many of us see reloaded as home server, hence the passion. but the life has been sucked out of it with the new rules.
when i heard the new rules i said id give it a chance, in my mind, 15-20 man teams in shining pa and top tier weaponry fighting huge battles would be soon awaiting us. but it didnt happen..rarely do we see pa..not even seen an implant yet..not seen more than 20 combatants in a tc town while actions are happening since the first week. instead you have khans dominating for a few weeks till aa figure out how to camp a building in the new tc ruleset, and i would throw a shout out to hawks and say fair play, if they hadnt since rq off the server. thats it..i dare you to include the once great UV..fallen so far from grace..
so you hate khans, thats fine by us, we were happy to be the bad guys. when we got too strong, other factions allied against us, of course alliances only last for a while, so it was an almost perfect balance. loot drops allowed those factions to gain and lose gear, making gear have value, fueling organically the economy. no more..
those noobs that everyone cries tears for got better because this game gave a baptism of fire, and as soon as they had been pk'd and got back to hub, someone would fill them in on the real rules of the wastes. those that stayed, were usually pretty good players. now there is no need to be good at the game. we still kill them..but it doesn't matter..their shit gear deteriorates and they dont even notice. they lose a tiny bit of exp, probably hadn't a clue how much they had anyway..
we used the TC system as it was at launch, and used it to its fullest effect..got called cheaters, and sent to prison. for what? trading in the town we held for profit. was that not the point? now we get fuck all. there is literally no point in getting 1000 exp every 5 min when you are currently well over level 100 and can make multiple lv100 books a day with farms. if you are an experienced player there is literally no use for most of the shit gear you get as "payment" so we buy all useful items from vendors for caps from farms. no more drugs/gear in vendors=broken economy.
the khans brought about 40 old khans back online for the launch(i'd imagine other factions recalled many players as well to get a good start), excited as we were for the battles to come, now there is 4-5 khans that play reloaded, and we have to provide a fully kitted character for any others that want to help their mates. other factions seem to be in the same boat, i saw aa bring 5 untagged scrubs to tc the other day, and who can blame them..?
finally, i ask, why be so aggressively ignorant to the life blood of this server, the factions? we pay you money in donations, and you shit on us and tell us its snow. its just not right, and its not professional either. soon, nobody will be left..would have been better if it had never wiped, even as bad as it had got..