[Messianic]

1) Shutting down RNF will be negative to the server's health.

If there isn't a place for people to be frank and let out all their garbage, it will be let out everywhere else. Mods can just barely control things as it is - eventually they'll get overrun by bullcrap. RnF threads do no harm to the server at all which wouldn't have happened anyway - I don't see the difference between massive, supposedly detrimental garbage being posted here and it being posted anywhere else, except that moderators will have a crapton more work to do.

2) Cyrano claimed that the only thing that matters is development of the server. This is absolutely wrong.

Development will be of limited value if hacking persists or gets worse. Unless hacking is dealt with (with an iron hand, and hopefully those who are behind it are smart enough to keep up with the hackers), it will be enough of a drag on the server to cause substantial harm, regardless how well the server is developed.

While i'm disappointed with the punishment rendered during the most recent hacker bust, I hope Rogean is true to his word (I've found he is) in having no mercy for anyone caught in the future.


Uthgaard never alienated the player base. He alienated a lot of people compared to others, but even that population was mostly a very tiny collection of scumbags that needed it. I'm sure he erred a couple times, but nearly every single one of his hardass moves I've agreed with.