The way I see it, take what the topic creator(TC) said, and take it in a positive light. So right now, it seems that MouRO is really just too difficult for the average-player who just wants to come in and level up, so make changes in the game to notify them of these things . A good suggestion was the training grounds. And please don't give the "he's too busy with real-life excuses". If he's too busy to even begin with, he wouldn't even be hosting the server. I go to college as well, I work during the week, I do a lot of other things, and I still find time to utilize patchers and all the shenanigans just to make things easier for newcomers. For you it may be easy to do it because you've been playing there for a long time, but you need to look at people who may or may not be as tech-savvy as you are.
If Skotlex isn't willing to make things easier, you can take it both ways. One, this will act as a buffer for filtering players that you don't want in the server (perhaps people who don't like customizations), two, this will also act as a reason as to why the population is constantly so low, even after so many years (I've heard about MouRO well over for a year now, or was it a year and a half?). It's really Skotlex's call on his behalf in this regard. He can spend an hour or three during the weekends learning how to setup Triads, creating more informative NPCs about the server (really, just make a giant handbook that functions as an etc item that will contain all the useful tips/hints, or he can continue fine-tuning the server.
Hmm. Yes, i doubt many people would be as fired up as i am. I do not like people who think that they are able to compose a constructive opinion from a couple hours of gameplay. I do not like people who try to act like oooh those famous and rough critics feared by all the writers/movie directors, whatever. First impression might be important, but basing opinions _merely_ on first impressions... is shallow. Would you pick a partner by the first impression? There are many things that are not that awesome at the beginning, and get way better in the process.
Heck, imagine i would write a review based on the first chapter of Lord of the Rings. The first chapter was riddiculously boring imho, but the rest of the books were cool. He only got to Fabres and Porings :-/ There were many people who didnt like MouRO right off the bat, people who just stayed for a couple hours, and they were totally like "duuuh, this is definetly not a server for me, everything sucks", and they left. But they were never as rude as this TC (topic creator) is.
There were also people who didnt like the server very much, but then they grew to love it, as i did.
Thing is, this board is for players to share their experiences on a server, and let other people comment on them, regardless of however long they have played on the server, or in this case, how far into the server they got.
Okay, but you cant be surprised when someone has objections then. I certainly do not think that everything about the review is okay. Do you?
The thing with MouRO is that it's customised to the point that next-to-nothing is the same as say, your average RO server. Now lets take the average RO player at the moment, who has most likely played RO for about a year - two years. They have to adjust to this server's mechanics, but rather than actually learning much about these customs ingame, they have to read walls of text on the forums. The least you could do is make a Training Ground which gives a good explanation on part of the customs. Not going through the whole list, but enough to give the player a general idea without having to read guides in order to play.
Yes, that is a good suggestion. Although we already have a newbie introduction NPC in the initial room, which offers most of the information you might need... you see, new people tend to rush into the game, ignoring any NPCs (except the merchants) along the road. I am pretty sure that even if the Valkyrie herself provided text, most of the people would merely read the chat options, find out they can pick a class, and totally disregard all the advice she had to offer.
Now i wonder how come when i came to MouRO two years ago, and there werent even any Forums yet, and there were like 2 players active very rarely... and i still managed to get used to the servers changes, and have a lot of good time there.
Anyway, those were some good two cents, both from Wolf and Omino. Now i wish the initial post would be written in this manner.
