I’m not sure they are. In the 3.0 dev stream that @erjoh is referencing, they didn’t use the word exploit at all. From what I remember, they saw there were people saying “but if people can do BP in single-player, then they can cheese it” and they said something along the lines of “Don’t you think we thought about that?”

The idea behind the BP is to incentivize people to play the game relatively regularly. Being able to cheese it in single-player shouldn’t be a big deal. Ideally, the game should be fun enough that you’ll want to play it, and the BP should not introduce too much friction. If players prefer to cheese it in single-player, that means either the game is not fun, or the BP is not good enough, or a combination of those two.

They ended up changing the way BP works in order to reduce friction and remove some of the incentive to cheese it in single-player, but you’ll notice they didn’t make it impossible to use single-player to make progress.

I imagine they’ll keep trying to streamline and improve the BP, and that they’ll only resort to something as drastic as disallowing BP in single-player if they don’t have a better way.

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