Quote Originally Posted by Hysterior View Post
Only (major) drawbacks is probably that a full week give too much time for dataminers to probably figure out all the mechanics which skews the race.
That's a valid concern, but they could probably just make the savage-specific files part of the patch that unlocks it, rather than bundling it together with everything else. It is good to point out such things however, so if devs were to listen to this request they know what to consider.