Hi,
I love this game. Our holiday weekend will forever be remembered by my family's obsession with this game! Everything we do keeps getting interrupted by "Oh! We better check on our crew!" (the crew being the villagers). My husband is over it and just wants his palm back (too bad and why won't it work on my zire 72?) and my son's (10) and my philosophies/strategies are different and so we are constantly arguing (er, debating) over who should do what and when.
Anyway, one question: Does anyone keep track of the villagers lineage? I wonder do we need to worry about inbreeding and the unhealthy consequences? I keep trying to get the younger women (with lesser skills) to be parents, thinking they can build their skilles later but am worried about inbreeding, seems like the same couple of males are always the fathers and so maybe courting their daughters and grand-daughters. This can't be good.
Along that line, I'm disturbed in my anti-feminist views that I am starting to strategize that the girls should not be brought up to be researchers because then so much of their productive time is lost when they spend those two years nursing. I'm thinking I want the males to be at the table -- the research table--while the women do all the fishing and building.
My husband has proposed that the golden child will be the 7th son of the 7th son, in which case we are in trouble because we don't know who begot whom.
Any thoughts on this?
sarah (and Matt)