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[RAM]

Hidey-pit
Salt

P.S.
 Tigers are simple enough to domesticate. You just send all your kids out to catch two tigers once a generation. Sooner or later you get a breeding pair and start passing down the cubs while the highly lethal growing-up ceremony maintains genetic diversity. And it gives the elders something to grumble about when the kids have it too easy with their newfangled nets and tranq-darts power-armour and what-have-you...

P.P.S.
 Might I suggest having the suggestion and voting phase acting simultaneously but you can only vote on the previous round's suggestions? It would be a bother to sift through the mixed-together vote and suggest posts, but it would keep things going at a decent rate, hopefully...
 It often bugs me that most design games have the suggestions designed in response to current stimuli and put into production instantaneously. It seems more sensible to give them a whole turn to work on their prototypes before presenting them for refinement and production and also adds more of a predictive element to the thing.

 On that note suggestion for next round: Tame Growls: As a ceremony to become official hunters, the candidates are lead into the woods by the best hunters and are expected to come back with two live growls which are then restrained and fed until they become too lazy to care about anything anymore.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

P.P.S.
 Might I suggest having the suggestion and voting phase acting simultaneously but you can only vote on the previous round's suggestions? It would be a bother to sift through the mixed-together vote and suggest posts, but it would keep things going at a decent rate, hopefully...
 It often bugs me that most design games have the suggestions designed in response to current stimuli and put into production instantaneously. It seems more sensible to give them a whole turn to work on their prototypes before presenting them for refinement and production and also adds more of a predictive element to the thing.

I believe that approach will only confuse things in contrast to the suggestion-vote idea I have.  Heck, this current turn, having a mixed system, is closing in on 5 days since the prior turn.

As a note on the problem of things being developed based upon the current stimuli, the turns are currently not occurring over a year, 5 years, or even a decade.  It is instead taking place over a period close to fifty years.  When things slow down, I have an idea of how to solve the issue.  Rather than being implemented immediately, I'll have designs not implemented on the turn after they were designed.  Instead, it will be the turn after they were designed (ie. If the game starts at the end of 1910, the design made for that year won't come in until 1912.)

[Asgarus]

In the hope to revive this hopefully before it really dies:

Pottery
Salt

(choosen from the ones already voted for, to at leat get something (would have preferred taming tigers ))

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

+1 to above

[Aseaheru]

So thats

Pottery: Asea, Asgarus, Urist Mc Dwarf
Throwing stick sticks(spear throwers): Asea
Salt: Asgarus, Urist Mc Dwarf, RAM, Ultimuh
Dried Meat: Ultimuh
Hiding pits: RAM

Looks like the salty pots have it.

[Asgarus]

Technological advancement, do your thing!

[Sanctume]

So thats

Pottery: Asea, Asgarus, Urist Mc Dwarf
Throwing stick sticks(spear throwers): Asea
Salt: Asgarus, Urist Mc Dwarf, RAM, Ultimuh
Dried Meat: Ultimuh
Hiding pits: RAM

Looks like the salty pots have it.

+1 Salt
+1 Pottery

To vote on the remaining 2

[Funk]

So thats

Pottery: Asea, Asgarus, Urist Mc Dwarf
Throwing stick sticks(spear throwers): Asea
Salt: Asgarus, Urist Mc Dwarf, RAM, Ultimuh
Dried Meat: Ultimuh
Hiding pits: RAM

Looks like the salty pots have it.

+1 Salt
+1 Pottery

To vote on the remaining 2

+1

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Food become better.  Pots made over pain light makes food last longer.  Pain light and salt make meat taste better.  Trying to use Pain Light and Salt on Berries or Grained Grass makes food taste bad.  Pain light also keeps people warm.  HAve to be careful with pain light.  Hunting party made lot of forest burn with pain light.

Farthest hunters tell of seeing a wandering group.  Attempts to talk caused them to run away.  Came back to find out no other hunters of tribe were in area.  Very confusing.

Spoiler: 'Nation' Profile (click to show/hide)

Tribe Name:
The Tribe

Occupations
Chief
Elders
Hunters
Gatherers
Sharpeners
Braiders
Riders
Potters
Food Preparers

Weapons:
Hit Thing - Sticks and stones may break your bones, but the Hit Thing definitely will. The latest invention by the famed innovator Uggmugg, this design is as simple as it is beautiful: a rock on the end of a stick tied together with vine wrapped around the two. Now you can hit things with the power of rocks and with the range of sticks. (Stick, Rock, Vine)
Pointy stick - A long stick that is three Longbones long with a sharpened rock tied on the end with vines,it can be thrown at anything running away or used to protect yourself from anything running to you,it should be used with the hit thing. (Long stick, Sharp rock, Vines)

Tools:
Hit Thing - See Weapons entry.
Sharp Rock - Sharpened rock good for cutting things. Made by rubbing and chipping the rock with other rocks. (Rock)
Rope - Wet Straws in water river a day long makes straws soft and easy to "braid".  You braid like "this and that" and make rope, like vine but stronger and longer vine. (Straw)
Pots - Container made from clay burnt in fire.  Base is flat and top open.  Helps store food.

