Conundrum indeed!

The thing with EoFF is that their willingness to accept new members comes and goes in waves. There's a certain type of newbie they enjoy. They welcome all newbies, but if a newbie doesn't kiss the ass of at least one or more 'popular' member, at some point they're going to stop acknowledging that newbie. I can't tell you the number of threads in general chat or eyes on each other where it's the same 6-10 members chatting with each other ignoring any input from a member not of their clique. That's not to say that I hate EoFF, because that's far from the truth. That website got me through some of my toughest Final Fantasy moments and gave me an outlet as a growing teen and young adult.

I can absolutely wrap my head around the oldbie's feeling like someone is trying to come in and change what they perceive as a good thing, but more activity and new members is always a great thing to have. I don't want to give the idea that forcing oldbie's to accept changes to what they've become accustomed too (outside of the obvious more activity that I've been hankering for).

Also, if I can manage to come through with some front site news additions I'll be sure to push them your way.

Even more also, I'll take a look at your thread. C: