[James2k2]

Originally posted by Tyhm


Details. You people are just hell bent never to admit it's not the levels nor the lack of NPCs you miss, but your own freshness. I am never going to make a Graal in precisely the version when everything was perfect because no such version exists - for proof, try and get a unanimous decision on when that was. They'll all say it was before Tyhm, sure, but not WHEN before Tyhm. Before or after Pachuka? Onett? Olorin? GOPD?

This server is, if nothing else, definitely Before. Before what? That's less clear, but it's Before a lot of things. Before anything anyone ever *****ed to Tyhm about for one.
People flocked to the illegal 139 servers because they weren't welcome here. As a result a lot of these 139ers went down pretty fast as memory holds, often even before GraalOnline became aware of them. Mafukie, as I recall, was sickened by how many people assumed Not Graalonline meant Hack All You Want.

Don't like the chaos? Fine, you don't have to. There's a version of this server where all the bugs are fixed, all the tiling errors repaired, all the copyrights removed and a permanent staff. It's called Graal: The Adventure. Don't give me crap about how there's a third solution to this dillema, neither the horn of 1998 nor the horn of The Adventure. I know what you want; you want a server JUST like Classic along some point in its evolution, often shortly after you joined, but with you in charge of what gets torn out and what stays. If you can get 20 or so people who agree with you 100% and don't mind chipping in a few bucks every month, come back and I'll give you these levels (Unixmad permitting) to host your own damn server the way you think it should be run.

But as we live in a world of divergent ideas in an expanding universe, I find it highly unlikely certain details will ever find a true consensus. Only in generality is there agreement, and so we have two General Ideas: 1998, and "Classic".

We miss the levels and NPCs, but most of the people asked for v1.27 levels, not v1.1. And of course with staff and rules, and all the old systems that have been changed since. Also, the way you treat the old players caused many to quit Graal or play illegal servers.