Hey. I usually avoid forums like the plague. But I felt it necessary to make a comment on the new changes.
They suck.
Well, not all of them. I like being able to study items and what not, but to not grant us our Learning Points for draining our time into building things or plowing/paving roads or clear cutting forests for palisades is just rediculous in my opinion. Now all that well deservered LP goes down the crapper. I can understand maybe a REDUCED LP gain with the implement of the study system (which I do like, but would like to see it more as a bonus side project for a little extra LP) but to rob us of all the LP after the first time doing something is just mean... I mean, to make the study worth it, one of the things you can make early on is that idol you can create, but this requires 1 bonesaw, 1 log and 1 stone axe to build. That's a little hefty at such an early phase of the game. Bones are a bit hard to come by. If you don't have Hunting and a decent exploration, even rabbits are in a rare commody.
It's a little bit of a bummer, too, that the personal belief time increased quite a bit..
I'm hoping these changes won't stick or at least be revised.