There is no such thing as "low-effort" and "high-effort" in volunteer-only projects like Discovery. All staff members, whether they did a single rumour or processed a single player request, already did their contribution in the spare time as their passion for the project allows. Same applies to contributors. There are no metrics for such things if we're not translating it into a high real money value.
"Low-effort" would be doing absolutely nothing and just complaining about the sorry state of X or Y.
Players, factions and Houses can absolutely have their proposals accepted as long as it's in line with canon/balance/systems/plugin stuff, depending on the context. There is no ill will to sabotage players, only our desire to have things on a roleplaying server as close to canon lore and spirit of the setting as possible.
There's a complete communication breakdown, the smallest dev plans get zero responses for months, sometimes years. Canon people operate in is an outdated mess, many info cards and rephacks have totally wrong outdated information. When people put in the effort they bump into the headcanon of devs that have zero awareness of how specific systems/regions generate activity etc. who micromanage the smallest things instead of just saying "it's up to you since there's been no development for years and none will be done by us"
This stuff Lib and Gal Gov did is Exhibit A, I for one agree with Haste's analysis - Gallic Union is a military state with a lot of turncoat opportunistic military psychopaths. But you have an IC base in front of IDF, one of the largest in Gallia, all corps are indifferent and always have been - this is what people worked with, all these indicators, and then they get called out for doing "conspirational agendas" When the repacks and canon assets indicate they should go ahead?
