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Offline Love

DivinityRO
« on: Nov 10, 2011, 12:29 am »
Here's my review of DivinityRO

100/100/25


The server is still in its beta phase. Small changes are still being made to it. There aren't many customs at all. A few donations - not custom, reasonably priced, and not overpowered.

Stability: 9/10 Server's up all the time. I haven't gotten disconnected too often. I multiclient all the time and get no lag at all. My guild doesn't have any trouble at all either. I live in new york and the connection with the server from here is perfect. I went on vacation in Florida, and got no lag there either. No spikes.

Availability: 8/10 Hasn't gone down or been off as long as I've played. Maybe we had to relog to update, but that was always announced. Some small server reloads sometimes, but those are usually announced as well.

Friendliness: 9/10 Everyone on the server has been friendly for the most part. If you ask anyone for help they will almost always help you. Especially if you're a new player. Since the server is just starting and slowly growing, guilds are competing for members, but everyone is still pretty cool with each other.

Eventfulness: 10/10 24 hour automated events. There's bomb poring, dice, disguise event, and poring catcher. They're all pretty fun to take a break from leveling or hunting. The prizes aren't crazy either, but worth taking part in the events. There's a pretty fun invasion event too, where a whole bunch of monsters attack a town and you just go kill them.

Game Master Ratings: 10/10 The GMs are all very friendly and helpful. They've been very respectful to me and my guild since we started. There's almost always a GM online to help you. The Head GM works hard on the server and I give him credit for it. They put in a cool quest in the beginning that gave me a totally different introduction to RO, and made me like the server even more.

Economy: 7/10 Many different ways to hunt money. Witherless roses are nerfed to sell for less so there isn't tons of money floating around. No one really vends anything yet, but if you ask around you can usually find what you need from another player for a reasonable price or trade.

Guild Competition: 5/10 Server is still in beta phase. There 3 guilds right now formed. Guilds are still working on gaining members and gearing up. WoE is getting better. KoE is always alright, but could be way better with more players.

      

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DivinityRO
« on: Nov 10, 2011, 12:29 am »

Offline Kensei

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #1 on: Nov 10, 2011, 01:25 am »
since I did lurk on their forum for a while, I knew some things happened there. I don't want to make another thread since I basically didn't play here, only on the phase where I read the forum to know how good the server is.

sure it's new but the past was quite messed up, in which there was actually an event with "Thanatos" card as the prize (WOW SERIOUSLY NOW). we know how gamebreaking a Thanatos card could be. right, some was discussing about this case earlier. but since MvP card is serious business for them (especially, this is one of the gamebreaking card besides GTB and FBH), they didn't delete the card since the owner refused as well. so they closed the case, and covering stuff with like "Thanatos isn't imba, it's just an IP, besides it gives -30 DEF" blablabla and stuffs like that.

Obviously not enough RO for the staffs. Then someone was asking about this as well on forum. Sure his/her language was quite harsh (or the forum is just too carebear), then his/her thread got locked before he/she got his/her answer. Another thread opened for clarification, he/she got banned for "trolling" (seriously, I know how to troll and which post can be considered "trolling").

And that's how I feel like I'd rather join another server. This server was actually not bad from other sections I've read, but if things continue like this, I won't feel comfortable. I'd recommend this server if you're going oldschool RO gaming though. PvP/BG, maybe. WoE? Big no-no with Thanatos around and carebear community is like shoo-ing WoE people away indirectly.

Just my 2 cents.

P.S : feel free to delete if you think it's not appropriate.
« Last Edit: Nov 10, 2011, 01:52 am by Kensei »
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Offline Sour

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #2 on: Nov 10, 2011, 12:41 pm »
Dude, thats why it wiped. Its fresh new start now, and the mvp card drop rate is down to .10. Bring your guild/friends! We need more competition!

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Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #3 on: Nov 10, 2011, 01:19 pm »
since I did lurk on their forum for a while, I knew some things happened there. I don't want to make another thread since I basically didn't play here, only on the phase where I read the forum to know how good the server is.

sure it's new but the past was quite messed up, in which there was actually an event with "Thanatos" card as the prize (WOW SERIOUSLY NOW). we know how gamebreaking a Thanatos card could be. right, some was discussing about this case earlier. but since MvP card is serious business for them (especially, this is one of the gamebreaking card besides GTB and FBH), they didn't delete the card since the owner refused as well. so they closed the case, and covering stuff with like "Thanatos isn't imba, it's just an IP, besides it gives -30 DEF" blablabla and stuffs like that.

