Heh! It was about time this was implemented.
Don't go chasing february cause i doubt he's the sole reason for this change. Mur never changes anything just for 1 player*. February was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
Credits were not spent in vain. There are other ways to farm ve. C'mon! It was too easy: lay on your back, relax and wait for angiens to age then puff! free ve. That's not normal. I reached my ve (I have about 300k - no it's not a secret) by farming other things. Not a single angien was harmed to give me his ve. And I think I did a pretty good job without them. You can say that credits were wasted when the number of drachs was reduced from 6 to 3 if we were to talk about wasting thing. It's not exactly the same thing but close.
*-remember when he implemented stats damage? If not, I will remind you: one day we had the announcement, no foreplay no nothing...He did it because too many players were abusing something that WAS game mechanics. You must understand that if there are 1 or 2 or even 3 players abusing something, that something will not be fixed because of those players. They don't count in statistics, they are left outside since they do not represent the population. But when more and more players (ab)use things then something is done about it.
MD is a game about the survival of the fittest. Show that you are a survivor and one change doesn't make the whole world collapse on you.