There are 100s or so spare 30 hit zanba, 30 hit frozen shooters, 30 hit kunai, 30 hit vivis, 30 hit slicer of fanatic. Tons of dobs, holy rays, girasoles, flowen's, guardiannas, ect with good hit. +various other spare things like tons of 0 hit lames, hs, dls, and more. There were also nice things like heart keys, photon boosters, and blue black stones being made with a somewhat easier method of farming at random times. For sure with heart keys but u need those to create more things than the others so it is fair.
This is on top of free basic stuff like 50 hit charge vulcans, arms, raygun. There are alao tons of other needed gear like v801, smartlink (pretty much free as well), and v101s that drop their price. Most of the good armor and shields are pretty much free as well. Also tons of spare pcs from Easter and the like unless they were spent but still pc isn't an issue cause the server did do stuff to help print them.
This over stock of gear is pretty much cause of events. But while dropping 30 hit gear there was not much attempt to also drop pd like they did with pc with the events unless you got a "lucky" dud gift. Pd end game wise pretty much never will be done unlike pc so this has made the end game take longer for a lot.
This is great for new players because it is easy to gear up. But the end game of pso was found to be a bit hard to reach cause this is the 1st time where pso in official and private server hasn't had cheaters making pd and stuff. It takes 100s of hours to create a single item with the maxed out %.
More people will quit then those that will actually go to the end game so there is a timer for people that want to reach end game as well. Plus the ever glaring issue of making an old ass grind heavy game want to be played by new people.
So the vets bitching about making things "easier" for new people in mmos and such are actually digging their own grave in the long run as well.
Granted you don't want to change up shit too much cause then you kill the spirit of the game.
Personally I think this server has overall for the most part (name change and id being an exception or 2) done a great job balancing the life of pso for old and new.
