Flatlander
Species Developer
Mostly good points, however I disagree with 3 and 4
You can only really manual one char, however with smart bot usage you can easily babysit 5+ clients and full bot as many as you have the nerve for. Whenever I get a really good fishing spot set up with 4+ chars its not very easy to beat that going at it manually (atleast for me). I mean heck you can pretty much script everything down to auto geming equip and using the right speciality ammo. There is no way you can beat someone who is running half a dozen chars or more just by manually playing single char.
I like some of the donations balance wise but keys really are pretty damn iffy. You might have "more bosses on the map than you can buy with 500$ of keys" but there is no way in hell you are going to get even a fraction of the loot someone with 10+ keys gets.
The big thing is that they are you dont have to acquire them first and especially that you get the boss kill guaranteed.
With so many players online its ridiculous to believe you can beat people keying bosses nonstop every cooldown every day all week by grabbing the on map bosses.
That said, I'm still really liking this server, and I agree syn and xagul definetly put alot of work into it and Imo its already surpassed the last iteration of the Dzot Restoration
Renegade has never donated, he is one of the top levels, and has some of the highest gear on the server.
He actually has more gear than me, and I have 2 backpacks of keys.
Not only that he has almost MATCHING gear to another guild member I know that owns over $1000 of keys. Why? He takes his time to go to the bosses every hour and kill them. Everyone else is lazy, if you want to get fast gear, you HAVE to kill bosses around the map when they spawn. It is currently the BEST way to get gear fast.
**EDIT**
Also fishing has HUGE nerfs to the amount of Loot Orbs you get. You might get some gold, but a person manual hunting with Luck Gems and Prosperity will have T6 gear before you have T5 gear if all you do is fish with 5 bots, and they manual 1 character.