Backwall Ore

So during Leth's stream this evening, and after I believe Omni confirmed it when we were talking about it. It would appear as though ore in the backwall was removed. I'm more curious to know everyone's opinions on it, I'd also like to know if possible, why was it removed. Was it a glitch? Balancing issues? I'm curious cause I thought that was a totally badass feature.

So discuss, plan, plot etc I'll make this a poll I think.

 

Backwall ore is only cool until you realize just how much of it you'd walk past without ever realizing it was there.

 

That'd be a shame, I thought it was awesome as well when I first saw it. But I can live without that if the devs don't want it to be there.

 

Omni said that in the Live-Stream Chat today.

 

I also like the backwall ore.
It makes the pockets of ore much more abundant which will save time
digging deep into every planet we come across.

 

I liked the idea of it, if it is gone that's too bad and I'd like to know why, but I'm sure we can survive without it, even if it does make things take a bit longer.

 

Yeah they're history. Too bad but Devs (at least these guys) know best.

But I've always tried to imagine triple layer worlds.
Think those 2 lane fighting games. You can hop in the foreground and the midground, and the background is just there.

Wonder what would happen if Starbound inherited this feature. Houses would be so much cooler.
But yeah, 50~ hours to go

 

because it's a balancing issue? maybe they should keep it but make backwall ore harder to come across and less abundant? either way, don't really mind if it's not there or is there, I'm easy.

 

What is backwall ore?

 

You know how there are regular blocks and background blocks? There used to be regular ore and background ore.

 

That's a darn shame. I really liked the idea of background ore.
Oh well.

 

it makes more sense to have back wall ore imo

 

Aww, it got removed? I really liked that. Not only was it a pretty unique concept, it actually made the background layer much more valuable (than it already was, anyway) to have useful things back there.

I can't see why it would be a balance issue, it's not like ore is a finite resource. As for quantity, most of the background will be covered up anyway, so technically it would be rarer than normal ore even if it spawns at the same rate.

 

That's a shame indeed. If we can remove the back-wall underground there would make sense it includes also ore on such layer.

 

This has been debated among the devs. I think it should be.

It was removed because the rarity tools aren't yet up to par and we couldn't fully control the commonality of the things. Either there was too little or too much ore. When we make the code better so we can fully control the commonality to our desires then hopefully we'll add it again.
But yeah, I'm with everyone who wants background ores back. One or two evil Devs are not *cough* Rho *cough* but that's because they are are beings of pure evil.


So everyone vote "Yes". But again, it would most likely happen when the code for ore count is perfected.

 

I want backwall ore textures. To make an ore house with.

 

Thanks for clearing that up George.
Much appreciated.

 

Thanks for the reply George! I look forward to when the code is up and working as you all intend it to do so! This way we can have backwall ore again, even if it's super-rare it added a lot to the game in my opinion.