So, does anybody else regret the server wipe? Without debating whether it was necessary or not... I kinda do!
Interesting question. While I do miss the old server and all of the fantastic things that users created, I still like the idea of starting anew with our stuff in the Arks. The changes to the map generation were enough to justify a new server map, what with the better biomes, ravines, abandoned mines, and other things. Plus, with the huge file size and messed up biomes and weather of the old server, it just seemed like a good time to do it.
What I do regret, or rather miss, are all of the users who seemed to stop playing when we reset the server. We had some awesome people building great things on the old server. If those people were playing on the new server, building new great things, then I doubt any sentiments at all would be felt for the old map.
I still sometimes load up the old server map in peaceful mode just to walk around and sightsee and exlpore. So many impressive things were built, many of which I never even knew about or got to see while the server was online. The sewers come to mind as an immense expansive underground project that was almost completely hidden to most people. I am still in awe that we built Moria, and would love the chance to build another new underground city like that. Booty Bay and Al-Medina are beautiful. Arkyoto would have been the best, if we had gotten the chance to truly finish it up. But it's the little out of the way places that still amaze me. There are houses, deep holes, huge lodges, temples, expansive mines, constructions scattered all about the entire map that I constantly stumble across while walking around. It's still an adventure to just walk the old map and see what I can find.
That's all due to the multitude of people we had playing on the old server. It's that aspect,
the people, not really the map itself, that I miss a bit.
HOWEVER, that being said, Neocraft 1.0 is off to a pretty good start. There are a lot of amazing things on the server already, even with the lower population. I would argue that Dome City is just as impressive (if not more so) than anything on the old map. Pioneer City is a nice spawn point. There are quite a few castles, fortresses, and large bases scattered about that are awesome. Roads connnect a few places, we have mob grinders built and farms constructed. What's missing is the great community projects that we used to have. That's mainly due to alot of the old users not playing anymore.
