This entire thread is painful. CF is a social game. It needs players, this has been stated before and honestly cannot be overstated enough. I'm typically an Ishuli fan, and I appreciate all he/she does, but it really sounds like Ishuli is content to go down with the ship.

Ultimately it sounds like CF really needs to have more active coders to make broad sweeping changes (or many changes at all, honestly). That's something to people in charge have to wrestle with and decide if they want to give a few more people coding ability. There's obviously risk in that, and its understandable why the imms are slow to give access to it. However...If that doesn't happen, no large changes will be made. End of story.

-Shamanman