Ok before I start I have to say I never get the GC until everything that can be done with out him is done first. And the only thing to finish game is get the GC so I can let my games be finished and live on. Than he is a bonus to game not a bother.

1. Makes food
2. He heals all the old farts for me.
3. He gets all the people to come to him in one spot so I dont have to use pause and carry them one by one to make a group. LoL its easyer to make them kiss and make babys faster in a group. grab and drop grab and drop. Helps me make that part more random.
3. If he doesn't throw a party that heals people for me than if I found that I have no healer near by I grab him up and throw him at the sickie.
4. I love reading about how everyone hates him and all the poems and odes that are directed at him. Only grip I have is that he is a male and there are no female GC.

GC stands for Golden Child. Which to me doesn't say that the GC should always be male. Child is either male or female.
GMC = Golden Male Child
GFC = Golden Female Child
So where is my GC that is female?

But when he heals people he dosn't add life points to them... Just cures them.

Well I do like GC

Yeah but does anyone add life points when they heal?

Any other villager apart from the gc, ibteri.

Villagers will slowly get life points if you have enough foods

I do like the little guy. I keep a LOW population so that about 14 adults have done all the work necessary to complete the puzzles. By the time I bring the little guy in, I WANT my villagers to have fun. I've worked them to "death" and no, they're not real, but hey, whatever years (hours) they have left, I don't want them to have to work again. Plus, if I do want to train a 14 yr old on a task, the parties allow me to grab the villager and train in peace. The rest are dancing and leaving me alone to train on either healing or farming. I don't "need" them to learn these things, but the kid says he/she is bored, it gives them something else to do. Besides, farming and healing NEVER affects a villager's health - no matter how many HOURS you force them to train, their health line is always 100% (except for when you FIRST start a game). The only time you have to worry about the health line is when they do research or they are on a building project. But, if you've bought everything with tech points.. why stress your villagers out to do research? If you've completed all the puzzles - you've built everything you can - fixing huts should not affect a villager's health line. Guess I don't understand how a villager's health line goes down after the G.C. comes into play. Then again, I've never had him heal. Half the villagers are Master Docs - the G.C. doesn't have to. I guess it's the way you play, if you still want research points for.. you got me, you don't need 'em, but whatever... anyway, if you still force villagers to research, YEP... eventually their health will drop. Keep forcing the issue, and it'll take a nosedive.

Original point .. like IBteri, when I bring the g.c. in, work is done, it's time to party.

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when I bring the g.c. in, work is done, it's time to party

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That's the way I work, too. I make sure all the puzzles that can be done without the GC are completed, and I've got all the tech, then his mum goes for a swim!

Maybe the GC doesn't add life points but there is the Magic Fruit...that's not possible without him.

I used to not like the GC but I do now. I especially like him when I get an event that makes all my villagers sick and he throws a party and heals them right away.

If look at a villager who is sick before and after healing him/her with another villager, you'll see that not only will they be "cured" but their health points will go up a notch.

When the GC throws a party and cures the villagers, it doesn't change, and if it was too low, they still can die before the villager "dinner" raises the notch.

IMHO, when the GC throws a party, there should also be a visible "dip" in the food supply as everyone eats and drinks...

There are events that will cause their health points to drop, as well as just random sickness, old age or starvation. But mostly, when I've had a completed game, that is not something I've had to worry about.

But some other things I like about the GC:

1. He restores the berry bush and crops (to give the farmers something to do besides fish or watering the crops.)
2. He'll pick mushrooms if told to (due to baby booms, I've had some villages without any other kids!)
3. I like the bubbles and rainbows.
4. He frees his mother from two years of nursing!
5. He likes to dance.