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Thinking about the problem of the gray text, which has been bothering me for a long time, I came to two conclusions:
1) Previously, everyone was in one chat, so communication could be conducted there.

By the way, here's about that point. In the last expedition, which took place in Dark Erathia, Ment and Heroist and I did exactly that. We created our own chat and discussed actions there so as not to slow things down. And when I played with other guys using voice chat, battles outside of the main campaign (maybe even with a slightly more complex system) were quite easily resolved in about an hour. But there, we played in sessions. And the campaign wasn't played as one continuous piece until the GM got tired; it was divided into modules.

2) More importantly than the first point, the approach to battles was generally simpler before; there was no need to use various MMO techniques with tanking, healing, and damage dealing. Everyone just ran forward, waving their swords and clicking on enemies. However, the increased difficulty of battles in the expedition forced people to resort to carefully describing and considering each move.

Another point played a role here, by the way. None of the players described each of their moves. They only described the overall battle strategy to the GM, and he implemented it. As far as I remember from my own experience as a GM, all the calculations and artistic text formatting (to the extent of my literary abilities, hehe) took from one to three hours, unless something happened during the battle that could make the players reconsider their approach and force them to issue a master post in the middle of the battle.

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When someone bans random people for fun, supposedly because they are clones of someone else, everyone turns a blind eye to it, because "it's not my problem, what do these no-names care about," but somehow they only wake up when it concerns them, their friends, or just regulars in the social section, which turns into a loud discussion about the validity of these actions.

Maybe I think that Tox wasn't banned for no reason, and half of the participants in the section should have earned a ban a long time ago. Maybe not just one.