I really did not want to reply to all of this since this was a rant only. But why would you accuse me of making up stuff when your own arguments do not make any sense most of the time?
It seems you're just bringing up everything you can find now. Jp doesn't seem to be demotivated from playing at all despite "having everything". There are more things you can enjoy about the game than getting exp and items. Some of these things may not be as straightforward, but they exist. Droprates are fine and they're not that relevant to the amount of something that's in the game. Things that have more of an effect on that are the lack of pkers (which is the result of the sheer toxicity of the pking community) and the lack of item sinks. Players could organize some kind of fund together that gets spent on removing excess items. Players could also finally learn that going after rare drops is by far not the best moneymaking method and that would make the amount of them that enter the game plummet on it's own. These things don't require a reset.
JP was not the argument I used. It was his bank. But since you are using him in your favor, let me use him as well. He is the #1 ironman and he has unlocked most content already. I am sure one of his goals is/was to get every "good" item in this game. His other goal is to reach 2b total XP which he stated in his Ironman progress topic. He also mentioned he will update his progress even sooner, if he gets something interesting. What could it be? A conversation with Charr - the one and only? Getting hit by a shooting star? Because getting a unique item he does not own yet which could probably complete his collection is not what he meant for sure. The reason I and most other players created an ironman was to do something else than going for XP and items as well.
Drop rates are not that relevant to the amount of items that are ingame? Yes, and XP rates are not that relevant to how fast you get 99 in a skill either.
Lack of PKers in a server that focused on graphics, skills and PvM activity most of the time is your argumentation? Awesome ideas such as having quick prayers that would not only benefit pkers, but normal players as well were ignored for months and then you wonder why they are toxic and quit the game?
Item sinks? Yes, they were always needed and never really taken care of. Can't wait to see them getting implemented the way most of the updates did. Well done for pointing them out though.
But do not expect the remaining active players to change that when some of them are toxic pkers (according to you), ironmen and stakers. You really have much faith in the current player base, don't you? But I like that you think about sacrifying your own items (I hope you included yourself in that plan as well) for the sake of the server.
Putting all players on an equal level isn't necessary. I get that it's nice for those that are on the bottom right now, but there would just be a new bottom after some time post-reset. It wouldn't solve anything and it would punish those that have loyally played the game. We didn't have voting, refer a friend or loyalty in scape, we got big purely on people remaining active and showing the game to friends. I'm not saying that these systems don't help, I'm just saying they're not entirely necessary. We've actually had voting and suprise suprise, it didn't actually work out. A reset wouldn't be required for any of the things you've mentioned.
Who do you call the players at the bottom? Players with low total levels? Players without items? Or maybe players like myself who lost interest in the game for multiple reasons related to the content we have or have not? You must clearly mean players like me or players without items because most of the players who quit this game had relative high total levels. No wait, it must be players like me for sure because who would play this game for items and XP lol?
I know you are loyal. We all know that. I do not intend to hurt you or any other loyal player by taking something away you do not want to be taken away. But my goal is not to make you happy. It is to bring Emps-World back to its glory and as Someone12116 mentioned already, the players who left the game outweight the remaining players by far. It is natural to think about why they left and why the player count keeps going down even though updates are coming on a regular basis. This is something I was thinking about alot which led me to the conclusion that a reset with many other changes is needed.
I know we did not have alot advertising or anything else to keep players in Emps-Scape because it was not needed according to player count. Emps-World is also far from being like Emps-Scape and just because it is the same owner with the same remaining players, it does not mean the game is the same.
There are a ton of things the playerbase can do to solve the server's problems. People can work together to remove the excess supply of items, creating not only something to do but also improving the economy. If an update is bad people can be vocal about it and so long as there's enough logic and reason to that Thomy will listen. People lack faith and they honestly shouldn't let their faithlessness lead them.
Please tell us how you imagine players working on improving the economy. All I read is "can" and "something".
These problems were there for ages and yet, nothing happened.
If an update is bad you say? For me, 90% of the updates are bad, but who would listen to a single player who clearly has no clue about this game and does not play the game himself anymore when there are
200 100 50 players :pogchamp: , who get represented by the same 5-10 active members on forums, that like these updates. I would not be surprised if these 5-10 players were the last players playing this game before shutdown.
Playing the Thomy card is the worst thing you could possibly do. He will listen eventually, that's right. But not because he wants to. He is forced to listen because his server is going down.
Sorry, if I hurt your feelings, Charr. I did not intend to argue with you over a reset. It was a message to Thomy and as I mentioned before I do not wish to be a part of this community anymore, if nothing changes.
Have a nice day, sir.
