I played Lightside Legends for two years as a Crusader-turned-High Wizzard. And for the first year that I was there, it was wonderful. I saw an economy at work, price fluctuation, and merchants compensating. I think this was due to the fact that there was a @shopsearch (or @ss) command, that made shopping for that new Staff of Piercing (Or whatever) simple.
The Rates (at 13x exp and 5x drops) were, decent. Almost everyone had Trans-multis though, witch, although it was expected at those rates, it made it almost impossible to tell who someone's main was. Indeed, most people often made a slave priest/bard witch they would duel client with.
WOE on Lightside was epic. Sure, you had the E-fisting champ runner's, but the large population ment that there were some memorable offenses, and crushing defenses when holding the emp-room.
However, as with all good things, they must come to an end, sometimes violently, sometimes over time. It might all is going normal, next you hear, things, from other players. Might be a passing comment in payon about tales of corruption, from a GM's to a donor. Next might be a wedding, in witch a GM and Lord Knight talk like business partners.
Of course, once you settle into a server, you cant just pick up and leave. So you stay and try to ignore all of it. And soon your doing well, and you forget all about it. Then suddenly, six months later, you come to the relisation that none of your old buddys are on anymore. All the "Pro" players have stoped singing in to there LLRO accounts. And then you find out that they have all been mysteriously "Banned" and all of them got on a donators wrong side......
But, I think I'm turning this into too much of a personal example, forgive me.
What can I say now?
Community? What's left of the "Lighside", 10/10. For all of the "WOE Legends" 4/10
Game Masters? Sad story that they all tuned into busnessmen, and the only normal one had to leave.
Game-Play? If you get your hands on a few million to compete with the donors/SBK nubs it will be genuinely fun, otherwise you will feel ( In the words of my old guild master) "like you live under communist rule."
Don't believe me? after all, I am just one person. If you have time, Go under the LLRO listing of RMS, and read the reviews of the last few months. Not just the first page, as most people do.
Now, there's a space below this post where you can reply to this review, but remember, its just a review. Just because I was unhappy with my time on LLRO dosen`t mean that I`m criticizing your time there. If you want to say/bash me with something positive from Lightside, by all means, write a review of them, it's what Rate-my-server is for.
