Well, Goon had the whole "NATZEES!" in 2016 though.... The Trump election really broke people.
It "did" bring in people who thought the game should be played a certain way. That's not unique to Sseth though
Baystastion is a great example of this. It's run by a bunch of hoity-toity Bongfags who act like Britain still matters and run it like a god damned parliament (Nothing gets done). FFS, they voted in a headmin who hadn't played in 5 years before.
Yeah, that's kind of why I feel like the social hemisphere of SS13 started changing for the worst much earlier than just 2 years ago. Goon started cracking down harder, and that seemed to lead to /tg/ starting to tighten up its rules, not to mention Hippie dying out and all these other servers popping up, and the "fresh intercommunity drama on a monthly basis" trend started happening around that time as well.
I seem to remember 2012 Goon being pretty good. The thing that plague the HRP (even MRP) communities are meta-cliques that form. That and underaged people in the 18+ servers (not an issue unique to SS13 though, I think a lot of the ERP forums/communities would have that issue but I never joined any). I hate this new ideological world, I just wanted to have fun and than get murdered violently by a changeling or something.
It's not as good as you think it is simply because it's less "developed". The dev did a really good job tying lore and gameplay together, but it's not as "feature" rich like tg/goon/bay. The only thing separating most of those servers is the admin direction though (goon is an exception), it's a great change of pace when the GPL mafia comes and tries to rape your ass for a fucking free game.
There is a new "Hippie" that was run by the parts of the admin team after they pushed out the host and he DFE'd his stuff (I think there was groomin/ SA allegations thrown out too). I'm not to clear on the drama but basically he got forced out for wrongthink iirc.
Admiral hippie offed himself after multiple failed attempts previously. The current individuals running the show seem to be both based and have a far better grasp of things then when a woman was the host. Having played a few rounds, its pretty good when the population spins up and the server should properly relaunch on the hub soonish.
Goons have fallen so far from what they once were. I remember their old wiki "hall of shame" lol.
woman ran the server instead of hippie, it died. A story about cause and effect.
I heard on the grape vine that Admiral Hippie actually trooned out, which wouldn't be surprising at all since it was foreshadowed a shit ton on his twitter before he deleted it.
The Goon of a decade ago makes the Goon of now look like comparing a $30 steak dinner to a $2 Burger King hamburger.
Null's server I don't think so. Lot more players in general today but it's not as "good"* as the glory days of getting your shit beat in because you had flasher while screaming shitcurity and nigger everywhere.
