Once you're charmed, you lose.
Excuse my grammar and spelling, since I typed this in a flash.
CharmRO is another one of those social servers where players spend most of their time in Payon chating or grinding for the fun of it. Base on my knowledge and the information obtain in-game, I'll whip up a review that is totally different from what the players are saying on their review page. So lets begin.
Donation/Custom
I find the donation page on cRO very hilarous, the problem is that their pricing is out of proportion, I mean, does a Strong Recovery Wand(25 Credits) really worth more than Sleipnir(12 Credits). And to make the problem even more complex, the colors for the headgears are not complete. For example, the New Dark Red Fairy Wings, what happen to blue, white, black, and green. Why does it even matter? Well, I have the whole set myself and wonder why the other colors aren't implemented for players to choose their favorite colors.
And as a developer myself, who work constantly with implementing customs. The server owner herself is probably lazy, because nearly all the donations have 5 def and only bonus stats. There is absolutely no original content besides well, nothing. The headgears only give bonus and reduce damage for demihuman. What this means is that she is so lazy she copy/pasted a templated item line and used it for all her donations.
Presentation
The server presentation is superb, they are using the best forum software IPB($150) and their website is beautifully design. For their forums I would give a 9/10 due to the lack of a logo. For the website I give a 10/10. This is probably one of the best, if not, the only thing that I find good about the server.
Events
Remember back when we were kids we used to play hide n seek and use our imaginations? Well, CharmRO is not far from childish events. I mean, they have automatic chat related events where players have to put in a password. Probably hide-n-seek. And one event that I see going around most of the time, is the kill and loot event, where GMs drop an item and the player kill monster to retrieve it. Other events are located on the forums, where players have to provide outside talents to produce images or stuff for the benefit of the server, like the logo design.
Notice the trend? They. Are. Boring. And. Prehistoric.
GM Team and Production
Their admin "Luna~" said exclusively on the RMS chat that she insist on running the server base on her leadership and attitude. Oh wait, let me go back. She insist on running the server base on leadership because she can't SCRIPT. If you log on to charmRO, you will notice that the NPCs are pretty much mediocore. For one thing, their scripts are missing a [Header] and most of their scripts consist mainly of warps and stuff stolen taken off eAthena's script release section and the custom folder. And from my own experience those script releases are ANCIENT and most of the time, those scripts are for "testing" purposes only. The actual release scripts lacks proper English and well, unexplain glitches and bugs. If you're going to rip a script, learn to understand the script itself and use it as a template to script your own. That is probably the best policy, otherwise, you won't know what you've done. An analogy would be like taking candy from strangers.
Is this server still consider "new?"
Well judging by their forum post dates. I would say that two months is enough for any server to start off, but they deserve another 2 months because their server owner is busying reporting other servers and granted that she has a life, as well as her team.
What about the standard RMS ratings!?
As you can tell, the server is probably still consider as "new" and because they have a low population, thing such as guild competition, economy, and among other things can't be honestly rated. However I can provide to you players one assumption. Since logging on the server, I notice that the GM team is activated among the community and that usually means one thing. Their community is becoming more centralize. Why? They need to be centralize because there isn't anything on CharmRO that makes you want to stay besides the community. Hopefully that would be all that they need.
What does this means about their current ratings?
Lies. My rating.
Server Uptime - 10/10
Community - Centralize. Void Rating.
GM - 9/10 - Doesn't say anything about being able to script!
Game-Play - No economy, No guild competition. If you don't know what an Economy is, don't argue with me. One guild owns the server and that is "Vanguard." Lastly, Class Balance. No rating from me.
