Instead of a "wipe now" tread every week, there should be a "praise the devs" tread every day!
Devs work voluntarily on that game (i bet none of the "wipe now" guys do anything voluntarily),
that means they dont get a cent out of it. They should get 1 cent for every whine tread and become millionairs!
Still, i get the point of these treads, as to some it may look like there is noone at all working on the game.
If you want to be informed about the progress, you search for information all across the board.
For example there is alot of new stuff shown in the 3d development area, Solar and other guys sometimes
mention their ideas in different treads and so on.
Maybe the devs could do something like a preview tread in the news section. Just a list of upcoming stuff,
a few examples of the 3d armors and weapons and general words about the progress, all in 1 place.
Players could check, and actually see some of the upcoming stuff. Maybe that makes waiting for updates and wipes easier,
as people will see where the game is going, and how it will look like