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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8428748" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Because too many very similar things are confusing, but also because it starts raising questions of effort and... well stupidity to a degree. </p><p></p><p>Let us say you are on an volcanic island. And there exists two major industries for getting to a second island. One is building boats from the wood of the island, and sailing the water. The other is mining and treating special metals, heavily enchanting them, and making ships to travel through the magma and go from one volcano to the other. IF presented with this fully formed, both industries running... you'd have to wonder why they ever started Volcano diving. Sure, it's cool, but it takes so much more effort, so many more resources, and we know that they know of a better way. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Additionally, when you have a bunch of things, some get more focus than others. I watched an entire video of the Ethereal Plane, which also allows for plane hopping via ethereal portals. But there is nothing in there. A few things move through it, and we are told there are things that live there, but even doing research into it you find that 90% of that entire place is just... empty. There are no hooks. Meanwhile, in the Astral, we've got a lot of hooks. And that's because they made more hooks for the Astral, put effort into it, so that's where people went. And since people were going there, more effort was put into it. And sure, we can have all these other things existing in theory... but then in practice we won't use them. And if you aren't going to use them, why put the effort into them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8428748, member: 6801228"] Because too many very similar things are confusing, but also because it starts raising questions of effort and... well stupidity to a degree. Let us say you are on an volcanic island. And there exists two major industries for getting to a second island. One is building boats from the wood of the island, and sailing the water. The other is mining and treating special metals, heavily enchanting them, and making ships to travel through the magma and go from one volcano to the other. IF presented with this fully formed, both industries running... you'd have to wonder why they ever started Volcano diving. Sure, it's cool, but it takes so much more effort, so many more resources, and we know that they know of a better way. Additionally, when you have a bunch of things, some get more focus than others. I watched an entire video of the Ethereal Plane, which also allows for plane hopping via ethereal portals. But there is nothing in there. A few things move through it, and we are told there are things that live there, but even doing research into it you find that 90% of that entire place is just... empty. There are no hooks. Meanwhile, in the Astral, we've got a lot of hooks. And that's because they made more hooks for the Astral, put effort into it, so that's where people went. And since people were going there, more effort was put into it. And sure, we can have all these other things existing in theory... but then in practice we won't use them. And if you aren't going to use them, why put the effort into them? [/QUOTE]
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