DocAN: I'm not disagreeing with you but i did get a laugh when you say TLA is better but your signature says TLA is OFFLINE and 2238 has 64 players lol.
The updates have been excellent ever since i started almost 2 years ago. The player migration to TLA2 is not because 2238 "has gotten worse" since 2238 has in fact gotten only better. The two servers are apparently run differently. For example, i hear the Russians don't micromanage much in TLA; they allow stuff that 2238 limits. This might be perceived as harsh. It's not. It's just different, and preferred by some hardcore players here. Also, not all 2238 players who quit went to TLA. Some came here hopeful, and were murdered over and over by the few players they met and determined the PK-to-nonPK ratio to be unreasonable, so they just quit.
On lack of quests: write some yourself! Get the dev tools, the mapper, the dialogue editor, and design some content for the game you spend so much time playing. Get help from a dev to get started and become a more serious contributor. But first step back and consider how immature it is to PLAY a game and COMPLAIN about it, but never actually ADD any code content yourself.
The real harshness here is not in the code at all. It's some of the players. But it's up to the game staff to fix that and i'm not one of them. (FYI: i am available for operation Troll-Purge if any mods want the help.)