Can you be reborn in your family?

[panakon]

I am considering to buy the game but the idea of doing something and then dying and never seeing it again scares me. What I want to ask is if there is an option to be reborn as a baby to someone from your family tree, so you can witness your legacy.
Also, a friend wants to pick up the game and I want to know if we will be able to enjoy it together or if it is going to be completly up to chance if we run into each other.

[Mush]

as far as i know you are locked out of the same lineage for an hour after death (and i hate that part of the game...)

[Harmonica]

You will sometimes be reborn in the same settlement, and it is more likely when the settlements grow very large. I have experienced what you describe, however I don't think you can influence this process. Every life is a chance to make a small impact in different ways, depending on the situation.

The is a screen in the game that shows a code you can give to your friend and be born into the game alongside them. However, you are entirely reliant on your mother looking after both of you!

There are times when I wish I could stick around as a spirit to see what happens to everyone after I am gone, but in the end, it is much more affecting that you do not. You just make do with the time you have. Generally people play the game very positively and are trying to make progress for the next generation.

Definitely a different game experience that is more about the sum of all your lives and being a part of something larger than yourself.

[Zephyr]

again, this game is existential crisis incarnate

[gabal]

You can play on the empty server. If you die as an Eve of old age on an empty server you get reborn as Eve on the same spot.

However, game is ment to be played as a brand new life every time you are born with different family.

[tana]

But if you play enough lives, you're bound to get reborn into a settlement you've been born before at one point or another.

[Jeck]

I don't think there's an hour lockout, because I've been reborn back into an old society quicker than that (I think after being abandoned twice, the third birth was back at that old camp). But I've never been born into the same camp back to back.

[tana]

the ban activate after you've played 30 min into a lineage, you've been murdered or you murdered someone. So if you died as a baby or a child, you can be reborn into same village. Also if there are several lineages at the same time, you can be reborn in the same village into the other lineage.

[starkn1ght]

Originally posted by tana:

the ban activate after you've played 30 min into a lineage, you've been murdered or you murdered someone. So if you died as a baby or a child, you can be reborn into same village. Also if there are several lineages at the same time, you can be reborn in the same village into the other lineage.

To expound on tana's point, the lineage ban only affects the family line you were a part of, not all families at the same location. This is why villages with multiple lines tend to last longer, as competent players can bounce between families and continue working on the same town many lives in succession.

The lineage ban itself is up to 90 minutes, based on server population. The formula is 90 * [(Pop - 10)/40, max 1] to determine how long you're locked out. I believe murder victims double that time. If there's 10 or fewer people on when you die, there's no lineage ban at all.

[Jeck]

Originally posted by tana:

the ban activate after you've played 30 min into a lineage, you've been murdered or you murdered someone. So if you died as a baby or a child, you can be reborn into same village. Also if there are several lineages at the same time, you can be reborn in the same village into the other lineage.

Oh okay that makes sense.