[CONTAINS SPOILER]How old was your oldest villager

And just to accentuate how hooked we are on this game, and how much we all play it... How many of you automatically clicked the "Done" button, instead of the browser back button when viewing both Barbara's and Warren's game image?

Good point Brenda. I've been caught doing that a few times myself. Any other old aged villagers out there? Come on in and give us your oldest aged visitor picture after death. Let's keep the ball rolling...

102 is very old. And a "Master Parent"...something Nawat was doing apparently lead to a long life...

I have all research and everything maxed out, mine only live to like 85-90 tops, how the heck did you get 102....

OK all my villagers are going to start praying more often

Actually I think it had more to do with his job. Less stressful and not so dangerous.

Well my master doctor just died at 76....

....69

*runs away embarrassed* XD

Mine is currently 90

Mine was 101, I rank 16 so there are more old guys out there.

Hi all. My eldest was 101. Same as Vill Id. got Medical 3 last. He was a Master Doctor if that makes any difference...

101 is my oldest, I named him Cory. I thought he was a Master Doctor, but I checked his headstone, and he was actually a Master Scientist. So there you go.... wonder if it matters what they Master?

my oldest is 100

In earlier, beta versions of the game, I recall my villagers staying alive longer, but lately, my villagers can't seem to get past 99, no matter what their occupation. Oh well (:

My scientists seem to die earlier. Stressful occupation lol? But when I try and give them a break by sticking them elsewhere they just head straight back to the research table.

Is there any way to heal an elderly villager once they get weakened?

My oldest villager so far has been 100.

My oldest has been 99
I attached pic of her headstone
I am hoping to get one of my Villagers to 100, that way I can call Willard Scott --heehee

uh..

I need mental help..

I clicked on the "done" button instead of the browser back button..

*sigh*

My oldest so far was 79, but I'm expecting them to live longer now that I have solved more puzzles. Going for 102.

Guess what just checked into one of my games and as always checked the statistics section. Apparantly sometime overnight i had a villager that survived to 104!!! Coz that is what my Oldest Villager section says!!! Only problem is, I can't see who it is, coz my graveyard is full, so no more headstones.......
But 104!! Can't believe I missed it.......

wow my oldest is only 85

My oldest was only 81. :cry:

Oldest was 69. Not that old, I guess.

One of my villagers in the night, he was 71. Getting better.

So far 60 at tech level 1

You can't trust me as far as you could throw me.

haha.. nice one!

mine was 99, but i have no headstone for it, for my graveyard is quite full!

my oldest villager was 79, but i cant reach 80. sigh.

Mine so far is 89

102....but sadly I missed it, passed away in the middle of the night. My graveyard is full, so I don't even have a headstone to look at w/that age on it.

WOW! Mine is 87 , Why is it no matter how many people die it onlygoes up to 50 buried?

103

WOW, the oldest mine has reached is 77!!!

Got up to 83 before I got rid of game file. Nothing left for them to do.

81 but trying for older

My oldest is 80, but I don't usually aim for L3 medicine until the very end, so perhaps I'll go for it earlier next time and see if they will live longer.

mine was 103

mine was 110

only 81 so far

My oldest was 85.

The oldest I had was 86, but there isn't a tombstone for him/her.

so far my oldest is 100 according to the stats screen but i buried way to many people to keep track, game has been running for around 2200 hours now

Ah, yes the age thing....

There is a bit of a discussion in the Real Arcade VV forum about this very thing. I think I started it (so now I'll finish it, haha) with a post called funnily enough "And now the age thing", there is now a post by Jer (our resident techmeister) "Headstones, etc.."

Anyway, in one of my villages my eldest was 98.

And as I doubt if I ever "met" this VV don't know what he/she was or did. What I mean by that is I never actually saw any villager creeping around the VV in his/her 90's and then dying, I'm certain I would have noticed.

I always check the details of my VV's when I open the game and have never, ever see any in my details with an age of over 80, let alone seen them walking around trying to work, etc.

I think that VV's normal life span is usually late 70's and that's it. It is a very, very, very rare occurence for them to live older then this.

I do believe, however, that the stats board is a mess and is wholly inaccurate about most details, including ages of VV, and I hope in VV2 this is improved and resolved.

But our Jer in Real Arcade is testing various theories on different computers to compare data, he said it would take a few days, I think it should be interesting what he finds out.

My best guess is that less then 10% of VV's live over 80 whether they eat the so called "magic" fruit or are masters at anything. Although, apparently master builders seem to have the most stressful careers.

Anyway, where was I, oh yes, the age thing....

