Towering is dead because there is nothing to tower for. I agree with the decision of not giving rewards for 1k hours anymore. I don't agree with removing the 5k and 10k rewards. Towering rewards were meant to promote guild loyalty (something that most players lack). I think that the 5k and 10k rewards returning, maybe adding a custom accessory as a 7.5k reward, is a good way to make towering active and maintain guild loyalty. However, adding these back may conflict with the long-awaited NGS.
PKing and Sparring are dying because there is no reason to do these activities (ignore how insufferable the sparring community is now). I think the best way to help revive them while we wait on the NGS is to add milestone rewards again, and in a much greater number. Milestone rewards are a better incentive than spar coins. Rewards like the 40K PKs Shop
(Video) and 6k spar wins hat were great ideas. Milestone rewards show prestige, and inspire other players to work towards the same goals.
Thallen did a good job talking about milestone rewards here (
internal screaming):
https://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23696
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3.) To promote sparring long term, I still think you guys should re-release the old milestone hats (and/or add more). These should be a thing all the way up to 100k, maybe at the intervals of 1k, 5k, 10k, 25k, 50k, and 100k. Players were never told that those hats would be exclusive, and I think they should be brought back so that there are long-term goals. This has received overwhelming support: https://www.graalians.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23696
At bare minimum, bring back the hats from old at the same milestones as old. Doing this would create incentivize for a very long time with very little work required.
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TL;DR if we can't have NGS as fast as it's needed, get the top end of the graphics team give us milestone rewards for playing the game.