Yeah, what is this bullshit that I'm reading here...
The TA build isn't some conspiracy designed to give The Jews/BLM/gingers/whoever an advantage over you at the game of Worms, that just makes you sound completely deranged. The reason it's always been kept private is that in its current state, it isn't ready for public release, same as a bunch of other features and ideas floating around, competing for the same single, unpaid programmer's time and attention. As it happens, it's specifically the sort of big feature that will require a lot of rethinking on the design front, changes in the way the rest of the game is put together, on top of the sheer implementation of it. So doing all that correctly is tricky and hence harder to justify pouring resources into it, over implementing or improving features that will be interesting to a (much) larger portion of the player base. Gotta look at it with some perspective.
If anything, I imagine trying to nudge DC into prioritising work on a public TA build by making shit up and questioning the motives of people who have been nothing but helpful in keeping the game alive for upwards of 15 years is going to achieve the opposite; it'll make TA builds less easy to ask for by those who would have a legitimate use for them now, one that contributes in some way to the goal of advancing the WA community. Speculating on how advantageous having a TA build is, or on the other no doubt nefarious shenanigans that some unnamed cabal of elitists gets up to while laughing at the plebs, with seemingly little interest in actually listening to and understanding the explanations offered... yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if that would be exactly the sort of motivation-destroying attitude that would delay progress and harm us all in the long run. Don't do that!
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