I played on deli for almost two years before I left recently.
Honestly there are two aspects by which to rate deliverance: Gameplay and Personalities.
Gameplay wise, deli is quite troubled, even though this is being overlooked by the the troubles in the second catergory. In short
the economy is horrendous, blacklists are necessiated, the customs are terrible, and there are no events. The deliverance economy is in shambles, and prices have been increasing at an alarming rate. Most of this is arisen due to the ties of zeny to the donation system. Every, pre rachel mini boss card and many powerful headgear (such as alice doll) are available for a 12 dollar canadian donation and wings which give 10 def and all stats+1 are available for 22 CAD. On top of this EVERY pre-rachel mvp card AND god items AND berzebub cards are available for 100 CAD. A bunch of people donate, and due the accumulated donations, with out megs at the least, one cannot do anything notable in WoE.
Most MVP's can easily be solo-ed, and due to there being a grape merchant, grape juice is cheap, and sp is thus infinite. Yggs are also readily available and many people are stocked on this item. Due to 140 being the max level AND due to the blacklisting system, there is infinitely class balance. At this point, Assassin Classes are the class of choice, as SD is spammable (Since delay is affected by agi) and EDP SB is one hit kill (Due to most of the "rich" having phree/incant and two megs) In the future, I have no doubt that Lord Knights will be tragetted, and after that another and another until they realize this infinite cycle of nerf-ing.
As for magic classes 98% cast reduction is pretty easily available, given you have the money to blacklist, and many have the items required. Also there are many custom cards that give dex, such as cruiser that give 3 dex in weapon, and sting giving 4 in acessory. Further more, since each level gives 1 flee and hit, the custom Maximum KoW card, which is available as a lite (or 12 CAD donation) gives +40 Flee giving some classes insane flee. Doppelganger card is also custom in giving more than double the usual aspd bonus and stacks in the sense that with two doppel and 50 agi, one will have the maximum aspd available, 190. Also, Pest card gives +10 agi and 20% neutral reduction which is overpowering, but is the only way to have any hope of stopping an asura from a 140 champ.
For the most part, support classes are also a joke, with out a mjo, which Priests AND champs can equip on deliverance or cast reduction set for profs.
Deliverance is also severly outdated. One cannot even enter Kiel since the quest for it isnt even in. The "latest" update added Ice dungeon and Rachel. The team always promises "SVN's" but the last time the server was updated was about a year ago at which time the sever was down for several weeks for updating purposes.
Events are also non existent. Sharu was brought in as the event GM, but all that is done are rare quizzes.
Next let us look at the personal problems.
First of all, Elitism is rampant in this servent. Just post something that CH and others do not like, and just look at the responses one gets. They really are rude to those that do not agree with them, even to the point of issuing death threats. The primary people that post such things are Anastasia, Antipathy on RMS, and Kika who has a similar name here as well. Once, during a major argument taht split the server, a "Friend" to CH, posted a screenshot that [he got or someone asked him to post] showed admission of guilt of an offense, multiple members harassed him on MSN and even gave him death threats. Same thing to another girl, who happened to give proof of a popular CH member named Merc/Karushi/Alex doing/trying to commit an offense. Antipathy/Ana also moved to ban anyone that says anything negative about deli on RMS or any other server.
http://www.deliverance-online.com/invision/index.php?showtopic=31096 If you read the original topic about deliverance on RMS forums, and ignore the flames, which primarily came from CH members and 1 person on the opposite side, you can see many valid points.
First of all, there is a dual standard present on deliverance. Alex/Merc/Karushi was perm-banned for pk-ing the duel arena. However, he was allowed back, and given acess to his old equips which the pleas of many others were denied. This could be due to the fact that Alex is the biggest donator in deliverance or since he is friends with all of the staff. Others, who had only been implicated due to association, without any proof, have been given prem-bans.
A few months ago, a few members, reportedly said some things to cH, and instantly they were GM-muted in pvp izlude, and allowed to be killed endlessly by CH. They were not jailed, although it was claimed they were, to be taken out of a situation where it could have gotten worse. They reportedly, talked to themselves, implicitly, making fun of CH and were banned. One member, was simply banned due to association. They were then "perm-banned" for making characters on a different account while their main was banned. This was
never stated in the rules before then. In a similar issue, it was explicitly stated by a sub-gm that dual clienting, except for quick transfers was bannable. One CH member did and this was
witnessed by a SubGM who failed to do anything about it Marc, at first did not do anything about it, and rejected that he even knew the person, even though multiple sources going back to redemption confirmed that they do indeed are in the least knowledgable of each other and have talked on MSN atleast a few times.
This percieved and possibly actual corruption tore deliverance apart. 50-100 members have left due to this alone. More leave consistently due to gameplay flaws. Marc, as a last ditch effort to keep his cash cow stong, and his community inatct, perm-banned the offender and took down the forums. While I honestly think he is a good guy, he is losing it with respect to the server. The server is getting to him and its clear with his life situaions he cannot continue for much longer. A few months ago, which he was on a baning rampage, he banned
and posted the IP and e-mail of someone he later
admitted was innocent.Secondly, the is a a troubling attempt at revisionist history by the members. The attempt to put down anyone that disagrees is troubling.
Finally, some of the SUB GM's themselves are troubling characters. Henhouse is very helpful, but has abused the @follow command and with proof, many hope he had been punished. PaDo has also been accused of doing the same thing for the purpose of pk-ing in GGD to cause people to lose 3% exp. Sharu and Andoresu both post implicit things that mock or are pointed. Andoresu's appointment has been nothing short of puzzling, since the only thing that he seems to have is that he is "Dating" Sharu.
There are many things wrong. If you find some small guild and just play to have fun and dont WoE, this is probably an ok server at best. If you want to WoE and you have a lot of money to spend, this probably a good server. If you have a big ego, same paplies. If you want to party and enjoy good WoE's, witha stable, nice population, this is probably a bad server choice.
