Without any changes in rulings, positions, or anyone's stats or current or past decisions:
I 100% and without reservation, withdraw my objections and agree the staff made the correct choice in both situations.
Explanation of my reasoning to avoid suspicion on anyone or the idea of anyone putting pressure on me:
As someone who codes, after conversations with some people who were there in Arelith's wild west? I now understand more than enough. Though I was there through a lot of it? My own experience was obviously formatted. I did not have anything close to an accounting of some of the wilder stuff. Even the more streamlined examples of why this isn't done? Are obvious reasons that this would be exceedingly difficult and time-consuming. (Apparently; The Abyssal Citadel and Arcanum exist because of 5% Rewards! - While I knew this; I did not know these sometimes also went toward altered character stats!)
While I think I made good points based on the information I had; additional information about the nature of ... weird things liiiike... (5/10% Major Rewards Drow with increased stats - I know of at least one human like this as well) in the (Character) Vault of Horrors that existed without record or scripted continuity that players certainly have the right to return to.. and the fact that Drow of Saslae's age and earlier DON'T have a record of their differences scripted into them and MODERN DROW DO ... presents a pretty obvious and insurmountable man-hours issue that vampires and Rakshasa - with zero variance between them - did not present with their baseline stats.
Automated fixes to drow actually lead to large numbers of drow (even Jhaamdath if you remember, for like a year, he was mechanically a Moon-Elf on tracking!) have led to big issues sometimes even because of how Drow are inconsistently documented throughout their ages ... and attempts to fix or change them en-masse in the past have lead to disasters. Many of these old drow, technically, are still Moon-Elves with Drow subrace and never logged in to be updated to 'Race: Drow'.
I am under the impression the staff would if they could; but the vault of horrors must stay closed; even if the mutated things inside it sometimes come out. I am now under the impression Arelith drow are a coder's nightmare; because the ECL reduction thing from 5%? Used to basically let you add stats. And that's just a nightmare when you realize: There's zero record of each one before certain periods /after/ Saslae existed.. and there are 10+ years of Drow in the vault BEFORE her.. An automated solution is very likely impossible; because standardization does not exist and there is often no record of what some of their stats are supposed to be in what was acceptable in each phase and or reward case study for potentially thousands of drow characters in the vault -- level 2 to 30; many of which are NOT date-stamped (including Saslae) as modern characters made today are and these players have equal rights to come back to their characters with as little disruption as is feasible as any other Arelith community member does.. and a lot of whom are still probably Moon-Elf Drow because they never logged in to be updated.
Back in the day? All that stuff was done by hand with vault edits instead of scripts; which is why the record doesn't exist until admins started scripting in accountability and things. Stuff you can't really consider until you consider the scope of Arelith's 20-year history; and how (even the most professional!) servers used to be run 10 or 15 years ago! x . X;
Let that vault stay closed. xD
