Zepar72 wrote:When supports were hugely nerfed, everyone cried and it got reworked, as "not everyone wants to play minesweeper".
Now it's pretty much free to mine undefinied ammount of rock, looking how cheap supports are, people cry as "nobody wants to take nuggets / wood (that actually GROWS underground) with them to repair".
Will the next step be "nobody wants to deal with supports, remove cave-ins"?
After that let's go with "Mining isn't fun, make caves just empty places with ore lying around" ?
Then let's remove the whole coal + smelting stuff, cuz it's a bother too . . Why can't we mine metal bars?
The issue for me is more "if I'm spending resources to make a mine support, I don't want to have to pay attention while mining out that support"
The game has been filled with things forcing you to watch your character do that action. Farming you can mostly afk, but with mining you always have to keep an eye out for getting chewed on. Mine support repair is just one more "oops hope you didn't forget to be watching me" that's added on to a bulk task that the devs agreed wasn't fun to pay attention to and let us partially automate it. Probably making this worse is no custom client I'm aware of having a sound alarm for supports dropping below HP thresholds like they do for getting aggroed by beasties or sound alarms for trolls.
Cave sweeper vs supports as a choice still exists. People do a bit of both depending on the situation. But having to pay attention to a support while area mining isn't enjoyable.