Round table

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I am not in favor of changing the SoD gameplay. Perhaps I agree that a permanent 2nd level is no longer SoD. But still, not everything concerns only the game mechanics. For example, viewing the movement trajectory... or for instance, when "demon-cutting" from a pile of accumulated secondary meat, using some key to see the number of possible demons from them, the required number of pits, etc... such informativeness does not affect the game mechanics, but significantly reduces calculation time and removes the possibility of error, which in principle levels the skill difference between someone who can calculate this in their head and someone who follows computer instructions without thinking or delving into these nuances. But on the other hand, someone who cannot count will use a calculator, but that takes time, which may not be enough. So here too it is a double-edged sword and there can be different opinions.

SoD is the kind of game that requires refinement (bug fixes, adding creativity, interesting things, adding dynamism to the game), but in such a way that it does not affect its original gameplay or change the essence of the game. This is a very touchy and delicate issue, so understand me correctly: I am not for changing SoD, nor for turning it into VT. By saying that not all ideas should be dismissed, but each should be considered individually, I did not mean to consider unacceptable ideas and plug them into SoD, but rather to call for discussion; because, as often happens, after one person expresses an idea and hears the arguments of a second, a third person, having read it, will express their own idea, which eventually leads to a 4th—one that is quite viable. This is how truth is born.
I get LOLs from messages by people who, seeing a question, write things like "what, you don't know?" or "do you even need this in the first place?" such messages are useless; they carry no useful semantic load, unless one considers the satisfaction of one's own vanity by exposing another's ignorance as such. Sometimes you read someone's question and people just write various uninformative nonsense in response.
In the MOD thread there was a request to put forward some ideas, discuss them, which is what I did; don't tell me "make a mod" etc., or "play VT" or something else. In substance, it would have been enough to mention any unacceptable factors or promote an idea in a modified format within acceptable limits.

I completely agree with both you and Romariogro that SoD is SoD, and everything that changes the ideological concept of the game becomes another game, but there is a desire to add things to the game that I wrote above, to give it novelty. Call it RESTORATION, but not at the expense of sacrificing the original. I hope I managed to convey what I want. That's all from me.