Everyone became so soft overtime and just needs to be spoon fed. Everyone plays the game as if they need to win 24/7 and cannot accept a loss. There will always be someone better than you. Prime days where when you had no restrictions on your proportionality at a federal event. The event that has highest reward should have highest risk and you should be able to go in and accept it. Not when you when in and did a federal event with 3-5 people and sent a message hoping you'd get a range of ~5 cops to respond to your fed proportionally. If you did a federal event back then you actually needed to coordinate one and come prepared. Then this comes into the question of why we have so many players/gangs that hold $1bill+ in such a short time frame from when our only player that had $1bill+ for the longest time was CatsMeow; the kingpin of Tree that did runs 24/7 and owned the bottom right of the map, including Moonshine. Then things like gambling had to be made to help with the influx of money going around to help destroy/limit/maintain the economy.
Nothing against Aegis whatsoever or any members of it. I understand they are the most active gang and are never sleeping... but open Top 50 and tell me if you see any indicators of something concerning. Compare the playtime, the members and the differences in bank. Open Top 5 and see how many in the Top 5 that have over a billion dollars are Aegis. The answer is 3/5 with Sevro(Timmy) being #1 at "$2,047,271,552" on an ALT. Mcpooperson at $1,205,813,504 & Kyle being 1,112,320,128. Open gang bank and look at the differences between the gang money and the players within each bank. Compare the hours.
#1
timmy
$2,047,271,552
#2
Blevins
$1,223,902,464
#3
SWAT 123n
$1,205,813,504
#4
cuckledoo
$1,118,386,688
#5
scarr
$1,112,320,128
This isn't to bash Aegis or to say they "Run" the server. But things like this are what gives a large impression on the statistics of things we battle against in roundtables. When is the last time you've seen a regular gang or a newer gang attempt to do a federal event? When is the last time they have won on their own? You have Aegis/Tp/GLM making majority of the federal event statistics where they come in planning to dominate the APD and win or they come in with regular kits and a small group to just balance out the stats to decrease win rate %. There are loopholes to these statistics as now groups have been implemented in which also another question comes into play.. Since the faction restriction for APD is 20.. what is the group restriction on civs? I know I have fought against a Fed with over 20 civs in the SAME group when we're limited to only 20 regardless if they are running around with a Sting or not.
That's just the way I see it. Everyone has became so soft and no longer knows how to play a game as a game. They live off it & strive to be #1 whether if it takes away others enjoyment.