I didn't know about the behind-the-scenes bashing, but I can believe it. The cliquey-ness is what gets me, along with the overemphasis on shipping. Makes it extremely hard for a new player to get much traction. With a game that small, I know you can wind up in a circle-jerk death spiral, but good lord. The mod plays more than a dozen characters, a few other people have around eight or ten. They want more people, and more characters, but when you bar someone from applying for a character because you don't ship what the mod does, you're not really being a welcoming place.

They also seem to have a scary sort of hive mind when someone's having activity problems. They band together to drive them out of the game.