Couldn’t have said it better myself.
This entire feature should be OFF by default.
Someone who’s build is older than yours but who’s owner is almost never online and hasn’t been online since this last update should NOT have the Buffer system ON by default.
Here’s the situation I’m in :
On a related note, there has been concerns raised about this on the Testing threads, on separated threads, and JUST LIKE the Lighting changes from the Farming update, the devs decided to push the update without giving enough considerations to these concerns.
I’m seeing a problematic pattern, here.
I remember seeing (I think) James telling us “we’ve been thinking about the Buffer Zone system since last year, we know what we’re doing” or something like that. Well, I’m sorry to say that you guys didn’t think hard enough.
Communication with and from the devs needs improvements.