I will ask you why on earth should I give your treatise any serious consideration?
You're operating under the assumption that I'm trying to persuade you.
I'm not.
I don't write to a poster of your ilk with hopes of persuading you personally of anything.
I'm using you as one in a long line of posters as an example of the principle
Expertise at any aspect of the game does not assure expertise at anything else.
Happily I'm getting two for one here:
actually did then deleted it. But, after more thought and after re-reading your final sentence I changed my mind.
Of course you had to reply. You can't help it. Remember way back when you promised to quit the forum?
You are are unable to see it, but that mangled quote I first applied to you is dead on accurate.
No matter how many times in how many ways you are shown to be wrong, you will continue to argue.
Two explicit examples. Disagreeing with an INNO employee about the game and your original post in this thread, an inflammatory carryover from the wheel thread that didn't even make a vague attempt to help the OP. There's plenty more to not knowing about the EN server to thinking I disliked HQS to more dealing with every other person you've responded to.
Pretty sure the only person you've convinced you're right about most of what you've posted is you.
Wait, we're adding a third in the last few posts.
You're now assuming you understand posters as well. You don't. The OP was here to kvetch, nothing they were told was going to do any good.
Unlike in game where you've done one thing on the forums ya don't know dooky about these forums or the folk who post here or what happens.
6+ years, thousands of posts, reading every day. That gives insights into the state of the game and the thoughts and concerns and habits of players.
That's one of the reasons I don't have to admit i'm wrong very often despite a lot of predictions. Like it or not, I'm right on about 95% of predictions.
It's because you and your ilk make it so easy. You're doing everything exactly to the same script all your predecessors used.
Including being told exactly how you are wrong, how to correct it, and yet knowing you'll ignore it.
All to script.
You're not even playing the game so why should I pay any attention?
As you said, there hasn't been a significant quantitative change to the game since about March 2020, when GBG Leagues settled out.
There hasn't been a qualitative change to the game since Arc was introduced.
There's a lot of this game I find boring. Some aspects lost their appeal in days, some took years.
It's a testament to the depth and breadth of this game that it took me 6 years and 3 cities to plamb every aspect of the game and frankly get bored of the game as it is today.
Make no mistake, in that time I experimented with everything I could find or make up, got good at it, and can teach anyone how to do it. Want to know how to be a self leveler in the 1.9 Era? How to make a bundle plundering? How to build a Guild from scratch? How to motivate Friends without pissing them off? What the exact Diamond drop rate of WWs is? What it;s like to be a Peddler selling Goods traveling Guild to Guild? The best fast start technique for a new city? Want to know anything else in the game?
If you got something new, I'll be your bestest buddy and never ever bother you again.
I completely understand and frankly a bit envious of players who haven''t gotten bored of this game yet.
If I'm going to do mindless advancement for no real purpose I'll go back to paying ProgressQiest.
But stopping play for a period of time is vastly different then quitting.
I have hopes that INO will come up with something interesting to me. (I can't even express the disappointment over the yawnfest of the new PvP I don't seem to be alone in that.)
So why stay active on the forums?
Where else am I going to stay up to date on the game. keep abreast of developments, player thinking and have the pleasure of poster such as you?
I also have high hopes that Tony will solve the GBG problem they've been working on for months.
This is the only place players can communicate with INNO. Which includes the cumbersome but ony way to gt a suggestion to INNO, the Ideas process.
So I'll be sticking around.
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Instead of making blanket declarations you asked two questions in one post and they were hardly offensive at all! Good for you!
Next time though, try asking questions that are neither leading nor assume facts not in evidence
I've said my peace made my predictons and if you don't quote me or call me by name will happily wander off leaving you one less person to argue with.
I wonder if you can resist the temptation?