Originally Posted by
Dope
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We can't adequately shoot for a solution until we know what the goal is, until we do we're going to go round and round with "Carebear vs Griefer" arguments that go nowhere. We know that most of us are neither, so what we need is an official "This is the gameplay that the LE is supposed to create incentives for." statement, then we can work toward achieving that goal, rather than arguing amongst ourselves about what the actual point of the damn thing is.
Once we have a clear idea of what it is for, and what it is intended to do, then we can work on defining a rule set that makes that happen.