I hate having to make a post like this, but....... I'm a Long time backer, 14 years, supporter, org member and leader, used to cover things like daymar rally in the early days on my youtube...... we have dealt with a lot in the dev of this game: bugs, production delays and nightmares, continued delays of features and ships and we are all still here. we see a future for S42 and SC, THE possibilities and fun had and people met have been worth it, with that being said... Just about done sinking time, effort, money into building and trying to support this project....literally the state of the game is going from bad to worse... Its always an evolving process as we are all aware however its taken a noticeable and sustained trend of spiraling downward again(remember the 3.0 days) The cycle of EVO, PTU ,LIVE seems to be failing bad or deliberately ignored to push patches. Until a patch in EVO or PTU meets certain metrics and stability it SHOULD NEVER TOUCH THE LIVE ENVIORMENT!!!!!!! A new patch should never make the LIVE environment a worse or degraded state and experience for the players than the last, that's why EVO and PTU exist, unless I'm greatly missing something??!? When you push patches and fixes like this it ruins your game. I'm loosing armor after a respawn linked to my character, waking up naked after a respawn with zero gear twice in a row btw is insane to me after 13hrs of server maintenance yesterday, which also forced a large multi org event we were scheduled to do medical support for to abruptly cancel.... Basic and simple gameplay mechanics are in such a state i don't even know where or what to focus on, or even what's broken bugged or non functional during a patch. Seems to be little to no honest communication from cig other than the usual....what is the deal....you want an mmo but cant even give me a solo experience... Running an org you have to teach and bring in new members. Its so difficult explaining the state of things to new members(some new players some old) on missions or gameplay with asterisks like "dont do that cause its bugged or broken" or " oh the mission bugged so the hour you had put into this missions was useless" teaching and training people like new players seems like a load of effort and baggage cig just throws at the existing community to deal with.... (im not even going to mention the frustration of me not being able to see active members in my party in mobiglass and trying to run an org lol.....) (Also not going to mention the absolute joy of planning and running ops with 0 social features or working org support 15 years into development, we've managed and thrived with out them) we don't need new ships, we need the back logged of bugged and broken and outdated ships to be fully working and fixed...... I don't know how you(cig) envision your game but you are greatly failing your dedicated community..... So disappointed in the community managing, I used to be a consistent subscriber to support the extended youtube and video content lor emakers,bug smashers, etc....and now its so edited, falsely showing off ships, missions and gameplay/ state of the game and borderline feels like corporate slop that doesn't expand the lore, excitement, or do things like teach gameplay or mechanics.... the amount of gaslighting by cig, and lack of transparency when you beg us to test and play these patches in ptu and beyond... you beg us to teach and train new players because the tutorials in game are bugged or non existent for some things....you beg us to support and buy X,Y,Z ship because it will let you do and experience X,Y, or Z....i have not given any money since i have started to see these trends and short comings begin to over take real progress and community development. People don't know if things in your game are broken, bugs, intentional mechanics, features, something not in game yet, or broken in a patch. How do you expect any player playing or learning the game new or old to subject themselves to that and not get frustrated? You either want the community as a part of your game/dev or c.i.g you need to stop having a two faced approach to how you manage and maintain the only thing that's allowed you to keep the lights on. the dangling of content, ship, sales, and hap hazard half baked un tested and broken things, like ships, missions, and bugs in place of actual stability with the existing scope of the game.... CIG should be embarrassed and ashamed about this year so far.... there has been no real effort to go and fix existing long term bugged missions or content....what are we as the community supposed to do.......?????? PLEASE TAKE A STEP BACK AND REORGANIZE YOUR PRIORITES CIG!