I just noticed an unannounced "feature" of 1.3x. The models for both versions of the snowman bowtie got changed to new shapes. Now they no longer look like bowties, but like ribbons for packages. Which we already had. Observe:

Granted, the new ties don't totally ruin this statue, I just used this as the best example of the parts in isolation. The real problem, though is that the old tie model, especially the one without the dangling tails, was solid and flat and compact, one of the few such parts in the game. As such, it had MANY uses as a component to build other things. Such as, for example, T-shirts nailed up on giftshop walls, clothes hanging on racks, even small awnings and such things. But the new model doesn't work for any of that. So all the things we've built using the old model for the last 6 months are now ruined.
Frontier, you need an ironclad rule in your art department. This rule should be that once a part model has been released, especially if it's been several months, DO NOT CHANGE IT. If you don't like the old model, introduce a the new model as a new, completely separate part, so we then have both versions.
And please, please, please, bring back the old bowtie models. They were more useful PLUS we already had package ribbon parts anyway, so this change was unnecessary to begin with.
Thanks.

Granted, the new ties don't totally ruin this statue, I just used this as the best example of the parts in isolation. The real problem, though is that the old tie model, especially the one without the dangling tails, was solid and flat and compact, one of the few such parts in the game. As such, it had MANY uses as a component to build other things. Such as, for example, T-shirts nailed up on giftshop walls, clothes hanging on racks, even small awnings and such things. But the new model doesn't work for any of that. So all the things we've built using the old model for the last 6 months are now ruined.
Frontier, you need an ironclad rule in your art department. This rule should be that once a part model has been released, especially if it's been several months, DO NOT CHANGE IT. If you don't like the old model, introduce a the new model as a new, completely separate part, so we then have both versions.
And please, please, please, bring back the old bowtie models. They were more useful PLUS we already had package ribbon parts anyway, so this change was unnecessary to begin with.
Thanks.
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