new anon. I completely agree with this anon. Aather is a small game; I apped into it as a small game and I want it to remain a small game. I would absolutely love to play with new people in Aather as the game exists now, but I don't want to change the game enough to facilitate extra-fast movement through the app pool. It's not exclusivity in any sense, it's wanting the nature of the game to remain more or less where it's at a manageable level for everyone playing and modding right now.

The mods could have closed apps a long time ago and I would have thought that was a reasonable decision. They chose to continue accepting apps with the caveat that you might wait months to get your character into the game. People app knowing this. I don't think anything is wrong with that except that it seems to be creating the expectation that Aather should change to the number of apps rather than the number of apps allowed changing to suit Aather.