"Since the spirit of a site like that ruins the purpose of exploration areas (which is to reward players that explore the environment most effectively/creatively), my gut reaction is that now I'll probably want to have a new quest system in place before opening Plane of Shadow and Inferno. That will, unfortunately, create a huge delay that would otherwise have been unnecessary. "

The thing I don't understand about this is that (to my knowledge) there was no leak that caused the current closing of the Inferno (year(s?)) prior to this other forum being put online. Obviously you don't have to close an area to revamp it, so what gives?

Why is the reward for exploration so often things that give a distinct PK advantage? Doesn't the explorer type enjoy the act of exploring (even if it is to try and find things that a walk-through misses) even if it doesn't convey a PK advantage?

Do you (Sacer) really think that after a decade in existence, the plot twist at the end of your wildly popular novel should really still be considered a secret and no one should ever post a spoiler? Doesn't that seem a bit crazy?

It seems to me that for the entire history of CF there has been a social contract that everyone agreed to not share (too much) information (of the wrong type) publicly (and ignore the private sharing) and now that contract has been totally broken. Why not try something else for a change? People have asked for it for years, and whether it is the majority or not, why not give it a try... Just the other day I was *really* wishing for a list of everything sold in shops in Thera and their stats... Why isn't that information available?