quite agreed.
There weren't many of those, and most of them played esf for 1.1
when simple melee was nerfed and advanced melee was added, another large chunk of the fanbase fled. That leaves a very small number left, so what do we blame that on now?
ah, but you're working under the assumption that the forum base and the player base are one and the same. This is not true and hasn't been for a very, very long time. It was the forum goers who said, "advanced melee? That sounds awesome!" and it was the players who said, "no, **** that. It'll ruin the game." once 1.2 was out the door, the players left, and the forum goers stuck around.
concerning the end of this comment, i'm not the only one that spins things.
undoubtedly.
the one change the senior staff agrees with and has been sliently working on, is trimming the staff and perhaps identifying new staff members.
i don't mean to be a ****, but is this similar to how an open beta was being planned long before the minion crisis, or is this actually true? And if it is true, are you simply removing inactive moderators, of which there are many, or critiquing the mods that are still around?
perhaps i am, but i very much doubt it. I don't influence people to stay or leave, i only enforce the law that has been here since day one. The same law when it was a huge mod, the same law when its a dying mod . . . The same rules there were when it was a fledgling mod too. Keep in mind that in 10 years this mod has only had two where i was not in charge of the forums, three if you count my sabbatical while i was recovering from severe problems with my health.
this part is my fault, i suppose. When i say you, i'm usually just grouping the mods and admins together, so while that is truly an inspiring story, it isn't what i was addressing. Although, you know, if people were complaining about you before, and are still complaining about you today, the only difference being new forum goers, i think the problem may still lie with the one constant. Not an accusation. Just wool gathering.