And you're basing that on ... your wishes? A handful of zones you've visited? I mean if you're going to call me out and say I don't know what I'm talking about, maybe have
something to base it on?
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No one (except the staff)
knows the current ZEMs, so it's fallacious for
anyone to claim that A) they know what they all are, and B) that they're all the same as, or close to, classic ZEMs. All you, I, or anyone else has to go on is subjective player reports. If you take those reports for what they are, in aggregate, they most certainly do
strongly suggest that zones here have unclassic ZEMs, and this fact is not controversial.
People have given numerous specific examples (eg. in those other threads you referenced reading). There's no point in repeating them all here, but one very obvious one is Kedge Keep. Kedge gave very good XP on live, and gives comparatively terrible XP here, so while no one knows it's
exact ZEM, subjective measurements strongly suggest it's significantly different (and not classic) here.
At the end of the day, I'm all for rotating dynamic ZEMs, or the staff setting some new sensible ones that encourage people to not clump, or whatever. I'm also in favor of 100% classic ZEMs. But either way, if we can't even acknowledge the reality that the staff made a Faustian bargain with ZEMs here (they wanted mystery and traded both the original devs' goals/logic and the "soul of classic" to get it), I don't see how the discussion can really be honest.
TLDR; I don't see how unclassically nerfing the XP of a zone like Kedge makes the game better for
anyone ... but P99 definitely does it.