Platforms destroy *very* quickly

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Re: Platforms destroy *very* quickly

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The problem being that you're likely to often be standing on one of those blocks :)

I think removal of the vertical column going upwards from the block clicked is entirely sufficient. Right clicking on individual blocks in a horizontal extension is not excessive burden on the player IMO, and I think is less likely to result in unintended side effects (like plummeting into lava to your death).
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Re: Platforms destroy *very* quickly

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Just wanted to voice my support for this in any form: suggestion/addon/independent mod. I like dirt as much as the next guy, but I can always tell when certain behaviors feel weird or exploity. I get a guilty feeling about it. That's how I feel about pillaring and building dirt scaffolding around my larger structures. It just feels wrong, yet it really is quite necessary for effective building, I think. Other options like ladders and stairs just aren't efficient (not in terms of resources but rather in terms of time).
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Re: Platforms destroy *very* quickly

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Oh, right click to remove scaffold functionality... Yeah, that would be a hell of a lot easier.
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Re: Platforms destroy *very* quickly

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I'm in the mood to work on something like this at the moment, so I'll do a few tests with it to see how it plays.

Shouldn't take me very long at all to get something useable in game.
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FlowerChild wrote:I'm in the mood to work on something like this at the moment, so I'll do a few tests with it to see how it plays.

Shouldn't take me very long at all to get something useable in game.
Sounds good :D more features for the release at the end of the week :)
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Detritus wrote: Sounds good :D more features for the release at the end of the week :)
Do I *tend* to put out a release at the end of the week? Sure.

Do I feel comfortable with that turning into an expectation? Definitely not.
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FlowerChild wrote:
Detritus wrote: Sounds good :D more features for the release at the end of the week :)
Do I *tend* to put out a release at the end of the week? Sure.

Do I feel comfortable with that turning into an expectation? Definitely not.
Sorry, I meant to say the next release. I was assuming there would be one at the end of the week give the trend, but I understand that it's not reasonable to expect that consistently. Sorry again :/
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I also want to voice my support here. A lot of suggestions here made sense. I agree that using dirt feels a bit... dirty? If a functionality like right click to disassemble, or a larger pickup rate would be added to it, I wouldn't care at all if the recipe to make them would be expensive; although that would still force you to use dirt in the early game. However, with HCH you probably won't be building anything very large at the start anyway.
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