First impressions about new update (0.8.1.1)

I struggled for over 3 days with infinite MP exploits in the tolerances system. I simply could not get the same kind of slider configuration to work for pressure as for temperature. This is because the pressure tolerance range needs to be lopsided as species are much more resistant to higher pressures rather than lower pressures. Even the basic editing of the sliders had many bugs, but I was able to solve those. Though I could not solve the infinite MP exploits. So with just a few days remaining before 0.8.1, I had to switch the sliders up to have a separate min and max sliders for pressure. There was no other way. Unless everyone was fine with the infinite MP exploit and wouldn’t have reported it.

In fact based on this experience, I finally decided that we need to entirely dump the current backend logic for calculating remaining MP:

It was simply not possible to use the same slider setup for pressure.

Pressures are calculated from the depth of the patches, and the depths can vary quite a lot so (while the decimals aren’t shown) each patch should basically have an almost unique pressure value (based on its depth value).

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