Hi guys, currently enjoying this server and I decided to share with you some of the things I experienced.
- HOW I FOUND THE SERVER? -
Well, as a simple average gamer, I just decided to look for stuff in gTOP100 and found this on the landing page. I was curious, lots of hits and is squeezed in the top 10 between MapleStory and WOW servers. There's ForsakenRO too, but I'm looking for an almost-Vanilla feel of RO, so I decided to go with Sarah. Another thing to note is, the Renewal changes and multiple job classes kind of makes me confused, so I tried to stay away from the other ROs listed.
- REVIEW PROPER -
based on my understanding of importance
STABILITY (connection, performance) 8/10.Spoiler
As far as I've learned, servers are based on US West Coast. I was kind of expecting some lag like iRO but the only lag I got was during peak hours, which is normal. They have a couple of proxies available depending on certain locations, which will help reduce lag. The proxies also serve as a barrier for DDoS attacks (if proxy1 gets attacked, proxy 4 is still working). Game performance is nice, but maybe RO is just a little too old. Some people say they can't play full screen on Win10, but man, why would you even play RO fullscreen on what, 1080P 20+ inch monitor? Lol. Just make sure you disable Mouse Exclusive in setup.exe if you plan on multi-tasking.
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Gepard Shield. As far as I know, it's the best for ROs out there. Dual client is impossible, virtual machine is impossible (tried every possible config strings and registry edits), plugins/add-ons doesn't work.
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I actually have to revamp the community review because of the current trend in this server. Pros is, the community is large, you can easily find a party early-to-mid levels, a bit hard on higher levels because that's where the bad blood comes in. Trash talking, KS, Skill Abuse, Griefing, you name it, this server's got it. I guess it goes with the high population. The admins try their best to make this server friendly, but they really can't control what kind of people comes in this server. I can count in my fingers the days that I didn't experience any kind of negativity on this server (mostly, early levels), and take note, I have been playing since official opening, Feb 2016 (today is June 2016). Most players don't respect each other, most players even harass the admins whenever there's a problem. I think I'm better off with a server with mid pop (around 500 active) that has a community that respects each other.
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Zeny is attainable and reasonable for most items. What I love about near-vanilla RO experience is that NPC items are actually usable! Every item counts! The lance that you saved up? That's a very nice investment! NPC Manteau? Oh man every def really counts! Upgrade NPC items? SURE! You'll really go step by step on the items which is nice. Donation costumes are untradable. Donation boxes like Kafra box, Gym Pass, Field Manual and Bubblegum box are tradable.
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Management is very responsive in the forums. Report a player, get enough screenies, and you see them get muted in a matter of minutes. The griefer I reported got muted in less than 30minutes after I reported it on the forums. Management listens to the players, but still, there's your usual lot of players who wants everything to be free. Nothing new there. Management is also looking into players comments before implementing something new.
No comment because I'm not a PVP guy. :P
- FINAL NOTES -
PROS:-> If you want a low rate server with a high active population, this is a good one. PARTY UP!
-> A good time-sink when you're bored of the current MMOs
-> This is REAL NO OVERPOWERED DONATIONS. I see most servers list this but very few stay true to the word.
-> Good connection. I live in SEA, server is in US West, and I barely encounter lag.
-> Good old classic RO, probably better. If you remember how RO was in its official form when it first released, this is it.
CONS:-> Most databases are not 100% accurate for this server since this features OLD RO. You might have to ask around in the game for some players or even search through old RO archives. They have their own database where you can check mob spawns and drop lists. Vendor list also available.
-> Very toxic community especially at mid-high levels.
Seems like my views now are final. So I'll probably not update my review anymore, unless there's a really major change.
EDIT:
- Review updated as of 2/25/2016. Didn't know there are others as well who are playing. Let's have fun guys!
- Review updated as of 3/1/2016. Lowered score for community at high levels.
- Review updated as of 5/21/2016. Lowered community score again. Set points on economy. Added tl;dr on long section reviews. Didn't expect 10,000+ views on this thread. Let's have fun guys!
- Review updated as of 6/5/2016. I think this will be my last active day in the server. I have some decent end-game gears anyway. Might be staying just for events but will not be that active anymore. You play to relieve stress, and not to add more. It's been a nice run.
My personal review
STABILITY 6/10 - yes a lowrate server that have 1800++ player the thing that concern me is the lagness and constant DC whlie playing and yes I do have good internet speed and previously i can play irogaming server smooth with no lagness /o
HACKING PROTECTION 9/10. - so far no hack or bot spoted so ill give a good mark for this /no1
COMMUNITY 10/10. - active community you can easly find party almost in every major town like Payon & Aldebaran /o
ECONOMY 9/10. - i would say classic server have the best economy due to no zeny farmer, no mavka and no sleeper /no1
MANAGEMENT 10/10. - good responsive management, respon less than 1 hour /no1
PVP 8/10. - active PVP comunity 5-6 player on PVP room /gg
PS: the only problem with this server is stll in episode 4 even most player allready make a fast progress, most player already boring(in my guild that is) with limited quest, class choice, hunting map and hunting gear hope admin will fasten the time line of episode progress /swt
Personal Review as a player.
