I've just started a new game. Both the starting children and the nursing mother are runners! To cap it all, I've just had my first event: it was the 'Long Legs' event, and so yet another villager has become a runner. That makes four villagers out of eight, including the babe-in-arms. Alas, I'll have to wait for the mother to drop her baby and for the two kids to grow up before I can really start gaining the benefit of all bar one of the runners.

LOL In France we say that it's "avoir le cul bordé de nouilles"!!
That means... to be... lucky!!

Wow, lucky! That's awesome.

i had 1 at beginning it was
the 3yr old child boy

I've tried to breed runners with potions. That didn't work

Isn't it sad? I wish we could.

Wow, how lucky can you get! Congratulation to you. Having just one runner makes a big difference to the game. Can't imagine having a total of four.

Congrats!

I won't even start a tribe unless there's a runner in it. But then when he/she becomes a chief, I'm sunk!

Yes, I've not yet chosen a chief. The odds are even that it'll be a runner! The baby is now three and he's not a runner. His name is Peep!

Yes, you would have had to be supernaturally lucky to have the baby be a runner too!

You know, this whole thing reminds me of one of my real life friends who also plays Virtual Villagers, although she is much, much more casual about it. She had started playing VV2 and was complaining about how bad her tribe was. I looked and she had one slowpoke and one who hated learning. She refused to start over because she'd already solved some of the puzzles and she liked how the villagers looked. If it had been me, I would have started over and not thought twice about it. I like the game hard, but not so frustrating I want to tear my hair out. Especially when you're just starting and you have less than 10 villagers.

wats a runner

A runner is a villager who has a like of running. S/he runs around for all tasks you set him/her on, thus working faster than the regular villagers.

How lucky! Four runners? And I thought two were good.