Mar 28th 2024, 17:01:57
Meanwhile netting became more and more static and formulaic without any dynamic interaction. The days of the Tyr-techers clawing for land and fending off retals became let's all just play all-x fascist farmers and be safe.
There is a mathematical principle known as 'gamblers ruin' that implies that once a population drops below a given threshold that extinction is inevitable. We reached that point and the mods introduced bots to counter it, but the bots didn't counteract the underlying problems that caused the population drop. The game declined organically because it got old and tired and nobody really wanted to play anymore. By the end I was playing the forums much harder than I played the game and by the start of COVID even the forums were no longer any fun.
TL;DR the game has far outlived it's projected life expectancy, it's time to let the sand cover the solar panels and let it rest.