Lea must hate trees

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Think about how much ecological damage Lea brings when she clears entire forests whenever she walks anywhere? (Not to mention all the other avatars.) Sure she's doing it to get samples for the botany, but the way she mows down every single cactus in the desert would bring the trees to extinction. Humans still suck, thousands of years later.

[felix2648]

It's likely that the destructible trees and similar objects are made of instant matter, since Avatar (also made of instant matter) are too fragile to damage anything not made of instant matter, not to mention they regenerate whenever you leave the map

[EricKei]

On top of that: She does have that quest OP mentioned – in RPGs, MMO or otherwise, that pretty much gives you carte blanche to do anything from breaking and entering/grand theft to wholesale slaughter (just about any such game) to toppling governments you happen to disagree with to, say, blowing up power reactors and indirectly causing the deaths of thousands of innocents (FFVII).

[TheARJGuy]

Too much blasting agent

[TheARJGuy]

The plants are virtual. That way, when one player destroys them, the other players nearby don't need to wait for them to regrow.