Is the server still that unbalanced, where you need to have the best items to genuinely have fun...?

not enough moderators ?? boi?????

True moderators are never in game only on forums, they log on for 2 minutes to reset their timer on /staff, the point of being moderator is to be active in game too

Let me rephrase- Too many hackers, not enough active moderators.
It's almost pointless to hire a ton of mods if they're all just going to be inactive. Now I understand that moderators have lives too (School, work, family and friends, etc), so I shouldn't be too insensitive about it. But they sign up for this job to moderate both forums AND ingame.

Yep I agree everything else is excuses and more reasons that they shouldn't have the position, I find it funny how no staff member is ever demoted for inactivity(in game) because no Admin+ is active to witness it.

Yep, which is why we should stop playing Minecraft and play good games, like Skyrim. ;)