I'd say the active dev, Nilbog, was FOR item loot. Not sure if against xp loss, but yeah.
Velious is more important overall to the project at this point. Most of the people playing (both servers) now are more interested in PvE. He's apparently made some progress with Velious too, and its a monsterous expansion compared to Kunark.
Maybe after Velious he can be swayed to the red side, for a real PvP ruleset implementation/resist fix sit down.
Despite all the kicking and screaming, you'd all like the Nirgo-Box (read: classic RZ).
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