Discussion Thread: direct commits of balance changes without player input

[cyberTripping]

when I said alternative I meant alternative ways to address the problem, not alternative systems, fair point for the alternatives existing, but my point remains the same.

if old smoke powder (aerosol propellant) was just directly reworked into new smoke powder back when newsmoke was made, which im sure was considered by some, wouldn't that be the alternative solution you were looking for? maintaining the functional uses of creating clouds of smoke but using fresher, more balanced mechanics?

the weird in-between area of oldsmoke and newsmoke simultaneously existing in the code is incidental to this, in my view. Smoke WAS reworked, they just kept the old variant around for one reason or another. To this end, smoke was never removed: it still exists just fine, in its reworked form.