Favorite "Classic" Approach

[Naytria]

Graal 2000 was when GTA was made and the people who hated it had an older version that wasn't really as strict etc...

[Thallen]

I voted for Classic, just so it didn't look so bad.

[Sir Kwang]

i prefer the adventure.. im drunk so i have trouble formulating ideas at the moment.. but i just remember back then when loading graal it had that screen that said "graal the adventure" and it always made me happy hah

[Sir Kwang]

yaknow.. i'm not sure if i completely miss the way the server used to look and be back then.. or if i just miss all the people i used to always mingle with back then when it was all free and ****.. 200+ players all the time.. people always be whinin about how classic has changed and ****.. but i think it's more just the people and p2pness that makes people feel this way

[Felix_Xenophobe]

gta. i always liked getting the women into my car, pay up, cuddle, BEAT THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF THEM AND TAKE MY MONEY BACK

[Elk]

GTA + 2k

I vote Gaia with its 400 players lelelel.

[Codein]

GTA ftw

[Elizabeth]

i dont know what any of them look like, so i picked classic

[Loriel]

My favourite approach to classic is the one that does not overload random keys like W with horribly annoying ganis.

[WhiteDragon]

You could always just turn off SFX, as they are all annoying anyways.

[Loriel]

I tend to use WASD for movement, which utterly fails on Classic.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Loriel

I tend to use WASD for movement, which utterly fails on Classic.

You can change the keys that "wave" and "hug" are on.

[Loriel]

Sometimes I can, then someone shows up and removes the NPC that let me do that.

Apparently all the surrounding keys are overloaded with annoying gimmicks as well so I might just stick to sitting very still and harassing people over PM.

[maximus_asinus]

Voted for Graal 2000 since I was the Manager there for a little while.

[Tyhm]

There were 2 Graal2000s though; Graal2000 had marching orders to stagnate, and everyone who played it said I picked the wrong month to host, everything was better either a month before or after the levels pack hosted - and in any case, it doesn't count because people aren't forced to play it, therefore the playercount sucks, I should delete GtA and replace it wholesale with Graal2000+1Month, and also why isn't their playerhouse there?
So Graal2000b was a revision with orders to update like mad, and nobody liked that either, because obviously the LAT was corrupt to replace (insert name here) with (insert update here), and clearly Tyhm was mad to split the playerbase like that.

Then there was Nostalgia, which I was told wasn't anything like how Graal really was in the past, Graal was never sepia-toned. :-P And in any case, it spread the playerbase too thin. Always a problem on Classic; you need a small enough world to make people run into each other, but a big enough world that the people on quests tend to run them alone.

You know what'd be awesome though? If there was a way to overlay the various versions of Graal so people still run into each other without compromising their view of the world. Like, take the timeless common areas, Graal City and The Joint and Zol's, and whatever time you're coming from determines how the level appears To You, but as you walk into common area everyone else sees you fade in, and as you walk off to Master Li's Woods or Fuitad's Domain you fade out...ah, for a free hand in such matters...