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The following is an incoherent spew of ideas. The paragraphs are not really related to each other...

I've noticed that if I completely ignore the forums and skype, the game is fun. Great fun with just enough RP depth so that it is not a pointless space shooter.

I find most new players really enjoy it here because I'd guess that over the last 6 months, I've probably received 20 messages in game from a random new guy saying something like "great mod & server, thanks". This is quite a large number given I've probably only been on my admin ship about 20 times. These are the guys that are not heavily active on the forums but just play and enjoy it.

I tend to ignore threads saying discovery is dying. The reason for this is that there have been many threads about this back to when the forums first opened. I've read many them and they're not dissimilar to this one.

Discovery will die one day. It will die because the members of the community hate each other more than they respect each other.

The admin team can only curb the worst excesses in behaviour. I note that when the admin team acts quickly, it is accused of making a poorly thought out decisions. When the admin team acts slowly (to gather information and deeply consider an issue) it is accused of not caring. When the admin team hands power to players, another group of players will complain that the first group is abusing the powers and demand the admin team fix it. There are many variations this theme.

I'm not complaining about people complaining about the admin team; receiving complaints is part of the job and if an admin can't accept this, they can quit.

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Proud member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"

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