I also find that draining a lich (of mana) for example takes about 3 times the work as on the osi shards. (from what i remember) My only other complaint is failing skills (like eval int) even at gm (yes even when full) The speed of monsters is pretty fast but I dont think I have ever played a free shard with monsters any slower. Wyverns never gave good loot on osi shards only about 1-200 gold and some poison potions i think. Im not sure what the loot system was like before but its doesnt seem to bad. Except that certain monsters that give newbies Scrolls to fill a magic book are completly missing. There is nothing that you can fight to get some new spells. I dont even know where to buy a spell book at. Si if anything thats the only change I would make is to make the scroll's spawn as loot on various monsters. Air eles used to be good on osi shards for getting magic scrolls. Anyone have any clue what someone who cant cast level 6 can get scrolls from?