Story Railroading.

[Lemon]

Pointing fingers at people won't help these matters, unfortunately. I've been doing that as well and it only led to worse ingame experience for me.
The best course of action is to start cooperating without biases of the past and acknowledging that some thing can't be done or undone, and some things need or can't happen.

Game won't be better if we split ourselves into different camps and stop interacting with each other because 'X did Y to me.'. Game will be better if we'll start playing the game.

Also, what I've notices during my time on Disco as I had a chance to peek into OF HCs and player govs - there is unhealthy adversity for losing stuff, especially pixel empires. One must understand, that victories are only one half of the journey and defeats and setbacks can be as good for story as any victories, if not even better.

Hmm, you do have a point. People like me do get attached too much to stuff, pixels are not that important in the end. At the end of the day, in practice story can be largely ignored anyways E.g. When they delete Insurgency we will just move Hellfire under Xeno ID or wherever the cap (s) will go and just keep going as usual, maybe work towards getting Fr5d by Xeno Alliance, that's player choice devs can't influence much - generating activity and how it happens is on the in-game leaders at the end of the day.

Focusing on leading player driven stories, pixels be damned is a better use of time anyways than the futile attempts to influence story.

Sometimes the decisions seem disastrous and limiting at first though before you realize you can easily bypass them later though and changed status quo isn't so bad :]