azamous wrote: Daemon doesn't visit but Viper does, truth be told I miss them running the joint.
Bro i couldnt agree with this more. There was never any worry about the database and sh!t getting hacked and having lvl 60s spawned fully geared out of thin air. I actually talked to the former GM Lead of Elysium Nightmare (quit due to the drama), who was also a GM on nost (think it was under a diff name) and he said none of the crap thats going on with elysium ever happened under Viper and Daemon and that they ran things the right way.
You never had to worry about seeing hackers and cheaters all over the place. Viper and Daemon's anti cheat was damn good. It was so good that it was not only instantly banning multi hack etc, it was banning bots too. Elysiums anti cheat ended up being the biggest turn off for me, because it is basically non existent.
Also Viper and Daemon didnt have to hire on suspect characters like whitekidney onto their team to help combat this crap, Daemon (according to ithlien) is a technical genius. Elysium is bleeding out pop (something nost never encountered) because nostalrius was gaining almost 500 players a month (from like november onward till the end). I really am holding on to a shred of hope that blizzard somehow license them or something, but we know it aint happenin. All we have are the memories. Been waiting to see if daemon and viper have a response to all the drama lately.