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Oh I agree, I wouldn't want zones to be omitted based on lackluster design alone. They'd have to pose a pretty egregious threat to the integrity of the game itself, which is why the PoK discussions/ideas are so interesting to me.

And I agree w/ what you said just a bit ago, that this is all just fun to think about in hypothetical terms. Sadly, for those who missed out on the full PoP experience (I'm including myself in that group for I never made it to PoTime), we'll probably never get that second chance and that's okay. That was the big downside to PoP — once newer expansions rendered it obsolete it stood little chance of ever being revisited.