I think Imms do what they can with what they have. The fact that they still put any effort at all into it after so long says something, since they often have to deal with the far more craptastic sides of things instead of just having the fun of playing the game. (annoying prays, cheating, responding to forum questions, fixing bugs...) Even mortal players burn out after a while. Imagine playing ther same character for years and try to say you would really still be enjoying it (no offense to ahtieli, who I actually like as a character and think does well in still putting some effort into it).

So can you blame them if after years they are not logging 5 hours a day? It's not a job, it's a game. They should be allowed to treat it just as those of us playing it do, and not be held to any other standards above to which you hold yourself. You don't want to play, you don't play. You want to be evil, you role evil. You want a certain cabal, you go that way. You get bored, you delete. Just imagine if Imms were like mortals. I think I rolled about 10 characters since thendrell, but most never got past rank 15, the long ones maybe touched thirty, cause the concept just wasn't as good as I originally thought or did not develop. But I can just delete the character, come up with something else, give it a try, and see if that holds my interest. If Imms did that, we'd have a different imm running everything every five minutes, which would be rather chaotic and confusing as hell.

There is simply not enough people and resources to manage everything. Some may take a negative view of things and say one person doing three cabals is bad. I see it as someone is doing it, which is better than none. The mortal leadership can handle most of the day to day stuff, immortal presence is not entirely necessary for every little thing. Look at scion. One Imm really, but two mortal leaders who are both fairly active. And when they go, maybe then the Imm gets involved a little more to fill the spots.

Evil prayer beads quest. Got to love the notion of that.