These are the facts as I understand them
1. CM Server has hit a population number that is too large for the staff to manage compared to last time. When definitions of lowpop and highpop were a lot different then.
2. New population is the real issue of CM, cause you have an additional 80 new names every round you have to get along/get to know compared to just 10.
3. CABAL is a boomer. So is MasterShakeEZ.
4. CM Is suffering a common symptom from Europe called 'Mass Immigration'
5. Of all the things dev team implemented, the one that truly changed the server is KDR statistics
6. Hilarious meme events and surprise events like spawning 50 aboms are a laugh if you have a sense of humour and fun.
7. It is difficult to implement a culture of RP to 3 new tides of players (Sseth, Rimmy, and OneyG) since most of the games we play that is not SS13 involves 0 RP.
8. Silly things like spawning 50 aboms, UPP hijack ebent, Serious and cool high command ebents, and small moments of hilarious glitches and changes are what make CM great.
9. CM today is a result of a combination of youtube tides entering and old players not appreciating some of what the old staff did. (Remember when Neth did a lot of small but cool and unique events? By all standards his events in 80% of the time are what the community is now asking for. Yet he messes up 1 or 2 events and the whole community shits on him.)
10. Cakey cheats in Scribbl, I shall have proof one day.
11. CM Staff is literally breaking down from burnout, stress, and insanity. Papa pollard was right.
12. A lot of new CM players dont bother to RP at all. It's like 5-7 in every 60-80 new players actually bothers. Most of them are mute or salty.
13. Head managers have a hilarious situation: They have to play the game to stay in touch with the community at hand but they have to avoid the game long enough not to be drawn into its insanity and make sensible and reasonable decisions. It's like they are married to two wives nagging at them at opposite directions, one named CM and another named Sanity.
14. A wise man once said, those who have byond are not normal people
15. CM Community has a weird sense of humour, they cant take a joke on the obvious things but on the accidental things they laugh.
16. Since as far back as I can remember, HEFA is the cause of almost every xeno major. YET, marine still uses them after YEARS. This therefore proves evolution is a farse.
17. Xenos Mad. Always have, always will.
18. The cycle of CM love-hate relations:
Step 1. Staff enforces rule
Step 2. Community complains on staff doing their job
Step 3. Staff enforces rule but with softer punishment/more lenient
Step 4. Community complains on some staff doing their job, ruining their fun and some noticed a small drop in standards and complain
(Hey hey hey, sseth here)
Step 5. Staff becomes super duper lenient and forgets what they were supposed to be doing
Step 6. Community realises that staff is completely out of touch with the game
(Boomer becomes mod manager, clears backlog of work....aaaaaaaand starts bullying us)
Step 7. Staff does its job as per community recommendations
Step 8. Suddenly, the community is at loss at what to do and what direction to take since a small band of people successfully combat a lot of long overdue issues. They go back at what they usually do: Salting to whatever issue is left(balance)
(Boomer Quits)
Step 9. Suddenly, some old staff members quit and were suddenly considered good, effective, and actually do their job.
Step 10. Community wishes they are back and complain that staff should enforce rules and do their job.
Step 11. Repeat step 1
(RIP Rule 2)
19. I got noted for farting as an Elder Runner and it was considered 18+ content.
20. Jones is a CLF spy, BE him when you get the chance
21. Now old CM players are having a breakdown from the game. Nani?
22. Hostile survivors are one of the best elements in the game, don't let anyone tell you otherwise
23. We are calling all new players Ssethtides, even though there are players coming in from RimmyGaming and OneyG in 2019 as well as from other sources
24. Ssethtide is the new n word
25. There is yet an Indian CO/XO with an indian accent
26. Bravo Squad is the new Alpha Squad
27. I once laughed at everyone for taking the game seriously....and then I started taking the game seriously
28. All new players should be issued a standardised CM guide written by Chad Pollard
29. I still laugh at everyone taking the game seriously
30. The community complains about other people not taking their criticisms seriously, but refuses to take criticisms against them seriously.
31. Oddly, the twist in logic in argument and the salt is what makes CM great.
32. Dev team suddenly massively buffing one side of the team for temporarily is still hilarious. (Aaaah, stat mutators)
33. Everyones a hypocrite, even me.