If anything this levels the playing field.
When I started playing, before the changes, I couldn't even find money
to buy food, I'd thougth it would impossible to sustain all those recall potions
I'd see in logs. Its the same way now.

The impact of the changes is felt especially by veterans, used to their old ways, not interested in reexploring all those areas again, but this is actually a good change for newbies.

The problem now is newbies arrive here and see veterans talk about how hard is to get money now and they think its because of that they can't find anything, instead of trying to use their own means of obtaining what they want.

Its not that hard to get money if you explore a little. Especially because with that exploration also cames free food, free detect invis, free cure poison, free cure plaque, free fly, free refresh, free haste, free teleport, free protection, free cancellation and
many others, all attainable at low levels. And if you find anything you have no use for, you can always BARTER it for something you like at your local shopkeeper.

Instead of dying to PK isn't it better to die to mobs in some secluded place and keep all your clothes?
So exploring doesn't do any harm to newbies. They can only get better with it.

For level 2 to 10 you can always enjoy the show of some PKs in any town near you, to learn some new tricks, with the added bonus of a little copper looting for you at the end.

That only thing i think should be changed a little is to diminish the number of mobs with
zero coins in them. It doesn't need to be much, but it makes them feel a little more real.

And just so you know the maximum time I played would be around 10 hours a week.
So time doesn't have anything to do with exploring.


Explorer