Yeh, the brown sugary cola type stuff was better, but still ultimately disappointing once the come up was over. Can't remember the last time I gurned on md...
Out of interest, how much do you dose with crystal ? And do you redose?
What about the newer high dose pills - you drop a whole one or more or less??
I was fortunate to see Ann Shulgin talking about her MDMA use about 15 years ago and she spoke of doing .5g doses to get decent effects due to her long time usage and tolerance - really surprised me at the time but it did make me think I'd end up taking bigger and bigger doses as the years went on.
After almost 20 years of MDMA use I find I need at least 200mg of decent crystal, my missus is around 300mg for the same effects of the same crystal.
We don't (usually) redose at all.... I know it goes against harm reduction a bit to encourage very high doses, but have you tried upping the dose?
I know there are valid arguments about old/new MDMA, but I've had some amazing new stuff along with the 'meh' new stuff.
I've generally avoided pills for years so I can't comment on the super strong Dutch jobbie for a comparison.
Did you try any of the red/green Gameboy shaped pills? Hard press, dark colours? They were amazingly oldschool, a friend who hadn't done pills for at least 10 years tried one recently and was gurning like a bastard on half ? (I got the same from just 1, my missus needed 2)