I must say, as the person who played RS there, that it wasn't the way you seem to have idealized it at all. Cimar wasn't as safe as the Inn at any level. What happened to RS was that it just plain wasn't as good as CF. It's main draw was CF players, and while certain aspects were very well thought out and cool, in the end, it just plain wasn't as interesting. I stopped playing RS and let Gurd autodelete (even though at the time I made the decision I was more or less unbeatable) because it just plain wasn't as fun. Partly because of low pbase, but mostly because it just wasn't as fleshed out and as full a game as CF is/was. The only RP I ever got on RS was people complaining when I killed them. Guess what? Killing people is roleplaying, which is something you just don't seem to understand.


You didn't even play CF when the playerbase was as large as you say, and when it was that large, the RP standard was very low, and it was 1000% less "safe" then it is now. Try hitting pk at 10,000xp with giants who got bash at 100% at level one, then talk.

You can't justify every point with a decline in pbase, because quite frankly, you don't know what you are talking about.