What is up with SHRs now?

[Melchyor]

I have tested at least 12 of the top shrs and a lot has changed...not to brag but I have been with RO for quite a while...here are a few major observations:

1. Apparently the BRs and whites all stopped playing.

2. One in 100 players knows how to write an honest review.

3. Apparently shr loosely translated means "WE ONLY DO PVP. GO TO LOW RATE IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THE GAME"

4. There is one server that is so contorted that the RMS dbs are useless there and for some reason RMS still lets it claim to be an RO server

5. Been like 3 years since 3rd jobs were announced and they still aren't finished

6. A nasty plague hit she servers for sure because population used to be much better than this

7. The hostility level on forums and in-game are unprecedented.

8. The summaries of the qualities of a server advertised on RMS generally are the inverse of what they state(eg:Balanced Classes means severely unbalanced classes)

9. Somehow the small shr population has managed to suck all the fun out RO. The only times I have fun nowadays is during shroomie hunts or novie vs. Zombie events ( I am pro-zombie ).

10. ANYONE who expresses any opinion or observation is branded as a RANTER or MALCONTENT.

[Kensei]

SHR = pinoy-infested server

[Melchyor]

Quote from: Melchyor on Yesterday at 03:31 pm
Any decent HRs for old english speaking players like me?

www.gamingaero.com

We re-opened recently.

That's not the "AERO" ? The ancient canadian server from ages ago...like the first one to have wings?

[Scribbles]

I just totally hate SHR's that decide to give you absolutely everything, but I've played on some good SHR servers that were fine without PVP.

SHR's can have a good economy if they lower the drop rates. I care more about getting my stats and skills up.

[Melchyor]

I am old, disabled and sick to death of pvp-obsessed daycare servers. Now the renewal system was just coming into effect when I took my break from ro.  So from time to time, I need to ask a question or make an outdated statement and then the teens looking for fresh meat swarm ya with flames. I respect RO, I have been playing for a LONG time and I hate a lot of the things SHR has and hasn't done for this great game...over-nerfing, not nerfing where it is so blatantly necessary, completely ignoring the plight of low rate oriented classes like the high priest (3 useful/non-powerful skills out of 23...don't get me started on the npc buffers).

The poring and the lunatic are probably the two most iconic monsters in RO but I wouldn't slot their cards if you paid me and when I suggest giving them a cool card effect the staff and players look at me like i have 3 heads. I could go on like this forever but I'll just get worked up.

I have considered making my own server but I could more easily design a faster than light space craft than I could make sense of eathena's how-to guide.

[Riku]

I used to really like SHRs, before they became what they are today. Overly contorted into a completely different game, not a lick of english to be found, no aspect of RO left except what they call PVP, and my own personal trait of hatred, infested with anime crap like Naruto or Pokemon. Sad truth is there just aren't any left that are still 'RO'.

[Yusifer]

You say SHRs, but a lot of this is true for servers in general.

RO just isn't what it was. S'all. Dead game trying to grasp for life.

[Chemical Crush]

I have considered making my own server but I could more easily design a faster than light space craft than I could make sense of eathena's how-to guide.

This made me Lol so hard.  Like for real. 

The How - To guide on eA sucks and is too confusing I agree.

Anywho on topic.

Ive only played a few Super High Rates and honestly I got super bored super fast.  I just stick with Low / Mid rates now =[

[baseballGuy]

8. The summaries of the qualities of a server advertised on RMS generally are the inverse of what they state(eg:Balanced Classes means severely unbalanced classes)

oh please, enlighten me more... in low rates it was paladin the game.

[Kensei]

This Melchyor dude is obviously a genius, nuff said

[Scribbles]

8. The summaries of the qualities of a server advertised on RMS generally are the inverse of what they state(eg:Balanced Classes means severely unbalanced classes)

oh please, enlighten me more... in low rates it was paladin the game.

I don't know why people say classes are balanced. It's not like you can tell the players "No more Lord Knights until we get more High Wiz" and if you DO, your a complete donkey. Just how in SHR's you'll have to immediately limit SinX until there's more everything else.

[ilphithra]

Any server = pinoy-infested server

Fixed that for you. I'm starting to think they should change the game's name into "Pinoys Online" or something...

[XicoR4]

8. The summaries of the qualities of a server advertised on RMS generally are the inverse of what they state(eg:Balanced Classes means severely unbalanced classes)

oh please, enlighten me more... in low rates it was paladin the game.

I don't know why people say classes are balanced. It's not like you can tell the players "No more Lord Knights until we get more High Wiz" and if you DO, your a complete donkey. Just how in SHR's you'll have to immediately limit SinX until there's more everything else.

Well, there's a reason a majority of people choose certain classes as their main though. When it comes to (super) high rates, most have maximum level over 99 or donations/customs that break class balance, making a couple classes much more desirable to play than others. The most notable and common example of this is champ, due to the exponential way in which Asura works. Personally, I think the game isn't even balanced at 99 when it comes to classes.

Another thing when it comes to High rates is that normally the admins just increase max level and let people easily reach instant cast and max aspd, making certain skills extremely overpowered when compared to others which have set or harder to reduce delays (Animation, Aftercast or Re-use). They also do not tweak certain skills that are made with the limits of 99/70 in mind. (Acid Demonstration, Pressure and Gravity Field for example)

[Tom~]

What makes Champions scary in SHRs, is the fact that most of SHRs have 0 delay... making their skills amazingly spammable. Therefore, you see lots of people using 3rd party programs to spam combos or FO much faster than normal... and yeah. CHAMP OP, NURF PLSSS.

I agree with Yusifer-- this applies to RO in general. Good servers are as rare as diamonds... and they usually don't last as long as diamonds ):

[Cheese Time]

What makes Champions scary in SHRs, is the fact that most of SHRs have 0 delay... making their skills amazingly spammable. Therefore, you see lots of people using 3rd party programs to spam combos or FO much faster than normal... and yeah. CHAMP OP, NURF PLSSS.

I agree with Yusifer-- this applies to RO in general. Good servers are as rare as diamonds... and they usually don't last as long as diamonds ):

Diamonds will never last as long as a RO server, theyre a metal!