Effectively immediately, The Core is to be considered disbanded.
There reasons are many, but the main one is, I lost complete interest in this mod and game, following a series of detrimental (In my opinion, ofc) , ill considered gameplay changes (personal opinion) and I stopped playing. As a result, The Core became a leaderless faction and it was doomed to die. One way or the other.
To elaborate why or how I lost interest, I'll present you my point of view.
I believe official factions should have more impact on the environment they play in, as opposed to the complete dictatorship that this mod has became. I mean, I wouldn't mind if the decisions were good. The only time Core was consulted about something, since we last became official, was about the redesign of Delta. That happened only because the person in charge of it was and still is a friend. I believe that speaks volumes. No one in the Core ever cared about AI, about the war with them, or all that sophisticated crap. What we did care was Omegas. Oh wait, we got zapped out of there overnight. Go go story team! Great job.
Anyhow, I shouldn't go into more detail, as you are all aware what a circus this place has become in the recent years. Lobbying and corruption runs deep, people are selling billions for real money, pedophiles are respected members of this community. You know who you are assholes, shame on all of you, I hate your perverted kind with passion. The staff give zero craps about them. I should know, I was in the staff. But hey, you know what they say, ignorance is a bliss.
To quote a very influential person from an unnamed dev team.
"My changes will either make this place great, or completely kill off discovery."
Guess I did the same thing, only on a smaller scale and with a single player faction.
Tl;Dr: Core| is done. I alone as a leader have failed it, that's why it's being disbanded.
It's been a good run, I regret failing my members and not being a good enough leader. Sorry guys, you deserved better
Sadly i can make on you 100% ...
OF factions should have at least some "power" in deciding things, but since Devs can't get one thing right it is actually weird, stories lost, continuity lost, even something was there in a patch isn't there anymore in the next patch, any effort losed cause "something happened" ... while i don't played a lot of Core characters i sometimes keep myself as an Indie, and with little to non-importance it become weird and so, sad to see another faction has lot to offer, being disbanded, more sad since it is a lot of work to make it actually as OF status ...
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I've seen all the same staff chats you (used to) have access to, and over the time I've been back, I've seen nothing discussing the allegations you've raised. Well, other than the case where someone was actually permabanned.
If you apparently know about all this stuff, why didn't you raise any of it when you had the option to, rather then this massive dramatic outburst... that doesnt even give us anything to look into? Can you at least send details to an admin privately so the issues can be investigated?