Pathers on top of that would be even worse without the Pather bug, despite the one year reprieve after Pather bases get smashed.
"minInterestForPatherCells":9999,
(https://i.imgur.com/W6VLck6.png)
I am not interested in cheating the game like that.
Some words, I shouldn't say.
I will try to be extremely polite, even if it is not easy.
Computer games are made for millions of users, not for a single person. Naturally, everyone has different tastes and someone may not like something. For example, I believe that you sir, do not like spending most of the time for hunting pirates/pathers and probably find the current system annoying. Otherwise, you would not leave the same plaintive comments in every suitable (and not so) thread. And it's great, it means you know exactly what you want from the game.
In this case, each player has a choice: or silently accept or tweak your version of the game for the greatest satisfaction. If you choose the former, please stop whining about "whack-a-moling". If you choose the latter, no one will judge you, it is not for nothing that they say that "there is no such thing as cheating in a single-player game."
But if you don't want to choose... This could mean that you want the game to be changed by the developer exactly for you, which means that your opinion is more significant than that of many of those who are satisfied with the current situation. And this is just graceless.
This does not mean that your opinion is not important, on the contrary, it is very important, especially given the fact that many other players share it. The point is, it doesn't matter how loudly you express your position, because you have only one voice, and I believe it has already been taken into account.
P.S. If you does not interesting in "cheating" that way, I can propose to "cheat" in other way:
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"maxLPBases":1,
"patherCellDisruptionDuration":1095,