I think the trees are dead to emphasize the "ruins" quality, hence the name of the mode.

unless they're being chased by hordes

Schrodinger's egg

the "/" breaks the string nothing to do with commands...

That's the special character code for a quotation mark. When a player gives a quotation mark to the script it messes with it since one of the parameters would be a string. My best guess would be a lack of error handling (fixable but still not that urgent).

Or have the chat bot mute them.

For future posts maybe organize your idea into sections rather than a block of text. Other than that great idea.

I agree with E%patriate. There is no balance in the current selection of weapons.

this is a very important matter.

4 clones + me + zoom = OP