Talk:The Community/@comment-27013684-20180224203036

You're not entirely wrong, you did make a very valid point thayt you probably did not intend to, and I don't believe you fully understand the complaints of the "OG members" saying things aren't as good as they used to be. Yes, the community is not "dying", but the average quality of militaries has declined over the years.

"I don't care if your idea has a 1% chance of woking, hell try it. It is time for others to step up and try to run the community." This is probably the most accurate if not the only accurate thing you actually get at. Those of us that are older members of the community are more than happy to see newer people taking more leadership roles, and fully agree that the past should not be hung up on. The problem arises, however, when the only thing that these "new leaders"  (and some old ones to be fair) can make is poorly run clones of The State. The State worked in it's time, but nowadays that method has grown dry, and innovation is needed. LLama's guild is "semi functional" for two reasons, one being that he does something outside of the run into the ground State formula, and second is that he created a guild that he and his followers can actually have fun with.

Now of course, most of the current community started out in the State, and that's the only way they know military communities to be. It's been over half a decade since the first State however, and the State way of doing things doesn't work anymore. You can say the community isn't dying, and you may be right in a larger since, but to ignore the drastic decline in quality is assinine, and to complain about people who point out that decline is absurd.