Server review:
Having geeked it since the first launch, I feel like writing a review of the server.
Pros:
- Good amount of added items makes getting trash drops fun, it's legitimately fun when seeing an added item drop because it could just be a good upgrade.
- Low rate: Levelling speed is just right, not too fast, but not too slow either, feels like you can make good progress while still maintaining a low-rate feel.
Cons:
- Server team does not communicate with each other, when asking GMs a question, one will give one answer, another will give a different answer.
- Unprofessional server team: SayPlease accidentally rebooted the server yesterday by "closing the wrong tab" even though you get a confirmation message asking if you're sure you want to close the server. Then came in game and acted like it was all a big joke in global chat.
- Over-priced cash shop: £25 for a mount. £2.50 for a 30min 20% exp buff. Clearly didn't get the memo about micro-transactions being the way forward.
- GM interference: Teleporting to people whilst not in observer mode, trapping people in lures. Suspicions that it might even be slightly more than this but have no concrete evidence, just things that seem a little fishy.
- Bugs: Good god the bugs, it was claimed that this server was beta tested for 6 months. 6 hours is more like it. There are more bugs on this server than I have ever seen on any other server. Sin skills FatalSword & FlashDash don't work properly, potion shop is bugged, half the doorways in the game are buggy to name just a few. Oh and don't even think of trying to walk near a piece of scenery that has an animation.
- Caves: There have been several caves which "shouldn't have been able to be accessed" by players but somehow made it through beta testing. For example the Forgotten Path (entrance in Mongchon, between BC and Sabuk) packed with melee mobs, incredibly slow moving, giving 6450xp per kill and easily soloable by 26 sin. I did 60% of 26 there this morning in 2 hours. SayPlease then spawned guards to block the entrance, stating "I didn't know people were lvling there, these mobs should easily 2 shot you". This also happened with Lunar cave being accessible before the server wipe.
-Not-so-low-rate: By the time I hit lvl26, I had 5x lvl26 weps, 2x lvl30 weps and the disgusting acc+3 quest reward lvl26 wep.
-Gold is worthless: This is a personal hate of mine, gold is completely worthless on this server, skill books drop in complete abundance in almost every cave and sell for 10-20k each to the book shop. Got 3mil just from lvling to 26.
-Spell ranges: Half the skills on all classes require the mouse to be over your character when casting otherwise you get an error message.
-User count: Lower average user count than the current highest level player (31).
-Knee-jerk changes: Bosses were killed by the highest wiz/tao combo and then immediately being buffed by the GMs because they were "still too easy". For reference WT took the same amount of time to kill as you would expect to kill DarkDevil.
-Pandering to players: All you have to do to get something changed on this server is cry about it for a little while. We cried about the ridiculous pet they had in the cash shop which was helping people level super fast, took about 10 minutes of moaning about it and got them to wipe the server lol (and the fact there had been a 16 hour rewind because one of them managed to crash it).
In conclusion, I can't recommend this server at all for a combination of all the reasons listed above, it's going to have a very short shelf life. One of the GMs claimed over £3000 had been spent during development. On what exactly, donuts?
/Wallnut