A couple of things that have come up from the Newsletter:-

1) NF Academy Event

Starts in 2 days; Why wasn't this announced sooner? Where is this promised communication? If they fully annouced it a week before, so many problems can be avoided (unlike last event) and it helps ease the support work for TNF during the event. There also needs to be a page on the website with FULL details of the event so people can prepare for it. Some nice idea's in the event itself, if they are done right. Can't really give a proper conclusion without full information, which hasn't been given. We were promised communication, with poor event communication being specified as an example in the FL meeting with Vick and Randy agreeing; Why isn't this being given?

2) "Our team has been working on integrating NF into Amazon's Free-to-play marketplace, providing a new fleet leader forum, and improving HA. Please stay tuned for news on these and other upcoming projects and developments".

As seen in this thread, we have been waiting for updates since December 1st. All we have been told is that it will come around mid feb (13th), and no new news. We have been begging for HA work done since it was originally taken out; It was input in October 2006 (I think, please can someone find the original date). It was also taken out for a year for "work" but nothing was done. The only thing done has been the new harbours (which was recent), which were bugged when implemented. Why has there been no work done on in HA since its release?

We have been without a fleet leader forum for 2 months approx, with no real updates. Why wasn't the old one kept in place with stricter more active moderation? 

You keep making the same promises, and breaking them.

Troll post removed. 

Is it just me or are we expecting way too much from SDE? Do we really believe this is a game worthy of allocating more time and effort into? I think there's a lot more going on then we realise. It's more than likely a fairly small blip on the radar.
A dying game is a dying game. People have moved onto newer better games.
Trying to fix all these problems seems pointless at this point. There's just too many to begin with.
Every month less and less people are playing. Even after the merge the decline has been rapid.
We can all point the finger at everyone else but quite simply the game is old.... outdated... unpopular... it goes on.

It's all rather sad to me as I do really enjoy playing Navyfail but I'm beginning to see why it's going the way it is.

This being said I do appreciate all the work you guys have and are doing to make this game better. It must be tough putting up with all our nagging. Keep it up! Who knows... I'd love to be proven wrong.

Some personal answers for you Lj:

Is it expecting too much for HA to have been worked on in 7 years?  **When it is set against competing priorities at a higher level then perhaps Yes.**

Is it expecting too much for the crashing issues to be fixed in 7 years?  **Significant improvements made on that**

Is it expecting too much to either create a new fleet leader forum or put in the old one that has been gone for 2 months?  **Yes, a portion of the Fleet Leaders ruined the old one and SDE drew a very hard line under it.  I have spent a lot of time convincing them to return any form of Fleet Leader area.  They have agreed, but it is not as high a priority as the Amazon piece.  We have advised this more than a couple of times now.**

Is it expecting too much to have the event clarified beforehand?**The NFNA plan was for the event to start later with more of a gap between the Newsletter and the event start date.  This was changed above NFNA.  It happens**

Is it expecting too much for the achievement system to be put in place when it was announced at the start of 2012? **Yes it is too much to expect as we have already answered it is not happening in this current game engine**.

 Is it expecting too much to have TNF/SDE communicate?  **We have been but as the above answers show you simply then try asking again in a different way**

Is it expecting too much to have TNF/SDE listen to the community?  **Numerous changes have been implemented through player suggestions and there is no reason why that will not continue**

Is it expecting too much to have a TNF written guide to TNF policy posted on the website that has already been approved by SDE?  **It will appear with the New Fleet Leader area as we have already said**

Is it expecting too much to have serial cheats banned and stay banned?  ** In the right circumstances and when SDE believe the lesson has been properly learnt such that a second chance is appropriate then it might well be too much to expect that.**

Is it expecting too much to have a public review on forum rules and server rules?  ** We said we will discuss this in the new Fleet Leader area and we will - again already answered**

Is it expecting too much to have community known updates when a rule is changed (unlike the ninja 3rd party forum rule?)  **That rule has existed since I have been a Moderator so 6 years at least**

Is it expecting too much to have moderators online ingame and on the forums? (Credit though, they are recruiting)  **I am here and generally available in-game between 80 and 100 hours a month.  The other Moderators are checked monthly for activity levels and appropriate action taken when the required standard is not being met.  Other Moderators also answer in the forums as and when required.  There is also the support ticket system for those times when a member of TeamNF is not instantly available**

Is it expecting too much to have TNF/SDE answering questions in threads like these, rather than ignoring them/leaving them to fester? Maybe a post saying "I don't know the answers so I've passed these on to the dev's" if they don't know. If they do know and can't say, say that. If they do know and can say, answer the damned questions. **Randy answers questions and provides updates when he has them**

Is it expecting too much for the dev's to answer questions rather than the usual "We have passed this on to the dev's" and then we hear nothing for years.  **Yes it is too much to expect**

Is it expecting too much to have proper support ticket answers and competant GM's? I had one GM completely flat out deny to a fleetmate of mine that his account had been archived for inactivity; as soon as another GM looked at it - Randy - it was sorted ASAP, and turns out the other one had been wrong. This is just one incident from many. **GMs suffer from the human condition the same as the rest of us.**

Is it expecting too much for SDE to have at least one GM online 24 hours a day (as long as a competant GM is online with a direct line to the dev's, obviously doesn't have to be the same person 24 hours a day)  **Yes that is way too much to expect**

Is it expecting too much for SDE to have a dev available 24 hours a day; as above  **Yes too much**

Is it expecting too much for SDE to be able to react to server crashes within the hour? **Depends when it happens, but certainly too much to expect that 24 hrs a day**

Is it expecting too much for there to be a clear avenue for appeals against Mod/GM decisions? There have been players that have been permabanned having not broken a rule or done anything wrong. **There is a clear appeals process**

Is it expecting