I like being a rebel, too. I express it by putting mean, irritated-looking plush kitties in my signature.

a 72 year old man can still have children

A 102 year old man can have children. Men can bear children at any age - it's only women who have a 50-year limit imposed on them.

I remember VV1 watching those 70 year old women carring the babies and praying that they made it the whole way... 'cause if they didn't make it the babe... never showed up anywhere. This is better. I try to keep my eye on their age and if someone is 48-49, I will most often give them one more baby for the road...

try to keep your chief directing work and if you have alot of food you can switch your farmers to another skill

I found some success with not allowing the villagers to get to the bottom of the screen with the leaves when clearing the roster of the dead. Keep putting them on clearing leaves and they become builders quickly. This is especially helpful if you have an trainee builder who you want to become adept quickly for fxing the lift, or an adept builder who you want to become a master quickly!

True; the task is not 'complete' until they ditch the leaf, so both the roster and the rubble are good hold-back tasks for training master builders in the late-game. This is because if the task never reaches 1%, the builders will not auto-complete it.

This also works with the bee hive for Farmers, just don't allow them to get to the food bin with the honey.

This is true; it's much more critical in the case of builders, though. Some late-game tasks need master builders, and 'fixing hut' endlessly to train builders is almost painful.

Lurkily the Legend:

I hope you've seen the "need master builder late in game" thread, expecially http://www.ldwforums.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/183477/laurence#Post183477.