Best of Irish,
Maura

When you say that "the stats board is a mess and is wholly inaccurate about most details, including ages," are you referring to the high scores page on our site? That leader board has been overhauled, and doesn't even have villagers' ages on it. We are also considering further changes to improve players experiences with the high scores.

i thought she was talking about the stats page in game, not the leaderboard

I wasn't sure, since she used the term "board," rather than "server."

That's why I asked.

I like the idea of further mod to the leaderboard. I find it disheartening that im in 5th place for real hours and i dont show up anywhere and of course i cant reorganize it, and how the heck did i go from 3rd yesterday to 5th today, everyones hours are the same UNLESS YOUR CHEATING. *eyeballs around*

Well I know I'm new here and this is my first post, but my oldest villager was 101

I actually was talking about the stats board, but as I didn't want to divert from the age question, I've posted my thoughts regarding this on the "leaderboard" thread instead.

Regarding the aging question, I realise there can be little glitches in games, but I've been playing for awhile and have five games on the go. My point is that although my stats told me I've had elderly VV's, over mid 80's and eldest in one at 98, I've never seen them in the villages.

I always rename my VV's as I find it easier to "relate" to them, as well as keeping track of new borns and special delivery babies (crates/barrels) so I'm pretty aware of the VV's in each game and what they are doing. And I've never seen a villager over 80 actually walking, or should I say doddering, around the village. That just makes me think that with all the care and attention some people like to give to their VV's (I for one, like to treat my elders to the magic fruit followed by a lagoon "spa" treatment, going for an holistic approach, haha!) I don't think the life span goes beyond late 70's as a rule. Anything over that is very, very rare.

Best of Irish,
Maura

I have yet to see anyone get to there 90 but it says I had someone 101. I want to know how to get them to live longer? or is it a random thing?

[color:"purple"] I have been really keeping a close eye on my VV's "elders" and am relatively certain that 78/79 is the normal age of death in all of my villages.

I have one easy and one hard mode, the other three on normal. I don't strive for double masters, and apart from training them in their teens, I pretty much leave them to it, and only change their career for breeding or healing. Although have plenty of doctors so I don't even do that now.

Today, I accidently got my 78 yr. old Master Doctor Eibhlinn (Irish for Evelyn, pronounced E-vlin) pregnant. I was placing potential daddy on someone else and he/I literally brushed against her. Anyway, I was really hoping she would make it through to second delivery state (when she's no longer nursing) but sadly, she passed away with baby.

So, my own thoughts on this are pretty much the same, that late 70's is usual life span.

The most noticeable increase in life spans, I think, are when you are achieving levels 2 and 3. But once your village is established, and depending on how hard a task master you are, to a certain extent, life after 79 is very rare indeed.

Just thought I'd share,

Best of Irish,
Maura

thanks that helps. so its a random event that so far no one has witnessed?

I'm not as much as help as I suspect Jer will be. I will say Maura, that I DID see my villagers crawling around in thier early 80's before they died. Sounds kinda awful, but still waiting for more to die. I still pause my games when I can't check in every hour or so. Which meaaaaaaaaans, Jer will fill up his cemetary before I do. I did put the 2nd game on 2x speed, only did as much research as was necessary and now only having villagers on farming and healing. I'm not doing the puzzles... my expectation is that villagers will die earlier - my goal is to answer the question: once the cemetary is full, will ages reflect the age of the person when I last saw them. I'm not looking for the "oldest" villager, but whether the stat remains correct. Unfortunately, in the first game, there is almost an 18yr span between the elderly and the next generation to go. So far, things have been on the mark. The age they died is exactly what's on the tombstone and on the stat board. (still haven't read the poems...gonna check in on my villages)

The oldest I have had in any of my games is 81.

Unfortunately, gohill, I only started noticing what I think maybe misleading info on the stats pages regarding age after my games were established and after the cemetary was full.

I'm loathe to delete one of my games to do some kind of control study as yourself and Jer are, but in any case, it's very hard to track ages of death once the cemetary is full. I've checked the log files and while they state when someone has died, they don't mention the age. That's a strange ommission when every berry and sneeze, joke, haha, is listed, but not age at death. It's hard to check the log files anyway as there's so much minutiae on it, it makes for very, very boring reading, haha!!

I'm surprised you're villagers live into their 80's on a regular basis as you are probably more of a "controlling" master then I am, haha, but obviously they are made of stronger stuff then mine.

Been monitoring them pretty closely for the last few weeks, as I said, and still none have lived beyond 79.

I hope the aging of VV's is handled better in VV2, I'm working on a few ideas which I will post when I've sorted them out. Also, I don't want to duplicate too much of what's already been mentioned.

