This is also due to many older people playing video games than before. There are now also generations of people that have grown up playing competitive PVP games, and ARPGs for that matter.
Social media also happened (mostly Reddit in this case.)
As a result you have many gaming veterans...
Soly has provided me a spreadsheet parsing tool, and I am now able to import stats to the battle param files.
With that roadblock out of the way, an Alpha is now within view, once I complete the other less automatic data input.
Just finished a table of every weapon in REBORN and their exact stats. Will be adding tech boosts as well as drop locations and drop rates.
Check it out and give me your thoughts. Several weapons have had their rarity shuffled around a bit for a better progression.
What you are talking about is probably way more work than anyone in the PSO community currently has time for, but you are welcome to try yourself.
Most these things I am also interested in.
Lee's EXE patcher is only useful for changing the bound IP of the EXE as well as some smaller things.
Changing those values all probably not only need hex editing of the client (Or the creation of a custom DLL to do it for you) but also need changes to the server's code to avoid desync and...
Yeah I figured it wouldn't be simple. I wonder what Soly thinks about this though. Either way It would be nice to put more solid restrictions on things but it isn't the biggest deal.