While I understand the basis of the Complaint- does feel like you are screaming at the clouds here in the sense of the complaint seemingly being about Everything trying to kill Citizens.
I get that constant threats is really annoying, but I will be honest and say most of the bad things that happen in game are Player Agency. 80% of the bad things that happen to characters, maybe even 85-90% depending on how generous one wants to be is Player vs Player action. And ET just sets a stage for players to expand the fuckery of an potential threat.
Like the infestations WN had each month in the past was funnily enough not caused by ET, just player got a Infestation seed or multiple of them- slapped them down in the map and created these massive infestations which fucked the Civ populace tenfold. Or the times when we have added event things to interact with and some players intentionally choose the worst action to make a problem 100x worse by their own doing- sometimes on accident and other times on purpose.
WN offers a lot of player agency with the only things in my memory NOT player related being:
- KROT (Second Half)
- XMZ Expansion (Players were responsible for killing it though)
- Race-X expansion in South America (This is Event controlled as its no where near players, thus cannot be given agency to do anything when its not within range of Player control until it hits closer to Home into Sector 10)
- Was also going to get Sector War events for it which would have been some player agency chunk to it, but that was cancelled in favour of the I24 Arc and focus on the rebuilding, Lyon and Rot.
- The whole era of the Liberation Front Coalition (Chaotic mess)
- And a few other minor things in main server that happened with some S10/S24 Chars when those orgs existed which was like 2023-2024
Outside of that, a large chunk of ongoings is all player related and even the Rot which was created by ET, was in the end stunted by Players as they were given that choice (Plus the Rebels killed the cult which effectively stunted the Rots progression). But all the C8, T7, C24 and I24 stuff to date so far seems to be all related to players.
I understand it gets annoying for Citizens of course who are caught in CvR, the Rot, Race-X, Xen, Combine, Rebels, other players, Zombies, Antlions and some unique bits and bobs all trying to kill them but again. I cannot stress enough that it was player agency that either created or caused some of those circumstances and also the same for what makes it worse at times. There is a few Event controlled things but the last full Event control was possibly dating back to early 2024 with the Event Rebel squad or something else.
Overall Just rambling at this point, but its both understandable but also a point of Players being responsible for 80% of the threats Citizens face on a daily basis and a lot of deaths, city problems and so on. ET tends to let players decide to do as they please and just add the occasional piece for a player to interact with and cause a problem of their own volition.
