@daniel: Of course, I am going to post on my opinions of what is good for the game; what am I going to do, post your opinions? Everyone perspective is going to be based on his or her own experiences. I'm sure if I always had a 10man available every time I logged, I would care less about this issue. What you consider useless, a lot of others have complimented, both here on the forums and in game. Why should you be judge and jury? Why have an Arctic MUD forum if not to talk about Arctic MUD?
The easiest thing to say is, if you don't like it: leave. Guess what, a lot of people HAVE left. The initial post was about things I think should be fixed to prevent more from leaving. People focused on multiing/botting because that is the issue people are most militant about (on both sides). While there is a single vocal group of players pushing for multiing/botting, I think you guys should keep in mind that we are also the majority (see earlier statistics, plus the previous poll) even if this isn't a democracy. For every instance of someone not on the forums who apparently must be against botting/multiing, there are the more concrete examples of the Danes/Finns/Russians that also didn't participate who would be likely to be pro-botting. That is all I have to say about this topic; I am going to stop talking about multiing/botting in order to not drain Hoss's old man energy too much.
I think that Tacoman's post went a little far as well. I have discussed this with Hoss on MUD and like he said, we agree to disagree. I also agree with Kir that the Aristox/Hoss combo (with others) have brought us great improvements with initially ranks, then legendary, and robes. I will echo what I said initially that they believe they know what is best: I live around Missouri so you have to "Show-Me" before I will believe it. I certainly hope they are right. The immortals would prefer to wait until stuff is more fleshed out; I agree with Reed that the earlier we know something exciting, the better. We are all passionate about Arctic, otherwise I would be playing COD#8 or something like that.
There are plenty of other things that I think could be improved on this game. If multiing/botting is not on the table, what are some other issues you guys would like addressed? No one seems on board with my decreasing overall length of zones. :-( There is a lot of hatred about the current pk system...