User blog comment:AdmiralJoshNinja/The Dead Wiki./@comment-12161342-20160128183516

I'm not against the idea of a reset, but I'd prefer to keep this RP for sentimental reasons, etc. Also, even if we reset, its likely to go downhill ahain, and even quicker this time. This all started going haywire when people discovered how to do increasingly ludicrous things ingame, such as flying ships and tethers. The problem was that it was LIMITED by the fact that we had to discover these glitches and other things. Fast forward to now, and everyone already knows all this. Whats to stop flying ships from coming back, then forcing people to desperately look for RP technologies that can counter them, and all this spiraling into another Lensman Arms Race, but this time, even WORSE?

The main issue with why the RP slowly departed from the game was that the game stopped growing, even though the RP kept growing. When the game was killed, that suddenly introduced a "peak deadliness" that was enforced by the simple fact that what we had was all that we would EVER have. No new guns, no new physics, nothing. Once we started hitting that peak, thats when people started getting desperate to secure any sort of advantage and the arms race began in earnest. If we reset, we will already be at the peak. Thats partially why I was trying to make a new app, and now SimpleWarships. But SimpleWarships and the multiplayer it would need to be a viable option are still a long ways off, and noone wants to go to WSC or NC for various reasons.