Ok I've played here from time to time for 1 month. So what I can say about server:
Pros:
- Custom Content on old map - almost all place are rebuild and you need to learn to hunt this place other way then before. In that case it's good there are no overspawn mechanic.
- System of Elite Monsters - sometimes too hard, and even very high level character can die because some hard monster got his elite version. But it bring new goals and fun.
- Ambush system - Everywhere are dangers, you must be prepared for various situation on your way.
- Semi nice community - There are bunch of active guilds you can join.
- Exp quests for exploring map, so you don't stand in one place. It's interesting to find new places and new traps.
- Invasion system - I think there are too many events per day, so in long term you stop to care about them. But there are many interesting thing happening.
- You need to team up - playing alone here is senseless. Mostly you need help of other players to handel simple spawns. If I would play seriously here I would take one knight and 2nd paladin/mage to hunt stuff.
Cons:
- GM who change his mind everytime someone cry to him something is wrong, bad designed etc. Well some changes were needed, but if changes comes every 2-3 days you start to think - does he really know what is he doing?
- CM and GM position given just to random people in don't know what key. GM's and Cm's shall be trustworthy people not every1 who just nice chated with GM.
- Cheaters - unfortunately there are cheaters here, so it means honest players are in disadvantage. And cheaters will play here because GM is too scared of drop player base - what is opposite, because when people see there are cheaters they just leave the server.
- Bugs - well not very destructive, but there are bugs, bad mechanics on monsters behavior, i`m not sure - but i feel dmg and armor formulas are broken too.
- Social rune system - totally unbalanced and break economy. On one hand you can have free runes everyday. If you are higher level you get more of them. But when you know how to play and for example you got 60lv paladin, after few days you will got 15+bp of uhs, because if you are good you wont use them at all. So in longterm hlvl knights and paladins will got so many runes and they wont need to buy most of them.
- Additional quests unbalance - well, it shows lack of knowledge what runes/items can give to players. From some quests you can gain amazing items like 100 charge might rings, 20 x sd rune, 80 x explosion rune(around 20k worth if you would buy bp of explosion from players), 20k xp from single quest etc. Its promote people who got teams, its worth to make 1-2 good characters and later low lvl - get exp till 20lv~ in normal way and run around for all bunch of quests around and bump, u are lv 30 and rich with good items.
- Elite Monsters, Ambush, Invasion - yeah, I think its pros - but well, sometimes people want to just chill - login and hunt for 1-2 hour. When you need to care all the time for invasions, ambush and elite apperience you cant relax in my opinion.
- You need to team up - well, some people don't like to play with others+sometimes you wont find friends to play, because they are offline, busy etc. So in that situation you don't have many options to play/play with high waste(what isn't problem cause of social runes).
- Economy break in longterm - atm economy of server is bad, and it will become only worse. Because higher levels and richer player will get only better benefits and low level players will had bad start, because nobody will need they runes, maybe some items from quests.
So is it worth or not? In my opinion it's very interesting server worth to try. It's something different, but you cant take it very serious because of following cons:
unbalanced exp, unbalanced economy, cheaters, GM change the rules every 3 days
Also server isn't for everyone, if it would be for honest players this is server for 50-100 ppl on peak onlines. But if GM desire to have 200-300 players, whatever they are mc, bot or normal player we have what we have.
It's nothing personal Aris, It's just opinion. I joined your server because I saw you put a lot of work on it and I respect that. I had some fun on your server, but I`m lack of time person and i`m not cheater so when I see such things happening I lose fate. Damage is done already. Anyway i wish you good luck and many players who will try out your server - because it's funny, original and there are good people playing it.
p.s.
Streamers bring people only for a while, also streamers will leave when you stop pay.
Your's Lamu