Obviously not enough RO for the staffs. Then someone was asking about this as well on forum. Sure his/her language was quite harsh (or the forum is just too carebear), then his/her thread got locked before he/she got his/her answer. Another thread opened for clarification, he/she got banned for "trolling" (seriously, I know how to troll and which post can be considered "trolling").

And that's how I feel like I'd rather join another server. This server was actually not bad from other sections I've read, but if things continue like this, I won't feel comfortable. I'd recommend this server if you're going oldschool RO gaming though. PvP/BG, maybe. WoE? Big no-no with Thanatos around and carebear community is like shoo-ing WoE people away indirectly.

Just my 2 cents.

P.S : feel free to delete if you think it's not appropriate.
If you're going to comment on the server, at least be truthful. If all of these accusations are true, post some screenshots.

That's right, you don't have any.

First of all, the server was wiped because of multiple reasons - LET ME JUST ADD, the players voted on this. Not only that, we sat down as a staff team and revised the way we run things. Prior to the wipe, we had an event and a Thanatos card was dropped from Thanatos. Robin, a player, had gotten the card and there was a lot of hostility. Robin gave up the card to end the drama as it had appeared it was unfair to the players. Let me just reiterate, as someone might think otherwise, Robin was never a GM nor knew the GM team on a personal level - just so we're on the same page. In fact, Love brought Robin to the server. Sour, whom is now a GM, was not a GM at the time nor did the staff really know him. Just so we're clear, the players never thought we had randomly made sure Robin won, but I don't want anyone to twist this part of the story or de-rail it.

Second of all, someone made a thread called "Imba Update" and started cursing all over the forums. THIS is considered flaming and trolling as if you don't adhere to my warnings via Private Message. The guild was Lampire, referred to as angry bird guild due to their emblem, and it consisted of a bunch of foreigners who wanted to not only start drama, also suggest ridiculous suggestions to start issues. They were dealt with swiftly. You should know a lot about trolling, though. Let me also extrapolate, every player will agree that I have strict guidelines for staff. Am I the same for players? Heck no! They can make characters named "Badass" for all I care. I do not moderate their chat for curse words. The only rule we are strict about is calling others negative names in a non-joking way. Which, might I add, when had 60 players online at a time and the community was larger... we have never actually muted, jailed or banned for it. In fact, I have only banned 2 players. We have no record of muting really anyone nor jailing anyone. Reason is? We're not bad cop police. We want everyone to have freedom of expression. Many GM teams will do away with you quickly. Every player, if they say one thing about me, will admit that I am very fair, unbiased and will within a minute time sit down one on one with a player(s) to chat if they have concerns. Period. You can refer to Love, Cloud (the only banned person), Sour, Kami or any other players on the server. And not only that, you can refer to Zell whom I banned when a player expressed proven (with screenshots) concerns about him and his attitudes. I want to ensure audiences of this thread understand I really care a lot about each player. End of story.

Third, you can't base judgement if you haven't played the server. In fact, you have no idea of what you're talking about. Please post screenshots that I, the owner, said the Thanatos Card wasn't a big deal. It was a big deal. The fact of the matter is, it was fairly won as the players who participated understood we were killing Thanatos as an event. It was poor planning on the GM teams part and it won't happen again.

If you don't play the server, don't review us. Your review is biased and unjustified. You have no proof, no justification as to why you're even sharing "2 cents" what so ever. I will let readers be the judge of that and to anyone who is reading about my server understand that this person's review is completely false - in the sense, he picked up bits and pieces of an "one sided story". Did he think well maybe the Admin/GM team doesn't want to rid the forum with drama? How would he know how the players felt? And, say I am a bad Administrator... why wouldn't there be any terrible reviews all over RMS or my RMS page? I really can't stand when people play this card - trap card NOT activated.

You have the balls of a burglar to be throwing stones when you live in a glass house. You're calling me out on mistakes and twisting it to be untruthful... yet, I'm the bad Administrator? Please refer to my review page. We have great reviews about my character, personality and leadership skills.

