[BurningFrog]

You don't experiment on your production planet.

Mars could be a decent staging planet!

[markatkinson]

We will probably end up pushing changes to Prod then when everything goes wrong realise we were not testing apples with apples, and then it's too late cause nobody took a backup because we were so sure there would be no issues.

[bryanrasmussen]

it's ok, we're doing agile terraforming!

[antisthenes]

In software, the testing environment usually isn't more expensive by several orders of magnitude.

[MaulingMonkey]

Testing in the emulator is way slower, as is testing with all my conditional breakpoints in place, as is testing with all debug assertions enabled. Devkits are often more expensive than retail kits by a significant margin.