Because that eliminates connectivity problems.

Mine is set to DMZ.

A better question is why WOULD you? This isn't China.

yeah LoD was good because you spent more time exploring/ ganking/ pvping than you did gaining skills.

Put factios int her....nothing like endless pvp all day long and the usual body ganking.

Port Forwarding solves the same problem. Without opening all the other security loopholes.

Yeah of course. That's why no one could log on right?

No one could log in because I took the server down.

You just keep telling yourself that.