again, Turk makes a point, even though his reputation probably hurts it. The forum community anymore is on a downward spiril and has been for a while now. Each day, less and less people attend these forums, and each day the OT becomes more and more aggrevated. GD almost never has a good discussion anymore besides when people are complaining. Many of my friends have already left the game, and my forum friends are vanishing on me as well. Sure I have made new ones, yet the ratio of new friends to old is fairly disturbing. CangleLite is now leaving these forums, and she wasn't the first, nor will she be the last. I have tried to get the Reps to see the situation from a player's perspective thereby allowing them to realise the best remedy as to quelling arguments and bringing unity back to these forums which is vital to the game itself. I unfortunately anymore have been cast aside by many, and I have seriously questioned many motives of those around me. This questioning along with a constant pushing from certain elements of the forums have been making me lose my patience faster and faster as time wears on. I have constantly told the mods to try not to use their mod tools as much as possible and to blend into the community like a normal poster, yet unfortunately a gap larger then ever has appeared. It is with regret that I write all these words because in attempts to try to fix things, I have only made 1 horrible post that my entire forum career is now based on. My apology for that mistake unfortunately had to be deleted for unforseen reasons, and more or less, I feel like a second class citizen on these forums anymore, still trying to help out, yet scoffed at behind my back. My trust in many is heavily shaken anymore, and I am sad to see things the way they are now compared to how they used to be. I have always been, and always will be weary of those that have power, especially those that have recieved it the most recently. Finally, I do wish that we here on the forums can work together, Admins/Reps/mods/ and players to try to restablish the forums back like they were during their height. It will take much correllation between every group on the forum meaning that the players will have to be talked to more by the company, the mods need to stop treating what they do as a job and treat it more like a privledge, and the players need to work together to try to keep each other in line ourselves rather then relying on those that truely have power. With time, I do hope things will become better, and I dedicate myself to trying to make things better even if I must be banned in the end.
-Alex Bakker


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