My opinion on why the game has constantly been losing players

[Karlotta]

Pretty sure every ambitious person of the staff would be more inclined to work on improvements if they had more time. Less reports and symptoms for such, in general, would save a lot of time. Meaning people who complain should spend their energy less on complaining but on helping newcomers on not violating rules and not being a dick in discussions to derail them.

No, it's not (only) a matter of time or workload.

There are lots of people who are willing to be admins, mods, or devs, and who are already trying to contribute even without receiving any shiny orange, green, or gold position.

It's a matter of how admins and devs organize themselves and how contributions are turned down because of petty pride and/or personal grievances.

To give an example of what I'm talking about, lets talk about "helping newcomers" since you brought that up.

You know what would help newcomers more than you telling others to go help newcomers and calling people who already do more than that dicks because it will give you admin/dev popularity points?

Actually having the rules and useful game/lore help accessible ingame in a complete, readable, and understandable manner, so people who do want to help don't have to either type everything out to them or send them to a poorly organized forum.

All the work for that was already done.

Part of it was even already ingame, the only dev work required being importing infocards from a file and copy pasting a sytem file into a folder.

But you know what happened?

It was removed one mod patch afterwards, and replaced by a half-baked something that:
- provides almost no help, but poorly written opinion pieces on how the author thinks newcomers should behave
- tells nothing about the game's lore
- does not include the rules
- pulls the texts from the server every time it's opened
- doesn't cover the most basic and important game mechanics
- is harder to overlook and search because its not sorted or grouped by topic but alphabetically, providing no structure to overlook, and requiring typing
- isn't even readable while navigating because you cant click anything nor control your ship with its text window open, thereby making it even more inconvenient to read ingame than reading the forum in windowed mode. (unlike the Help System it replaced, which let players read while comfortably navigating through lanes)

And it was removed not because it was better in any way other than being editable without server patches (which happen far more frequently than rule, lore, or game mechanic changes anyway), but after someone half my age got upset that I told him his way of doing things doesn't work (and I was proven to be right later) and he ended up convincing the right people through brown-nosing and misinformation.

This is not a matter of lack of time, or of players not willing to contribute. They wasted both their and my time to make something existing far worse.

It's a matter of people unable to overcome their petty pride, and using positions to advance the latter instead of the mod.

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