Reading RoZs boards. And discord.

[Mingo]

RoZ was a lot of fun and offered a decent sandbox while it lasted. In the end the project management is the real issue; Renly is so thirsty for population that he'll allow anything to transpire.

The immersion fell apart for me when people started donating $20 to get character changes, name changes, race changes, unbanned etc. If you don't have $20, no big deal, you can turn VP into a Brony playhouse and attack people from beneath the world and get unbanned as long as you submit a shirtless selfie.

There became no lasting penalty for players banned/suspended for stuff as blatant as scripts and zone file changes. Checkraise would have had a hell of a successful campaign in elf court on RoZ had he played.

The devs shilling and pandering to the underdogs was probably for the best in hindsight; they just got played and were too heavy handed in their implementation. There was no malice in the original efforts but there was heavy trolling in the aftermath.