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You think the current players would just be okay with us taking all their guns/weapons away to implement a system like that?

Not a snowball's chance in hell.

That idea would require a full reset which seems completely impossible at this point. (unfortunately), and I would honestly love to play that version of Era myself.

We should focus on the current state of Era and it's playercount. I think there is a big misconception for a lot of people who post on these forums.
If we continue to make the game more and more exclusive by only tending to the older players (how it's always been) then the playercount will continue to deteriorate.

There's completely no chance of survival for ANY new players nowadays. The gap is far too wide, unless we add simplicity for newer players to get themselves started.