I read this on the patch notes, had to laugh
General
Disabled functionality of certain hidden, unsupported commands (like respecpowertrees) that could irreparably break characters. Note to users Dont run hidden commands that you find in binary searches or on the forums!
Romulan "Empire Defense" missions and maps are now open to Klingon players.
Various translation updates.
Server stability improvements.
Speaks for itself really, Cryptic are having to spend to much time fixing the game to stop the forum trolls and hackers messing around with it and clearly not enough time fixing known MAJOR issues... like fleet permissions...
Comments
By "MAJOR issues" you, of course, mean the issues that are important to you specifically.
Their priorities != your priorities.
Their list of priorities are a combination of what affects the most people and what can be done the quickest. Heck, they could have their dev team split with half covering quick things and the other covering more complex things.
They have finite resources and can only fix things so quick. I don't understand why people feel they can fix things just by snapping their fingers...
Well.....they kind of have to fix that. And the hackers as you call them etc. didnt MAKE the game. And if the game was made by Cryptic with these sorts of hacks and commands possible perhaps the responsibility resides with them to eliminate these problems.
Im not defending those who mess around with command codes. They'll likely end up hurting themselves in the end. But it sounds like a serious issue to me. These sort of things shouldnt have been there in the first place.
I am sorry but those are also major issues and serious ones compared to server instability.