Damn, when I saw the title of this thread (but not the sub-forum) I thought you were releasing this server
I was like yay! ^_^
I dont think Ill play now
(dont take it personal), but I remember it was one of my favourite servers like 2 years ago, I got into it a lot and met a couple of cool people there but after playing some months I finally quitted when my friends there did.
Would've been cool to see the sources released
Maybe if you get a dedi Ill play sometime but no time for it right now, but if you're serious about reviving ChaosOT, here's a suggestion:
· Make knights useful.
One of the things I remember the most in that server is that knights where completely useless
(non-donator knights that is), and paladins where also not too good at higher levels. Only mages where a good voc to be at any level. Hence the fact that in the statistic pages, like 90% of the players were mages lol.
That was because there werent custom weapons or equipment made for warriors (knights/paladins), only stuff to raise magic damage and such. And the knights ml was almost impossible to raise and pretty much useless at the end unless you donated. Paladins were easy to raise but their damage compared to mages was void, so at higher lvls a mage would always pwn a paladin/knight.
So Id say if you want a really revived + better ChaosOT, make custom weapons so high lvl knights/paladins can at least melee, make eq designed for warriors and not only the ones for mages, and make a revision of all the custom spells, and fix their damages accordingly
(like the ones knights obtained at 'decent' magic level, were awful and that'd make them even more useless, etc).
Ill certainly play if you do all that, but still, good luck on this