Also, thats another thing too. Think about it, when did you want to staff in the zones? When did you wanna make your own zone and get on SSC, and do all that crap? When did you have a bunch of free time, had nothing better to do than to retile a map for 12 hours? Answer: When you were younger. Though its not entirely the answer, think about it. When did you have so much time on your hands, unemployed, no responsibilities? When we were all younger. Everyone that did something for development (coding bots, making maps, hosting zones, doing gfx), were the main people that everyone ran to. Ask yourself, who would you go to if you needed a map? First name pops into my head is Anaconda/Legas. Bots? Explody/k0zy/zim/dustpuppy/catid/etc. Graphics? Thunderjam, T4, WS. The problem is, everyone used to run to those people to ask for development. Now that most of them are gone/dont care about this game/dont have enough time anymore, theres nobody really to run to. Nobody stepped up and took their place. Back in the day, how many new zones were there? Fucking popping up like crazy out of nowhere every 5 minutes. And when the zone owners would make a zone, they needed pop, all their SS friends checked it out and went back to their home zones, so they invited their other non-ss friends. Thats how new pop was made. Well, not entirely, but a portion of it. Now, a person wants to make a zone, and 95% of the time, all the new zones will be depended on a bot. The person runs to everyone, asks for the bot to be made, cant get it made, dont want to learn how to code it themselves, and the zone either is opened half-assed and dies, or it doesnt even get started. Again, these arent the main reasons, but, -they are- reasons. Theres no new generation of developers. Name the people who make bots/maps/setts/host/code. Now, how many of them have been playing SS for less than 2 years? ... Something to think about.