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DerrickICN:
While ee is profitable, it is not making these people millionaires. It just happens to be barely solvent.
Pang has been working on both traffic and the new UI, in addition to working his full time job. The new UI has some functionality and it looks and feels very good. I really like it.
Qz has been making updates to bots, moving the server and his whole life to a new house etc.
People are spending a lot of time on the game when they have time to do so. Considering we've all been here the whole time we can be patient. Since you just arrived yesterday, you want that overnight.
In the last 2 years I've seen a massive overhaul to the bots to fix their impact on the markets, I've played on the new UI and been asked for feedback on it (which I dont have any negatives, i honestly like it a lot), I've been asked how information about players is gathered by tags etc. There is absolutely progress in the direction you say but it will never be an overnight thing.
You should consider that multiple fake Nick's, and attempting to hide in the bot jungle and things of this nature are things that need to be ironed out before the addition of a massive bloc of young players. Therefore, you are causing the mods and admins to focus on the mess you cause rather than on the stuff you want.
It's same game I left, with bots and <5% of the players. You're 'patient' because you're partial.
Sure, the new interface is nice. But the current interface has existed for 20+ yrs.
Maybe they did fine tune the bots over a two year period, but how many people quit during the same time? And is healing a self i flicked wound really progress?
How many new players have been brought in?
You can hone in on my posts and dislike me all you want, but it doesn't make my point less valid. It only makes you a biased dipfluff dbag, which again... Nothing new.
Only 1 thing has materially changed in last 10 years of empires, and in the last 10 years of e2025s life, and that's the player base.
EE is a neglected couch project that die hards have clung to. No one ever expected anything overnight, but after years of grunting, I hope they flush this fluff.