Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24108228-20141020170717/@comment-25812005-20141111055829

NoBanana wrote: Put it this way: When I made the Golden Paintbrush, I got 100% support from 33 votes, my best (and the wiki's best) Support-No Support Ratio. People clearly loved it. Why? Because it was an upgrade on something people found unsatisfactory. I completely agree with you that eventually people will ask for more advanced guns. However, let's look at the golden paintbrush again. Did any of the 33 people who voted leave the game and never play again because it wasn't added? If the editors look at a suggestion, think "Nope, it'll make more people sad then it will happy", they have no obligation to add it, and people are not going to leave because what they said didn't get in. They might leave if nothing they felt added to the game got in, but merely because the gun they wanted didn't get in is not going to "Lose our community". Your Golden Paintbrush idea was indeed brilliant, but let's not forget that this was an upgrade to the default version. The Smeltery was also an upgrade to the once famed Forge. What I'm trying to do is stem the Gun idea straight from the source, since it technically has no prerequisite tool to act as a successor to. If we added the Gun weapon specifically, this would be the start of a new era, one who many of the community is against. Again, we would indeed have a new surge of players, but how long until the basis of this game is withered away? How long until this wiki is flooded by the very children who don these weapons, begging for further upgrades?

Just note that the reason why I am against these weapons is because I have known just how monstrous they are... I have seen what they can do, and I am just soley against it. And I am not referring to in-game experience, but rather real life.