Deleted Systems

[jammi]

The reason for retcons is because the majority of those systems were either empty and thus contributed nothing anyway, or were horrifically overdeveloped or godmodded and couldn't feasibly be salvaged within the boundaries of the mod's current standards.

A good example would be the GC guard system which is an absolute travesty of a mess. Nothing can really be done with it, so wiping it and redistributing or re-purposing some of the assets to places where they make sense and can actually meaningfully contribute to the game environment is the best and simplest option.

In any case, the long standing policy has always been that guard systems are not canonical, until otherwise individually specified. They only become canon after they've been surrendered to the dev team by their faction to be 'de-guarded'; that is redesigned to remove the godmodded elements, integrated with their surroundings and brought in line with wider mod standards.

Some systems are just so problematic that this isn't feasible. There's also the problem of system bloat, which is an equally thorny issue. Redundant systems that don't offer anything unique or are otherwise of an atrocious quality shouldn't be salvaged. Attempting to do so would drain precious manhours away from other more productive work that would be of greater utility and benefit. Their file entries can always be used for more interesting things later.

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