XiRO is damn near perfect except one thing: Kafra Shop. The fact that you pay with event tokens or whatever it was and not money doesn't change the fact that the items there are simply unbalancing.
How can these items be unbalancing if everyone has access to them?
I dont really see any of these items unbalancing. Unless you have to pay money for them.
Battle Manual, you get +50% exp for 30 minutes, if you die the effect is canceled. I have used myself a pack of 10 during a few hours, and it got me less than 50% improvement (yes i died, was in party in a high lv place for better exp/time). So, what i earned in 5 hours of partying, i could have earned in 2 parties of 3-4 hours each in 2 different days.
And to buy these things again i would need to invest a lot of time on minigames.
Same goes for bubble guns, it just makes all items % be rolled twice, if we take maths in play you will see it isnt the same as having double drop of card, or getting the double of zeny-worth loot.
Giant fly wing...What can i say? I love this item, being able to recall your dead party when you are the leader was the best thing they ever made with all these rental items update. It was just something the game was needing.
Enriched Elu and Ori, despite of what some people think, dont let you overrefine up to +10 without fail, it just does a 10-20% chance to refine (being lower at higher refines and higher chance for lower refines). So you can get a armor from +4 to +5 at 80% chance instead of 60%, but then that 20% bonus goes down to 10%, and at +9 to +10, you still have the very low 10% chance final of success (no bonus).
The real unbalancing rental items are out, refined weapons, special headgears with dozen of bonus, packs of 100-200 of each item (herbs, oris, elus, etc).
The idea of the Kafra Shop was honestly to help out starting people, thus why you get 1000 points upon account creation, and bubblegun/battlemannual costs exactly that to obtain.
No matter how good your server is though, people won't come to it - because they're playing other servers. RO userbase is limited, and no one is going to leave their 90+ trans character unless s*** really DOES hit the fan(I.e. blatant corruption, and I really mean in-your-face-like) or the server closes for whatever reason.
Yes im very aware of that, i just recently quit a server due to internal staff problems (not about corruption though), and all the players that ever said "if you make a new server i will join you", didnt actually meant it, they were just sucking up to see if i would @item them.
But my real question is, what makes people join, look at how pretty it is and leave (not talking about the ones that connect, do /who and alt+F4).
I know im doing a good job on it, because im experienced not only as server developer but also as player, i have seen many good servers die due to lack of population and funds to keep it on a dedicated host, and many more die due to lack of gm power (read:absent staff, playing WoW or just not answering players on their forum), or simply die because they didnt know how to fix their problems. I wont have a problem with the hosting in, ever, at least not in keeping it up with funds or real stability issues.
Well, thanks for your kind reply.
XiRO is damn near perfect
