This thread is very anti-Graal Kingdoms...
Tim26, you're a *****. Your ideas are idiotic to say the least. There are always going to be missed opportunities in life, but you can't just go and make everyone start from scratch because you happened to miss out on something.
I do however, feel that GK would be better if everyone started over. But not for the same reasons. I feel that yeah, stuff is rather unbalanced... it's quite hard to have a balanced game when Stefan is busy developing things, Unix is busy managing things, and nobody is busy maintaining the actual balance of the game.
The biggest problem though, is the glitches/bugs from the past. The duping glitch, the fishing glitch, the alchemy glitch... These things screwed the server over big time. The people that took advantage of these glitches, became instantly strong or wealthy. So I mean yeah, glitches aren't fun at all, and this stuff should probably be tested more thoroughly... Like actually having a beta testing team on the debug server to try and screw up the new stuff as much as possible.
Also, something I hope they've learned not to do again, is releasing too much of something. For example, the treasure maps used to be quite easy to obtain. Now they are harder to obtain. The result? People that collected more treasure maps early on, had an easier time obtaining them, so they could sell them or level with them easier. It would have been better to first make them hard to obtain, then if people complained that they barely ever found the maps, then Stefan could adjust it so they dropped more often. Not the other way around.
Although I do have to agree that there haven't been many events lately. I used to hold events, and I can understand how hard it is to do. You think it's easy peasy and that you can just get on and say "tournament for cool prize!". No way possible. For one, you're going to get masses of PMs asking what the prize is, and if the prize isn't "good" (as in an elite weapon or armor) then people will complain and less people will show up for the event.
Then once you actually get people to the event, you have to handle all the people that are screwing the event up, because they are mad you aren't giving out better prizes, or they just like to cause trouble. Whatever the reason, people that mess with events really just make an EM's job unbearable. After handling the people (if possible) you hold the event, and then you have to judge it fairly, and even if you judge it fairly, there will always be people that complain and tell you that your event sucked.
There weren't many times I held events where everyone was happy. The only times that happened were when I gave out small prizes to all participants. I think the attitude of the players kind of upsets me, because of the fact that a lot of people just seem to be greedy and only care about getting stronger or richer. But that is the kind of atmosphere GK is, and unless it's changed, that's how it will stay.
I mean it's sad when people won't participate in an event, just because they aren't going to definitely win something out of it, or the prize isn't super great, they feel like they are wasting their time. When really, the entire point of the event is to just have fun and compete with others. People seem to forget that.