(02-05-2020, 01:55 PM)Lythrilux Wrote: I think I could easily have ended up being high up in the Staff if I acted slimier and backstabbed my friends. People aren't praised, rewarded or treated based on their own merits, skillset, and motivation, but instead whether or not they have the right connections or how far they're willing to drop into the pit to get what they want. I suppose you could say I failed; I didn't game the system and tried doing things honestly, and it achieved nothing.
Some of us are just enjoying ourselves. We're also getting really tired that we're being insinuated that us having fun is because we're schmoozing.
People are having fun playing this game, Lythrilux. Accept that your experience isn't everyone, that you are not a cipher for everyone.
Your own critique and experience is valid, but it doesn't invalidate ours. It expecially doesn't make those of us who are having fun here 'dishonest'. In the words of Commander Shepard, I've had enough of your disingenuous assertions.
It's especially mean to the new players who don't worry about any of this.
Just because you're having fun doesn't mean others are. Just because everything is perfect for you, doesn't mean it is for others. I can't help but feel the lackadaisical, "everything is great! ", attitude only helps to further indoctrinate the place into thinking nothing needs to change and things are fine. The game is bleeding players every month, the new player retention has slowed to a crawl, and many factions have nothing to do. If you and UN| are doing great, that's awesome. But there are many cases for other people where that is simply not true. Head-in-the-sand mentality is the absolute worst thing about Discovery ever.