why did you stop playing?

I stopped playing because gaming takes too much time from me. And i need pause. Also ZK is so low player count.
Comunity toxicity isn't such problems for me. Some players are ragers and some are clowns. If somebody annoy me i have no problem say what i think about it.

GoogleFrog problem with clanwars was that there was not enough interest to have a rotating rooster of clans and in the end there would be nobody wanting to face GBC.

15 players limit? What do you mean?
First of all clanwars always had 3v3 format so that is 3 players per clan playing 3 games.
Second thing: one cannot just simply join GBC: our clan is closed to public and a new member must be invited into the clan in the first place. I don't exactly know how it works in MM but I haven't noticed and issues regarding clan switching during clanwars regardless.

i continued playing because rl allows me to do so again. the game is old but has awesome and unique features. surely it has bugs and quirks.

quote: quote: remove half the units in zero-k. How would that solve anything?

It could help clean up any [boring], [annoying], [funky] or [badly designed] units. This in return could make ZK less frustrating/tedious to play and more interesting as a game.

To clarify: I'm not saying all these concepts should be removed forever or that ZK should become dull, without any interesting units (I rather want the opposite). Some (esp. the "funky" ones) can probably be brought back in a new form after being made less quirky, potentially more "consistently usable" and more fun to use and play against.

quote: Of course you idea about half unit remove is absurd.

The idea is definitely not absurd. After all, removing half the units is how CA and later ZK were born. (context: CA had a very large number of BA units removed, ZK had a very large number of CA units removed)

I think you malign porc, Wolverine, Dirtbag, Racketeer, Archer, Placeholder and Buoy.

Moderator is pretty poorly designed and Domi is pretty dodgy. Venom... eh, idk what I think about that unit.

Root problem - inadequate administration (including devs that do bullshitty balance change, especially towards cannon fodder). [And it is not only about ZK... this happened in many things in real world...]

Such things were already described before me many times, so i am not providing an examples...

I play now only from time to time, and cannot have serious attitude to ZK...

quote: Could you elaborate?

1. let's make anti nuke intercept ANY nuke that flies somewhere in the stratosphere above the anti
2. in the sense of n1 let's leave reef anti-nuke intact, now you can move the reef and intercept almost ANY nuke targeted to the sea wherever you like... just 1 reef required
3. let's increase nuke price
4. let's make pointless unit renames to bring the confusion and forbid team communication
5. let's make funnel/detriment an useless pile of metal not worth even half the price
6. let's make heavy units un-trasportable, because they are flying slower than detriment is walking. This makes so much sense
7. let's share metal from OD to everyone equally, lobsters need some too
8. let's remove private income from coms/cons/labs/caretakers. Especially OP if you get 2-3 coms - no private income, more stuff to micro/macro, you can resign
9. let's turn an RTS into RPG shit, with 99 levels of com morphs. Especially OP when lobsters start to use it, because 95% of all possible com builds are utter trash
I can go on...

1-3 brings stalemates to new levels, 5-6 helps in the process cuz now u need to rush a DRP/meteor/starlight(huh) in clusterfuck games to bring an end it
7-8 makes it having little sense to make any eco at all
9 is just lulz

I only want to elaborate Firepluk comment:
"perform bugfixes only ^^"
and
"8. let's remove private income from coms/cons/labs/caretakers. Especially OP if you get 2-3 coms - no private income, more stuff to micro/macro, you can resign"

I noticed that some changes actually make things much worse. For example, sharing commander income broke odd teams balance, now 11 months old issue that was never fixed: http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/19720

Game changes are often issued based on emotions not real usefulness or value of unit. Let's take example:
- eco was rewarded, later partly. Everybody envies eco guy, he makes big unit later. Eco nerfed, all shared, nobody with above average elo in team games can make eco anymore, because it simply doesnt make cost/sense.
- cons are private income. Nobody cares for long time. Firepluk starts to use them for private eco (singu changed see above), haters hate him and suddenly con eco shared, including commander.
- above change completely breaks odd team balance. Nobody cares for a year.
- funnel is nerfed. It doesnt make cost. But it's so cool, people make it often. So it's nerfed again. And again. Now we lost cool unit, it's utterly useless.
- Firepluk makes often nuke in large teams. He manages to micro silo, scythe, spy, etc. to stun or kill antinuke. He wins some games thanks to this. some envy and hate, nuke gets nerfed, antinuke buffed big time (intercepts anywhere). Now nuke not useful in most big team games.
- Detri used to be good, finishing off unit (it costs a lot). For reputation of amazing unit, some lobsters rush it often. It gets nerfed. It's utterly useless now. Bantha kills it. Ultimatum works vs it. Ultimatum doesn't work vs bantha for long time, weird bug that nobody cares (for years?).

Firepluk confirmed Testo smurf? :P
None of your points elaborate on what "especially towards cannon fodder" is supposed to mean.