It's become a popular thing to blame silla for the (death) of the server, even though it's doing fine.
Taking kidneys has absolutely no bearing on gameplay. You get it right back, and you're guaranteed not to be killed. There's at least 15 gangs on this server that sexually harass, and scream the N word at you every time you're in cuffs. There's gangs that dead ass mass rdm new players because they know they don't record. There's gangs that dead ass hack, and rob new players of peach runs.
I love watching so many players mad about their numbers whine that silla is somehow the death of the server, because when it comes to toxicity, they're pretty low, and frankly one of the best gangs to meet off the bat. So they take a kidney, and help you get your kidney back. Most gangs would just kill everyone without mercy, and half the people they mess with are kavala rdmers that don't bother reading the rules, and end up getting recruited into silla anyways.
What bothers me more is admins going after silla like they're some kind of a bane for existing. Admins should be decidedly, far far more neutral with silla then they seem to be.
There is no death of the server. It's managed to survive servers two and three being cut down and all the players we lost from that. It's still much higher pop than basically anyone predicted it would be at this point.
Look at all the shit silla actually does for the server:
Donates For Uniforms
Helps acclamate new players to the rules
Gives new players a gang to join
Keeps the cops entertained (probably one of the main reasons so many cops are online on standby)
I, and most relatively newcomers in the last year or so, started off dealing with gangs far far far far worse than silla. I could show videos of the first times I got robbed that make silla seem like a "welcome to the neighborhood" party, complete with giftbaskets.
In my opinion, they're being used as a scapegoat because they're big, and the only true zerg gang left on oly.
What damages new players on oly is something far more obvious. Most of them believe there are no mods or admins so the rules aren't real. You can argue with these kids all day but they will say "I've been killing people for a week and haven't been banned." Then when the tickets finally catch up to them, they catch a 7 day on their first ban because tickets piled up for 2 weeks and got done all at once. If they had actually gotten banned within a day of their first rdm, they could have corrected their behavior right off the bat, and that player wouldn't be nearly as discouraged.
Silla is stuck in a city full of noobs that think admins/mods are a myth, and that tickets don't really exist, and they make the best of it, and they manage to do so without being toxic, and having to deal with the same people rdming them on a daily basis for weeks before they get banned.
/endrant