I am posting this here, as it was a suggestion to begin with.
Here are the original posts:
what the heck happened with the WE? we can't get resources from it anymore, making it pretty useless since that's kinda what we use it for...
not to mention destroying waypoints doesn't get you your 3 lapiz blocks back...
i think it would be really nice to get the blocks back from WE and destroying waypoints, if that's okay.
It can now be used to mine blocks in the Resource Zone (see portal in spawn).
This is to prevent massive holes in the regular world just taking up space, and to prevent massive areas being stripped down to ugly nothingness.
Although I agree about the waypoints thing, there needs to be a way to destroy them and receive all your resources back... does mining them not work? I haven't tried.
I also disagree with the new World Edit update, They said this is to stop people getting materials from the ground in big holes, well users can simply world edit down 1 layer at a time and take the materials they need or replace stone with air and take them, they tried to solve an issue here however it didn't work.
The simple solution is already in place, World Edit will follow the quota of 16 diamond/lapis an hour, so why did this need to be done? I spent a large amount of yesterday talking to Lynxy & Hret and they don't seem to happy to change this back D:
Often though World Edit isn't used for mass mining, for example I use it to correct my mistakes, if I place a block of Obsidian in the wrong place, I can World Edit it away, if I did break it with a pick, the item would most likely fall and burn in lava. Large amounts of users use the Tiny World Edit to make the game a little easier when building large structures, however now this doesn't seem to be as much the case.
Tiny World Edit was also used for demolition, users would select the area and then be able to get all the materials back from their unwanted structure, saving them time, this is also no-longer possible. The getting items back from World Edit was a large feature, however now it has been removed it halves the usefulness of it.
I believe this has been done because HretSam is like Notch, Notch removes 'bugs' that other people see as features to the game. HretSam is doing something similar, he doesn't play the game from a users point of view and so he doesn't see what users want, the only way he does it through the forums. He needs to spend a little more time seeing things from a players point of view.
I hope this will change someone's mind
Nosliw
Nosliw makes a good point. A solution could be simply banning hole mines in the regular world, with a suitable punishment. Not banning, mind you; a warning at first. Reporting your own hole, of course, won't result in banning, seeing as they're so widespread already. Fill up the hole with stone (and dirt at top). Viola.
Sidenote: Youngster, that is one of my favorite lines from Portal 2. (Your Signature)
I got a lot of negative reactions about the new TinyWE system. Where i tought you would see it the same way i do.
Now clearly you don't but that is not that bad.
Now, i will see if i can find a way to let both systems work somewhat the same.
Do you guys mind if you need to 'pay' an item to get blocks back? (They will be stored in the database, and will most likely be sugarcanes or something similar)
And as for Nosliw, ok maby you saw this as Notch did a while back.
But i will try to get a solution that where all happy with.
Hretsam