in the past few weeks i have been contemplating whether or not the admins actually give a single shit as to what their playerbase thinks.
Before HATE opened, Mada himself said that the moo would be as close to the old moo we knew and loved as possible, and at first it was. But sicne the opening, shit has slowly been poured in to the moo, making it as far from the moo we loved as possible. Remember when you could rob apartments and kill people, then run and hide from the FCPD, then get ganked? well, now you have to worry about exceptionally buff hunters chasing you, barging in to your apartment, killing you and taking everything of value that you have. You're not safe anywhere on the mainland, and you alone have basically nill chance against these people.
Remember when you could run around with your flash whips, flame chains, blacklashes, lances and so on, not giving a shit? Well, now you have to take in to account energy consumption, sit in your apartment while charging all 60 of your cheap power adapters because most of the crafters were griefed off of the game by terrible changes and implementations.
Remember the times you would pick your way through c4l in corpclave to get some money in the form of jewelry? Yeah, enjoy the cameras which were added without anyone told! ha-h, isn't that hilarious, you've become victim to something which nobody was told about!
what about if the unthinkable happens, and a admin somehow manages to destroy your items unintentionally? good luck ever getting refunded, as you'll both be banned and all your shit removed forever beacuse 'text doesn't matter' - even after you explain that it's the time that matters, not the text! how hilarious and funny and edgy the admins are, ha ha ha ha!!!
- If you wanted to drive players away, then just keep heading along the path you've already been walking. Make players scared to get stars anywhere, throw in more micromanagement players need to deal with unreasonably and be general retards when it comes to admin to player dealings. (It's frustrating for everyone because all of the admin-player interaction is unoriginal shit repeated time after time, remember back when admins actually punished players by fucking with them ever so subtly/being actually hilarious? Well, giving a player a permanent filter for everything about how much he wants a dick in his ass is only funny for the first few minutes. Then it annoys everyone.)