Race Restrictions Thin Out Families

[DougLefelhocz]

It often happens these days that bigserver2 sits at around 25-30 players. Just under the amount for race restrictions. There doesn't exist a lack of fertile moms, so no new Eves spawn and families don't thin out.

But occasionally, population will bounce over 30. Then a new Eve can spawn due to the lack of a race. But, then the population will dip back down below 30 players. In fact, such a situation appears to have just happened with Eve Bruno This thins out families and makes it so that they are less likely to survive due to lack of fertile girls. The case of Eve Bruno serves as a good example, since the server probably won't need a white family tomorrow when/if server population goes over 30 players, while it might need a family with access to latex or sulfur tomorrow and one of those families might die out now due to the population being more spread out.

Edit: Logging into the tutorial area, it seems that there's no black family a few minutes later (I was a black Eve, and no families were black according to Hetuw mod). I check and see that the Gades family died out at about the same time that the Bruno family started. The server won't need a white family tomorrow likely, but it will likely need a family with access to sulfur.

Further edit: The tan Cream family died out a bit later, leaving the server with a ginger family and a white family. A bad position for anyone needing sulfur or latex tomorrow if player count goes above 30.

Sure, this wouldn't be a problem if bigserver2 consistently had 40-130 players. But, if overflow happened to server1 or server2, this situation could arise easily on a consistent basis on overflow servers.

The simple solution here is to remove race restrictions with the accompanying removal of the racial Eve spawn condition. That would also make getting an Eve spawn less predictable, since once couldn't snipe getting an Eve spawn on the basis of seeing the lack of a race from the tutorial area (and seeing that player population is above 30) using Hetuw mod as some have done before.