Quite a bit to read, let's hope I'm still sane(or at least, in my current state of insanity ) when I return
EDIT: After reading it all I can say is: *ahem*.....hahahAHAHhahahahah *gasp* AAhhhahahahaha! hahaha...and biff's response at the end! hahahahah..oh..I think i'm gonna cough up a lung
Yeah, biff's usual response; "Who cares about population playing the game, it's still running". That guy is more frustrating and stubborn than a donkey that thinks doorknobs are for eating.
CO's communities biggest weaknesses have tbh, been in the fact that they also had two very stupid and biased forum moderators. Of the three, Biffsmackwell, Kaizerin, and Trailturtle, Trailturtle was the only one who was neutral and impartial to the forum opinion. Kaizerin and Biff always sided with the very trolls that'd do stupid things like literally saying a choice between one good power and two broken unfunctional powers was a choice.
I am AMAZED that Kaizerin got chosen to be a developer with such an attitude.
But the overall nature of people like the trolls I won't mention, or the asswhipe shfg types/scrubs that generally only want people either playing like them or sucking for not playing like them, is they do it for attention and feelings of false power.