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Nah.
We had a vote a while ago on Which version of Old Classic is the definitive Old Classic?, and 1.1 won. The fact that now, seeing a 1.1 server, everyone's changing their vote to this fictional 1.27 pack just goes to the "People are intentionally disagreeable" thing. If there was a 1.27 pack, as I've been told it would be in fact 1.1 - there were no versions between 1.0 and 1.28, Stefan made that leap as an homage to binary or something. 1.1 was an update to the 1.0 pack (in fact the 1.1 pack was far from complete), so 1.27 would be defined as the pack which came out immediately before 1.28 - or the 1.1 update pack.
Someday, after G1998 has bit the dust, when oldbies continue to gripe that Tyhm doesn't love them and that it was all Tyhm's fault G1998 sucked and not at all theirs for standing at the entrance with the L20 sword, or somehow the fault of those damn newbies, there will rise a new project to remake "1.27". It may even get Unixmad's approval, and its own port though likely a communally sponsored pay-host port for legal reasons. When and if that day comes, I'll let them have the batchers and files and graphics and NPCs from 1.1 to bring back the Yoshi Heads and the Lollypop Trees and so forth - but it will not stay 1.27 for long. One or more of the staffers will get a bug up their respective rectum to Change things, to Fix things, to Make things Better, and they'll start tacking on their quests...then removing stuff from other quests....then adding more complex NPCs....then the ubiquitous Boomerang Except That This One Damages...then the Weapon That Places Explosions Creatively...soon it won't be "1.27" anymore, but a parallel Classic, every bit as corrupted as the one you have now but worse off for not being as developed as Graal: The Adventure. And then a rift will develop between the party who wants to keep Improving their server and the party who doesn't think it's "Classic" anymore, and then a new "Real Authentic 127!" server will open, which will either be as authentic and therefore as doomed as G1998, or which will just become yet another twisted clone of Classic, with an admin temporarily pleased that he made things just the way they always should have been...
Then all these Classics will realize they're competing for the attention of the same very small sector of oldbies, and they'll begin campaigning to get the other Classics shut down for being inferior copies. They may even succeed, and in the end there will be only one Classic remaining, and possibly not the best one after all but the one whose staff fought dirtiest.
And time will pass.
And then someone will say it isn't very Classiclike.
I say this because I know; I say this because I have seen the cycle before. This is the prophecy of Nostratyhmus, ignore it at your peril. You cannot have an authentic classic server except with everything fixed the way you think it should be fixed; it is an oxy*****. An authentic improved replica. |