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> Zach wrote

>

> Bah. The game is still much more than entertainment to some of

> us. And it pains me greatly to see netrek dying.

> ...

> A year ago we had regular posts on RGN from regulars like

> Kevin Bernatz, Dave Swasey, Tom Holub and others now RGN gets

> more spam than real discussion.  All of these are anecdotal

> data points, yet I fear they reflect a disturbing trend of

> apathy and slow but steady retirement of the active

> playerbase. Unless more people stand up and proactively take

> some leadership then the bell will finally toll for netrek.



   It's easy...kick Tom off the INLC and get Jitesh and his cronies to get back 
involved in the game.  But the "anti-J" crowd will refuse to admit this as a viable 
solution and are therefore just as much at fault as facilitating the downfall of 
netrek as anyone else.

   I'll also officially go on record as saying that Jitesh was right and we were 
wrong.  Disbanding the WNL to rejoin with the INL was the worst fucking decision we 
ever made.  Tom + 1 or two hasbeen non-playing yokles were no where near as important 
to maintaining a player base as the J-crew.  Oh well, netrek is essentially dead now 
since there are no clued pick-up games, which means us old fogeys have no interest in 
joining and either beating up on twinks or being amazingly frustrated by twinky 
teammates.



-K, semi-retired and not really missing it in its present incarnation



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