Such a merge would be a brilliant idea, however, it should not be compulsory. It would be great as a de facto standard, but people should still have a choice.

Not all TSF-only players are noobs (no offence n00b) who don't speak english. The community is slowly dying as it is, and it doesn't help to have a split.

If TSF players who only play hotels and tests saw decent servers come online, they would soon get an appetite for decent levels, and hotel server numbers would drop dramatically. We would gain some decent new players, some of which speak really good english.

At the end of the day, what would be bad? TSF is easy to find online, though sadly I can't say where. Also, to counter the annoyance of massive levels, I think that levels should all be made for 1.23. The 1.23 level and tileset size limits are adequate, and would allow those who choose not to make the switch to continue playing custom levels seamlessly. TSF readily accepts 1.23 levels and tilesets. Pretty much all server tools support TSF (though few accept the 'LK Avalon' release, which differs from standard TSF only in the jazz2.exe and the anims.j2a).

And what is this argument that all the good players play 1.23. That wouldn't matter if everyone switched. At the moment I mainly play 1.23, but I still think it would be a good idea to use 1.24.