How to make a server seeker stay on your server

[mark_sanbeda]

If we had a kRO-style server with excellent uptime, lagless, and well ran,

That's hard to find nowadays... so im not really expecting a server to be that perfect 

[Skotlex]

Well that was my point, if there was at least one server with such properties, it would pretty easily gain the monopoly over "non-customized servers". Many RO players just want a stable, balanced, drama-free server. So simple to ask for, so difficult to deliver (mostly because RO is a game designed for kids of the grinders/power-hungry types, and maturity is hard to come by in that...).

[mark_sanbeda]

Well that was my point, if there was at least one server with such properties, it would pretty easily gain the monopoly over "non-customized servers". Many RO players just want a stable, balanced, drama-free server. So simple to ask for, so difficult to deliver (mostly because RO is a game designed for kids of the grinders/power-hungry types, and maturity is hard to come by in that...).

Yeah your right about that... [if there would be a dream server like that.....that would give you good quality then im sure that server is on the top of the summit]

[NikitaDarkstar]

I completly agree with you skotlex, the thing is, a server like that isin't very fun to admin. Many pepole start servers to make RO the way they always wanted it, putting in stuff they think the game needs and "fixing" things they think Gravity did wrong. Hosting a carbon-copy of kRO (with perhaps slightly increased rates) isin't very fun as all you do is work on bugs (ok 90% of the work tends to be that anyway..). I mean it is more fun to put in stuff you'd want than trying to figure out whats wrong with X item.

But thats probably the mid-rate lover in me speaking, I know a few years ago when I still loved low-rates I would have tried to start a server like that just to show it can be done.

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

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Blast from the past!

Good to hear I'm not the only one though.

I completly agree with you skotlex, the thing is, a server like that isin't very fun to admin. Many pepole start servers to make RO the way they always wanted it, putting in stuff they think the game needs and "fixing" things they think Gravity did wrong.

And exactly because of that making a server with no customs at all would be 'new' - in a sense that everyone else always have to change something.

Hosting a carbon-copy of kRO (with perhaps slightly increased rates) isin't very fun as all you do is work on bugs (ok 90% of the work tends to be that anyway..). I mean it is more fun to put in stuff you'd want than trying to figure out whats wrong with X item.

I think having a stable server up and running reliably is a reward in itself. Maybe I'm just a purist, but if I started tinkering with it I'd never let go of that feeling of it being "wrong". Feeling of a job well done beats a slight satisfaction of successfully changing something.