I could have (and did) tolerate the Knight, then Bishop hordes during my primary early morning game time. There was a perverse sort of satisfaction in slowing down—and sometimes even stymieing single-handedly —the Tropical Thunders and Jokers as their ~4-1 number advantage with maybe 15 active players made competitive game play unrealistic.
And it was really satisfying when 3Frosti and J0ker didn’t like it lol.
What I couldn’t stomach—and what ultimately drove me from the game—was hypersensitive mods repeatedly shushing me and others when they simply didn’t like what someone was saying, irrespective or not if those opinions or words transgressed HiTech’s codes of conduct.
The penultimate straw is when they (using the plural here so as not to offend the gender-challenged) threatened players with muting when a topic was being discussed with which they apparently disagreed. I and ~4 other players were exchanging calm and rational opinions about whether global warming was man-make, a natural Earthly cycle, or a combination of the two. It wasn’t flooding 200, and no one was being disagreeable. It was a real discussion, the sort of thing that builds and maintains communities.
I’m guessing the mod thought global warming didn’t exist at all and wanted to silence such treasonous commentary based on their (continuing with the plural, here) personal political opinions?
I don’t know.
But it was ridiculous. As have been several mod over-reactions in the recent past.
As I said above, oh, well.
Time to use the downslope of the bell curve to do something more productive.