By the way, have you tried out the "private" messaging available on this forum?

Sorry for going on a bit, one of my dogs has been sick all day and I'm keeping a close eye on her and typing at the same time, oh, she's looking really miserably at me now, poor pet...

Best of Irish,
Maura

If it says your oldest villager is 101, maybe that villager got the potion as say age 20 to be a kid again, so his age at death is 81 but he lived 101 years total. Maybe its a calculation in the game similar to that. I dont know for sure but its a logical thought, maybe we only see what their age at death is but the stat reflects total time lived.

That event happened to one of my villagers, Pakwa, where she goes back to being a kid. She was about 25 when that happened and she was nursing at the time. She went back to being a 4 year old. Now she is back to 26 and is almost done nursing. The funny thing is, she was a twin, and her sister Penyo is 47. If I were Penyo, I'd be mad...

There is a way to get your villagers up into their 90's. There's something that they need to eat.....

Give it some thought!

Tess

Yep, Tess...I've tried that, but it has been impossible to follow those who ate it...especially when the cemetery is full so I didn't know if it was working.

In my current game I have one who is 82 now.

My oldest villager has just died at the ripe old age of 87, I was really sad to lose him too, he was a great worker, always finding something to do. You never caught him 'relaxing' or doing 'nothing' - I'm really going to miss him!

Tess, the only thing I can say about the majical fruit is... it sure didn't work for my villager. I was making him a master doc so would have him study the cactus, eat the fruit, study the cactus, etc. for FOUR STRAIGHT hours. He died at 74 yrs. old. I was NOT a happy camper. If it takes longer than four non-stop hours of having someone eat the the majic fruit to live till thier 90's... count me out.

Y'know, it has never occurred to me to take villagers to the magic fruit. Has been been known to make any of them live longer? I just tried it with a couple of those in a game I'm playing. Apart from "Enjoying Magic Fruit" appearing in the actions field, nothing seemed to happen.

I tried it, but only once and didn't notice any difference.

Yes, gohill, I think the berry bush is a "dud" in that department as well.

The one thing I hope in the new VV2 is that aging/death will be handled a bit better. I've posted some sggestions regarding this on the "suggestions/improvements" thread, which I'm sure that Arthur and Co. have already thought of, but no harm in suggesting things.

I put as a suggestion that the health status bar should show more then just elderly. Maybe weakening, then gravely ill (can't be healed) before they actually die. This way you would have some warning.

This could also connect to the problem of elderly ladies/gents breeding, because if they are weakened they won't be able to breed, so no more 75 yr. old ladies with triplets, haha!!

I also suggested a Retired option for career, then they could wind down and play with children, teach trainee teens, tend garden, etc.

It's probably too late fo these suggestions, but if they are not incorporated in VV2, uhh, maybe VV3, oh yes, definitely addicted, haha!!

Just thought I'd share,

Best of Irish,

Maura

Tried feeding 3 of my villagers 'magic fruit' and they've just died aged 90,91 and 92 - the 3 oldest so far! Could be coincidence but those I didn't feed with the fruit all died in late 70s and early 80s.

My oldest was 101!! Out of all 5 games that I am running I have
1.100
2.99
3.99
4.101
5.100


Just need 1 more yaer to get that 102!!!

Hey GKitten,

My questions are, how often did you feed them the fruit, and how old were they when you started?

That one I fed for four straight hours was 62 when I started him on it and he died at 74. The time I put into that first experiment and the dissapointing results... go figure I didn't try with anyone else.

Hi Gohill, I just fed them a couple of times when they were in their late 60's - I also gave them a couple of swims in the 'pure magical water of the lagoon!' - maybe it was a combination of the two that did the trick!

I'm curious also whether that will help.

Well, I feed all my elders with the magic fruit and give them "lagoon" time. I start in their late 60's and continue until they die. I don't do it as gohill and others do, hourly or anything like that. Just when I first open the game, check on my elders first and give them their "treat".

But it hasn't worked at all, they are still dying in late 70's. Someone in RA, I think, suggested that the longer you play the game, the less chance of longevity. I doubt if that's true, but, I still wonder how many players actually "see" these very elderly VV's working around the village or is it all about the stats page??

