A Custom Real Map Server?

[Red]

Hey guys, most of you know that I have been running the server Cyntara for almost three and a half years now. It occurred to me that Open Tibia has changed over the years. When Cyntara was created it was just another RoXoR server (literally!) and it had far more players than it does these days. I had far less for players to accomplish, yet they played for much longer than they do these days.
I know, there's quite a bit I can improve on. But I feel that for the advertisement, commitment, community, and reputation that I've built up over the years, peaking at 80 players on a normal day isn't something I enjoy.
I considered today, perhaps there really is no audience for RoXoR servers anymore (even though I've developed far from RoXoR's original concept and added much, much more).
I wanted to see what OtLand thought about a 9.6 (or newest protocol) "Real Map" server. It would be the same design/shape as Tibia, but nearly every single monster would be somewhat or much different from real Tibia. It would basically be a custom server based around Tibia's (heavily edited) map. But distinct areas could be located, such as fields of glory, ankrahmun, edron, port hope, liberty bay and more. Everything could be easily recognized, but areas such as drefia, plains of havoc, femor hills, and demona would be in the same area but not necessarily have the same creatures but around the same difficulty as real Tibia.

If I'm not being descriptive enough I can explain again. But the purpose of this thread is:

tl;dr Would you play a completely customized version of Tibia for the newest protocol? And whether you would like to play or not, do you think it would be something new?
Also, I'll be answering any questions about this theoretical server in this thread. Ask anything!

Thank you all for your time,
Red

PS. For those of you interested in Cyntara (I imagine at least a few of you may be), after I get feedback toward this idea in the near future I will be trying to pry open the guts of my server and community and give it a remake so that hopefully my server can be something that more players would enjoy. If you're curious more about this, send me a PM.

 

[jpghard]

I voted No. I really dislike the real tibia map, and no matter how many custom spawns you add, it'll always just be another real map server to me. If I wanted to play a real map server I'd just play the actually successful RL servers, or Tibia itself.

However, I'm not against the idea of making a custom server that uses parts of the real map, such as the towns for example. But if you're gonna use the entire real map and simply make some changes to it, that's just another RL server I'll never play.

But that's just my 2 cents.

Edit: Also I forgot to say: I don't play your server, but changing your server completely simply because it doesn't have enough player is a terrible idea. I'm sure there are players that love your server and would be devastated if you completely changed it. If you want to make another server, I'd suggest hosting it separately, not overriding your already existing server.

 

[Sexy Mage]

I voted Yes.

Mainly because I know Red always puts a ton of effort on his OTS, for example: Cyntara. It's a great server, and I 100% agree that people aren't playing Roxor Maps anymore, and seeing Red's work, I know he can make a good/different Tibia RL OT from the others & be successful, his work has always pleased me. But I agree with the post above, don't remove Cyntara, many people still enjoy Cyntara so much and would hate to give up on it. I'd say replace your second server with this one. And hope that Cyntara keeps going strong while you work on this project. You got my thumbs up on this idea.

 

[Synthetic_]

I actually had the idea to do this a while back, but decided not to do it because the real tibia map in general is just boring. There's a lot of other reasons why I decided not to do it, but for the most part it was because I don't think a lot of people would be willing to try it out. Also, I don't think the players on your server has anything to do with lack of interest in your server, but lack of interest in Tibia in general. As much as we can pretend to ignore it, Tibia is dying. Open-Tibia is dying, and there's really nothing at this point anyone can do to change that because it's all been done. I think open-tibia originally thrived because it was something new, and it gave players (who would never be able to) the opportunity to obtain a high level in open tibia servers and feel the thrill of what its like to actually be a high level. Open-Tibia was a lot more simple back then, because there was so few distros people who put any bit of effort into a server usually got a lot of players. Nowadays you need to have a 100% custom server (built from ground up) for people to actually show an interest in it. I don't think there will be any new Tibia / Open-Tibia 'booms' because Tibia is becoming an older and older game.

 

[LuckyM]

Voted No

No..

Because it dosnt matter how much you editing / adding new custom spawns, Its still the boring real-map we are talking about! Red I've tested your roxxor map before, And liked it! I'm joining your server if you make an custom server. That would be awesome!

 

[Vendeliko]

Custom real map? Makes no sense,you use real map your not using a custom map no matter how many spawns,quests etc you add.

 

[Fallen]

why the hell not... custom real maps were fun last time I played. good luck

 

[Jetro]

i recommend you work in the server you have, actually in otservers the map doesn't matter at all, work in add more features, missions, quests, more funny events and people will come eventually

 

[Red]

I appreciate all your feedback. I'll likely just let this thread die, it was an idea I created randomly and wanted to see if it would be massively popular (which I see it's not )

Custom real map? Makes no sense,you use real map your not using a custom map no matter how many spawns,quests etc you add.

Real map as in: The areas of Tibia are distinguishable
Custom as in: Every single creature you encounter will be edited and a lot of the areas would be revamped, but their geographical locations will stay the same.

I appreciate seeing feedback though, thank you all <3
Red

 

[Synthetic_]

i recommend you work in the server you have, actually in otservers the map doesn't matter at all, work in add more features, missions, quests, more funny events and people will come eventually

This pretty much, Red if you'd really like to do this idea why don't you go through with it? When I was originally going to do this, I was going to make Thais, Carlin, Venore and Ab'dendriel the starting areas for like lvl 1-100, and then the other cities were areas that you had to unlock access to them by doing quests / getting a higher level. It could be a cool server if done properly, and if you put work into a server and people see its not a download and run, they will play it.