I am sorry Richter! You know I have much love for you and your pimpin style though!

I would suggest finishing the druids skill before the libraries.

Only four coders? Damn, now I REALLY need to turn 18 and cobble together an x86 linux box...

(/me has slight issues with an overly inflated sense of his coding skillz)

I have three things to say about three distinct groups.

Administration: If I can get them to trust me with some addresses, what say we go in together to buy some flowers or candies or something nice to thank them for putting up with all this?  If even half of us put $5 each in we can send a well-earned "thank you" to some folks who need it and have well earned it.  Yes, I'm serious about this, and I'll contribute and do the coordination (I'm assuming people will trust me not to run off with your $5, but if not, maybe someone else can be appointed).

To the people who knew what they were doing as they shredded the rules and the economy: My blessing for you is that you should be the next victim of the next person like you who comes along.  Let's see how you like when some unscrupulous bastard ruins something you cared about just for some petty and temporary personal gain.

To everyone else: Remember that not everyone who has been shrubbed falls into the above group.  Some of those who were shrubbed were shrubbed not for intentionally exploiting a bug, but for the much simpler mistake of not handling the information properly.  That's not a good thing -- reporting bugs is vital.  But as serious as it is, it's an order of magnitude different from people who acted out of selfish malice.  Don't spit on people who only made a mistake, because I bet you made a mistake once.  They're paying for their mistake as they should, but there's no call to spit on them besides.

We can keep shipping fees down by ordering from a business located in the home country of each administrator/coder.  The Internet is a wonderful thing.

To everyone else: Remember that not everyone who has been shrubbed falls into the above group.  Some of those who were shrubbed were shrubbed not for intentionally exploiting a bug, but for the much simpler mistake of not handling the information properly.  That's not a good thing -- reporting bugs is vital.  But as serious as it is, it's an order of magnitude different from people who acted out of selfish malice.  Don't spit on people who only made a mistake, because I bet you made a mistake once.  They're paying for their mistake as they should, but there's no call to spit on them besides.

There are different people working one the two projects. Thus the timeline of one does not impact the timeline of the other.

It's just.. disgusting.  Even Guido's better than this.

Thank you? 

Come to think of it, how many Cubixes does Magnagora have now?  Not too many, at the very least.

That's wrong, we decided not to shrub the idiots who just didn't report things, the only people shrubbed were those directly involved with it and benefiting from it (with the possible exception of Branwyn).

That's wrong, we decided not to shrub the idiots who just didn't report things, the only people shrubbed were those directly involved with it and benefiting from it (with the possible exception of Branwyn).

It was her I was thinking of primarily.  I was leaving room for the possibility that there were more cases like hers simply because I don't have the information on which to judge.  I trust that the truth will be sorted out, but in the meanwhile, the madding crowd won't be waiting for it to come to their conclusions (as has already been seen).  I'm precisely as eager to see those who were malicious flayed and left for buzzards in the desert sun, as I am to see those who only made an error in judgment not given any more punishment than their actions warrant, and that's true no matter who falls into which camp.  So I'm just urging everyone to keep a considerate head about this.  The buzzards will still be there tomorrow.