About recent events in the CC 'The server reset discussion'.

[connoiseur]

Nice thread, all tough i think i have missed some of these conversations in the CC making it a questionable thread to make. I know some individuals have made threads about it, you should take a look what the response on this was.

Seems to me that you just really want a reset, which is very unlikely to happen at this moment.

Relaunching the normal mode seems kind of logical, actually, and I have stated it should be reset for reasons other than the ones OP or other people have mentioned.

Normal mode originally started as a "bare-bones" type of mode, having no real identity in terms of how challenging it was and what the goals of the mode were.

Over time, normal mode evolved: the owner of the server added combat lamps for new players, made bonus exp more generous for the mode, and accelerated progress of new accounts over time. This is where the normal mode began to have an identity: an accelerated PK mode that was easy to make new account build for pure/zerk/mid pking.

However, it was too late already: the people who had played the original normal mode were excluded from the newer generous starter packs (lamps, cash, etc), and their gameplay experience was hindered because they were playing a different type of "normal mode" than what it was changed to every new update, and that's why they didn't come back.

Right now, the ironman + hardmore mode accounts are most popular, and normal mode is pretty much stagnant. This is why it'd be a good idea to balance the mode further to the "PK-style", meaning, make it even easier, and delete normal mode altogether, and replace it with "Accelerator/PK Mode". With a new mode being released, all the people who play the PK servers like OS-Scape would have a reason to come try out the newly added PK mode.

The 20 people playing normal mode are a small sacrifice to make, for the implications surrounding the introduction of an accelerator/pk mode, especially how most servers use that type of style for server design and it works (loco, OSS, dawntain, etc)