In the early days when all the generals walked as slow as a half-dead butler, and marble was precious, and fish plates and sandwich buffs were the cool ones, and no one knew what cheese sandwiches actually did because their description was simply, "does something when placed on the Mayor's House," those cheese sandwiches were mysterious and were not the complete and utter disappointment served up on a plate by an artifact searching Scout that they are today.
Could we just put them back into that ancient quarters only vending machine in the hospital waiting room and leave them there, along with fish plates? One would be hard pressed to to find many TSO denizens who actually use them and for those who would feel a certain amount of sadness at their demise, why not just put them into *short* searches rather than as a faux jewel discovered during an hours along artifact search? Same with fish plates (which at least are useful for a quickie buff on a near dead mine -- but not as an artifact prize). Artifacts, especially after the cost of booking up a Scout to obtain them, ought to be commensurate with the time and materials invested into searching for them, one would think.
I still mcluv the game after all these years and especially so many of the improvements. Even children, however grow and need new pants after nearly 10 years, so let's donate those cheese sandwiches to a worthy cause -- I'm sure the Mammoths in Farcry would love them, since they are about the same vintage.....
Stale cheese sandwiches are why we have ants.
Yours in keeping the game fresh, so we can have nice things,
[TC] ShuttlePilot