There's a certain stew that if you keep feeding them will hurt them. You have to look in the stew guide to go figure out what it is though.

I don't plan on doing it again, though. Unless I'm in desperate need of kids and have nothing but adults. (That was the one nice thing about the GC in VV1, always a child so you always had someone to pick mushrooms!) Cause I'd like to complete my collections.

I did do a bit of evil today, but not to kill anyone. I fed them the ill making stew because my doctors were bored and refused to study the plants. So I made a few villagers ill so the doctors could heal them and up their healing skills a bit. After treating about three people each the doctors were more willing to study the plants and stop being bored.

I turn off the doctors when I want to kill off someone lazy. And I usually let every villager on the research table until they are Adept then I put them to farming.

i just experimented on a lazy 13 year old (dislikes: learning) and it didn't take much stew at all!

The two jobs on the island that are the MOST physically challenging and will cause injury to your villagers is Building and Researching. When I retire my villagers, I always choose jobs like Farming or Parenting. They take longer to do a task, but they don't get injured at the same rate as the other jobs do.

Well, researching they don't have to move as much and since all the puzzles are done I don't mind if they take a break. So research is their retirement and they should take it. Leave the farming and building to the younger folks who can do the job faster.

Lol I did that just last night with a guy that I had as a farmer but he didn't like to work and man he sure didn't like to work! I got so sick of babysitting him that I made that special stew!

For VV3 I think we should have a "time out" place for those that refuse to work or stay at assigned position, once they go there for awhile, then they straighten up and do as they are told. (at least for awhile anyway, lol)

Yeah, I mean, techincally we're their gods. So we should be able to punish them somehow. Maybe give them an earthquake or something.

Why would you want to kill off the elderly just because they become tired.
It makes no sense to me that anyone who say's they love thier little villagers to kill them off because they have gotten to old to get them more tech points.
I am quite aware that it is only a game.
But on how many posts have I seen players say that thier villagers feel at times real to them. Some of you have said that you have actually named them from people you know.
And if that is true how could you kill them like that?
But even if this is just a game,for some reason this just sounds awful.
They will just walk around getting bored or taking a dip going into the pool,or whatever pleases them.
Trying to get a villager as old as you can is part of the game.
I myself look forward to my villagers making it that old. that means to me that I played a good game.

I agree with most of what blue koko said. I will use the special stew to increase doctors knowledge without killing a villager. The villagers I am tempted to go too far with in the stewpot are the young ones who refuse to learn no matter what job I try them at. And I have had a few who wound up being renamed Dunce until I had the cauldron.

I agree too. I don't wan to kill my villagers just because they are lazy! Even the old and lazy ones have a place in the society, you just have to find it.