Talk:Nuclear Reactor/@comment-26435461-20150912215139/@comment-1713205-20150912225323

Like the page says: "The current model is a placeholder", which means a placeholder are objects who are temporarily, irrelevant, or unknown in the context in which they are being discussed, to be something else or an placeholder model for an actual model that will be implemented later.

The developers put things like this into the game to see if they want it, if will fit or if it's something they want to change. Commonly also called prototype, which is common in experimental mode.

This save them time and money to get the feel for things. They don't want to use a lot of time on something with sketching, animations, hours and money on 3D modeling, sound effect, icon making in photoshop, etc. if it's just to scrap later if they find a cooler idea or better solution.