- Oct 2, 2005
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I have played since open beta, and I would like to express some concerns for anyone who wish to play this server. I will put a TL DR in the end.
As you all know, the server is pretty much offline at the moment, but most of the people don't know the real reason for that.
A few days ago when the server owner - azzi - made the recent patch, the server went offline for much more then the max 4 hours he said it would take.
The reason for that, is that he updated the crystal files to the official ones, meaning he had to do quite a lot of changes on the files in order for them to work (and because the files had some changes in the way pictures are stored, an entire client had to be downloaded).
Now normally, you would think that a responsible owner would make a test server, and make sure that he has a functioning client that can be downloaded, but azzi is not that type of person. Azzi just took down the server, and during the night he found out he had no idea what he is doing, so he had to contact thedeath (whom btw he said knows **** about the server a day before), in order to even get the server into a half working state.
The thing is, what you would normally want to do when updating the files, is to take the files you have now (and the version he had at that point was quite stable), and to put on them the patches that the official server had one by one.
Instead what he did is to take the official server and try to convert it into what he had, and in the process he forgot a lot of changes he made in order to make the server stable, which led not only to the unstable state that the server is on now, but also a lot of changes that were made during the month and a half the server is online and during the few weeks of beta, are not in the game (for example the bonuses of some sets are the ones he changed in the past).
This is not even remotely the first time Azzi has done things like that. In fact, I think 90% of the end game bosses were bugged at this point or another, which could only mean that he was lazy enough to even skip spawning one and see if it works, let alone test the drops, which ofc led to a pretty unbalanced drop files.
Now during this patch, he decided its a good idea to make a boss that drops the end game items quite often, how often? often enough so that if you killed all the bosses before this patch, you would still get less than this boss, and guess what the spawn timer is? hour or around it (probably has some random factor).
Azzi claimed that he doesnt give any special treatment for the dominant guild called MVP, and you could claim that koriban (member there also) being the mod in the subforum is not a proof, but the thing is, almost any change he made during the 2 month's I played was to benefit MVP, after he put the patch, MVP started losing some fights, so koriban complained about fd being too strong after a losing fight and of course the first priority azzi had is to nerf this spell to the ground (almost immediately). when other people complain about bugs or exlpoits or hacks he didnt bother even responding to many of them.
Also the way azzi nerf or buff stuff is just amazing, he will either nerf something to the ground or buff it to insanity, so if you thought about hunting that boss that he made, its not gonna happen, the drops are gonna be nerfed to the ground once MVP gets their end game items, and then it will drop nothing at all, just like it happened with quite a lot of other bosses.
I also cannot believe a word Azzi say. during the xmas event he claimed that if you kill tree you got small chance of spawning a boss, yet the bosses seem to be spawning just when he is online, so I researched it and apparently he couldnt make a monster give global shout when dying and to make it spawn another one (according to some people who understand far more than me in the files), which means he spawned them himself (and you could actually understand it just from the way the boss spawned and then respawned when it died to gaurds, the times between the globals and the boss respawn and everything pretty much were uneven in the 2 times it respawned), and lied to everyone
The server has quite a lot of custom clients, and azzi claim that their existance "is impossible", yet on the recent patch he actually bothered patching some of the hacks that were being used for a month and a half, and yeah if you are reading it far, your defenses did almost nothing, and the thing that probably made most of the retired people to retire is the auto patcher that has nothing to do with the defenses, and it still make people retire. By the way, if I had access to the logs I could prove some people including one guy with green name have been cheating (and no, I am not talking about thedeath, who btw was not cheating at all).
There are so many other complaints in my head about how the server ran, but really I think thats enough for anyone to understand the type of server we are dealing with.
So overall, the server is pretty much fubar right now, I would tell you not to play it, but I am not even sure if you will be able to log in the game, so whats the point.
TL DR
Azzi was lazy, so basically the files are in a state of beta at the moment.
Azzi was lying to everyone during the xmas event
The dominant guild is getting insane drops from the new boss that requires no effort of killing (para boss), and of course the drops will be nerfed to the ground once they got their items, so no one else will have them.
