First of all only polite answers pleas no bitchfesting allowed. So i have been here over 20 years now on this my only account. I know i dont have a high post count and that is mainly down to me only wanting to post where i see fit. Despite this i have always been here reading and watching.
Over the past few years of to i have noticed more and more anger/toxicity/near abusive behavior and in honesty it saddens me. It used to be a great community (and in some places still is) but it just seems to slowly be getting worse. One thing that i do like is lately i have seen some long lost names returning which i find enlightning. But for the best part the angst and hostility is still breeding.
Part of me thinks the implication of Discord is to blame as people seem to get all fired up on there then bring themselves back here to try and get their point of view across a bit more forcibly. (i personally hate discord for servers its a cesspit of dispair a lot of the time. But i dont know. Iknow the intoduction of cash cows has not helped but you all know which servers are going to be cash cows and readily play them so that is on the player alone If you knowingly play a cash cow then in reality you have no cause to complain later down the line as you knew what to expect.
things use to seemingly be a lot more simple when the server owners would push the boundaries with the files they had and work and learn by their mistakes with guidence from the more knowlageable ones on here. now with the introduction of "ready made server files" "server to go" its too easy and so many server owners dont put as much effort into it as they dont really have to. For a quick cash grab its almost plug and play.
That being said i love that we do still have a few people that really know how to make the files work to their full potential and some the ones that take time and practically re invent the game. They are my true mir heros.
just my 2 cents (probably loads more but wall of text no good )
Over the past few years of to i have noticed more and more anger/toxicity/near abusive behavior and in honesty it saddens me. It used to be a great community (and in some places still is) but it just seems to slowly be getting worse. One thing that i do like is lately i have seen some long lost names returning which i find enlightning. But for the best part the angst and hostility is still breeding.
Part of me thinks the implication of Discord is to blame as people seem to get all fired up on there then bring themselves back here to try and get their point of view across a bit more forcibly. (i personally hate discord for servers its a cesspit of dispair a lot of the time. But i dont know. Iknow the intoduction of cash cows has not helped but you all know which servers are going to be cash cows and readily play them so that is on the player alone If you knowingly play a cash cow then in reality you have no cause to complain later down the line as you knew what to expect.
things use to seemingly be a lot more simple when the server owners would push the boundaries with the files they had and work and learn by their mistakes with guidence from the more knowlageable ones on here. now with the introduction of "ready made server files" "server to go" its too easy and so many server owners dont put as much effort into it as they dont really have to. For a quick cash grab its almost plug and play.
That being said i love that we do still have a few people that really know how to make the files work to their full potential and some the ones that take time and practically re invent the game. They are my true mir heros.
just my 2 cents (probably loads more but wall of text no good )
