>1. You can't kill or do anything interesting.

You can kill other players. You can try to get (modest) gear off mobs. You can practice up your skills. You can sit in the Inn and RP if that's your thing. You can rank, though that's not the most interesting thing in the world.

>2. You can't explore because your MV regen rates suck.

Yes and no. Exploring at low ranks isn't very productive and movement regen does sort of suck. Having lots of cash to refresh movement every time you pass through a town helps alot. "heal refresh" is what I would miss most if I were suddenly poor.

>3. If you explore at this point you will DIE.

Then don't explore at that point. Bite the bullet and rank up, then explore to your heart's delight.

>4. You can't get enough money to survive (feed yourself /
>train / practice / heal plague, poison / buy a potion?

I had this problem too after my lowbie money source was fixed, but I eventually found another. I'm sure given time you can too. Here's my tip. Lowbies can't kill powerful mobs. Mobs that aren't powerful don't have much cash. Ergo, to get cash as a lowbie you should be doing something other than killing mobs.

>4a. I guess there's money out there if you know it. But
>newbies ain't gonna find it (see 1. and 2. and 3.)

Let me propose, for the sake of argument, that the staff doesn't want all low-ranking players to be poor as dirt. This implies there are ways low-ranking characters can get cash without dying. Now, many areas are guaranteed death for such characters. So it stands to reason that the cash intended for them is not going to be found in those areas. So then, it doesn't seem wise to explore such areas with your low-ranking character. Instead consider exploring somewhere that won't get you killed.

>5. Pk sucks at this range for a lot of classes. Too gear
>dependant.

So don't PK if you're playing one of those classes. Instead work on skills or rank. Honestly, if you're any remotely tanky or damagey class then low-level ranking shouldn't be a big deal.

>If CF immortals want to start toning area's down and balancing
>the CF economy they need to stop hitting pre 20's. It seems
>that pre-20 money sources are ALWAYS the ones on the cutting
>block.

Let me just say that lots of money sources have been nerfed since the economy project started and a great many of them were never used by low-ranking characters.

>By chance I encounted an area where the mobs carry decent
>silver. I expect this area to be next, because lowbies aren't
>supposed to have MONEY!

Friendly advice: don't tell anyone about it and it's alot less likely to be changed.

>Also, was any leveling area put in to compensate for the loss
>of the white tower? It ain't half as easy to level out of the
>bitch ranks as it used to be as an evil char.

It's about as easy as it always was. The white tower was a death trap anyway.

>PS: screwing up emerald forest sucked too. Sucks for evils
>leveling, sucks for rangers who used this area to pk.

There are still areas for rangers to PK in at every range. If anything, removing Emerald just means there are fewer places they need to look.