Stability 8/10 - Server base on US I experience minimal Lag but the good side admins are trying their best to fix this issue.
Hacking Protection 10/10 - the server use Gepard Shield (Most popular Game shield now). this shield always update the protection.
Community 10/10 - the community is 1.8k and counting.
Economy 9/10 - with 1.8k+ players the players are good in maintaining the economy :D
Management 9/10 - GM are fast in replying some concerns as well as maintaining the game RMT free they ban all account doing rmt :D
PvP 7/10 - out of 1.8k + people only 5-7 people go to pvp as I understand players still hunting items and equips.
Personal review
I never thought that this server will have 1.8k+ players at first I doubt it but I guess not.
GM are active in Forum and fast replying in some concern
they are implementing new features to add in the game.
they have their own Monster and Item Database in their site as well as EP 4 World Map.
Quote from: hyde89 on Feb 21, 2016, 10:35 PM
My personal review
STABILITY 6/10 - yes a lowrate server that have 1800++ player the thing that concern me is the lagness and constant DC whlie playing and yes I do have good internet speed and previously i can play irogaming server smooth with no lagness /o
HACKING PROTECTION 9/10. - so far no hack or bot spoted so ill give a good mark for this /no1
COMMUNITY 10/10. - active community you can easly find party almost in every major town like Payon & Aldebaran /o
ECONOMY 9/10. - i would say classic server have the best economy due to no zeny farmer, no mavka and no sleeper /no1
MANAGEMENT 10/10. - good responsive management, respon less than 1 hour /no1
PVP 8/10. - active PVP comunity 5-6 player on PVP room /gg
PS: the only problem with this server is stll in episode 4 even most player allready make a fast progress, most player already boring(in my guild that is) with limited quest, class choice, hunting map and hunting gear hope admin will fasten the time line of episode progress /swt
based on my review on pvp mostly it's active sometimes i came across with 10 to 12 people inside killing each other randomly. yah i hope they release the new episodes as early as possible.
STABILITY - 8/10 Experiencing lag on main town. I suppose this is because of the population which is kinda understandable. Minimal disconnection experienced as of it's running time.
HACKING PROTECTION - 9/10 Best protection for ragnarok out on the market. nothing else to say.
COMMUNITY - 10/10 No bots, pure people. Afks on town though. Good server to start making new friends or reuniting with old guildmates.
ECONOMY - 8/10 You need to loot everything for you to survive lol. No imbalanced donate items. Pure classic. Anti RMT server.
MANAGEMENT - 8/10 Mods are active on forums and in game. Expect help on the soonest time.
PVP - 6/10 Not a strong point as of this moment. Quite normal since it's a starting server and most of the people are leveling/hunting. I'll be keeping an eye on this one. See you on izlude PVP! :D
/ok /no1 /gg
STABILITY [8/10]: A low-rate with active population, I only experience lag on market place at Payon since all the vendors place there, leveling with effect on and spam of mobs. I don't really experience any disconnection and can online whole day. /lv
HACKING PROTECTION [9/10]: Gepard serves well to this server and having a security features inside the game. /o
COMMUNITY [10/10]: No Autovend and No dual login with average of 900 - 1800+, you can easily find party members along the way. Friendly community helping each other./ok
ECONOMY [7/10]: Since the server is new (2 weeks now), we're still on the process of making the balance economy since all the players need basic need (equip/supplies). /ho
MANAGEMENT [10/10]: Admin/GM are hands-on to their task. Maintaining the balance and fast response to the need of the community. /no1
PVP [7/10]: I've seen players going PvP every hour, but since all the players and new grinding on leveling first before going into battle. /gg
Pure Classic experience /ok
It's like a Time Machine /lv
STABILITY [9/10]: sometimes just get disconnect from server during afk for hour reward point =)
HACKING PROTECTION [10/10]: nothing to say about this , great protection =)
COMMUNITY [10/10]: at least people will reply your message after read =)
ECONOMY [8/10]: still in under controlling , well done ! not much server can being like this =)
MANAGEMENT [10/10]: friendly at first , responsibility at second =)
PVP [5/10]: its still not about time to WOE & PVP =)
HOW I FOUND THE SERVER?
Well to put it simply, I've been transferring from server to server hoping that I could find something that would pique my interest. I found this on the Facebook Sponsored advertisement on my timeline and noticed how the players are excited to play this (before OBT), well I'm a low rate server fan myself. Then the story goes on...
REVIEW
Stability (8/10) - My current ISP doesn't allow idle connection so it purposely disconnect my Client to the Server, preventing my goal to save Hourly Reward Points. Luckily I have come up with a solution, I'm using a VPN to connect which compensate the disconnection issue with a delay. But now, with their latest patch, they allowed the client to connect to different proxy servers which is a good thing.
Client/Server Security (9/10) - They are using Gepard, a reliable game guard equipped with the latest updates and protection. It has dual client prevention, grf file integrity check and disables running in a virtual machine. I tried using a vps, edited some registry but still I can't run this on a vm.
