For any person whose playingstyle remotely resembles that of my own, the warrior and berserker classes just became more welcoming as well as more inviting than they have ever been before. Consider for a moment that in the past, I've had a strong penchant for playing rangers and mage classes primarily for their 'camouflage', 'word of recall' and 'teleport' abilities. I did this simply so that I would be able to avoid the (rather very many) occassions where my opponents had a superior prep knowledge to myself, and thus also those fights where a possibly better use of tactics alone wouldn't be able to save my butt due to the other warrior also being hasted, stoneskinned and whatnot. In a sense, that very prepsystem for non-mage characters which you've apparently now finally abolished to a good extent really inhibited my ability to enjoy this game more directly, as it forced me into either playing evasively or dedicating a good portion of my online time into something of a prep arms race.

And neither of those options were ever all that appealing to me, to be honest.

The reason you'll thus find me to be a vocal supporter of this decision you've made, is the notion that I am now quite likely to be able to compete, or just simply participate for that matter, in true cabal warfare and also to simply play classes that have no inherent evasive abilities, without mounting frustrations. I'd say it is more or less staggering just what kind of possibilities this change to the prep system can potentially offer a more casual player like myself. Though the onslaught of complaints from the resident powergamers will probably not be far behind. Best of luck with that I'd say.

Along with reaffirming my gratitude, there is one other last thing I'd like to say. Throughout the years that I've been a part of this lovely little community of CF players, I've found myself reconsidering my stances and opinions on several of the choices you all made for CF, in a way that was generally geared more positive towards the staff. I.e. the more experienced and knowledgeable I became about the game, the more I tended to start to agree with the hows and the whys of these decisions you as the staff made regarding the direction of the game. To this, there consistently have been two major exceptions however. The first was the state of the anti-paladin class prior to its enhancement with the various new weapon skills unique to the class, and the second was the game's prep system. In both of these cases, I only became more vocally opposed to the continued status quo of those two things as time went by.

Today, both of those two remaining sources of discontent for me have been fixed and in ways that leave a casual player such as myself with a great optimism with regards to the quality of his future gaming hours here at CF. Basically, I want to say this;

Thank you.

Be warned though that there will be some who will strongly differ in my opinions about all of this. But at any rate, I have said my part.