Well as a player from way back when, I find the game has seemed to have lost an essence of what it was. The best part for me was seeing everyone like Raptor, Foust, BTJ, Black Flag, Bware, Tbuilt, TR, Whose, Davy, Belsaj, YEMX, Yakuza, EAS, Jacob10000, Kestral, Swop, heck even wig since we got along then (I feel bad I've left out so many) but the point is the reason I think most of us played was to see each other and chat and have fun. The game was kind of more of a catalyst for our fun or like an excuse to all hang out and come here. Recently the game is poisoned with all kinds of trolls or puppets or whatever you want to call them but they are players here to disrupt the game and reduce it to the pile of garabage the rest of the online world seems to be but I feel it will destroy the best gaming experience many of us have ever had.
The game isn't really that captivating...like it's fun for sure but there are better games with less bugs and less lag and more players, but what this game has is a community of people who actually care. Most, when challenged, will play off its only a game, and part of it is only a game, but the relationships built here are real, and the people genuinely care about one another. Take the recent Michael Kane/ Trickster scam, it sucks because we are a community vulnerable to crap like this becasue we do get involved and do care. I remember someone had a device break and I don't remember who it was but within I thought the same day or some short amount of time everyone had chipped in (or Paul just paid it all in the end) and they were back up and running in no time. I saw the same for a players wife who wanted one for their school, in no time the community had put what was needed to be done done and it was accomplished.
The game is worth more than you may know and I urge players to stick together and stick up for the game and don't allow these players to ruin it. I seem to be a major troll fighter but I need support or others willing to do the same and we need the mods in place to boot themif they continue. World chat is a cesspool like never before and it's forcing the good players form the game. We don't have much time left I fear and let's get back what made it worth all the time we wasted here. If the trolls want to play they will have to play like normal players just like it used to be. If someone swapped sides to make a larger advantage they would soon find their team leave and the reds teach them why you don't do that. What happened to that type of justice? I hope some of you agree and would love to hear what everyone thinks about this.