Honestly, good point. True, preserving the code is a core tenet of the Lost City Project and that’s what makes it special (insert comment about unpublished rares code).
Per the https://2004.lostcity.rs/disclaimer:
This is a free, open-source, community-run project.
We are trying to preserve a moment in time for posterity.Our server was written from scratch after many hours of research and peer review. Everything you see is completely and transparently open source.
Preserving the way players actually interacted with that code is part of what honors that moment in time. Of course, two decades of community knowhow cannot be purged and the 2025 meta won’t 1:1 match 2004 — but the emergent gameplay from that code can remain aspirational.
Things like essence running, drop trading, and other support roles were all emergent parts of that original experience.
That’s the angle I was coming from.