[Tyhm]

While the players definitely contributed, unchecked player development is not condusive to a server's well being. The players all had the same demand - their quest had to give away a fullheart, or a more powerful sword. It had to be as close as possible to the start. It lead to a painful imbalance between the helpless newbies and everyone else, and the entire map was basically staplegunned together, no respect for level boundaries or anything - half a tree on one side, dirt on the other side, it looked like crap. What transitions there were were generally comprised of masking the problem rather than solving it - putting a bunch of lamps or tents over the problem area.