Gasboy
BLRP
Companies do this all the time.Not at all a good way to do it. Companies never do things like this, it just causes chaos. If it was a cool new feature it would have got people hyped up. Now there's so much panic and cross-talk it will be pretty hard to figure out what should be done. I know that the devs have been looking to remake a lot of core systems but you can't just drop this on people when they are expecting new stuff and fixes to old systems. This is like dangling an apple in front of us and then telling us we need to uproot and regrow the tree to get it. I agree that it is necessary but if this rollercoaster continues more and more people are going to go somewhere else.
If it was just a cool new feature, Schine would have just put it into the game.
But this change isn't "just" a new feature. It's the underpinning of the whole game, mechanics-wise. There's nothing that happens in game without power, and obviously Schine had an understanding that the change might not be popular. So good on them for offering it.
They've given us a trickle new stuff a bit lately, and now they are applying "fixes to old systems". How is this dangling an apple in front of us? We wanted better power, and they've given us an offer. Let's see what can be done with it, what we can offer back in return, before we reject it out of hand.
Yeah, we're going to have to overhaul everything, but do I really have to beat the dead horse that is "This is an alpha, expect massive changes on a moment's notice"?