This is actually an excellent point that I hadn’t thought of before. So true. It’s very similar (though admittedly not identical) to a new armor set making your old gear - that you spent hours grinding for - worthless.
So in a way max prestige is the hottest armor set and you have to keep grinding to keep it.
Yes in a way. The old gear didnt dimish in value. You just progressed to a new level. That gear technically stayed the same. In this update the old stuff was nerfed further back. This isnt a progression type game like a typical MMO style. So a lot of time was wasted. I know there is new blocks, but after we farm these for a few months. Will they be cut in prestige also? This is not an early access game to experiment on. W/ the current price, we should have some stability.
I am not overly fussed with prestige. I have been stuck at around 850k for a month or so and started on second expansion to add more to reach my goal of 1250000. After that, meh.
As for the recipe changing, yes it sucks. Seba was imo released too early and the current marble recipe should have been the one from the start. Then we would have had seba released with appropriate blocks so it was all seamless and made sense. I guess that’s what most are saying: it doesn’t really make sense right now but give it a week or 2 and all will be forgotten with new blocks being added to existing builds and marble/mosaic/gravel being replaced.
As for the other mmo comparison, it does happen a lot in my game of choice. They have a currency for current expac gear. When new patch releases with new gear, old one stays as is stats wise but becomes either super cheap to get or can be bought with a minor currency making it easy to get. Does it annoy me? Nope, got over that pretty fast. Might be Stockholm syndrome mind. So used to it it becomes second nature.
Just give it some time, it’ll blow over sooner than you think and you’ll laugh at how much you might have over reacted/made fun of someone for losing it. It’s a game, enjoy the ride 
No worries 
no harm taken 
It’s a game. I think it’s awesome change. I myself made a Lot of marble. Now I can make it easier. That’s awesome. Why are we complaining about making things easier and making our builds better looking. Keep complaining about updates that are actually encouraging new players to build with better blocks and easy to do. Must be frustrating for devs that are trying to improve the game for all…I think we should be thanking them for making the game less grinding. Thank you devs
No complaining about the changes, Im complaining about the Devs not doing anything in return to those who fell into this marble madness.
Anyone knows the game called Planet Explorers ? It was a sandbox pay to play game on Steam. Due to losing the source code or something, they could’nt fix the net code to make the game able to play online anymore. Then they make it free to everyone, nothing in return for those who backed it or paid for the game. Does that sound fair ? Now it got mostly negative review on Steam.
I don’t see why they should give us anything in return at all. What have they done wrong…updated the game…hmm so every time a update comes out we should be compensated. Gee I want be compensated for the length of time I hit each coil repairing them too… see what I mean where does it end. It’s a ever changing game . I think being compensated is going a bit far for improvement to game play…But that’s only my feeling. I do understand we all do feel differently
I made a giant Wayfarers Totem out of marble prior to the update… it took me a couple of weeks to craft enough marble to build it (~20k blocks) … it took a massive prestige hit post update … but I don’t care because it still looks so darned good 
Funny how people complain about how grindy BL is. No that the devs made some changes to make blocks such as marble less grindy, people whine about the change.
However depressing it must be for the devs to have to hear it all the time, it does make sense that it happens, and will keep happening.
They’re trying to cater to two groups that are almost directly opposed to each other’s playstyle. And as soon as you think you’ve found the halfway balance that pleases everyone, you find you’ve made the halfway balance that pleases no-one.
This is freaking awesome looking @Stretchious!
Honestly of you think about it if the recipes don’t get adjusted every time a new block came out the price would only go up as the material cost goes up to.
Then think about it the amount of materials that needs to be collected for use or be sold to make or buy 1 block even. Would get very demanding.
If i am honest don’t lay awake to spend coin if i can make it cheaper but if it means i i can make it cheaper by a lot I don’t buy anymore.
Example bricks I calculated i can make them at 4c so i am willing to pay up to 7c to avoid making them (Exo more coin). But if i se a price higher than that ill move on to the next shop, worse case make them my self.
Marble the same if i can buy them 4 around 65c ill buy them (now not anymore but…) if i have to pay for converted marble on top of that price I won’t even think about buying it or making it.
I have a big build and have to get a lot of building materials for it. I even change my plans if i can build it with a cheaper (also looking good) material just to save coin because i need a lot.
Sorry for ranting but I figure its a good thing because it means the hassle of crafting doesn’t get to big even for a newbie. And the pressure to make a lot of coin to buy the blocks needed doesn’t get to hard to.
Yeah that’s right it’s about the build…looks awesome
I don’t see any half way changes…storage blocks. New blocks. A spanner that works and cheaper blocks…Yea not A Lot of negative really…and if your worried about prestige u got to remember we all got hit not just you so we all went down evenly. So u can still be number one. Lol:rofl:
Oh those comments were not towards you directly…sorry I replied to yours like that
I lost 200k + prestige due to marble, I’m sure less than some but more than others. I’m not demanding anything. I would much rather have balance changes that help the game. So while it sucks for those who invested in expensive materials, myself included to an extent, I have come to grips with the fact that it’s really for the best.
It’s funny that half of this thread is sooooo off-topic it’s crazy!
Sure, it’s still about marble, still talking about unfair, but the OP was clearly talking about the costs and/or time investment it used to take to make a lot of marble which now basically feels like a gigantic waste of time and effort and it’s totally not about that the build still looks the same or about prestige…
To be honest, I am ok with the changes, both recipe wise and prestige wise. Sure I took a rather big hit in prestige, but it’s not the most important thing! I now can make MOAR marble much easier which I wanted to anyway!
And I had a bunch of dark red deco gravel but no more dark red gravel, well, I made me some! Hehehe, love that!
We also shouldn’t expect something in return, we all knew the recipe changes, not sure why not there are people asking for something, why not mention this when the new recipes were put on Testing almost 3 weeks ago? The prestige hit makes kinda sense, except it would have been mighty nice to have been informed about it beforehand.
No biggie, I continue grindi, ehh, playing!
I think both sides have valid points… still changing the rules mid game can be a little unfair
This is constantly happening to varying degrees, though. Farming changed the rules, bigtime. Almost any new thing is going to require a re-balance of some sort and there will be parts that sting certain people more than others.
