I honestly don't think anybody rememebrs how the server was back before rebirths. Let me remind you:
No teamwork, soloing every monster, no new monsters after 800, mindless pging, lack of war because level 3k's could take anyone down, more botting, still nobody attempting to kill Vegnagun
You usually tend to forget the bad things about the past.
Red
"No teamwork"
- I agree that no teamwork was necessary for killing Malice Demons, but there was teamwork on certain raids, and in pvp situations.
"Soloing every monster" / "mindless pging"
- I agree that killing monsters got especially easy after level 1000, which promoted power gaming. However, in my opinion, people saw results of power gaming, which made the server fun.
"No new monsters after 800"
- This is true because people basically only killed malice demons, and bkbs. However, this could have easily been changed.
"Lack of war because level 3k's could take anyone down"
- From what I remember, there was plenty of war. Especially when the Bruhs came to town, war was very prevalent. In addition, there was only about 10-12 level 2000+ and 1 or 2 3000+ at the end. Finally, because of the high levels, it promoted people to join/make good guilds-
guilds that actually meant something.
"More botting"
- It is no doubt true that there was alot of botting back then, but there is plenty of it now as well.
I don't think the new Cynara should be taken down, or amended in any way to to make it like the old Cyntara.
However . . .
I think it would be bad-ass if there was
2 Cyntara servers. One that is similar to the old one with no rebirths, and the more recent Cyntara that includes rebirths. (Whether or not this would happen is a completely different story. It would be up to Red of course because he would be the one doing it. And this would take alot of work, and more maintenance.)