Originally Posted by
Moosetasm
See, now I think this is an unexpected effect that can be traced directly to the change in cade costs. (No, not being salty, hear me out.) So, by increasing the cost of Metal cades, which can only be made by mini engis, engis, or higher ranks, those kinds of cades are made less often. Now, sandbag cades are still cheap to make, and ANYONE can place them. Because of their newfound utility, engis stock up on sandbags, and command mass-orders them for supply drops a lot more than they used to. So there are stacks of them lying around. And all the brand-new people see the piles of unplaced sandbags lying around, and want to make fortifications.
In the last few days, after I got over the initial salt of the metal cade cost increases, I started noticing many more comments in chats like “what the hell is with this autism sandbag placement?” Comments like this started becoming pretty frequent.
I noticed that someone sandbag-caded the entire north LZ1 wall on Solaris (no, not by north caves, I mean ALL the way from North caves to TComms), and other such mishaps that tend to not happen when experienced engis are on the job.
Anyways, I have a feeling that we’ll see more of this insanity in the near-term (and possibly long-term) future unless sandbag cades get cost nerfed as well.