Why was this done?
- There was a working jewelrymaking system
- Making jewelry required jewelrymaking pliers
- Making fancy jewelry required a skill
- jewelrymaking had its own category of discovery
- jewelrymaking had a trophy
- jewelrymaking required 3 turns per ply
So, if they wanted to make jewelrymaking more interesting in-run, they COULD have simply removed that last point.
Instead, they did this:
- All the old jewelrymaking recipes have been replaced, one for one, by meat paste recipes
- You still need jewelrymaking pliers and the skill, just as before
- There is no turn cost.
--> Every discovery that many people spend lots of time, effort, and money to is gone
--> Those of us who actually kept one of each of the items we crafted before can untinker them and regain and re-gain the recipes
--> (Except for the amazing discovery and the Dreadsylvania discovery.)
--> Are jewelrymaking discoveries now mixed in with meat paste discoveries, and you just have to know that they have additional requirements, rather than having their own category?
--> The trophy? Unobtainable, until and unless they come out with a kludge to make it available again.
I am really looking forward to seeing how this will be better for the players, going forward, than keeping the original system and removing the turn cost to use it. I see zero benefit - to the player - to doing it the way they did, rather than simply removing the code that spent adventures. Whereas the HARM to players seems unambiguous.
It looks like change for the sake of change with literally zero thought given to transitioning old discoveries into new discoveries. Hell, if they'd done that, they wouldn't have needed to put in the "floaty rock necklace can be untinkered" kludge, although they'd still need to come up with a kludge to make the trophy available again.
But, who knows? Maybe there will be some jewelry thing coming in the future that would have been simply impossible with a 0-turn "jewelry is its own crafting system" fix and my imagination is just too limited to be able to grok it.
Why was this done?