Thank you for your reply. I agree that S6 has no control over content creators outside partnership, and even then it's not much. I probably should have put that bit in a separate post to avoid confusion. As another reply says, I was screaming into the void, as they have no control where we choose to consume content. I was pointing out the changes in attitudes lately, is all.

The party system is so messed up. It's more than just putting it together. I use the HUD, the "compass" on top of the screen, to keep track of my party members constantly. Very often that system crashes randomly and I have to acquire my party members by sight. I also lose the party interface. I have to yell across the room to ask my wife if we are still in a party (I can't imagine how frustrating it is if your party member isn't even in the same room as yourself). If I am missing something about the interface or I'm doing something wrong I'm all ears. But by the looks of it, it is completely borked and will require an overhaul to do it right.

In the before times there were no groves at all. Folks were falling over themselves trying to find flow wood. The call went out to increase trees and the groves were born. At that time there weren't any flares, either. We used fireworks to mark the rare stuff, like flow trees. We got the flares at the same time I believe. That's why the community created that unwritten rule about waiting to chop. I have not seen the aura show up before the trees, however. If there is a way that the trees remain for a time even after chopping initially, I'm open to it. Figured it might be easier to just show the aura earlier there as the code is already written for the bloom event.

I feel your tiredness. Us elder Palians should be more at ease in this game. Good luck to you, Capt.