Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5405412-20130808231539/@comment-5404027-20130811143447

I, and probably not the only one, originally found Survival 303 through Penguin's game, not Davidii's, and I know that for a time it was more popular than the original, since it had better graphics, no skill requirements, it was easy to hack (I remember I used to play with some Polish players who always used to hack a coconut, which gave I think 5 food and water, to have 9999 portions. so they could concentrate on building and stuff), and had more islands, so it was basically a noob paradise (hence the reason it was more popular). But when the game's servers started petering out, and eventualy the game itself fell in the sense (it's still available to play, but it has NO people on it), the remake fans had to turn to original Survival 303 to play (I was one of those people). But, because Penguin spent a long time adding new stuff to the game instead of making it more stable (the servers crashed, shut down, and lost connection even more than in the original), and making it less complicated and easy to hack (there were a LOT more metals in Penguin's game, but it was confusing because no-one knew whether Steel, Mithril or Adamantine was the best metal. Also, I believe these three reasons were the main ones that made the game fall), the game generally had MUCH more 'things' in it than the original. So, when the remake fans started flowing in to the Survival 303 servers, they brought all these recipes, ideas and features with them which simply didn't exist in the original (one of them were the guns), this spawned lots of rumors, like the guns, and lots of ideas, like adding VIP to the game, because Penguin's version had a VIP which gave access to an island with food, water and an easily-obtainable mithril source.