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"Taking over" towns by force esp if you send fertile women in to do it isn't very good for your lineage. You are putting the key people at risk. Having just one woman left is bad. Yeah you *can* bounce back but all it takes are a string of boys and a few /die babies and you're done.

The truth is lots of players don't focus on lineage at all. They want to do projects, or talk and role play. Or grief. The first two things can help with a lineage the last one won't.

so-called raids tend to kill both towns involved it's just one dies a bit later than the other. The key to keeping a lineage alive is to have lots of players and maybe a thriving satellite town as a back up.

But in this game lots of people want other people to be their kids and continue the work, but not as many will just do simple things like stack wood and keep the fire going. Now rather than just be disgusted with people we can ask why this is?

I think simple things like
-showing players some stats about how many living relatives they have after they die
-getting the family tree to work properly the lineage depth numbers are often not there or incorrect
-removing /die babies from the tree (or gray them out) so people can focus on how well their kids did

Might help. But then the game isn't JUST "a parenting game" it's also a building and collaboration game, it's also a roleplaying game.

Why limit the number of pages to 10?

Yup. In this life:

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I had no last name because my mom was a new player and didn't name me. I could have been a real menace, I found a lot of weapons but it's more fun to pretend to be in love. I've also noticed that if an Eve names a kid *before* she names herself that kid may not have a last name even after she names herself.

I would like to see a curse system where you click on the player and that transfers their *exact* name to your talk-bar between typos, being a baby, not being in your family cursing mostly amounts to moms cursing annoying kids.

Don't leave us hanging like that!

It's much much better now though. There will always be griefing in the game. And that isn't a big deal. But there is such a thing as too much. I get you are frustrated about not being able to Eve. So, we should think about ways to address THAT not insult people because they rightly pointed out that the combination of close Eve spawns and /die caused too much griefing.

But really you are missing one of the other major impacts of the change: families last longer because they are not competing with 1000 (that's the real number) eves a day. I know everyone wants the ego boost of getting to name a line. But you can't do that in every single game. It's just selfish. Being eve is special and you can still end up being eve now. I was Eve just two days ago. And I made the most of it. It should be that you need to annoy other players by using /die to get those opertunities, but they SHOULD be rare.

I think it was also implemented to make people "care about their families" more but I don't think it did that exactly. I'm just as distrustful of my family as before it's just now I fear outsiders and have to think about if it's worth it to have them around. I generally think it is. I just can't get in to the whole "kill everyone who's not in my family" mindset. So, I'm just cautious. I'd rather have strangers in town then play in an empty and dying town. Will one of them have a kid some day who causes problems? Probably. But just as I curse and kill my own family if they attack others unprovoked I hope that people in *their* family will curse and kill the bad apples when they crop up. Playing with languages is too fun to miss out on.

I think that it would be good, though, to making curing outside of a lineage possible.

Um. That's why I play. It's also why I watch films, listen to music and enjoy other art. Games are an *art form* not just some application to do your taxes. A good game must have a perspective, a vision and *say something* about what it is to be human. You can make suggestions to an artist. Tell them you don't like their art and why if you don't. But it's not your art. It's not your creation.

I think the fact that you look at this game like some kind of product ... rather than art is the root of your frustration. You are like someone who goes to a gallery show and then yells at the artist because she won't paint what YOU want. And it's not the feedback and ideas that you have that are the issue. It's the *yelling*

Spoonwood how on earth is Jason supposed to respond to posts like yours? Say "oh yes I'm arrogant and now I'll do what you want" Even if you are right that you know better what the games needs than Jason (and I don't think that's a given at all) you aren't giving any path for reconciliation. A post like this one would make sense if you were leaving the forum and the game and just wanted to have your last say. Yet you stay.

You keep playing but give your feedback in the most toxic way possible.

Testo was raising a good point and starting a good conversation but you have derailed it in to personal attacks again. If you want someone to listen to you you need to think about how things are from their perspective too. You need to stop assuming Jason in acting in bad faith. I'm really sick of seeing important questions like the ones Testo presents derailed by posts like your response and I can't really blame or be mad at Jason for getting frustrated and ignoring what players say. You are making the forum a place that isn't full of good ideas, inspiration, and reasons to want to work on the game more. Were I working on this game I would hate reading this forum and it shouldn't be like that.

You are undermining the goal of having our concerns heard at all.

Personally were I Jason I'd just block you and ignore every post that you make.

One benefit of having another family in your town is simply having more people. I feel like everyone underestimates this. Most players are constructive, so to a degree you are better off adding people to your town when you can. It's harder now for "one bad apple" to kill more than one or two people if you are vigilant.

Frankly what there isn't a point in having is a war sword. If your kids of family turn griefer against the incoming family you can't use the sword on them. Knives are better. Bow are bad because you have to leave them lying around... I do think violence has gone down since the era of the too many Eves.

I worry as much about one of my kids killing the other family as I do about the reverse. Both are disgusting.

*loud coughing fit*

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Maybe if you name a kid who isn't yours they only get your last name if they agree in some way.

I agree, experienced hunters avoid bringing pies. You need to bring the plate back. That's a waste of bag space.

But, people just keep doing this.

There is no end.

So before you make plates in an old town.

Loot the prairie I guess.

I'm having fun making this image collection.

Maybe some people will recognize their litter from these photos.

I wonder how many stranded plates I can find...

ZERO would be nice. Come on just bring the plate back. It ain't that hard ya'll.