Bring back Classic levels and hit detection?

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History Lesson

1. Server revivals have historically failed. Many have tried, a few oldbies have returned to help, they realize they have to replace everything and don't have instant gratification, they leave.

2.Classic has had popularity vote changes on several occasions. Once the changes are made, players don't feel it lives up to their expectations, they start threads like this all over again.

3. NPC server shutdown vs. globals: Look around, tell me if you find a single server that does not have an NPC server. They are an absolute requirement and you get no choice in the matter so you might as well stop asking for it to be removed, its not going to happen.

4. Lazy staff: If I hear that one more time I think I'm gonna castrate someone. Each of the replaced dev admins has tried to use their vision to please the players, both oldie and new. They have hired a team they can work with and is productive. The moment a player see's one of them doing something for fun rather than being crouched over their keyboard working non stop. The entire team is called lazy. If players don't see results within 2 days of a change, they are all considered lazy. If a player doesn't like a member of the staff team, the entire team sucks.

5. I'm in a position to bring about positive change: Oh really? Would any of you really be happy with anything I chose to do? No, you've already proven that in the past. Ideally it would be in Classic's best interests, from the development side, to go into dev phase only, redo everything from scratch to eliminate the complicated mess thats developed over the years. This however is not in the best interests of the players though. The server goes invisible. people get nostalgic over their particular version of Classic's past and when the server is visible again they come back here and complain that Classic was ruined again.

6. Classic is boring and the updates released are stupid: I remember rants about wanting bowling back, weapons, cards, new events, minigames and quests. The moment they are released there is a rant because something isn't perfect or is dumb, too hard, too easy, or boring. Do you honestly think any development team is going to wish to continue working when the players show no appreciation for anything they do?

7. People like to blame Storm and now Storm and Thor for everything thats happened. Yes, Storm is manager and in the end it is his fault whether the server wins or fails. But he also cannot force every dev admin to do exactly as he says all the time. Sure, he can fire them if they don't but then where are you? Back at square one...again.

8. Classic is about change regardless of what you think at the moment Contego. If Classic had never changed there wouldn't of been the pyramid quest, Tyhms quest and many other updates that had been made throughout time. Classic should be representing Graal and what its scripting engine has to offer. It would be stuck back in v 1.28 or whatever while the rest of the world passed it by.

I haven't abandoned Classic, although I have been told to get out by a player or two. I may not be there every day, all day like I was but I am still fully aware of most things that happen there. I'm not going to micromanage though. Whats the point in me telling them how to do their jobs and when. If thats the case I might as well just fire them all and do it all myself. Oh wait, can't do that. I don't know how to script.