Sin Vega on Nostr: reading a modding forum where one of the Established Defenders (you know the energy) ...
reading a modding forum where one of the Established Defenders (you know the energy) is explaining that a feature was removed because it's "too powerful" and if you mod the game so that the AI can do that to you instead you'll see why
and I'm just begging players and modders to understand that balance is (a) a means to an end, that (b) that end varies from game to game, and (c) balance and symmetry are not the same goddamn thing
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