For some players, exploration is a reward in and of itself.

A good example of this is Loch Grynmear. Loch Grynmear does not net you much of an ingame reward at all if you 'solve' the area, though you do get something. That said, the process of going through the area is so much fun, the background and story so rich, and the underlying implementation so well executed that the Loch could have *no* end reward other than 'knowing what happened', and it still would have been one of the best 20ish hours I ever spent on CF.

It should also be noted that the staff seem to have taken up a more dynamic policy with regards handling information becoming common knowledge. Rather than nuking, they are throwing a new layer of paint on the area/quest which means that people who actually explored/learned about it IC once can easily do it again (mildly irritating, but not so bad) whereas those with cheatfiles are shafted. Yay.

Now a dig at Nep since I did some work for him.

I'm not sure silent works as above, but rather does reward you with a bonus in pkilling with little pure wonderment in return. It is sort of like The Chocolate Factory except you are the fat kid rather than the puckish Olliver Twist ripoff.

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