I feel that the more considerate plan would have been just closing an island. We all were expecting that, as it had been talked over before. This glacier/monster event was never talked about beforehand. We didn't have time to prepare for it, and it affects one set of people on a continent more than another, creating OOC tensions that need not be there.
Yes, and I'd heard a great deal of that talk. A
lot of people were saying, "Well, if X island gets closed down, I'll just leave the game."
And closing an island affects one set of people more than another, too: they just happen to be people on this continent vs that continent.
In any case, we've been over this ground before, many times. We're just going to have to agree to disagree, because I'm still 100% convinced that this is a better option than closing a continent outright.
