"We want players to use Evolution of Combat because they want to, not because they have to. Last week, we announced some big upgrades to Evolution of Combat, which I\u2019m confident will really improve the system. But we\u2019re also planning to offer an alternative for players who just can\u2019t get on with EoC and instead want old combat. Log into the game to vote, or read on to find out more details. Power to the Players isn\u2019t just a slogan; it\u2019s our new ethos. It\u2019s about the community having a voice, and it\u2019s about us delivering what you want. Thanks for reading,"@en . . . "Feedback"@en . "2014-01-31"^^ . "Update:Poll - Legacy Combat"@en . . . "We want players to use Evolution of Combat because they want to, not because they have to. Last week, we announced some big upgrades to Evolution of Combat, which I\u2019m confident will really improve the system. But we\u2019re also planning to offer an alternative for players who just can\u2019t get on with EoC and instead want old combat. Today we\u2019re launching a poll for a Legacy Mode which would bring back the majority of the old combat gameplay and interfaces, in the modern game alongside EoC. The poll starts today and players have the next two weeks to vote on whether we should start developing Legacy Mode. Log into the game to vote, or read on to find out more details. Power to the Players isn\u2019t just a slogan; it\u2019s our new ethos. It\u2019s about the community having a voice, and it\u2019s about us delivering what you want. In the New Year, we announced in-game weekly content polls and the response was amazingly positive. However, one issue kept cropping up: you want the power to choose which combat system you have in the game. We\u2019ve listened. We\u2019re going to do something about it. I\u2019m sorry it\u2019s taken this long. In all honesty we\u2019d struggled to find a solution which could bring back the old combat gameplay in a way which didn\u2019t affect those who do like EoC. We needed a solution that wouldn\u2019t split the community and was also technically viable for us to support well into the future. But as we saw that there was still a widespread demand for the old combat gameplay, we knew we had to find a way. I\u2019m confident we\u2019ve found it. That solution is to create a Legacy Mode which re-creates the old combat gameplay, inside the modern game, alongside EoC. This means both the old and the new combat systems would co-exist within the same game, and you\u2019d be able to freely switch between them. Turning on Legacy Mode will change your gameplay to be like the old combat system, circa 2012. This includes things like special attacks, no action bar, no abilities and type-to-chat. It will have the old interface layout, with combat info and buttons around the mini map, with the old side-panels in the lower right, plus an option for the old fixed-window interface layout. It will not be limited by membership status, world location or server type, and in most cases players of each system will be able to play side by side. There will need to a be few differences to make it compatible (and competitive) with current game, including dual wielding weapons, modern gear and inheriting the combat triangle rebalance which improved Ranged and Magic combat. There are certain features, like the old '138' combat level formula, which have an impact beyond just Legacy Mode, for which we\u2019d need to work with the community to find a solution. That said, our aim is to make it look and play as close to the old system as possible. This is an ambitious vision, and we don\u2019t have all of the details worked out yet. This is where you come in - we\u2019ll need the guidance of the community to make sure Legacy Mode delivers the old style of combat you\u2019re after. If the Legacy Mode poll succeeds, we\u2019ll start to develop this feature in collaboration with you, publishing our work-in-progress code to the beta servers, using forum input to get your requirements and running beta polls to measure whether the various elements are meeting your expectations. As with the current Combat Improvements beta, access will be open to free players. Should the Legacy Mode poll succeed, we would work on it in parallel with the already announced Combat Improvements for EoC. I expect it would take at least a couple of months to have Legacy Mode ready for beta, by which time the features in the current Combat Improvements beta will mostly have been finished and launched. This is obviously quite a lot of work, and would need at least a couple of developers focused on creating Legacy Mode over a number of months. That\u2019s why we\u2019re doing a poll before we start, and we'll poll again to make sure you\u2019re happy Legacy Mode is ready for the live game. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll have a lot of questions about how this will work. We\u2019ll try our best to answer them on the forums and in the FAQ, but there\u2019s going to be some stuff we won\u2019t know until we get further into development, at which point we\u2019ll need to work with you to make the right choices. If you\u2019d like to read more about how we reached the decision to bring back the old combat system, and what alternatives were considered, please check out my [ Legacy Mode][help] dev blog, as well as Mod Mark's Og Blog on [ Old vs New Combat][help]. Thanks for reading,"@en . . .