Being an old zone player and seeing how zone has pooped on itself over the past few years, this sounds like a good idea to attract new players. I myself stopped playing zone awhile ago purely because I found the new updates horrific (sorry, just my opinion [oh crap I just said I had an opinion on the internet please don't kill me]).
Skybases were probably one of my favorite things on zone though... So bad move taking those out of the game.
ANDDDD this is my first post on Graalians because I haven't came around to making an account even though I've been playing Graal like a drug for 4 years so GG.