Since the beginning, one of the great things about Graal is that much of it is about skill, not how much you play. Someone who logs on for the first time can kill someone who has been playing for years because of skill.
This is harder to accomplish on modern servers, and servers where there are items that you can gather, as opposed to Unholy Nation, Classic, and other classic-themed servers, where the main goal is, for the most part, questing and PKing.
Era used to be better than it is now. Remember when sparring was about skill, not your gun? I remember when there were people who had the most expensive guns in the game that I could defeat with an Uzi. It used to be based on skill. Now, after several years, I get on and the only thing I can do is grind and grind to make money. Once I've made money, I can buy a gun. But why should I even bother buying a gun? Why don't I just keep making money until I get enough money to get a gun that is good enough to actually defeat someone?
A while back, the highest difference in gun damage was somewhere around 4 or 5. Now it's up to 10 or so (yes, there were guns that did significantly more, but they shot slow). Somehow, in the transition from 100 HP to 10 HP, guns started taking less hits to kill people. Then, in the transition back to 100 HP, it took even less hits to kill. The term "lossy compression" comes to mind.
No matter your skill level, there is almost no way you can defeat someone who has a gun that does 20+ damage, shoots as fast as an AK47 or faster, and reloads in very little time.
And, while I'm describing how Era fails, I'll bring up quests. If you've done any of the quests on Era, you'll know where I'm coming from. First; what kind of prize is one extra HP out of one hundred? That would be absolutely fine if there was only 10 HP, but not out of one hundred. Why should I do more than one quest? 101 HP is generally enough to give me one extra hit, so what good do the extra 3 HP do for me?
I'm sure there are many other ways that Era fails, but these are the ones that really hit me after logging on for less than ten minutes.
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