Before I subside back into another apathetic episode, I will expand a bit on what I have observed. When Green was announced, the forums were feverish with excitement and the certainty that everything would be just as it was in 1999 because that was what the forums were certain the staff strove for. Instead, mob spawns were varied. Quest xp was custom nerfed. A new /list system that no one on forums would have imagined was even a possible option because of how blatantly it violated the zeitgeist's conception of P99 was announced without any input whatever.
Now, did the forums pause? Did they ask themselves, wait, why are these custom changes occurring without any input from the forum community? No. Instead, they adopted cognitive dissonance and began analyzing these systems and their motivations from the exact argumentative positions that should have negated those systems from the outset.
Ergo, the forums are pointless. They serve no function as discussion except whatever relief you or I might have from typing to each other. P99 as a project is not influenced by these forums. It is, however, influenced by something and that something dictated these custom systems and a closed-door policy with regards to their creation.
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05-08-2020, 10:56 PM
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