I think this would mathematically make things easier for me. My main is "only" gen 6. Worse yet, I play with a gen 1 alt all the time
But I know that it will be done sooner or later, for whatever reason (Strategus could be one). And I don't really care anyway.
Now, what would you say if Kesh said this ?
It actually may not sooner or later, because this is a mod of a fulll-fledged game, not a beta of an independent game in development, so the the reset inevitability argument doesn't work. It wouldn't really matter that much in the end, the good players would still be good, the bad players would still be bad, just a whole lot more tedious to start at level 1 all over again, would be a grind to level 30 (skip the fun only way to go). It would add a little more tedium to a game that has became way too repetitive and has lost a lot of its flavor, if done without Strategus would be really easy to walk away and not look back.
Strategus was 50% of the fun of this game and instead of leaving the old version up with slight modification to fit new xp system while he knew he was going to spend months developing new strategus, chadz took it down for 6 MONTHS and counting. Keeping it up all these months could have grown the player base by 25%, I know so many people that just grew bored, quit and moved to other games that probably wouldn't have done so if they had the ability to participate in dynamic map strategy and unique battles/sieges. I mean seriously, battle server, how many times can you fight 20 random guys against 20 random guys (banner balance does help a bit) in maps you have played on so many times before and not start getting bored. Pre-January, 80% of my playing time was Strategus related (90% in December), and i feel like I keep being led along being told its coming out soon. The last "update" (April Fool's post) by chadz regarding Strategus was over 2 months ago. I kind of wish he told us it was going to take over half a year to develop (the original strategus took about 1 month before people started playing on it) so I could have taken a 6 month break from cRPG instead.
So much of the role-playing is gone without strategus, so yes people over-rely on heirlooms with tiny modifiers and levels to help, but there are no stories to follow, no role play to do, just endlessly repetitive battle/siege (camp flag every round) server.
Why the sudden rant? Yesterday was the "supposed" release date from IRC that never materialized.