CastIronFabric

well as I have shared my opinion on this before I think the way it really should be resolved is to remote 'boss fights' completely from the game but I know I am on outlier.

yes and I use bedspawn and teleporter translocator. So in the case of the RA by that time I would be able to drop a Translocator.

fair point. I have rejected the spawning mechanics in this game for so long I forgot about that.

when you describe the sour point are you sure that is accurate for many? I am not saying that to be pedantic, I say that because I heard as long as you know the path its fairly easy adventure but does not provide much loot worth the effort. To be fair what I am saying is anecdotal but that is what I heard. I could be way off.

Sometimes I wonder if the developers put in some code to count how many people have finished that part of the story and then decided not to bother to improve it because the numbers where not that interesting.

regarding the controversy which although I admit I intentionally know nothing about. I have enough pattern recognition on reading the various thread titles to come to the conclusion that we should all be avoiding the topic like the plague and go out of our way to know as little about it as possible. Nor will I be inadvertently lead down a path related to any word I have used in this statement I am asserting that position now and will no longer mention it in this thread. This is a one off.

from my understanding Steam powered trains which I was speaking of is not in the plans. The plans for Steam as I understand it does not include trains but I might be wrong. Regardless, lets move on.

yes, we are talking about steam trains though

basically 'Jonas Tech can give us whatever we want and it will not violate 'lore' " ok..I will knock it off, back to regular programming

that would be great. I think some where telling me in the past that trains would not be possible because it would violate lore somehow but I might be misremebering

All I can say is that we can have gilders but we cant have Steam powered trains because of...lore?

I am also very much against resources being allocated to a combat overhaul. Not remotely interested. In fact, I doubt I will even update the game when it comes out until all mods are working with the update with zero issues.

Debates over what is or is not 'end game' in a sandbox game is always a hard debate for me not to mention I often can not find the demarcation for myself. That said, I think its reasonable to say at least for this game having done all the story missions in the end game.

I highly endorse number 1. I would put that top of my list of things to change. Granted if it was my game I would remove all monsters but if I would keep them I would have such a setting as you have described.

have you studied Wurm combat mechanics? I think you would find that very interesting. Although implementing that in a real time twitch based engagement I think would be a huge challenge. In Wurm combat is almost turned based.