A calm ship complaint.

The crazy thing is, if you look here, on Reddit, on various Discord servers, etc., the ship complaints are all about different things.  It made Leviathan mirror matches awful.  It made Leviathan vs Executor pretty bad.  It destroyed the Chimaera, and therefore the conquest ship Scythe, piloted by a legendary character with one of the most difficult journeys, against almost anything it was used for.  It was a huge nerf to the previously second strongest meta ship in the game.  And all those things weren't even the only things affected.  Fleets are a mess across the board.

I'm worried that they aren't saying anything, partly because they're about to give anniversary gifts and maybe even release LSBs, and they assume those will make people forget.  And partly, and this is a total guess on my part, they're planning on releasing a Profundity lifter, maybe even as the new conquest unit, and either hope that will fix things, or serve as another aforementioned distraction.  And a Profundity lifter will only fix one of the things.  I don't think much will distract people from the current state of things.  I haven't played since launch or anything, but I have played a few years at least, and while there's always something for people to complain about, I haven't seen it nearly as bad as it has gotten this year, and especially in the last few months. 

I mentioned the possibility in another thread about devs more or less being handcuffed, and working for the whims of the higher up types that have no idea how things work with the actual game, and are only motivated by revenue and screentime numbers.  Honestly though, while so many give the folks like Meathead a pass (myself included), and in the possible case of the devs being in a situation just mentioned, would also give them a pass, at what point do those types that are far more in touch with the reality of the game realize that everyone bailing on the game is just as much of a danger to their jobs as not pleasing execs at every turn. 

Everyone is posting and complaing right now (I'm guilty too), but it's really the devs and Meatheads of the world we need on our side in this.  We really need more constructive threads like this one.  Or, you know, everyone could just keep posting threads about how much they suck.  That'll get 'em...