Has the game gone stagnant?
It’s not changed much I don’t think, or that I noticed, so no. AH is still a ton of fun, and works well as a MMOG. Better than most.
Anyway...
1) Same. It’s still a blast.
2) Depends, online seems the same, if not better. There's been the same Channel 1 stupid sh*t I ignore, but less of it. As a whole, it's way better. In the early tours people screamed about chute killing, and that's been all but abolished because of the bbs, which is a point to note. It can affect player behavior and attitudes.
There is more stuff to kill, some are drones. Some are really good, but the percentage is way off. Early players had to fight there way out of 1V1's consistently. Rivals were made, now they really aren’t.
Unfortunately the BBS has prompted threads like this lately, so I guess in that regards it's less. Sober Blowhards ironically seem to influence the bbs as of late in a negative way, so yeah, indeed, less.
I am frankly tired of the horde mentality against the main arena Killjoy. Does that affect your enjoyment of the AH community, more/less/the same ?