pestilence123 wrote:Tammer wrote:There's a difference between Pay to Do Stuff Faster and Pay to Win.
While I make 40 boards with a stone saw, someone will make 80 boards with a hand saw. So he would build fence two times faster than me. Someone with a rolling pin and hunting knives will produce twice as much food for the same time etc.
I'm personally only salty about the Rolling Pin, and only then because the current incarnation is pay only, when it is clearly within the capabilities of our characters to make at least one or two sub optimal tiers of less good ones. I've read about it in history books and journals too, about gutsy pioneer school teachers who wanted one, and made it out of pieces of pine wood from in the yard. (And the woman in question wasn't even a very good carver, she had just watched her father and brothers do it all her life.)
And have you tried the new saw? I mean sure, it is painful that someone can do it that much faster than a body, but in my experience, it's very tolerable the way it is now. I got the mats for a split rail fence starter corner with very little fuss and without the previously painful investment in phelgm and time. It's better now, even with a crummy stone saw. Anyone dedicated enough to BUY the better saw, well, you can steal that saw (or whatever they leave so they can alt vault it) when you break in their cute little Split Rail defended claim. Most people who would consider buying anything in my experience and have sense, already have better walls, or aspire to them.
And again, you butcher meat at an alarming rate with a butcher knife. It's kind of nuts. The real bottle neck is more the time to hunt animals and haul carcasses, not the dumb knife. Both in my previous village and the current one we honestly had the capacity to hunt more animals than we even needed due to storage. Being twice as fast at deboning all that meat is nice, but they still run into "Whycan'tIholdAllTheseBearSteaks?" like everyone else. Faster, even.
TLDR the improvements on speed for somethings are very acceptable in my opinion for normal stuff, and the "even faster" stuff doesn't by necessity make you a super Pilgrim who's doing twice as much work, both because you might not even want or need to do that work, or because you could, but your capacity to even benefit from it is tempered by other factors like storage which remain equal across the community.
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