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I've been toying with the idea of appointing a sheriff. Give him a backpack with a knife and an arrow, and tell him to go hog wild on PKs and griefers, and explain to berry locusts how to eat adult food, and also tell them to groom a replacement to keep the system going. It should actually be a pretty busy life at a well developed base.

I wouldn't have the patience or interest to do that for an hour, but you could probably find someone who's willing.

I love the new cart with bigger capacity but I'm curious - is the fact that a horse can't pull it an oversight or is it a balance so that you either have bigger capacity or bigger speed?

I don't really play the game very much, but I was wondering along a similar line.  It seems like villages are doomed to die out until players get a bit more experience.  However, it seems completely feasible to wait out the die off by surviving outside of town.  I was thinking of trying to start a satellite village that analysed the likely failure mode of the town and built what will be necessary to  restart the town.  Then by stealing (um... borrowing) manufactured goods from the town, you could have a kind of easy "re-Eve run".  Even if you are male, I wonder how easy it would be to convince a female to hang out with you to wait out the inevitable die off in the big city.  You'd want to be far enough away that the average noob wouldn't want to immigrate, but close enough that you could convince someone fertile to settle down there when you were close to death.

Probably this idea appeals to be because I'm not a big fan of multi-player games :-)  I like doing my own thing and any excuse to get away from the crowd appeals to me (IRL too).  However, I really wonder whether it would work...

Was there just now, almost killed someone with the bow. Hid it though.
But yeah if I work my ass off and get messed with and sassed at, I am not afraid to shoot. I would've lived, easy.
Was very, very close, but let it slide in the end (a kid was playing a role of sorts, like some spoiled brat kid, messing my omelette cooking and taunting me to kill her, her mom "joking" with 'non RP fag' and blaming a "fight" on me, her newborn going "gay"... do these guys deserve to live off from my work? All this food I prepared?).

Thank god Lady was there to keep me sane. And some old guy newbie I taught how to bake. My tolerance for others being a nuisance is hair thin nowadays. Not that I'm mad, I'm just so over those. Is it too much to ask to be nice? What good is it to try and get on others' nerves? Sad people.

Anyways I made pies and tools with the metals we had. No file yet though.

For a bit of perspective, I just started playing this game a couple days ago. The first thing I taught myself how to do was to maintain and plant gooseberry bushes, which I think is a common starting point for new players. It's the job I tend to default to when I start a new life. Last night I was born in the middle of a dying gooseberry field, so I knew what I had to do once I came of age. It was a moderately advanced society so I had to make very long treks in search of soil, but it was all that I knew.

I spent most of my life turning that gooseberry farm around, and I was successful. But then my uncle came to me just before he died to tell me that this was unsustainable and I would need carrots to start making compost.

This was completely uncharted territory for me, and I was also quickly approaching the end of my life. But I went to work, scavenging for seeds and other materials to make two little plots of carrots. I kept a close eye on my project to make sure we would have enough seeds to keep the farm going.

To my surprise and excitement, I got it everything right and I was able to grow a lamb into a sheep and produce a pile of dung. My niece was watching (she was trying to figure this out too but she was feeding them regular gooseberries) and she ran off to grab a shovel after thanking me for showing her what to do.

I then took my niece and her daughter to my carrot farm and explained the process I had just learned moments before to them - then I died.

I had a blast. It was probably my most enjoyable life yet. Before that life, I didn't really know the value of carrots besides as a food item. So I guess my point is to allow for new players to learn this stuff organically, and try not to be toxic about it. I understand how it can be frustrating.

The best way to teach new players is to be positive and make it fun. Saying "if you're a baby and you're eating gooseberries you need to go back to school" isn't either of those things. I'm also not sure what it means as I tend to eat gooseberries as a baby since stuff like pies seems really inefficient when your food bar is so small, but you never really explained that point so there's no way for me to learn anything.

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