Reading through these threads makes me miss the Pit... sort of. I just can't see myself going back for a simple reason:
1) I could sit in the Pit and make XP for my pet.
2) I could sit in Campaign and make XP for myself.
The Pit was semi-fun, but rewardless fun < XP/limit points/merits.
I remember a few updates back that through data mining people found that there are in fact prizes in the dat files. Three different moghouse items (something with horns, for first/second/third place in the Pit). I wonder if SE forgot the prizes exist? It seems like it's too long of a delay to be introducing them now...
If nothing else, it'd rock if you could buy the prizes through pit-bucks or whatever they had been called.
I wish SE would give me a reason to go back. :/
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