I played back in Beta phases 3 and 4 and you pretty much started in Nektulos when you went to gain levels.
Personally, I miss a lot of the feel of the game. I would love to spend Saturday night and Sunday morning going from zone to zone and making the necessary database and quest changes to attempt to get a good feel to the game back. I'm in complete agreement with you about the money situation, though it sounds like the progression servers have taken it down several notches--- maybe even lower then the game was when it originally was released. Most spells at level 4 only cost a few silver and you can easily make a few gold selling stacks of bone chips to merchants. So, the idea of creatures only dropping a few copper in newbie zones isn't so bad, but I think originally, they dropped about 1 silver each.
Also, a problem I'm seeing is that things that shouldn't drop money at all do. For example, I believe I've looted money off of bears in the West Commons. Since when did beasts get money loot? I know for sure I begged gold off of one in Rathe Mountains. =/ Personally, I think a database change may be in order just to take gold off of beasts.
For some reason, it does seem like Fire Beetles dropped gold in Live, though. Not sure about that. Probably not.
Angelox--- I think you and I need to get together on some of this stuff.
EDIT:: Also, I was only ever in Sebilis one time. As I said, I stuck mostly to the old world zones. When I did play in the expansions, it was all Old World, seems like maybe Kunark for a little while, and then Planes?
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