Here's the "patch notes" for the March 2004 reset, made by Mehul and announced by Swirve:
* Improved overall security in the game, removed bots/multies.
* Increased price of food on the private market from $24 to $32.
* Increased use of oil by military units from 10 to 25 units per barrel.
* Troops now require oil to attack.
* GDI costs dropped from $4 to $3 per acre.
* Fascism industrial 15% and construction bonus removed, oil bonus increased from 20% to 50%, market commission reduced from 15% to 6%.
* Bomb Food and Bomb Oil now steal a portion of the bombed amount.
* Removal of FFA server, replacing it with the 1B server now called the Primary Server. Removal of games 1C-1Z from the 1A server, now called the Alliance Server.
* Humanitarians increased to 20% from 10% in Primary and Tournament Server.
* Reduce the number of in-game allies in Tournament and Limited Server.
* Increased damage on Cruise missiles, and also reduce enemy military readiness.
* Reduced time period for PSes from 22 to 20 hours.
* Changed the number of turns per game. In Alliance Server this is changed from 75(37) to 80(53).
* Gave public access to the country and news data on Alliance and Limited Server at
http://e1.swirve.com/data and
http://e4.swirve.com/data.
* Increased food upkeep by 25%.
* Changed the maximum tech% of Mil/Res/Bus/Agri/Strat techs as well as the tech formula.
* Changed the explore formula for the better.
* Eliminated the need of a tag country with a new system whereby anyone in a tag can gain control of the tag with the proper tag administration password.
It was one of the most exciting resets, new netting strategies to explore (food PM price change, Humanitarians change, tech formula changes, explore changes...), new ways to war (since troops started to use oil, increased oil usage).
Unfortunately, the game didn't change much after that one reset with sweeping changes.
I feel that our game admins are simply too afraid to change the game, and prefer to stay with "what has worked for years". We need sweeping changes like these, it keeps the game fresh.