It's primarily due to our differing set of values.
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The analogy I provided was in context of the game. I'm looking at it in the perspective of ED being a game governed by mechanics. If a bug was identified, then it should be fixed. Who benefits and who is angry matters little as long as the discrepancy in the mechanics is addressed. Of course, extending it to racism would be a bit too much. Not to mention that none of us are classified as "first class" or "second class" citizens.
I understand that you apparently specialized in Chemistry, and that field of study deals with precision and refinement of said precision without dealing with sentimental subjects, say, humans.
A mechanism's flaw should be fixed. If a laundry machine keeps ripping clothes to shreds or staining clothes, of course we would want it fixed as fast as possible since the purpose of the machine is to wash clothes and clean them. However, with a game where you are dealing with people, and the mechanics of the game is there to clarify and maintain a fair playground for people who participate in it, the purpose of the said mechanics is no longer prioritized to establishing some sort of iron stipulations, but also to keep the people who are participating in the game relatively happy and wanting to continue their participation of the said game.
This is basically the role of the government.
PP is very political in nature and therefore essential to maintain balance and keeping the participants feeling content and fair due to its competitive nature. Rules and stipulations are not protecting the people, the people are protecting the regulations. If FD fails to inspire the people to feel obligated to do so due to its constant changing of mechanics and suspicious backdoor maneuvers, no one would want to protect said "law," let alone call it just and fair.
My prior post focuses on how Turmoil selection occurs and how it causes increased deficit while tailoring it to address the need (for everyone, not just Aisling, to get rid of bad systems). As it stands, bad systems are essentially a permanent liability. That shouldn't be the case. Having the bad systems naturally fall off first during turmoil will provide a solution for it but it does not remove the ability for players to push powers into turmoil repeatedly - when there are no more bad systems to get rid off during turmoil, further turmoil will cause the power to lose the good systems as well. At the end of that thread, I added an explanation and a demonstration for my proposal.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=174903&page=13&p=2700155&viewfull=1#post2700155. Also note that FD has not replied in the thread and it's a separate concern from the Syntheng turmoil situation. It got attention, but the attention it got was from other players.
FD is known to not reply to a post and rarely take in the input. The piracy issue I stated earlier was addressed in a similar manner. Also, I personally believe that your post is relevant to this fix despite not discussing perfectly identical subjects.
Again, in a game perspective. Things are not working as intended as pointed out by the developers so they should fix it. On one hand, you have people who are directly and negatively affected by the bug by being inconvenienced by it; on the other hand, you have people who are indirectly affected by the fix that will resolve the bug - by feeling angry that the developers helped those inconvenienced. Fixing the bug would fairly resolve the situation and alleviate those directly inconvenienced. Not fixing the bug will satisfy those who would have felt angry with the fix - but the but would still inconvenience the players affected. I believe, that they should fix it because there are people inconvenienced by the problem and those who will feel angry will not be inconvenienced at all - they would just feel angry. Choosing not to, in favor of maintaining public image is simply corrupt.
I feel that you're impulsively feeling that people angered by this fix sets out to ruin the game with bugs and glitches. I don't think that's the case. You are purposely ignoring the situation that people complained about potentially the same bug and problems of same or greater urgency and still receive no attention. After repetitively observing the attention and advantage given to a single faction, anyone with functional induction and deduction abilities can conclude that there is favoritism going on.
The government should fix the bathroom and learn to fix everyone's problems in due fashion. Prioritizing fixes for a specific group is wrong. But deliberately not fixing problems that were identified is also wrong.
Again, no one's telling FD to not fix the bug. However, as you said, "prioritizing fixes for a specific group is wrong." Look at Archon Delaine's expansion and our post in the bug section and tell me that FD isn't prioritizing fix for a specific group.
In the situation of ED, people are screaming for the fix not to be administered because that particular player group that would benefit the fix already had its share of fixes. They don't want the fix to be administered because it's not their problem that is being addressed. That attitude is clearly selfish.
Again, I don't think anyone here is going against fixing the game. However, people want to see how it is done and what are the mechanics that we aren't given and hidden behind doors for possible manipulation.
Perhaps psychoanalysis would be better suited for people you actually talk to in real life. But I'm not an expert in that and of course, you're still free to analyze my mental framework based on my responses. I don't really mind since it's interesting to read.
I don't mind, and I think I am picking up a few things from your manner.
First, as a student of Chemistry, you have some inherent apathy, or insensitivity for things outside of "hard-math," "set in stone mechanics." This creates issues when you interact with others since there's constant compromises to be had. This is especially the case when you believe that a second-class citizenship is allowed under the analogy I gave. You denied it, but as we have seen in FD's bias in the Empire that this is substantial. In PP, factions are intrinsically equal in the sense that they are all player interactive, therefore no matter what more population one faction has over another, an issue presented is to be addressed immediately if it severely affects the faction. We have seen the contrary here with this fix.
Second, you are perhaps overly-assertive. In the sense that you told me to read properly just because I replied something you disagree with or did not necessarily understood at the time. Then following that, you keep thinking that people that are questioning the fix is set on destroying AD and trying to drive it to the ground when in reality, everyone's confused by the mechanics and are asking for FD to address and reveal what is really going on since the fix retrospectively affects a lot of other factions. You claim that people don't want this "fix" to be administered because it's not their problem and is being selfish. Well, frankly I can say the same in the sense that you want this "fix" to be administered because it is your problem and is being selfish.
This kind of claim is, in essence, null. People are self-seeking, no one can do anything about that. All we can do is try to keep our fingers to ourselves and prevent ourselves from being overly biased as much as possible out of the consideration of others who also share this nature.
This brings up the third point. I really think you have trouble relating to others and have mutual consideration for your peers. Advancing one's interest is of human nature, but knowing how to advance one's interest in consideration of others doing the same is a different story. The latter makes a human while the former makes an animal. You put in a lot of effort helping AD, others put in a lot of effort helping their respective factions, and they are equivalent. However, FD pulls yet another apparent favoritism, it would be strange that the other factions aren't angry. But none of them are angered by the game getting fixed, but rather why their efforts are apparently not equivalent to AD's in comparison and demand to know what mechanics that brought about the fix.
Concluding, I think you have a narcissistic personality. Wait, wait, this is not an insult (Don't kill me Mods, I have puppies to feed!), I am not trying to degrade your character, merely reflecting on my observation and providing my perspective. Obviously, everyone is flawed in one way or another. And that flaw is only a flaw because we measure ourselves to the scale, or standard provided by society. Otherwise they're just neutral, simple traits.
It's not your fault that you have a certain characteristics, since they are determined by both genetics and the environment you were nurtured in. These are things out of our control. However, recognizing what we have that conflict with others better our abilities to interact with others, since we can consciously suppress said "flaw." The refusal to do so or at least attempt to do so, in my opinion, is an abandonment of humanity and its gregarious history.
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