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I don't think it's dying. It's becoming a chore to read though. Every thread is whiney bullshit with entire novels written for each reply. I honestly can't be fucked to read it all.

You all need to chill the fuck out. Learn to summarize your points.

arkajalka wrote:

I'd turn the question around.

Why would you kill all the people?

Well, we only need to ignore the 'by' in the title here to get:

"You are a griefer Dodge."

it's not a spiral, it's a line 

I seen quite a lot of spots which weren't taken at all.
I survived from 2.3 yo girl when my mom died to a mosquito. Her intention was to find a town to help out as we were brown skin so we could get the rubber for others. So I thought I honour her wishes, and it was late so that was kinda dumb thing enough to pass my time. Since both my daughters stayed, I gave one a pack and carried the other to like 12 years, was kinda funny.

Then accidentally stepped on a 2 tile ice cause of a tree behind it, anyway I had 2 packs since I carried some tool heads from a town I found earlier, so my 2nd girl had to carry a basket. But at most points, we had a baby to be carried, going around the special biomes is a better choice as a group, since we can carry food and babies.
This means you can go trough one special biome if you are not white, and you go around the other two which is like half of the map, and this makes you run slower than before, we were making a steady 100 tile per minute. I had a few kids, most of em stayed, one quit on me, two girls, 2 sons stayed, one died, then 2 grandkids.
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As Vanvoorens, we had the most girls at that point when Bernadette was born, we were around 4500 when the rest of the kids suicide on us, then I died at 5600, they continued to run, but they weren't lucky with girls.
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I started at -8800 from bell so I never had the chance that I make it, and I kinda wanted to settle at like 2000 tiles, but found no cities. Then we just enjoyed running and joking about stuff, from 79 players, 7 of us did this so it became a thing, we just didn't stop.
Eventually, I thought we do the bell run and my grandkids might make it.

Seems my son and grandson made it, along with my bigger girl, my smaller girl might arrive too, she was less experienced but enjoyed the run, especially that I carried her for that long.

I wouldn't do this type of play again for a while, or at all, but was refreshing this time, also a good experiment on the speed and if we see towns.

This was kind of certain to me but now I was even more reassured that new camps show up slightly south as we go on with the Eve spawns. First at -230 then each 1000 tiles, seems to be at least 10% more south. Not sure why, the snake shape Eve spawns don't fully indicate it, maybe that the 2nd eve can't go south so makes a town east or west, then the next one ends up south a bit, or just natural habit that people run downwards to find a spot.

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Current median seems to be -400 where towns are middle of civilization, the bell towns got a 10% downslope as you go to the left, and a much higher chance to find towns if you go south then run diagonal upward.

So if you are -8000 from bell then you need to run to left, but same time you can go downwards diagonally, that means that you go SE 700 tiles, you end up at -7300 -700 then steadily keep to the right, ever so slightly going north 10 tiles per 100 you end up on a previous camp of someone.
This kinda went off topic a bit.

Anyway, there is nothing special about those few camps that are there, and families die constantly if I play a day, next day maybe 1-2 of the families are alive from the previous day. So we shift 3-4k to the left. The above map even shows that we mostly skipped trough 1000 tiles for some reason.

Now we had yesterday a 9000 long box, within 8 days which means 1200ish tiles a day. We just can't keep up with long fast roads on the middle line, we drift away from old towns and it's not the best thing to run so far. It's not fun as a day by day activity, I got work, I might play 1-2 lives, then next day I'm 4000 from Bell town, next day 8000 from it. I really made a big effort making the first bell, repopulating twice, exploring most of 2000x1000 tiles within 3 lives.

The above map shows around 30 viable cities within 9000 tiles. In the other topic the other guy listed around 5 towns after a journey with a horse, I could say the same from my experience running from the ruins of the first bell town before it was a bell town.

Ginger and black towns leave some value behind, like rubber, sulfur and horses, gingers tend to leave stuff on ice, whites are useless.

A dead camp looks like this:
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A room, a decayed pen, a griefed base, a few bones. Nothing really to stay for, you might drop a girl and continue exploring but chances are that they die in few generations, happened to my daughter and son left behind, I found like 9 graves, so 2 gen until they died out.

As for a solution?
Maybe the snake pattern should have a limit, turn back on a northern coordinate above this line, then go back to 0.
Tarr monument had the effect of keeping people closer to the centre of the map. Since I missed the first few days of the wipe, and others didn't care, and very soon we were already at 8000 tiles from the middle, we can't find any good spot to know where we are in the world.
We might need some way stones that give an idea of where we are. Maybe the monoliths should move to the badlands and tell us how far are we from the middle of the map. Or some other monuments, or something similar.

Faster travel could also be a thing, instead of landing pads decaying we should be able to mark the names of airport and choose a destination. Other ways of fast travel, like a train station maybe. Would be just an entrance and an exit between towns. As for a cost, your life expectancy would go down a few years so if you travel a lot you die sooner.

I would call 2500 a good distance. 1500 a medium and like 700 a minimum.
The sector idea I had could make certain areas of map more interesting if the map generation is different, it would give a flavour, also would give a sense to moving there. Maybe some underground cave system would allow you to enter a side and travel like 500 tiles in a direction, they could be temporary, rare and hard to find, or would be only available after you travel 1000 tiles alone. You could enter there and exit a few hundreed away instantly.

I mean, I thought about portals as a very high tech travel option, but then when you got high tech, you don't need to travel, maybe if you want to be charitable. hardly anyone goes back to original towns to help them, everyone runs to the big city life.

We need some high roll, low tech travel option with some randomness to it.
Maybe some sort of other transport options, like donkeys for other families, black fam has huge advantage now with the tech choices, brown has the easiest way to get rubber, they only need sulfur.

There are maybe a handful of people who can remember certain patterns, know the signs (rabbits, eggs, which side of swamp the clay was taken, which soil piles are lower, where the springs point to). If it's hard or demotivating for me to travel more than 2000 tiles, average players won't even do 500. I mean I even got the experience from the grave bug, I had a few lives of travelling between towns 1000-1500 away if I knew some coordinates, but without that is kinda pointless and not too fun. All you find is decaying camps, camps seems to be around 300 away, most of they die  at low level and you really need to be lucky to find someone around 700-1000 away.