MEZZANINE wrote:Not building ascended ? Simple it was never important before, being undescendable was easy so those who had no interest or time to play that server didnt have too.
Your own statement is precisely why the ascended server needed to be updated.
MEZZANINE wrote: Now it's changed overnight and we're in a position of 'play the server you dont want to or have your account in the server you do want to play made worthless'.
The changes did not occur overnight.
There have been several incremental changes over the past 5-6 months.
These changes were long over due.
In the beginning ascended server was much faster, very ruthless and offered no respite for new players.
Admin Jason slowed it down in 2007 by setting growth caps, making upgrades exponentially expensive and
adding a feature so that players could move their Life Force to prevent being descended.
From 2007 to 2010 many players were able to easily build their personal levels to prevent being descended.
Some became complacent, didn't bother logging in and declared that the game was boring.
In 2010, Admin Jason started making incremental adjustments to fine tune the server so that was possible
to descend all inactive players.
I applaud these incremental updates because they were years over due.
The Ascended server is now balanced between the two extremes.
If you want to receive the benefits of being an Ascended Being, then you should play the Ascended Server or
set yourself to Daimon (and retain your existing bonuses).
With a small amount of effort you can easily protect yourself but it does now require you to log in and play.