Indeed, there are some persons that prefer the quiet old Kirel, and others like the new colourful carnival-like one, so the obviously solution was to provide both
To reply to Calam's post: Kaelis already said all, basically. Hoods were never implemented in Alcugs, and would also require some TPOTS client patches (most notably the delete button on the hood book in Relto). You are comapring Alcugs to UU and MOUL and see something "taken away" - fact is, Alcugs got a whole lot of stuff *added* to be so close to Cyan's online games. Your comment shows we were quite successful, thanks
. It was a long, hard and thrilling work, and those that followed it might still remember various stages of brokenness
(and I was not even around in times when inter-age chat was not supported...
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And regarding any canon issues, those might be my fault - I was never really into that. I usually try to comply with the rough idea of canon I have, but in the end I mainly care about the technical side of things and have neither knowledge nor patience to get the canon stuff right. Lucky enough, Cyan screwed that up so much in MOUL it's hardly noticeable