Current player base.

[Namine]

I agree with you on most part Adrillf, but will be the daredevil and defend both sides...

While some of those things are certainly true like i-tower, I'll defend the custom quests why *some* of them have poor show of participants by today.

Older quests made 2 years ago are very attractive and they give powerful rewards... by standards 2 years ago. With lack of update to effects of custom gears, new official gears completely overshadow them that there's no reason to get them anymore. Avian wing is the best example. It was insanely good, then undershirt combo came out and it lost its power, and people stopped going for them. Finally it's upgraded to have movement speed and it became insanely good again, people getting it again for the speed. Then, svn nerf for all movement speed items came, and avian lost its niche, and now dragon manteau combo replaces both avian wings and undershirt combo. Unless you really want pure ASPD thus need the agi instead of pure flee, save the trouble and go get the other combos instead. You can avoid going through the insanity of avian wing which boasts the biggest item collection list out of *every* heRO custom quests.

To certain extent, it even applies to i-tower: why climb it if you can get better stuff out of it with less time, less preparation and less work compare to 2 other MvP giant: Nidhoggur and Satan Morroc. Whatever you have for i-tower, do those 2 instead, and you'll probably reap more benefits.

Guess I'm half the blame for i-tower's downfall by the biggest failure of my GMing known as Nidhoggur Dungeon in its entireity. Gravity can take the other half of SM.

(also another reason why i-tower is popular on other server: guaranteed mvp spawn so you avoid competition... but competition is fragile here to begin with, so there's another reason not to climb the tower.)