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Okay, so most of you are probably aware, I am Manager of Era again. I know most of you probably think it's a terrible thing but right now, that's not up for discussion. What is questionable is what should be done about Era.

Right now, Era faces a problem. Everything is crazily unbalanced and things are messing up. The economy is ridiculous, and I am sure that a considerable amount of you could list a number of things wrong with some aspect of Era right now.

There are two options.

1. Era can be reset, along with a new world being introduced to replace the current overworld.

• The businesses can be more fairly balanced and arranged, so that bizzes and player-run businesses are more distinguished and fair.
• Gangs can also be set up to be more balanced.
• Quests can be inserted around the place without there being any hiccups.
• Better methods of making money can be implemented.
• Much improved systems can be brought onto the scene without causing disruption.
• More weapons can be introduced from the range on the server.

2. Era can be left as it is.

• Eventually the economy will become crazily unbalanced.
• Bizzes will continue to cause damage to larger businesses. Deleting small bizzes is not an option.
• Larger gangs will eventually lose their meaning, and gang weapons will become less rare. Deleting parties is not an option.
• Other problems will start to arise from both current and previous glitch abuse, and other related problems.
• It is not likely that the same level of development will be applied to the old world.

I have considered grey areas in between these two options, but in the end, it is down to a reset, or things being left as they are.

I am not going to make this decision myself. I want your input.

Please note that if a reset were to become the best option:

• Era would not be taken offline during development. The existing world would remain until we have prepared and perfected the new one.
• I would be prepared to welcome new ideas and suggestions.
• All progress would be delivered to the players in the form of updates posted in a thread, mass messages, etc.

Now you have read what I have to say, please vote on the poll that you see when you log onto the server. Please also feel free to discuss things in this thread related to these two ideas, however, any disruptive, abusive or unrelated posts will be deleted.

(Poll obliterated.)

Thank you.