Buildings:
Sleep Hut - A large hut made of leaning long sticks against a tree and tying them together with vines.  It is circular and has no floor covering. (Vines, Trees)

Technology:
New Bone System - A four part system for measuring items using bones.  The Bigbone is a bone equal in height to the tallest tribes member at the time of the system's creation.  The next step down is the Longbone, roughly the length of a man's leg  Smallbones are roughly the length of a foot.  Tinybones are the smallest unit of measurement, at about the size of an index finger.
Sharp Rock - See Tools Entry.
Pain Light - Bright light made by rubbing two sticks together among dry grass.  Very hot.  Cooks meat good.

Animals
Neighs

Resources
Stick
Long Stick
Tree
Rock
Vine
Straw
Salt
Clay

Food
Grained Grass
Red Berries
Blue Berries
Orange Berries
Swimmer Meat
Antler Meat
Hairy Horn Meat
Neigh Meat
Salted Swimmer Meat
Salted Antler Meat
Salted Hairy Horn Meat
Salted Neigh Meat
Roasted Swimmer Meat
Roasted Antler Meat
Roasted Hairy Horn Meat
Roasted Neigh Meat
Salted and Roasted Swimmer Meat
Salted and Roasted Antler Meat
Salted and Roasted Hairy Horn Meat
Salted and Roasted Neigh Meat

Begin Suggestion Phase[/size

The suggestion phase is the 24 hour period of time wherein suggestions for what could be used on the next turn are made.  It is to be followed by the voting phase, where individuals vote upon provided suggestions.

[Sanctume]

My idea is using the animals and get leather, gut string, and make a bow and arrow; arrows is a smaller scale of Pointy Stick

Propose:

Name: Animal Skin (resource)
Description: Animals skins dried with salt make soft yet strong cover.  Can use on body and sleep huts, protects from weather.
Resources: Animals (Antler, Hairy Horn, Neigh) skin, Salt

Name: Animal Gut Rope  (resource)
Description: Animals insides cut into ropes with sharp rock make soft yet strong ropes.
Resources: Animals (Antler, Hairy Horn, Neigh) insides, Sharp Rock

Name: Shoot Stick (weapon)
Description: Strong wood bends.  Tie Gut Rope one ends of Strong wood. Use smaller Pointy Stick in middle of Gut Rope, Hold Strong Wood, Pull Gut and let go makes smaller Pointy Stick go far and stab animals.
Resources: Animals Gut Rope, Strong Wood, "smaller" Pointy Stick.

[Aseaheru]

Heres my three cents.

Name: Farming
 Description: Trash piles seem to grow plants thrown away. Can we make plants grow where we want them somehow?

 Name: Tame Growls
 Description: If we take small growls, can we be their pack when they get big? Would help protect home.

 Name: Milling/baking
 Description: If we try taking grained grass, crush between two rocks (one with a dip in it would eb good), then mix the resulting powder with water and put next to fire, may be good food for when hot meat is too messy.

[Asgarus]

I am proposing the following technologies:
Fishing nets
Using ropes or vines to braid fishing nets. Makes catching swimmers easier.

Wicker baskets
Better for transport than pots. Easier to make and doesn't shatter when hitting the ground too hard.

Roar taming
Stealing and taming the cubs and killing the old ones could be the easiest way, until we have a tame breeding population.
Will be good for defense, offense hunting, and cuddling.



Also... I don't know what plans you have with that food section, but since you said you want to keep it simple, I have an idea for that.
Just list what types of food the tribe has access to, like this: (I added color codes for different types (grain, fruit, meat, vegetables))
Accessable food sources:
Grained Grass
Red Berries
Blue Berries
Orange Berries
Swimmer
Antler
Hairy Horn
Neigh
Salad
Carrots

And additionally you could list the methods of processing food.
Salting meat
Squeezing juice out of berries
Grinding grained grass to powder
Grinding meat
Making sausages from ground meat
Mixing vegetables together

Something like that.

edit: Roars were tigers, right?

[Aseaheru]

 Yes they where. Also, if we go and farm, chances are that some of them would semi-domesticate themselves while going after vermin thats after our grain stores.

[Asgarus]

I don't think tigers would hunt close to our stuff. They might hunt for us, but not for whatever small vermin might steal our grain.

[Aseaheru]

 Smaller cats than tigers are probably about.

 Anyways, would you rather try taming the slightly easier doggies before going after god like cats, or just start at god-tier? In addition, tigers are slightly less useful in hunting.