Thank you for reading,
Cookie

P.S. - You sure contradict yourself a lot Kensei. In your signature:
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I am not a troll <3

U sad bro?

You aren't a troll? I'd say sitting on our server forums and then deciding to attack us without any idea of what you are mentioning nor any relevant knowledge of my server... I'd consider you a troll. But, feel free to ignore this if it is not appropriate.
« Last Edit: Nov 10, 2011, 01:36 pm by Cawliflower »

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Offline Kensei

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #4 on: Nov 10, 2011, 01:57 pm »
Yo I didn't bother taking SS since I lost interest on the server. I'm just stating out the fact that made me lost interest to your server. Why are you taking this too far? You can't even reflect that your action of giving away Thanatos Card as event prize is going to cause a big mess to the server (especially for players who are interested on PvP/WoE). And even though I want to take a SS, you did delete the thread I'm talking about on the next day. So yes, I have no proof. But hey, my brain is still working. I have no personal offense against your server, why should I make a fake accusation about your server?

I'm not someone who hops on servers w/o checking the forum first (when no one invited me / I'm randomly searching for a new server). Why should I hop on the game when I can see the condition on forum? I can read your server features and know how the community via forum. Hopping on game is necessary only if I'm going to play seriously on your server.

Did I ever say you're bad admin? I'm just saying you just tripped badly on the beginning that it would affect so much on the future of your server. What other things I want to say? Maybe... you're too carebear on forum? <3. Couldn't stand a community that is not tolerant, that's MY opinion. Why you put so much attention on ONE's personal opinion when you still have hundreds of players backing you up? It's like you want me to just shut up so your terrible past can be covered and you could look fresh.

OT : LOL COOKIE FOR SRSLY YOU'RE A DELICIOUS TROLL BAIT. Tbh I knew who posted the topic talking about giving away Thana card (the one you also instant-banned for making 2nd thread with a reason of "Trolling" while I saw she didn't troll at all, only her language is harsher than average of your community, maybe, but pretty much normal for me). I was like, d'aww dis Cookie person is so <3<3.

@ Sour : what do you mean "It's wiped"? so the Thanatos card back then is also wiped or what? I was only pointing out the only flaw about the server was the "Thanatos Card Giveaway" thing, which was a fatal mistake made by staffs. Others are ok, does that mean I'm blabbering about how bad your server is? On a serious note, Cookie needs to stop raging 24/7 and try to explain better.

I was actually still putting your server in my consideration, but seeing Cookie acts worse day by day, my boner is gradually dying.

Edit : @ Cookie : actually, tl;dr on other facts besides the one I'm talking about. I'm not going to bother myself listening to the past before things I'm talking about happened, nor the things happened after that. Your action at that time was just really disappointing for me. Not as tolerant as I expected. And at your siggy, you accept constructive criticism? Riiight <3

Why no bad reviews? We all know nowadays review scores are either VERY GOOD or VERY BAD. Very good is like, OOP THERE MUST BE SOMETHING GIVEN IF YOU WRITE ONE. Very bad is like, OMG GM BAN MI GM INJUSTIC I R3PRT w/e. I kinda laughed on how you believe reviews reflects how good a server is. It's like you still believe that santa exists even when you're 20 y.o. (tl;dr, idgaf about how good the reviews your server got k?)

P.S : feel free to ignore this if you think it's not appropriate too <3
« Last Edit: Nov 10, 2011, 02:08 pm by Kensei »
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Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #5 on: Nov 10, 2011, 02:09 pm »
Thank you for your commentary. You're entitled to your opinion. People back me up because they know how I am and the truth. Also, ensure you understand I find your immature hysterics in an attempt to belittle me (i.e. "<333") and all that garbage to speak very transparently of your character.

I am sorry you lost interest. Thank you.

Have a nice day,
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Offline Kensei

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #6 on: Nov 10, 2011, 02:25 pm »
Also, ensure you understand I find your immature hysterics in an attempt to belittle me (i.e. "<333") and all that garbage to speak very transparently of your character.

I am sorry you lost interest. Thank you.

You sure know how to talk politely ser <3 <3 <3 <- inb4 you ask for more.

