Altough you might have a point, Phazaar, perhaps one day you'll log into a lag free game where every player/tribe has everything he actually needs.

What will play be like when that happens? Stable and lag free yes, but what else? People just sitting at their completed camps looking through their baskets full of top level gear/weapons/tools.

Then you'll see people demanding that new stuff be added, and that takes time and effort and another roll of server isnatbility as new systems and features are implemented.

I do think lag is a priority, but I also believe that right now the game is stable enough to welcome both item decay and skill decay...both absolutly essential features to make Xsyon work.