User blog comment:WolfgangBSC/The Random Chat Room/@comment-26778822-20161106221157/@comment-24882568-20161107170139

@Harmon - Never going to happen, just saying... It's not OUR FAULT that you can't keep up with the rest of the wiki, that is your own doing. The only reason this wiki has stayed together, to a degree, is because many of us have invested time in coming up with technology, making us want to stay, and continue along, progressing the technology to new heights. If you removed that technology progression, I can already tell you that at least 4 people(if said people remained active, of which one I'm thinking of doesn't) will probably leave the moment that technology progression was removed(or at the very least go inactive a lot). The ships aren't the thing keeping the people making that tech around, it's not the politics of BSCN, it's not the tanks, aircraft, and characters we've made(still play in, though), it's the joy of making that technology, albeit the upper end is now being restricted to a larger degree(it is larger, but more well defined, I think) with the revised RoE(Has anyone put it in yet?).

Harmon, if your idea was so brilliant, why has the wiki avoided the idea of reseting the entire thing, or it's largely ignored the side wiki's? Because of that time invested in technology. Not because we have made so many ships here that might not be used on another. Not because we like our technology(many of us can deal without, we've done it before and have to do it sometimes). It's because of the investment many of us having in this main wiki that nobody wants to join another, because of that lack of... Stuff done there. Anything not the main wiki is a distraction.

Nimitz, the people you are talking about are not the main people who play on this wiki. The main players are mostly juniors and seniors in high school right now. Tato is probably the one exception, having gotten finished with high school shortly after my first year of being on the wiki. Besides nutt, he's the only one who has passed high school who actively participates(or had, in the case of nutt) on the wiki to some degree. Anyone else in that range have already left us over a year ago, most in excess of that.

And as for getting fresh blood... I need to get around to making that unsigned ipa, but other than that, there isn't a whole lot to fix this sinking vessel. Bringing back old members is impossible at best unless they come back on their own accord, and getting new blood is also next to impossible unless they are in the fading circle of BSC players or at least have some grasp of how to not be an #$@, or something along those lines, who has WSC. Which is why I need to do the unsigned ipa and get someone to test if it works, if at all, and I won't be bothered to make that custom thing until I do that.

But beyond making that unsigned ipa and making it pop up with the hansa or SWC mod in them, this wiki is going to die sooner or later, wether by dark intention or design, or just this not being worth it any more to maintain. We are on a sinking cruise ship, and are trying to patch the hull of a steel ship with wood planks and ducktape. At some point, it's going to give in and water will continue to rush in as the population of the ship dwindles and some suicide off the side into the freezing cold water of life(IRL stuff, basically), or some other thing like that. This wiki is going to die, wether by natural causes interally of the RP or something new comes along which makes this wiki effectively obsolete, most of the options already known to us. The only reason this ship hasn't keeled over is, quite frankly, nobody has made anything better than Hansa 2.4 modded BSC in overall mix. Not even later hansa versions! If there had, this RP would almost immediately be deserted, with only a few leeches left who can't afford to switch.

That's the reality of this whole situation. This RP either dies by RP causes and ceases to exist in and of itself(it'll probably still exist, but everyone could leave, their minds and souls finally at peace...), a new game that is far superior or has much promise to be better than BSC, or our people lose interest in this wiki and it dies off unfinished, regardless of our efforts to try and make it good for new comers and all that non-sense, and how best we try and appease ourselves. That is the reality of this situation, and anyone who says differently(as in it will never die) doesn't know better or doesn't understand the whole story. The reason that the RoE thing was ever brought up or even implemented was to get the people of this wiki to stop with the continuous arguments. Put our minds to rest, knowing that this wiki might now have a chance at survival by trying to put a stop to the nigh-constant flame wars dancing around laws in the RoE. We haven't tried to make the roleplay better for new people, we've tried to make it better for the existing people on this wiki, for us, who are here now, not some newcomer that might come down the road some years later and find this relic, because doing something like that is idiotic at this point.

If we had wanted to administer damage control, we should have done it before I came to the general wiki, as that would have been the best time to plug the hole on the ship left by the gap of BSC not being on the app store. But that didn't happen, and what I'm going to be doing is futile at best. Sure, it will help, but this wiki will never again prosper as it had when I first joined. It simply isn't going to happen, and thinking it will is self-damning. We could even make it possible to make WSC have the hansa or SWC mod, but as it stands currently, this wiki will die, it's just a question of when, and what does it.

But regardless of if it dies or not, or when, or why, this wiki will be a legacy to our doings. We, as a community, and some late comers, came together and made this wiki, a haven for all our ships, creations, ideas, thoughts, dreams, and battles. All immortalized on these commment threads, the pages of navies, the RP rooms, the blogs. If this dies, it will be because we all moved on, in one way or another, maybe to lead our own things in society, for some of us. We all took part in making this wiki what it is today. The ship itself is sinking, may sink to the bottom of the ocean, may be saved, but it will always be a work of art, made by us.

And I think I've wasted too much time on this comment.

But is it worth it? I think so.