Oi, nutter! Classic has been discontinued!

[The_Messenger]

Originally Posted by xAndrewx

explore Era and Zodiac on a trial. You're limited to a lot of things.

Nowhere near as much compared to Classic restricting trials to below the bridge.

Originally Posted by xAndrewx

As I said, add stuff BELOW the bridge to make them want to upgrade.

If the story plot for Classic was interesting enough, I'd upgrade. Ask yourself, is the plot up to crossing the bridge interesting? If not, add something which will want you to upgrade.

Lets just put this into perspective, stopping trials from going North of the bridge would:

• Prevent trials from playing all of the quests. Obtaining the sword is a essentially a couple minute long errand which isn't considered to be a quest. This would also prevent trials from obtaining Bombs and the 4th heart (a 2 hit disadvantage when PKing on the overworld, plus those who obtained Beer can heal)
• Prevent trials from being able to obtain the shield, and therefore remove one of the ways to customise appearance.
• Prevent trials from reaching the GC Studios. This conflicts with one of the main reasons observer mode should be removed in the first place. We could have let trials join through the event warper then find a way to warp them to below the bridge afterwards, but that would be a bit silly.
• Prevent trials from reaching SuperNicks Arena
• Prevent trials from reaching the main area players have always congregated in.

The only significant thing you can do from below the bridge is obtain Trading Cards, which as a multi-player minigame is somewhat hindered when you're closed away from where most players have always congregated.

The vast majority of the planned content for Graal City was situated above the bridge. The reason for this is quite simply because the northern section is the iconic area of the server, whereas the southern section has always been relatively baron of substance.