They're all gonna die. This is my first time on a 'hard' game. All the first generation (all the original adults) are dead and the second generation is getting old. My total population is only 11. I'm too cheap, right now, to spend tech points on spirituality, so the kids run back and forth over the elders' bleached bones all day. It's creeping me out.

I have level 3 Farming; level 2 Construction and Science. I wish I could get them to Level 2 Smarts, but that's just not in the cards.

I only have 1 woman of, um, marriageable age and 4 kids (only 1 female) under age 14. I suppose I should just put all available hands on research, leaving one to pick veggies or fish, until I rack up some tech points.

But if I leave them (game set on 1/2 speed or normal), when I come back, the idjits are all exercising or doing laundry or pushing the blankety-blank boulder.

How come when all the puzzles are solved and you have 50 people on the island, they all work together like good little ants? The boulder is smarter than these guys.

They're all gonna die.