I have an idea. What if the Battle Server would be hosted as multi-version server? Noobs from 1.24 could come and fight with people on 1.23. No more boredom to them, and people on 1.23 would benefit too because they would have more people to shoot at. I know this is already possible.

When you make a multi-version server, do the sprites get converted when you use Carrotade so that both 1.23 version and 1.24 version players can see right ones? Probably not. I suggest to make a program for hosting multi-version servers that would do that and make it easy to host them.