It's hard to explain how good the old Zone was unless you were actually there. But you noobies have to trust us on this one, it was incredible fun. Notice how all the 'oldbies' agree with each other? Anyone who played back during that time cannot really find fault with how things were compared to todays standards. The main difference between then and now was that on today's Zone, people are focussed on getting tons of kills to look cool in front of their friends. This is probably because people have gone power mad with their unbalanced weapons.
However, during the old Zone everyone was focussed on having a good time. We would make up fun games (E.g. Me and RealDDC would try to get on the gravitron list, purely because it was the worst weapon in the game. We used crossbows to poison people and then ganged up on them with our gravitrons), piss our friends off just to see their reactions (Steal someone's huge bounty by PMing them, telling them that you sent them a PM, and then piping them. The PM would usually say "By the time you read this I will have taken your bounty"), just hang around at base 4 and do tons of guild-related stuff. We would have spars there to see if someone was talented enough to join a particular guild. Different guilds had different reputations and you felt honoured to be a part of them. The two key guilds were 'Hayashi' and 'Lost Souls'. Of course, I joined Hayashi because I know the superior guild when I see one.