Garbage? Well I believe I didn't start one ( who did omg omg D: ). I was hoping you'd throw another long post or a good short post like Sour's to end the discussion nicely. But sounds like you need time to chill first. Well, have some sleep then? (:

Cya, you can ask admin/mod to delete my post though since maybe you don't want to soil your server reputation with my stupid 2 cents >:
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Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #7 on: Nov 10, 2011, 02:38 pm »
I'm sorry Kensei. Your opinions matter. There has been a lot of rumors that have gone around that are incorrect. That is why we are trying to defuse them and provide the truth. In fact, I regret even defending it to you as well as even saying what I said regarding your responses and how you spoke to me.

Your opinion and your comments. You have the right to them. Keep your replies, I have no shame. As mentioned, I owned up... we made the mistake on that event.

Thanks again.

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Offline Triper

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #8 on: Nov 10, 2011, 02:58 pm »
The guy made a review about the server, was good, end. Why so much drama about a card that doesn't exist anymore.

That thing is just fun to use to 2 shot or give 200k sbks on Berz[pre-renewal server] and for a good SinX on WoE 1.0 or PVP vs stupid people. Incantation Samurai > that by a lot.

If it was an Eddga[awesome for PVM even if lk works better then it lol], a Tao Gunka[60k HP Paladin?? WTH], a FBH[yay to overpowered meteors on bragi] or a GTB[dispell? EQ? Magic? what??] then I would go nuts but it's a Thanatos, it will just make you be good at 1 vs 1 fights, nothing more[still it only works good vs def+vit > 115 or 100 I think, aside that there are better options].
Mvps? It's mostly for a sinx vs berz and they need a setup to make it shine, without is like an ice pick but can be used for sb[and in other classes/skills even if it will loose some of the shine] but still, sbk without it[and a lot of other stuff] can win vs that if you're smart.
PvP? Who cares about a thanatos when some people run without refined gear[aka being smart] since most of the stuff that kills ignores def or def doesn't make a big difference to refine gear since reduces > def and are more then enough to survive, if it hurts it will kill, pvp is made of kill or be killed in one shot most of the time.

Offline Sour

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #9 on: Nov 10, 2011, 04:38 pm »
Kensei you should give DivinityRO a try and invite your friends. JUST SAYING

Offline Kensei

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #10 on: Nov 10, 2011, 07:36 pm »
Kensei you should give DivinityRO a try and invite your friends. JUST SAYING
This is much better to hear tbh. I'll take another visit when I have the time. And I hope it's not as messy as back then
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Offline Love

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #11 on: Nov 10, 2011, 09:35 pm »
This is much better to hear tbh. I'll take another visit when I have the time. And I hope it's not as messy as back then

Sounds great! I agree with sour, we would love to have you come play with us. You should join the server and bring your friends. I promise to make PvP and WoE fun for you :).
I read over the whole thing and its just like lol. The server got wiped a few days ago, we all started over again. No thana or any other mvps yet and the card drop rate was reduced so they weren't so easy to get.
Thanks for considering taking another visit. I'll personally do my best to post more in DivinityRO forums, so when you pass us over again you're more well informed :D.

Offline Sour

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #12 on: Nov 10, 2011, 09:48 pm »
You will always be welcomed! :D It definately isnt as messy.

Offline Lysander

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #13 on: Nov 10, 2011, 10:39 pm »
Quick question. How exactly did the person get the Thanatos card?

The only ways it could have been given had to have been one of three things:
  • The Thanatos was customized with a 100% drop rate
  • The card just happened to drop.
  • It was given out by a GM

Now anyone with any familiarity with the mob_db knows it is far more trouble than it is worth to edit a monster's drop rate just for one event, so I'd say that rules out the first possibility. The second possibility is laughable, seeing as that Divinity's RMS listing states that the MvP drop is .01%, which is default. So it seems to me that the last option, that it was given, is by far the most plausible scenario.

Not here to throw around accusations or anything, but exactly what kind of GM gives out a Thanatos Card for killing one MvP? Granted, it's not the best MvP card out there, but that doesn't matter - it's still an MvP card. It seems to me that it's more likely that the card was given under the guise of holding an event, especially since based off of the discussions I see on their forums regarding the matter, the Staff was hesitant to remove it from the player in question once it was brought to the community's attention.

Offline Kensei

Re: DivinityRO
« Reply #14 on: Nov 10, 2011, 10:45 pm »
I kinda forgot but it was from an event. Be it forum or ingame. All I saw was some people ranting about how a thana card was given as an event prize.
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