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Originally Posted by maximus_asinus
Basically the main issue regarding reuploading old content has been compatibility. The jump from GS1 to GS2 would be hard enough but Classic's management insisted on throwing multiple custom systems ontop of that so really conversion has been dubbed "more trouble than it's worth" (though you have to laugh at the fact that a full conversion would have been completed if management kept at it for all these years).
Then there is quality. Visually, the levels of Classic cannot hold a candle to those seen on other servers. Things have changed, the server might have been acceptable in 2004, but does not meet the standards of 2009. Though I don't entirely agree with that, it is what the management has insisted.
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I'd bet old quests could be converted in a couple days of work and the overworld could be done in large chunks of 'find and replace' on the old scripts. The old LAT team didn't hand code every little thing so there is no reason to convert everything one by one; there is a ton of overlap and copied scripts that could be converted once and found and replaced over the entire set of levels.
I like the old levels
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