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You are entitled to your opinion, but that doesn't make it a fact :)

The term "competetive" is not used correctly. We don't adjust things to be competetive, but to be fleshed out and usable, given we have tons of WIP stuff. The game is not about competition. We make changes for the game to take longer in general (as some people noticed correctly and which is not a "nerf" - if it is for you, expect tons of nerfs coming, though) and for gameplay to work out as we intend. There is no thinking about something is too "weak" or too "strong" with very few exceptions. We only assess the effects it has on gameplay time and interlinking mechanics. I'd agree on changes for baking being such exceptions, as in that case they were specifically changed to give them more use. In the long run baking recipes will simply be required for other things, though, so this was a simple bandaid. How that could apply to pickaxes, no idea. They must be used, there is no need to incentivize them and no ...

I guess it makes no sense to ride the horse to death on terms. We don't use these terms and don't feel them applying, they are a fit for MMO's and competetive multiplayer games - not for Eco.

Our balance does not revolve around any kind of competetive advantage, singular player perception or "strength" that needs to be brought in line, but solely around the concept of interlinking mechanics to facilitate the necessity of cooperation on the scale of a "default" public server. Of course you are free to call that 'nerf' or 'buff', I don't think it fits.

I'm hence not even sure what you would mean with "nerfed" pickaxes. I know we fixed the modern axe and the chainsaw, as one was intended to be optimized for cutting logs and the other for felling trees - but that wasn't the case. If one now is "worse" for the other purpose you probably would call that a nerf. We don't use that term. It is now working as intended.

In Features.eco: "SettlementSystemEnabled": false,

Note that this does not work for servers started via the client, e.g. singleplayer and that it cannot be changed on any world that had settlements enabled at any point, those saves will otherwise corrupt.

This is not an MMO, we don't nerf things.

Update 10 itself changed ore generation from large clusters not well distributed into better distributed vain form, it was mentioned in the release notes.

That would be the cause, otherwise its impossible to get the old generation.

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There is a mod called "Chronicler" that can log every action server-side, but nothing that could be done clientside.

It's in contest mode, showing posts randomized. I cannot see any old posts that weren't either made in the last 30 days or edited within that time frame.

No matter that, your post violates the rules and was removed.

We don't "nerf" or "buff", but change the gameplay towards the design goals.
All professions over time are supposed to get intricate and complex crafting trees that are heavily interlinked.