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Vanilla and normal rooms are filled with divine shams simply spamming super planks and tape as solutions to maps. It's mindless and there's no creativity in building whatsoever. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when said hammer is incredibly overpowered... there is simply no incentive to try building anything else especially when you can just copy and paste the same old super plank tape combo on any map you see.

This is especially problematic because superplank/tape builds are one of the best constructions you can build as a divine mode shaman on any map, instantly offering unparalleled stability and weight tolerance with no effort required on the shaman's part to think up a solution. It wouldn't be as bad if these skills produced a build of comparable stability and weight tolerance as a another build produced by a shaman without these skills who knows what they're doing. Unfortunately, these superplank/tape constructions tend to be superior in every way, further contributing to the problem of its overuse.

Not only is there a lack of incentive for shamans to learn how to build without these skills, there is a disincentive for shamans to not have these skills, almost making use of these skills a requirement if one wants to be comparable to the other shams that use it (in terms of saves, xp, etc... because let's face it, stats are everything in this game). And there the problem lies.

Furthermore, if all that new players are exposed to are divine superplank/tape constructions, that will be all they learn, further reinforcing the idea (in new players' minds) that these two skills are essential for success at divine mode. It's a vicious, neverending, cycle. New players see, new players do. It works, so they just keep doing the same ol superplank-nail, over and over, well past the point where they would be considered "seasoned players". Newer players see them do this, and follow suit...

I offer the preponderance of divine-superplank-tape shamans in all vanilla/normal rooms as evidence to my claims.

Shamaning in Transformice used to be an art. Shamans would come up with all kinds of creative builds to help mice get the cheese and enter the hole. Knowledge would be shared, strategies would be discussed on how to build better builds, stronger builds, stabler builds. Somewhere down the line, this culture of building got corrupted by the simplicity and effectiveness of tape and superplanks in divine mode. This overpowered hammer, with which all maps look like nails to be struck. The art of building is no more. I say we change that, and removing this overpowered hammer from the hands of braindead divine shamans is a good first step.