I have checked with two of my L78 noobs using the trainers in SFG and no matter what skill I click on, the "train" button remains greyed out. Ported to Rivervale and checked with druid guildmaster there. Same thing. I have almost 380 practice points and plenty of cash.

Bumpy Quickfinger(really??!!) advertises druid spells. When the "show only items I can use" box is checked, there are no items for sale. Unchecking the box shows spells. Same thing with Tisiana in Lavastorm

The Rivervale Voice, sold by Teelie Meegles, the Town Crier, doesn't have any news. The pages are blank.

Solo XP is awful.

Fishing works. Leveling 1-70 works. Trying to zone into high end Luclin and Discord zones works by not letting you. Getting drunk works. Eating works. Jewlcrafting works.

[Wish list:]

Wish list:

• GSS drop rate increase to at least one guaranteed over the week
• GSS can drop in any of the progression zones
• Cost to do the 100 essence tasks halved to 50
• Remove the cool down timer of the SR gnoll instance
• Extend the time for us addicts
• Rename Icestriker's Cat to something like Dracawarrior's Cat

Realistic list:

• ZP of HoS available again
• ZPs dropping at an average rate of at least 2:1
• double loot
• Get rid of the candy
• Random double and triple loot progression zones

Must Have

• An Event!

-Daughterwar

In my opinion, Halloween is, itself, a kind of "exploit." It is a chance to earn 2x loot, ZP, and amazing augs as well as phenomenal XP over a short period of time.  Ice, Draca, and whoever else are able to pull off this exploit are so far above me in the game that, hearing they did is a little like being at mile 5 in a marathon and hearing that the people in the front at mile 22 had the sweat knocked off their brows to reduce weight.

Now, I've had my own vanilla server and I know first hand how it ruins the game to be able to walk up to Quarm in PoTimeB and do a #destroy. If having fun is the goal of the server, then having god-like powers to kill instantly the toughest thing is a killer. However, so is the mindless killing for days and days hoping for a GSoA or a T5 mob to pop.

Enter the exploiters. If we are honest with ourselves, one of the great joys of the game is to progress even the tiniest amount. However, another, often overlooked joy is to help someone else. I relish the fact that I can be a person that is able to take a newbie by the hand and help push them through something that would take them weeks to accomplish on their own.  When I get bored of the monotonous killing, being able to give someone new the rush of progress not only gives me a shot of dopamine, but helps them, too. Ice and Draca, and whoever else was exploiting have helped my char numerous times and given me the rush of being a helped newbie. Now that I'm able to help others I can see both sides of the being helped and helping coin. Yet, for Ice, Draca, and whoever else was exploiting the event....who is there to give them the thrill of being helped get better? They are the top! I'm not excusing what they did, but I completely understand the rush of getting loot that by all rights you didn't earn.

I would not like to see anyone banned. In my opinion the presence of Ice, Draca, and whoever else that was using the exploit doesn't affect my game play in the slightest. As I said, they are so far out in front of me and my crew that it's meaningless to be jealous or feel they have harmed me because they and/or their alts got the tiniest bit better. Their giving back to the community greatly outweighs any perceived slight I may have experienced in hearing of their cheating.  

Punishment? Permanently change their race to fairy.