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In another thread of mine, I recommended not playing during a sale for purposes of gene score. I won't post the link here though, because the reasoning isn't quite right. I did see players like Wondible, Twisted, and Ray (who has gone by Gibs in Hetuw chat) lose gene score points during this past weekend. I suspect that part of the reason lies in that players struggle a lot to keep up with town organization and town development during something like this, as well as exeprienced destructive players ending up more likely to have more of an influence, due to more vulnerable new players. But, I digress.
I had seen using the reflector/server list: https://www.onehouronelife.com/reflecto … ion=report that server1 consistently had some players. If I understand correctly, 15 active players on a server come as required for gene score mechanics to be active, though I may easily be mistaken on this. I had checked using Hetuw mod in tutorial areas that many of the players were of an 'unknown' family suggesting that either they were in tutorial/solo challenge areas or in a lineage without a name. But, not all. I thought I may as well play once, so my alias, Danish Clinch http://onehouronelife.com/fitnessServer … tail&id=55, would end up on the leaderboard, and that server1 seemed to have less risk with respect to decreasing my gene score.
I ended up as a white Eve: : http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=6798287. Well, that's as hard as it gets for an Eve if you ask me, since there's no special clothing available like seal skins, or foods like bananas and cactus fruits. Iron just isn't useful until processed into tools. Though, I did know to look for a spot that had iron veins.
My first daughter Youa Spoon was a new player. I could tell she struggled, but she asked me a few questions. My second daughter Lovely Spoon I didn't get a new player pop up on. I wondered if she needed help, but when I saw her about to cook eggs, I thought she was good, and she lived to 60. I did lose some points from my granddaughter Jenny Spoon. But, she died to a wolf and we weren't exactly near the badlands. Her final words were 'leader'. Maybe she went out to the badlands to get resources? We had a spring in the edge of a swamp, without too much blocking objects around.
I got skewers to farm with. Then my daughter Youa starts talking about needed a hoe. I think she picked up on that *some* skewers can get used to farm though as I tiled with them in front of her. I also grew some carrots. She got bite by a boar. She came back to camp and said "THANKS" "YOU WERE A REAL ONE". I went right to check for iron on the right side of our ley line (I had already checked the left side... I prefer to move all iron off of veins once a well site is made, before blacksmithing). I ended up giving out some orders like 'get straight branches' and 'grow carrots' around that time. I started smithing and one of my descendants wants to smith also. She's very young and gets the starving emote... but she stayed alive. I'm trying to make an axe and shovel before I die. She uses the hammer to make a steel hoe head. I do make the shovel. I hit some more so that the steel hoe head becomes an axe. I drop the hammer and she makes a steel hoe head. I said 'make axe next'. She did have a point that a steel hoe head can be useful early for farming purposes, and the village needs food. Of course though, most veterans prefer the axe early to get a large slow fire going. Maybe I should have held the hammer, but I forgot I could do that at the time while playing.
I didn't make an oven. It's good to get an oven up or have someone cook some pies in an Eve camp, but many Eves do smithing, because it's hard to rely on anyone who can smith well being around, and there's not a large slow fire until possible until an axe is made. I didn't dig up any tule stumps for adobe with the shovel I made.
I felt like it was sort of a rough life for me, as I had a disconnect, and fumbled around with movement in some places.
If anyone reading this played in that Spoon lineage, of course, feel free to comment here. Or if you feel strongly that I should have held the axe and overruled the young smith (I don't recall her name, and don't think I even looked unfortunately), maybe that's good for a comment. A large slow fire burns out in 4 minutes instead of 1 minute for a fire, and 2 minutes for a large fast fire. Both a fire and large fast fire require kindling also. A large slow fire does not, with preferably firewood used to keep the large slow fire burning.
Also, if you're new to the game, try to learn how yum works, and about the many types of foods in this game. For example, uncooked pies are white and unedible, while cooked pies are colored and thus edible. Your future families will need a greater variety of food types the older they get, and the more players that yum, the less resources a family will consume, and the greater the opportunity they will have.
Final note: if it wasn't clear from looking at the Danish Clinch link, my gene score did increase from 53.375 to 53.59 over that life.
Last edited by Spoonwood (2021-03-24 22:34:21)
Danish Clinch.
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Here's a picture of how things were by the time that family was done:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachment … height=560 Credit to Hopelynn for taking and sharing the picture.
Also, another problem with making an a steel hoe before an axe is that the camp needs kindling. The first stone hatchet will break, and ropes come as needed for many things, and need farming or people out gathering milkweed. I don't like even keeping a fire or a large fast fire going in an Eve camp, because of that issue with the stone hatchet, and one's local branch supply can run out kind of quickly (though branches do regrow back after an hour of when they got picked off of the tree). But, it's likely to happen, and it does keep children warmer.
Last edited by Spoonwood (2020-11-30 17:39:10)
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