@1hourben welcome to the game what us server are you playing on? We have had a flux of new players lately. I think most of the more advanced players are on US2. We’ve actually been able to accomplish pretty advanced towns and a partial successful system of respawning to each other. For hours at a time.
MrBen. It’s all about eves. If the eve lives up to 60, she will be able to respawn in the city. If YOU are the eve, you have to make sure you live, because you will be able to respawn. I agree, it’s cool when your family reaches 9990 gens, but in those millions of people the only truly important person there will always be the eve.
Make sure to set a home marker too when eve spawning. If there are no other mothers to be born to you will spawn on the home marker next time as an Eve. Usually the best settlements have one Eve who respawns and revives the town whenever it dies out.