[imported_Lederoil]

I really don't agree with you on most parts...

When my idea's were finally taken on and put into action, the player count jumped to nearly 50 online.

lol... Exactly what ideas of yours were put in action to make the playerbase jump up to 50? Assuming it was because of your ideas, even if they actually helped a little/lot, sounds very naive to me.

so I wanted to wait a while, and come back when the population was even higher.

Well that's propblably one of the most common and one of the most stupid reasons to leave in my opinion. I know tons of players, who won't log on, because they think the current playerbase is too low, and want to wait till it gets bigger (if it does). If everyone who thinks this way would just log in, they'd have the playerbase that they've been waiting for.

in the post which got trashed by.. well I'll take a guess and say muto.

Please don't blame people just from your assumption. Such acts should be let to smoke and luda krishna.

Of course you guys ****ed that up as well and chose to do it when you'd alienated all those players and dropped back to 5 online again. So its no wonder at all that you will never see that 1000$, and never see new hardware or the end of this half decade long beta. You had the momentum and completely blew it.

You might be right, you might be wrong. I believe there's a pretty good chance we'll get them. How ever, it's definetly worth trying, even though it'd have been better doing it when the playerbase was higher.

The other 75% of staff for as long as I played were worthless in every respect ...
Unintelligent inactive staff who contribute nothing to development yet assume their vote counts for something are and I think always have been a serious problem for this shard.

I really think staff, who contribute with such things as hosting events/answering pages, does/did nothing but good to the shard. I can't see what the cons are, they helped with the little they could/wanted, which is better than nothing. Saying 75% of the staff is worthless, is just pure ****ing bullshit!