the ww3rp which people loved the most
I still find this claim weird, as every change from modern to cold war has always been subjected to public polls and gathered a massively postive response. Perhaps that's down to 'freshening things up' at the time or w/e, but I don't think it's fair to constantly use 'everyone loved it the most' as the main argument for pushing it through when the same can be claimed for other iterations by that logic.
I'm still,
still not clear on what part people exactly loved so much. We already spoke about 'being able to relate', as the modern lore at the time had almost nothing to do with the current real-life history. We've also taken the same freedoms lore- and event-wise as we did back then. The equipment/weapons are pretty much the same, aside from a bunch of makeshift/historic shit being added.
Is it the nostalgia of the gameplay/people at that time? It feels like that's the main thing, but that's not really gonna come back no matter what anyone does.
This. But adding to this, assuming that we already have modern weapons, tanks and aircrafts in, isn't the only thing that has to be changed the playermodels and the lore?
@Roosebud
As I've been saying, literally all 'modern' equipment aside from the stuff we wouldn't be using anyways is already being used, so there'd be little to no change on that front by progressing into the 'modern age'. Same goes for playermodels really.
I don't see what would need to be changed about the lore aside from literally editing the year counter from 1992/1995 to 2020 and filling the gap between the years with some background lore that would likely be very unrealistic and nobody is going to read.
I've yet to come across a solid, concrete argument on what benefit that would bring considering the player-built lore and additional time/work we'd be sacrificing.
Edit: I feel like I should also mention the recurring sentiment/claims that people won't care about the lore anyways, and since the lore would be divergent from real-life history even if set in the modern age, why would it matter if we're 'in' the modern age or close to it? I certainly don't see the added value of it if it means we're gonna have to sacrifice people being able to continue/bring back their characters or reference player-made events, as they'd suddenly be 30+ years in the past.