen or interact with them. Last five graves can be ghosted too before it starts getting overridden

MistressZues · 2019-05-14 20:43:41

spurofthemoment wrote:

I really like the idea of burying allowing players to return. It would give burials a purpose, whereas right now they're only aesthetic. It'd be fun for the players who get to return, and good for the town, since returning players are already invested.
Maybe the probability could go up for each step of the burial...if within 15 min of real time of your death you're just buried in the dirt, you have a small chance of returning in your next spawn after 30 min of real time. If you're buried with a gravestone, you have a medium chance of returning. If you're buried in a marked grave, you have a high chance of returning.
Doing something like that would really give graveyards a purpose. I like it.

Can we just put this on Reddit and up vote the hell out of this!!!! I NEED THIS!!

spurofthemoment · 2019-05-14 20:47:05

Psykout wrote:

The only problem with burial bringing people back is how long it takes to be buried. You either have to arrange a funeral so you know you will be buried right away, or play the guessing game of did it happen yet before you choose to respawn. If it acted to shorten the ban timer, it would need to be from 1.5hrs to 1hr, otherwise people would feel inclined to suicide after thirty minutes somewhere else to get back as soon as possible. What if burying someone made the timer go from playtime to realtime? That could work nicely.
I used to call for ways to get back, but really it can do a lot of damage to people trying to make a town survive, because people are choosing to go back to one town. Often I ask myself, do I want to get back to keep at it, or just to see what happened.
What if when you are buried you can "ghost" your gravestone and see whats happening there, but not be able to be seen or interact with them. Last five graves can be ghosted too before it starts getting overridden

Oooh, ghosting would be great too! Especially if maybe you could just go back for like 15 min of real time or something...I also like the idea of being able to interact with items in a very small way as a ghost, like maybe you can wiggle them without being able to move them from their location, or make a basket or a bucket float for a second. Maybe animals could react to you or people could see you when they're high on shrooms...just to make it spooky.

I'm probably getting to far into this, but I think being a ghost for a bit would be a fun way to check on your town's progress without diverting human resources from other towns.

Psykout · 2019-05-14 21:04:29

spurofthemoment wrote:

Psykout wrote:
The only problem with burial bringing people back is how long it takes to be buried. You either have to arrange a funeral so you know you will be buried right away, or play the guessing game of did it happen yet before you choose to respawn. If it acted to shorten the ban timer, it would need to be from 1.5hrs to 1hr, otherwise people would feel inclined to suicide after thirty minutes somewhere else to get back as soon as possible. What if burying someone made the timer go from playtime to realtime? That could work nicely.
I used to call for ways to get back, but really it can do a lot of damage to people trying to make a town survive, because people are choosing to go back to one town. Often I ask myself, do I want to get back to keep at it, or just to see what happened.
What if when you are buried you can "ghost" your gravestone and see whats happening there, but not be able to be seen or interact with them. Last five graves can be ghosted too before it starts getting overridden
Oooh, ghosting would be great too! Especially if maybe you could just go back for like 15 min of real time or something...I also like the idea of being able to interact with items in a very small way as a ghost, like maybe you can wiggle them without being able to move them from their location, or make a basket or a bucket float for a second. Maybe animals could react to you or people could see you when they're high on shrooms...just to make it spooky.
I'm probably getting to far into this, but I think being a ghost for a bit would be a fun way to check on your town's progress without diverting human resources from other towns.

Yeah this is an easy concept to get too far into, which is why it would be cool to be able to levitate stuff and such, but little too much. Lot of the times I don't necessarily want to play a life there, just see how it shaped out. Same feeling as when I forget to take a picture of something I did, I die and realize and am sitting there say "Son of a.... god damnit"
I made an adobe grave shrine to my mother yesterday, an eve that found a terrible camp and tried to reboot it. When I knew it wasn't going to work I took down the adobe I was using to enlarge the pen to make the shrine. Got my nephew Eric to bury me, finding him when I was 59 and telling him it was time, and both of us heading over with a shovel and a flat rock was really fun and cute. Forgot to take a picture and man, I just want to be there just to see it and take a snap, and thats it. I was fine with my two lives in Bada the other day, I didn't want to play four lives to try and keep them going, I just wanted to see what happened a day after I died.

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#1 2019-05-14 19:42:31

I want to go back.

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