That guild is also getting a lot of special treatment.
Do not even bother trying to play this game.
As you all know, the server is pretty much offline at the moment, but most of the people don't know the real reason for that.
A few days ago when the server owner - azzi - made the recent patch, the server went offline for much more then the max 4 hours he said it would take.
The reason for that, is that he updated the crystal files to the official ones, meaning he had to do quite a lot of changes on the files in order for them to work (and because the files had some changes in the way pictures are stored, an entire client had to be downloaded).
Now normally, you would think that a responsible owner would make a test server, and make sure that he has a functioning client that can be downloaded, but azzi is not that type of person. Azzi just took down the server, and during the night he found out he had no idea what he is doing, so he had to contact thedeath (whom btw he said knows **** about the server a day before), in order to even get the server into a half working state.
The thing is, what you would normally want to do when updating the files, is to take the files you have now (and the version he had at that point was quite stable), and to put on them the patches that the official server had one by one.
Instead what he did is to take the official server and try to convert it into what he had, and in the process he forgot a lot of changes he made in order to make the server stable, which led not only to the unstable state that the server is on now, but also a lot of changes that were made during the month and a half the server is online and during the few weeks of beta, are not in the game (for example the bonuses of some sets are the ones he changed in the past).
This is not even remotely the first time Azzi has done things like that. In fact, I think 90% of the end game bosses were bugged at this point or another, which could only mean that he was lazy enough to even skip spawning one and see if it works, let alone test the drops, which ofc led to a pretty unbalanced drop files.
Now during this patch, he decided its a good idea to make a boss that drops the end game items quite often, how often? often enough so that if you killed all the bosses before this patch, you would still get less than this boss, and guess what the spawn timer is? hour or around it (probably has some random factor).
Azzi claimed that he doesnt give any special treatment for the dominant guild called MVP, and you could claim that koriban (member there also) being the mod in the subforum is not a proof, but the thing is, almost any change he made during the 2 month's I played was to benefit MVP, after he put the patch, MVP started losing some fights, so koriban complained about fd being too strong after a losing fight and of course the first priority azzi had is to nerf this spell to the ground (almost immediately). when other people complain about bugs or exlpoits or hacks he didnt bother even responding to many of them.
Also the way azzi nerf or buff stuff is just amazing, he will either nerf something to the ground or buff it to insanity, so if you thought about hunting that boss that he made, its not gonna happen, the drops are gonna be nerfed to the ground once MVP gets their end game items, and then it will drop nothing at all, just like it happened with quite a lot of other bosses.
I also cannot believe a word Azzi say. during the xmas event he claimed that if you kill tree you got small chance of spawning a boss, yet the bosses seem to be spawning just when he is online, so I researched it and apparently he couldnt make a monster give global shout when dying and to make it spawn another one (according to some people who understand far more than me in the files), which means he spawned them himself (and you could actually understand it just from the way the boss spawned and then respawned when it died to gaurds, the times between the globals and the boss respawn and everything pretty much were uneven in the 2 times it respawned), and lied to everyone
The server has quite a lot of custom clients, and azzi claim that their existance "is impossible", yet on the recent patch he actually bothered patching some of the hacks that were being used for a month and a half, and yeah if you are reading it far, your defenses did almost nothing, and the thing that probably made most of the retired people to retire is the auto patcher that has nothing to do with the defenses, and it still make people retire. By the way, if I had access to the logs I could prove some people including one guy with green name have been cheating (and no, I am not talking about thedeath, who btw was not cheating at all).
There are so many other complaints in my head about how the server ran, but really I think thats enough for anyone to understand the type of server we are dealing with.
So overall, the server is pretty much fubar right now, I would tell you not to play it, but I am not even sure if you will be able to log in the game, so whats the point.
TL DR
Azzi was lazy, so basically the files are in a state of beta at the moment.
Azzi was lying to everyone during the xmas event
The dominant guild is getting insane drops from the new boss that requires no effort of killing (para boss), and of course the drops will be nerfed to the ground once they got their items, so no one else will have them.
That guild is also getting a lot of special treatment.
Do not even bother trying to play this game.