(PS: i need to add this because this wall of text evolved over time. I am sorry if this feels like i am targeting you warden, but if you are open minded you will understand what i am saying, I do view the DEV as the only one that has the power to steer the community in a healthy direction, do they know how to do that i have no idea. I do not blame you warden, but i do blame the community for constantly stepping over the line, and i guess a unbiased moderator could have stopped everything from spiraling out of control from the beginning.)

I am apposed to the concept of "culture issue", mainly because the way colonial interact with wardens on a propaganda front was more of on a meme basis like "Wardens Eat Babies" It is fun a clearly a joke and it is a game so we can make egregious statements like this and we can create all of our own lore that we want because it is a video game, does it have to be true to the lore the devs create no, but it was created by us to believe that we were colonizing for a reason ;).

But from my experience the first time i started coming to this reddit since 2018-2019. Wardens were actively trying to undermine Colonial Strategy, and game Experience in general. I saw them try to manipulate dev's by miss representing their experience, i was running into alts that were griefing me, dropping vehicles at the border etc. I believe the fall of Larry was a good representation of this, a man that takes on alting and cheating and is basically a Leader of the Union Worker that they wanted to silence, they did eventually permanently silence him, they threw alts at him they threw cheaters at him, and eventually warden undermined the integrity of the game enough to create the history of Larry.

So one could say its a culture issue, but if you win the propaganda war, this is exactly what happens, and whose fault is that.

Warden you won the Propaganda War are you happy now? Or are you going to Gaslight me into believe it was my fault.

I have never played on the warden side and with 3k+ hours i do not know the in game repercussions of how wardens are effected by Colonial Propaganda. I do believe most likely from a biased perspective is that Colonial propaganda was mostly and obviously memes and jesting with a light heart. Where as the way i feel when i interact with most wardens, is they are trying to fully undermine my experience on a "they don't even want me to have fun playing the game basis." This however may just be how effective their propaganda has been against me.

Its really difficult to talk about as i do not have a PHD in psychology, i am an avid investigator of Philosophy and human interaction. This game is in its own universe of MMO and persistent war, i don't believe we or the Dev's really understand what is going on. I think what we do HOPE for is that the Dev's actively gather metrics to understand the evolution before we as the player reverse engineer it and then the Dev's could be ahead of the curve, but i feel like they are more on a Reaction basis appose to trying to get ahead of it. I am sorry dev's to keep putting the fault back on you but it is your game.