Right, I agree they shouldn't give hides while respawning. However, it was only in an update a couple months ago that they started giving out the hides.
Besides this, I have no problem in making them perma-dead too, so that people will have to venture out somewhere to find the brahmin, but the prices for bases need to be adjusted if it is going to stay this way. The 30K base has one brahmin, while the 130K base has five brahmin.
As someone stated in a previous post, even Lexx says that the brahmin
do account for the price of the base.
Since March's wipe, brahmin don't even move around in their pens anymore. This makes their brahmin shit production very small.
Since the update a couple months ago, brahmins now give hides.
Since this current update, they now don't respawn.
This means that the only things brahmins now account for are 80 XP and one hide. This is barely anything, and either the price for bases, the number of brahmin per base, or the mechanics need to be changed due to this.
Some things are just there for the atmosphere and don't give free stuff away. Is that so hard to see?
They weren't originally put in due to the "atmosphere", and once again, I don't have a problem with brahmins been worthless now, it is just the base prices that need to now be adjusted.