I rarely play here.  I come back occasionally during holidays to re-live my 14 year self on Christmas morning or whatever.  I played here a few days for deadman and had a love/hate relationship with it.

The amount of "gotchas" this mode had really set me off.  It was like every time I died it was because of a new mechanic I wasn't aware of, which I then had to re-learn and adapt to in the future.  Meanwhile the people ganking me would hoard my stuff while I'm still trying to figure out the rules.  Of course, the weirdos here have zero sportsmanship or tact, so they'll just keep ganking you repeatedly until you are able to figure out the insane rules that they have known from the start, and then run from any 1 v 1 you offer them.

Not that big of a problem: just annoying.  When you're fighting someone and then they have "immunity" and can't figure out what the hell immunity is or why you're experiencing it, while you're trying to fend off 4 other people gets annoying fast.  I also didn't like being in a non-multi area and getting shot by 2 arrows from 2 different people, and then attacked, getting 3 rounded, and then flamed over global for losing a 1 v 1.  Is it, or is it not, a non-multi area?

Having said that, this mode is a lot more fun than the regular mode, and I'd play more here if this mode was permanent.  It reminds me of early RSCR back in like 2015 when no one was max stats or gear and everything was new and exciting again.

Suggestions:
I think they should get rid of the stimulus checks and shop.  You should have to mine/smith/fish everything yourself.  Punching men in the hut for 30 mins and getting 50k that you can then buy all sorts of shit with defeats the purpose of having a large world to do stuff in because it's all handed to you.  My heart dropped when I realized I didn't have to mine, smith, fish, etc. and I could just buy everything in the store because it felt like the world lost purpose.

I miss 2001 pre-wildy when you could fight everywhere and the open world was made such that it wasn't just edge-sitting and ganking, but clan wars while you tried to gear up your clan at the mining pit.  This felt like it was aiming for that type of thing but only went half way.

Still more fun than the regular mode, and with it gone I have other things I need to be doing.  Should this come back permanently I'd spend more time here.  One of the last things I didn't like were people who didn't even play Deadman mode (no balls?) flaming people on global that did.  The amount of hypocrisy from people who don't risk anything and yet act like total badasses was pretty appauling.  To call someone out directly: lucifer.  He had zero concept of how Deadman mode even worked but constantly ran his mouth.  I'm not sure how you can have such strong opinions on things you know next to nothing about, but such is life.

Need to get rid of the edge sitter in all modes.  Nothing more annoying than listening to a grown ass man talk shit but never back it up.

See you all next year for a few days.

**Shout out to slayer88, magelord88, and smeglord88: three cool people I met here and wish I had more time to pk with.

I quit years ago because I don't have the time to play 24/7 and make 50 flats accounts and fully gear + park them at castle.  The numbers game got really old, especially since whenever you killed someone they'd just log on with 3 more and you could never bank your kills.  I honestly don't know how these people have this much time on their hands to play this all day, every day.  Do they even work?  Do they have families?  How do you have 50+ flats account? 

Deadman felt like a breath of fresh air and I had fun playing it.  The community feels like a bunch of children and I wasn't too fond of most of the player base.  I found a few good people to play with, but besides that the weird mentality of people here isn't something I'd want to have to deal with on a daily basis.  Trolling is one thing but the level of mental illness that goes on here is on a completely different level.  There's a time and place for everything.  You can tell who the perpetrators are because they don't ever let up, never admit a mistake, and seem to be hell-bent on destroying anyone that disagrees with them.  It's a very juvenile mentality and not something I can stomach for more than an hour a day.

Time to move on for me, I think.  I've been on and off private servers over the years and it always ends with me just wanting to get away from these types of people.  Life is too short and there are an infinite number of other things I could and should be doing with my time.

Good trip down memory lane though.  Nice playing with you smeglord, even though we only had one session.

I quit years ago but came back for Christmas event.

Deadman was a lot of fun and was nice to see areas like lumby so active with pk wars. Slayer update looks well done, diving into that next.

Suggestions:
- high score table for goals. I opened every person I'm high scores to see who was in the lead but I think it would be more motivating to see where each goal stands.

- tough for new players to start since there are such large teams or other people that play optimally and aren't shy to put in 18 hour days. I like competition myself but for the sake of new players some less competitive goals may be fun too (e.g. cow has 1/10,000 chance of dropping white party hat instead of most cow kills).