If the SDE team has to actually sit down and discuss how they are going to deal with the decay of the player base/NF community, the manager should be fired, immediately. If that employee is busy managing funeral arrangment for this game they are seriously deficient. As for the rest of the team they should be bubbling forth with ways to validate their paychecks with game growing ideas.
Far more dedication and work is produced from volenteers than actual paid employees here. The only product the SDE team has put forth lately are re-hashed money-grabs which they label as "events".
In my opinion this game should(should have been) be part of international tournaments, just like S***Craft and Counter-S*****. The genre has that kind of capability.
Unfortunately, it appears that some f***-up relative of someone at SDE needed a job and landed himself a paycheck being in charge of Navyfield.
You want good positive change for this game? Pray it gets bought and that the new owners clean house. Thats the only real solution to this stagnant managment.
I couldn't even make it through the last week of this last event before I went to play a f2p MMO that never crashes, uses half the ram this game does, has a bustling community, regular well thought-out events and new content, and good customer support. Its derived from a story by an author named Tolkien.