You were talking about the tractor beam attachment for the multi-tool earlier. What happens when people shoot the tractor beam at other players?
TL;DRHandling what players will do with a tractor beam takes far longer than building it; the team welcomes crazy uses but wants systems robust enough to prevent repeated griefing, with players able to retaliate.
This is, again, one of the reasons it takes us so long to develop. Developing a tractor beam to pick up a crate and move it around is something you can do in a month, easy. Dealing with all the consequences of what players will do with it, that takes years.
Yes, but be honest with me, Dan. I've worked with you long enough: you look forward to the crazy things that players will do with it.
Of course. I want them to do the crazy things. I want them to do as many crazy things as possible, as long as they don't end up griefing other players, who end up getting upset and leaving the game because they got griefed by someone over and over and over. That needs to not happen, and our systems need to be robust enough to not allow that to happen. You're allowed to steal from players, you're allowed to kill them and hunt them, but they need to be able to retaliate. If they're just there getting punched over and over and abused, that is not fun for anyone.