7u880y Posted:

Was there really a lot of people who complained about that? It just seems to me that that particular problem is entirely the players own fault and doesn’t really require a fix.

I was surprised too, but there really were a lot of people who complained about this. It was our number one complaint when we launched the game actually.

I totally understand the argument that it’s entirely the player’s own fault, but on the other hand it’s also our job to make sure people have fun and don’t get ****ed off often. When we’re frustrating many players a day, I think we’ve failed in that regard.

To me the decision was simple: trade off the exploitability of the random thread count in order to frustrate fewer people.

I think that if I implement some kind of penalty for coming in and going it will discourage people from using that technique to maximize/minimize their threads. I certainly prefer that to a prompt that’s like “Are you sure you want to enter this forum and use a visit?”