Solution to peoples whines. Well, that assumes people whining is a problem
needing of a solution. People whining is not a problem for us, it is a
problem for the one doing the whining. So any idea to 'do this or change
that' in an effort to quell the whines is a flawed idea to begin with, and
therefore should generally be ignored or discarded as a bad idea. Whines
don't mean jack shit.

Implementing an idea solely for the prupose of quelling whines is bad. That
was my point. If the origin of the whine is a valid point, then action can be
taken. But "let's do this to stop people from whining" is the worst reason to
do anything.

I don't know how it got this way, but players have learned that if they whine
long enough, they will get what they want. Current administration is scared
of whines for some reason and will do anything to fix them. This is a screwed
up system that is in place now, and like I said, I don't know how it got this
way. SBit by bit, year by year this is what Bat has turned into. People who
do not know the inner workings of the game asking/whining for things and admin
who know the inner workings of the game making questionable changes just to
shut you fuckers up. The needs of the many DO outweigh those of the few.
Whiners are still in the minority, the vast minority, and making changes to
shut you up is just bad decision making. We have like 1000's and 1000's of
players. 10 of them whine. So this means it is a valid idea? Let's look at
the multiple thousands of players that do not whine about some of our changes
and decisions, and by your logic, it means they ARE good ideas.

Whiners ask for changes that directly benefit them and has unseen side-effects
complications unseeable by mortals. Nothing wrong with mortals, you just
don't see the code or know how everything interacts. What seems like an easy,
simple change can actually be very complicated to implement, could just be
impossible, or may have even been tried once with failed results. Sometimes a
whine can actually be a good idea, sometimes they are great ideas and get
implemented and makes everyone happy. But usually, it just an extremely small
'inner circle' of people that would rather cry than adapt.

Right, we're utterly and completely devastated if someone whines
about a tune. I mean, the whole administration is so morbidly scared
that some person somewhere wouldn't possibly like us or the little
feature we just implemented. See, this is us shaking...

To put it bluntly, we don't give a crap about general whining (whines
for the sake of just making noise). Just like this little post of
yours proves, it's purely human nature that people complain. However,
it's downright foolish, childish and speaks of a weak ego, if one is
incapable of admitting that a tune or feature doesn't work as well as
it was intended.

Whether this has anything to do with the reinc system, I don't know.
Seems to me that it's working quite fine actually, this post is more
a rebuttal to vague claims about what motivates "the administrations"
decisions.

++ Gore