Regarding looting: People keep claiming this is a great scourge, but there is less looting now than I've ever seen. (At CF's peak population, you got looted nearly every time you fell and it wasn't even questioned.) While our player counts are lower now than they were then, I think people hijack that statistic and claim that their pet peeve is causative.


Now, don't take this as me being against full looting (though I try to be polite when I kill someone unless their gear is just insanely awsome or they have full sacced my stuff infront of me in the past). But saying that full looting was common in the past and our player base back then was way larger doesn't really make your point in my eyes. Back then we had a lot more players and veteran players that were used to what was expected and it was slightly easier to recover from a full loot back then too. Now adays though the veterans most of the time will just get up and dust themselves off when they get full looted but it is the new comers that are pushed away. Sure we had numbers and more full looting back in the day, but likely back then the newcomers were just as quickly disgusted and left as they are now but now we have a smaller playerbase with which to attract as many newcomers as we did back then, see where I am going with this? Just thought I would try to put it in a slightly different perspective.

Chris