Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24108228-20141020170717/@comment-25812005-20141108160351

Perhaps... We can try an evaluation of the human mind?

If you have ever been forced to clear out and clean a garage by yourself, by hand, then you know how tedious it can be. It is extremely inefficient, and you will eventually want to come up with improvements. You'll start realizing different methods of efficiency, up until the point where you can go in and actually enjoy cleaning out the garage.

Now let's compare this to S303. When the Forge was introduced, almost everyone loved it; it seemed to be the perfect size, and it revolutionized survival. Years later, most of the fanbase had dissipated, now complaining the Forge was too small and inefficient. So what did we do? We came up with the Smeltery. If you were to introduce a Handcannon into the game, there would definitely be some positive feedback, but we have no idea how long it would last. Eventually, the community would beg for an upgraded version of this Handcannon, and we would be forced to implement one or suffer the consequences of losing our community.

Basically, what I'm saying is we're focusing on the future of this game, not just how it stands as is. Any implementation of guns would eventually rot us, and some of us aren't ready for that.