Yeah..drama by itself is not good, but I guess the folks have a reason to post about it since it intends to warn players.
At least it's good to know that the moderator is not around anymore, and I haven't seen any annoying posts by Haxus recently (I used to find his writing very annoying years ago, but I don't do a lot of reading on the game forum either).
I'm also glad the forum is now as quiet as it is. Older threads, especially those from the PTMC times, are insanely obnoxious. You had a minuscule community full of people going out of their way to be as annoying and unlikeable as possible, as if to suppress the small player base the game already had.
That's why when Planepacked attacked PTMC (I believe?), I wasn't playing actively, my system was REALLY late on tech..but I jumped on the first invasion ship I saw from another Bay12er and assault-jumped on their flags.
Now..I don't know how things are in general, but both TL32 empires near me are chill and one offered me all their tech. Since I want to make at least one full playthrough, I refused.
But we are declared as friends for each other, so that's nice.
In other news, my Harvesters forget to buy Hydrogen and run out of fuel. One of them got stranded on a moon, the other one had only very low fuel left while harvesting above lava..thankfully I was monitoring it via comms..
An old ship that was in orbit ran out of fuel and fell down in the middle of my city, which proceeded to scare the shit out of me.
Later on, I re-designed a ship to fit a Space Fighter (the ultimate tool for city-building), except I placed it over the ladder that gave access to the rest of the ship.
Next, I designed a silly ship for test purposes, except I forgot to open the bridge's walls, so you can't fly it.
I'm a pro.