This is one of the most idiotic post I have seen on this topic so far. 
There is literally nothing about “realism” to this change which was made, and I quote, “to justify the size of the station”. That was the ONLY reason these asinine changes were made which punish new players, punish existing players and remove player autonomy from the game and continue to force you to play a sandbox game how they want you too and only how they want you too, which is the antithesis of what a sandbox game is about. So no, this has nothing to do with “realism” or any other bs excuse you decide to concoct to justify this horrific change. This change is an abomination and should have already been reverted like the exclusion of precise splitting has been and the changes to sprinting has been (all in the same chapter mind you).
Ah, this one had missed that someone else discovered how much this change is a cherry of anti-fun on the entire feces float of Chapter 4.
With Age of War in general, but Chapter 4 in particular, this game has shattered Hanlon’s Razor.
It is no longer possible for this one to attribute to ignorance or incompetence this (amongst other) malicious changes.
Dyers bench really needs an optional version with a smaller footprint.
I’ve lost TWO sets of armor that were illusioned, dyed, etc. because of Funcom bugs that killed me offline and lost all my stuff. Now I’m considering making a new set of armor… I’m dreading spending all that time, especially when they haven’t even fixed the falling through your base bug that may result in me losing everything again anyway. Why on earth would I wanna go to the trouble of illusions and dyes only to potentially lose all that again? The game is cumbersome now and I find I haven’t played the game hardly at all since the Chapter 4 update. This was suppose to be the chapter to fix a bunch of stuff and all they’ve done is break it and make it more annoying than it’s ever been. I’ve been playing this game for 6 years now, almost non-stop, and now I barely wanna play and find myself just refreshing everything until it’s fixed.
The biggest problem is that the preview is completely broken. I only see a black silhouette so dyeing is more a try and error thing at the moment.
Five slots. At least let me dye my damn set. 
I shouldn’t have to keep a bunch of armor stands.
In thE olden days, before the ToS change of November, 2021, the Improved Firebowl Cauldron did all alchemy, dyes, and components.
Then, they weaponized reporting player structures and required much larger player structures to accommodate 8 huge new benches.
Because, reasons.
Yet another plug for Private servers.
My vanilla Exiled Lands and Siptah server run a 4 month max decay timer.
Because, sometimes, life happens and, ofttimes, Funcom takes a massive sh*t on the game and is extremely glacial about fixing it.
Turtles crashing servers is nearly a month old.
Chain bindings and redeemed silent legion being unrepairable is nearly a month old.
The climbing bug is back.
And the hits just keep coming.
But, hey, at least we can’t use the exploit where we could gather crystal nodes with a pick!
Next up, hand gathering trees and ore, because, reasons.
No no no no.
Not because “reasons”.
They have a specific reason. They have heard the players lamenting that sorcery is mid, and to give players a reason to use it more, they will remove more ways to harvest effectively.
Apply the principle used to mandate the dye bench, but instead, now they will gate efficient resource acquisition behind the mass cull spell.
I wish I could say that was insane.
But, over the last year, Funcom’s basic message has been:
“You’re playing the game WRONG!”
True, but I’ve been burned too much by private servers in the past. I’m never going back to them. At least official servers are persistent. That’s my biggest draw to them.
For a long time players asked to be able to dye saddles , and to change/dye the worker thralls clothings , maybe this change is a step towards us being able to do so ? anyone tried to place a thrall on that dye spot , or a saddle ?
normally when the spot is not made for this purpose the game doesn’t let you even put it there , but the dye slot accepts pretty much anything you place in at the moment. Maybe because we’ll be able to dye more things in the future ?
anyways it’s the only thing I can think of that would explain why change for a more tedious way to dye things 
I completely understand. That’s why I set up my private servers as vanilla and pay for them by the year.
But, that is a solution that works for me, not the only solution.
Due to my experience with public servers, I will never go back to them.
That’s cool…
I also like running across noobs and other random people. Most are more inclined to join official servers before private, so it’s nice to help them out and make their experiences a bit better. Unfortunately, Funcom is making it very hard to do that right now. 
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