What is your favorite zone, and why? What are the attributes of a good zone? What keeps you coming back for more?

I like the depth of the NETWORK and Luxare towers. Something for everyone, and more for people who dig into the zone.

I think a lot of the zones could use better incentives. Updating gear stats would be interesting. It sucks that gear is either a staple across classes, or is junkable garbage.

I believe that people will populate less popular zones if the zone's key items could compete with today's standard pieces. It's lame when you take down a mob and its gear looks like a neat concept figuratively, but its application is next to nothing. To me, it turns me off to the zone, unless I knew that there was a chance for a load of said piece to be awesome. That doesn't happen enough.

Flame on.

I can't list my favorite zones or else everyone else will start going there :(

Okay, then which zones do you think have the best story?

I have no qualms with people going to the zones I like to go to. So…Mahlhevik. It humors me when someone other than myself gets petrified.

There are three types of zones that I feel would be popular.

Money zones Either lots of mobs that give a few grands each (that you kill with AoE), or a few mobs that give quite a bit more than that.

Exp zones This includes mobs that caps you on exp, and compact mobs that you can kill quickly.

Equipment zones For either leveling eq, or playing eq. People usually just kill the boss, loot the stuff they need and get out.

If a zone cannot be categorized as one of the above, then it hard to make players want to come back to it.

• I could be missing something, but these should be the 3 major categories.