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I used to think like that, but the only varations the towns seem to have is high amount of iron with high amount of (ability to make) compost or low amount of iron and reasonable ability to make compost.

Ultimately, if the town's got a compost work chain going - they can have a self-sustaining population indefinitely which leads to a big pile of iron for the town - but that indefinite compost work chain should still be there so why waste the iron when it will sorely be needed for something else after you die?

Also I have to note that while you have quite a few berry gobblers buzzing about, berry bush groves seem to have grown smaller, it's fantastic as it's lead to clear evidence for new players that they don't actually need to have it be so big when the extra time not tending a massive grove gives people allows for setting up secondary, tertiary and so forth food sources which leads to the gobblers panicking only to be told to eat the other food.

I type /sad when I get named hope.
The only time I was happy about that naming convention was when I was told by my mum "We don't have a lot here but we do have hope. We had faith but she just died."

I know where you're coming from with that - however what I like about this suggestion is that Floofy isn't asking for the ratio of males to females to be modified - players will still be assigned male or female 50/50. It's just where they're allocated. If every fertile female in the game had x+2 amount of sons and x amount of daughters the next players to join would still have equal chance of being male or female - it's just that once the older women have a kid the younger women have a higher chance of getting one too.

To hammer it home - in a scenario where a woman was 28 and had no kids - she will have a higher chance than her younger sister to have a child. But this older woman would still have nearly the same chance of having 5 sons, no daughters while her sister may have two daughters and no sons. All that is being proposed is that a more equal chance to have kids exists - and then in conjunction with that you have a better chance of squeezing out one daughter because your spawning rate is higher than someone who already has one.

I like the idea but it would ultimately lead to more kids being born to mums who are on the cusp of menopause. Wouldn't it be better if the 50th percentile of ages that are fertile have the highest priority?

A pond turns into a shallow well pretty quick - once it runs dry good players will run and get stones.
By the time it turns into a shallow well a second or third pond may have run out. But once the shovel is used on the stony pond to make the shallow well it's a brand new water source! A full well! By the time that well runs out, those second and third ponds have turned into fresh shallow ponds too!
By the time those secondary and tertiary shallow wells are used up - that initial well has had a stanchion kit made for it - hey a brand new water source.
By the time the secondary and tertiary shallow wells have stanchion kits made for them - there's a road to some brand new ponds.
By the time those brand new ponds are exhausted - someone's set up a cistern!

It's all about team efforts

I have, as a woman character no less - carrying kids who wanted to stay back home and raising them.
I found two badlands with ground Iron in them. The first of which had four. The second was quite large and by the time I had a basket full of iron I had found an iron vein and had gone through menopause. The next 15 years of my life was putting down flatrocks to show the way for a young man laying the road before I died to a snake.

I found that the ratio of gold ore to badlands feels like approximately 13:30
Meanwhile the ratio of badlands with some iron to badlands with no iron is 6:30
It's such a weird feeling running for so long and thinking, "Hrm! Another gold vein, fancy that!" Knowing fully well it ain't a priority because you're searching for something rarer.

Everything listed is sadly by design, and time and time again Jason has not budged on those topics.
Which is fair and I both respect and agree with them to a decent extent. A fair few players want what you are talking about - but this is why the game's open source! So you can get together and make a private server with those improvements!

I have been fighting that battle for a long time.
I've whittled it down to seeing the mum come towards me and moving away in anticipation while saying IM OK
followed by NO T HU NG RY if necessary (the first few times you may have to say that in their arms)

Nah that makes things too easy.

Be careful Jason, dunno how many minutes you've got left!