Balancing spells around each other isn't exploitative unless you define an unfair advantage as an exploit. I feel like a lot of people tend to play the "most effective" way possible barring some exceptions. It's why when we had temperature I always be-lined it to a clothing store and with magazines I head to the bookstores and make sure to loot every mailbox.What do the examples you gave me have anything to do with min/maxers?
Maybe you're confusing my argument with exploiters?
But that's another can of worms altogether.
To clarify: a game should be well balanced, I agree, but I'm saying that the criteria for balancing it shouldn't come from looking at the players in the "extreme" of the play style spectrum.
Too many toggles means they have to adjust two things instead of one. I dislike that idea. I think if they go LBD hybrid they just change it as such. I don't want the old LBD system as it wasn't all that interesting in itself. The perk+LBD hybrid seems like it would help shore up deficiencies with both systems. It would take some effort but it's 100% better than a toggle. This is something that would hard to balance two systems at once.
Well, there you go!
I used some of those only many years ago when I started playing and I had no idea of how to play.
I agree.
Local forum user unhappy with being given too many choices. Reasons we can't have nice things continue to grow faster than stock market.
There's a bit of a difference though; with 15 flavors of soup, any pick is a satisfying experience, designed by a chef somewhere. Having a bunch of settings is like going to the veggies aisle to look for soup. If you Know what to get, you might get a passable soup, with a lot of cooking. But how the F was I supposed to know that a Pepper isn't a Pepper isn't a Pepper... and that any soup is balanced only without potatoes, if you add spuds, you'll get smash.
Okay so your point is "People are incredibly stupid and YOU should suffer for that"?
I'd be fine if it's a game option to enable or disable LBD. If they did that, I wouldn't care at all how they implement LBD in the game because I'll just disable it. I doubt they'll do that for LBD, though. In the end, if it's poorly designed for my preference, I'll use a mod to remove it yet again. You're focused on overhaul mods for some strange reason - I assume because you like some overhaul mod - but there is no need to spend a massive amount of time making an overhaul mod just to remove LBD. There will be a mod that is designed specifically to remove LBD. Just like there are mods that specifically remove magazines. Most people don't play overhauls. There's nothing wrong with them, and they are good if you like all the changes they make, but most just want an experience that is more in line with the original game design. For me, I never play overhauls because even if I like some changes they make, they also make a lot of changes that I really don't like. So I stick to a mix of regular mods to customize things they way I want without a lot of stuff I don't want.
Well, most wilderness POI are already exclusive to the wilderness. The issue is that most aren't anything special. There are certain ones that are more unique, but most are some form of house. It is more of an issue where they need to make more unique and interesting POI that are in the wilderness. Red Mesa is a good one that many people like to visit, for example. More kinds of interesting POI like that can get people to go to the wilderness more often. But in the end, if people don't enjoy exploring, they aren't going to do so no matter what they add to the game. People play a certain way, and if that means they stay in towns, then that isn't likely to change. Just like if people like avoiding towns, little that is done in towns will change how they play. So we're only really talking about people who don't care whether they are in towns or wilderness and feel like they need incentive to go to one or the other. I'm guessing that's a relatively small percentage of people. Doesn't mean they shouldn't add more unique POI to the wilderness, of course. I'd love to see more out there. But that wouldn't really increase the time I spend in the wilderness.
No, just you? Does my question mark make my claim reasonable, or am I still making a claim about what you didn't say?
"Jar Retention rate"? It's kinda obvious what it does, but ... why? Without knowing the history, that one's already a doozy
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Good question. I'd date party girl zombie smh.
Why is that surprising? A lot of people don't want LBD but had no real reason to "scream" about it since it wasn't something that people thought would actually come back. Now that it's said to be returning, everyone who doesn't want it will start speaking up. That's the thing some people don't understand... you assume that "everyone" wants something because there are a lot of people complaining about it, but you forget that a lot of people aren't complaining because it's already what they want, or at least close. Change things and all the people who were silent now have to speak up and you get a lot of people complaining about the change while those who like the change are now silent.