Anyway,

Best of Irish,
Maura

I've done various "experiments" with my villagers.. just about the time I come up with a set theory, it gets debunked. There are some of us who speculated that age is pre-programed, assuming you've got all levels of medicine, the lagoon, the g.c., the majical fruit.. you've bought everything you can and solved all the puzzles you can to increase their potential life-span - after that, they die when they die, feeding them the fruit and/or putting them in the lagoon will not increase this. Realize it takes only seconds for a villager to eat the fruit, would then take him to the study the cactus, pick him up and make him eat fruit again and again. Say it takes 10 sec. to eat the fruit and 20 sec. to study the cactus (there were unsuccessful attempts and factoring those in to the 20 sec. to study). So, that's eating the fruit twice every minute.. 120 times per hour .. for four hours.. approximately 480 times. Seems to me, if you have a villager eat the fruit 480 times, if that doesn't increase their life-span past 74 yrs old.... someone more obssesive than I am can try. Besides that, had villagers die in their 80's who never touched the fruit.

There are times I pick up an elderly villager and toss them into the lagoon. That's because there is no retirement and want them to stop working... they've done enough. Yeah, must admit, have had them munch on the majical fruit a few times as well... no one has lived past 83. AND...hahahaha... everyone who has lived past 79, neither had a spa treatment or ate the fruit. Ever since I started the lagoon/fruit therapy, they've died in their 70's. go figure.

Gohill, are you telling me that I've been "killing them with kindness"!!! Please say it isn't so!!! Oh, I just cannot live with the guilt, haha!!

Anyway,

Best of Irish,
Maura

Maura... HAHAHAHA... I almost wrote I think I killed them with kindness. Noooo.. we don't. My current thinking is that once you have bought all the tech, done all the puzzles... you've done everything you can to increase their life-span. From then on, it's pre-programmed. Doesn't matter what easy job you give them, or don't give them a job at all... age at death is random. Still working on that theory, but sure not going to spend a ridiculous/outrageous/"stupid" amount of time on the fruit anymore!!!!!

I had a villager live to 101 in a game where I didn't try to do anything to increase their lifespan.

Wish I knew which villager it was!

A lot of us have very elderly ages on the stats page, I have one at 98 and another at 96! But one question I, and many others have is, did you actually see your elder working in the village prior to his death or was he a just a number on the stats page??

Best of Irish,
Maura

No the oldest I've seen working was in his mid 80's (87 I think). The supposedly really old villager died during a weekend when I'd left my laptop at my brothers house (he has a game in one of my slots).

Hi Trin, you may have noticed a few of us from RA were really interested in this whole "age" thing, gohill is still doing "trials" on this!! Keep it up, gohill!!

I don't know if you had you're laptop, whether or not, you would have seen your "very elderly" VV or not, but, it's just a question that some of us have raised.

I still think it's an incredibly rare event to have VV's in there 90's and over...and in all honesty, it's almost too painful to see them creeping around at 66 (youngish nowadays) never mind when they're in there 80's and older, haha!!!

I know it's silly, but I feel for them, trying to drag themselves around the place, taking forever to get from A to B!!

I posted my thoughts on this in the suggestions/improvements thread and also mentioned a few things on this thread (a couple of pages back) which could improve the way aging is handled. I'm certain Arthur and co. (are you listening, haha!!) will find some way to "help the aged" in VV2 and treat the elders with a little more kindness and respect.

By the way, been to Australia, beautiful, beautiful country to visit....

Best of Irish,
Maura

Yeah it gets very sad to see your formerly hale and hearty villagers doddering around...I wish there was someway I could retire them, heee!


When I was younger we went overseas for three months during which we lived in Europe. We had two weeks in which we were able to go and visit Ireland and the UK...well to my great GREAT disappointment we went to London first and all promptly got sick (from the shocking pollution I reckon) and couldn't make it to Ireland. I was really upset, it was probably our only chance to get there...well not to worry...I've got big plans to take my hubby and kids overseas one day and Ireland is first on the list (I really want to visit Dragonhill Underhold...what a thrill that would be)!

OOOOHHHH...I just became an adviser!! Woo hoo!

Unfortunately, my games crashed and burned so the research will take even MORE time. Ah vell... such is life. I'm too obsessive to just give up. I'm also CURIOUS... yeah, that's it, sounds better.

Personally, though I LOVE having a runner.. when that runner turns elderly, it's a shock. I can barely look at them anymore. I wish it wasn't so drastic, like they go from running to the normal walk instead of a crawl.

mine was 103 and my graveyard is full of seniors in threir late 90's but none live beyond mid 70's now that the puzzles have been solved. Maybe Viagra???

mine dided at 101

The oldest villager I had so far was 91. I have been playing the it for a long time.

I agree with gohill, it's pre-programmed. In all my games no one
have crossed the 80s, even if I did all I had to do for them to
live older, the lagon, magic fruits and let them do what they want. Nothing to do they always die before 80s. Maybe it's only
the luck.

Ho yes, also I never let their health drop a bit

The same for me! and I also take care of their health as you!

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