It seems that I have communicated badly in this thread - I haven't explained my thoughts clearly enough, and that has led to a lot of misunderstanding.
I apologise for offending anyone, but my intentions were good. I came into this under the impression that the current XE staff were 1) essentially non-existent and 2) had failed in keeping the server alive. I can see that point 1 was misjudged, although all evidence points towards 2 still being true (despite the other causes of the server dying, if they were so great then there would be no alternative servers alive today). My solutions to point 2 were designed to challenge the system that I perceive to have led to the failure of the server, not to challenge any of the individuals who made up/make up that system. I did not wish to upset or betray anyone here.
I could answer all of the questions posed in the above posts, and I do feel that I have good answers for all of them. However, one thing has become clear to me, and that's that (history aside) Aki and I have different methods of communicating and decision-making, and that a collaboration between the two of us would be very difficult. This is not his fault, and it's not my fault, we just operate differently.
Like I said at the end of my last post, this isn't fun anymore. I didn't wish for this to cause drama, nor do I want to prolong the drama now that it has erupted. So I'm not gonna pursue this.
I would love XE to open again, and if the current XE staff with the help of Drake can do that, then I would be thrilled.
For now I'll stick to playing on EC which, despite not being as good as XE, is still a pretty good server.
Good luck guys, I genuinely hope you can make this work
P.s. Yes to Vice Legends