Right, where can i begin to cite what is wrong with this post.
SuperMechs has multiple servers dependant on where you are in the game: campaign, raid, arena, main menu etc.
In these servers there's also more servers.
Player base is really not going down at all, quite the opposite, it's been growing and growing ever since Gato bought out SM from Tacticsoft.
"Targeting" doesn't really exist in lower ranks, people that play for longer will, naturally, have the upper hand in having more playtime which leads to better upgraded weapons.
Gato's been busy with the development of BattleDawn 2, and an ene buff/revamp is planned after it's release.
God Mode has been the biggest balancing problem in legacy, despite being nerfed SIX times, was still meta all throughout legacy until reloaded.
Achievements are a 1 time claim. And the battle pass already kind of exists in the form of the token pass for 4.99$.
Even if buying specific items WAS added to the game, you wouldn't be able to buy legendary-mythic items, the equivalent of mythics in legacy, which you weren't able to buy.
All of these are really accessible resources.
Coins through OD8, xp through OD6, and tokens through all of these : Ads, daily quests, special quests, raid, portals.
People can choose to disable base via the forum application, which will take a few weeks/months since the staff team disables bases in batches, not one at a time.
Game is already very successfull with it having dozens of investors, on the financial company site. The community does help the developer (Alex is the only one working on SM, mind you), take for example Raul, Marija or even Elcent who were just like everyone normal SM players, and become administrators on SM.
You see, you would know all of these things if you would be in the discord server where everyone chats and helps, but instead there's tons and tons and tons of the same old "HURRR DURR GAME DEAD XDDDDDD DEVELOPER BAD". Alexander also participates and chats a ton.
The game is constantly being updated server-side and back end, during TS era there were dozens of maintenances and server outages, with gato these became very rare.
And as i previously stated, BD2 is pretty much complete and is in beta from what i heard, so in a few months SM will get more attention.
TL;DR : game not dead lol it has over a million unique monthly logins