What is keeping you from playing?

[Achilies]

Somewhat ranty post incoming:

Revert to 4.84 and unban every person whos been banned for more than a year and has not been banned for murdering infant puppies.

Ok skip the puppies bit, but fact is every person changes over time and a lot of people who were banned were pretty much witch-hunted from snobby ultra biased RP zealot admins (not all were such of course).
If you want people to have fun, you should actually let people do some of the stupid shit they usually do without perma banning them or ruining non-rp events which have been performed for years previously without issues. *cough* Last celebrated XTF birthday event

Trolls might cause some chaos but they also give fun content, which usually ends with them being ganked and killed - and both groups get their fun. Trolls make fun of the ones that ganked em, and the gankers make fun of the idiot troll. Perma ban should be removed as a whole.

Dont know about current balance changes and if they are good or not, frankly for me everything above started getting worse at some point in 4.84-4.85(dont remember exactly) so revert to last know best config-4.84.

Remove that stupid online player counter on the first page of the forum - i see it and get depressed instead of having to log in and check whats going on. At least if i log in there's a very big chance id actually do something.

Remove all kinds of shortcuts to getting new equipment for new chars, let people play for god's sake. Liberty has mostly been newb friendly cuz cap nerds flied there a lot, and as for old idiots like me coming back, i can still probably take down 70% of players not having fought for a dozen years.....oh wait no players are left.

Revert map to 4.85 too. Want my Alpha - Eta connection back so i can raid sairs. If i have to pass through ugly beta or sigmas, im not doing it. Im serious, if its ugly i dont wanna see it. NO ONE LIKES BETA - LEAVE IT. No one likes a large portion of Galia either, lets face it, I use to have a GRN affiliated ship and an RM one too, I prefer being in exile in Stutgart than moving around Galia. Make some stuf...you know...bright and pretty. And yes Bretonia had low pop cuz it was also depression inducing, though less than beta.

Do this, and i can bring back an average of 40-60 people who i still keep in touch with. During covid lockdowns people are bored and i was thinking of coming on, but that damned online people counter on the main page stopped me from even downloading the game in the first place, so at least give me the option to be depressed after loging in.

In the end, no one gonna do any of this so im just gonna link this post to a few of the groups of old dudes.