Ok, apologies again for any duplication and length of post,

this is "Chapter 2"

VILLAGERS LIVES
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5.Career options - Bearing in mind limited number available, possibilities could be :

Healing

Research

Farming/Food Gatherers (Maybe include shepherd,hunting,
foraging in jungle, trapping, spear fishing)

Parenting/Mating

Handyman/Labourer (This would include what builder does
now, but additional duties would be collecting
firewood, thatching roofs, making cooking
implements/tools, wheelbarrows, etc.)

Cook (The new VV hopefully will have fire, they
can’t be that stupid, haha.) They will stir
pots/cook, collect food from food bin/garden,
prepare food, gut fish, clean up)

Retired Instead of elders struggling to work, they will
have new skills to learn as "retirees" i.e. playing with/minding children, teach "trainee"
teens, tending the garden, drawing in cave, play bowls, just wind down. But nothing
stressful, all should be easy to "learn"

Possibility of combining healing and research and maybe bring in teaching??

6. "Elders" -

The health status bar should decline as they age. That way their deaths will not be so sudden. They would just gradually weaken, then gravely ill (can’t be cured).

Maybe have an area of "hospice" , not a deathbed as such, but some place where they could sit and other villagers would go for a little chat, bringing some food, and pay respects before they actually died.

Some dignity for the elders of the tribe is needed. Also, reduce the "doddery/creeping" stage. In established (3rd level medicine) it starts at 66 yrs. I don’t know anyone who walks like that at 66. You could increase to 70 yrs.

7. Breeding -
Some on the forum don’t want any female over 45 conceiving. Well, IVF is offered to women up to 55 (in most of Europe). The other side is of course, should men father children late in life?

This is a virtual world first of all, not the RW. I don’t intentionally breed any female over 70, and usually well
below that, but sometimes "needs must".

Maybe when a male tries to mate with a female (or vice versa) there could be a pop up similar to "she’s nursing a baby", something like “difficulty with conceiving”. That way, if you absolutely had to breed with a more mature lady, you could, but it would just be a little harder.

Also, more importantly, if the suggestion regarding a "weakening" health status bar for "elders" (explained above) was utilised, this would make conception pretty much impossible for very elderly ladies/men anyway.

But it would be nice if "embracing" still occurred, everyone needs a little cuddle, haha!!


Best of Irish,
Maura