Community (10/10) - It is a party based server, you can meet and befriend other players in your party, chat and mingle with other resting players from Payon and Aldebaran. A very large community of 1800+ players, you can't possibly be bored.
Economy (9/10) - Well the server is still young so does the economy. Every zeny counts, if you can't grind you won't survive. The best thing that I liked on this server is the donation policy which utilize usable items instead of equips that can break gameplay balance.
Management (10/10) - The GMs and Staffs are very friendly and responsive to messages especially in the forums and facebook. They are not biased with the players and responsive to player reports. It's good to know that they are improving the server frequently based on the players suggestions and concerns.
PVP (5/10) - Like I said the server is still young but you can find players entering PVP maps without decent equips. /heh PVP just for fun.
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Well for a new server I'll give this server a rating of 8.5. There are so many thing to upgrade and improve but it doesn't have to be in a rush. It is the goal of this server, to go slowly but surely. There is one phrase I'd like to describe this server it is "Bring back the nostalgic memories"
Good day.
Quote from: rap8rap on Feb 21, 2016, 02:43 PM
CONS:
-> Too strong profanity filter
-> Too strict hacking protection (I mean c'mon keybinds should at least work right? Hehe)
-> New server. We all know the possibilities of new servers in the future right?
-> Most databases are not 100% accurate for this server since this features OLD RO. You might have to ask around in the game for some players or even search through old RO archives.
-> There are broadcasts that can't be removed from your chat window.
I'll update this review whenever there are changes to my views. Thanks for reading and I hope this helps! Any questions, I can answer it whenever I see it. :P
The manner system (profanity filter) has been disabled whilst they work on sorting it out. Also the DB is generally quite accurate. You just need to make sure you need to multiply the drop rate accordingly when you check the % on there DB. And finally the broadcasts have now stopped for PvP, they just need to allow a option to disabled automated server broadcasts, or at least lower it a little.
Im absolutely loving this server so far personally and will be posting a review shortly.
Quote from: Disruptor on Feb 24, 2016, 07:55 PM
The manner system (profanity filter) has been disabled whilst they work on sorting it out. Also the DB is generally quite accurate. You just need to make sure you need to multiply the drop rate accordingly when you check the % on there DB. And finally the broadcasts have now stopped for PvP, they just need to allow a option to disabled automated server broadcasts, or at least lower it a little.
Im absolutely loving this server so far personally and will be posting a review shortly.
Yeah looks like it has been disabled on the latest update. DB is different from RMS, even if you set it in pre-renewal. This is as classic as it gets. Good thing they have their own item database on their website, as well as a monster database. Vendor listing available as well, but so far, no buying list.
What I like about this server as well is the admins are very active. RMT, harassment, bug reports are dealt with within the day.
Personal Review as a player.
Stability 9/10 - Sometimes Lag even the Server is US Base(All Server), But what most i like is admin are very active to fix all the issues.
Hacking Protection 10/10 - Gepard Shield (Most popular Game shield now). Happy and Contented.
Community 10/10 - Player's are very active and Friendly :) Sometimes it reaches 1.9k :)
Economy 10/10 - Best Economy Since Classic.
Management 10/10 - GM's are friend and always active, no RMT which is good to the server.
PvP 8/10 - Cause some other player are still looking for their equipment.
Personal review
My time was not wasted, i enjoying playing this server, and i never really thought that this server can me it 1.9 active player (No Autovend, Dual, Etc). GM's are very supportive and active. Implementing what is really on the Ep. 4. and still updating :). Having Their own database was really impress me a lot..
~ Come and Join now :) Let's Play Together.
Nice Reviews buuuut you guys forgot the most important information, the language, its an Pinoy Server.
This is no racist, we started this Server(a team of 7) but theres no reason to play if u cant unterstand that language /sob
Quote from: D3rwish on Feb 26, 2016, 03:04 AM
Nice Reviews buuuut you guys forgot the most important information, the language, its an Pinoy Server.
This is no racist, we started this Server(a team of 7) but theres no reason to play if u cant unterstand that language /sob
Just wanted to correct you regarding the "its full of pinoys" approach you have.
There is loads of people from the US and EU that play including Brazil. I am a Guild master of a guild which has ONLY none PH English speakers which is full, I already have a list of people to PM when we expand. YOU HAVE to speak English in main/ recruit & market channels. The GM's are enforcing a English speaking community. The forum is mainly English speaking.
The only time you find people speaking tagalog is in normal game chat which is 30% of the time.The rest speak English. All I have to say is "Speak English please" and they will.
Im not pinoy im from the UK. Sounds to me you have just judged it from a quick glance perspective from the launch or closed beta. It really isn't as you say.
Quote from: D3rwish on Feb 26, 2016, 03:04 AM
Nice Reviews buuuut you guys forgot the most important information, the language, its an Pinoy Server.
This is no racist, we started this Server(a team of 7) but theres no reason to play if u cant unterstand that language /sob
i'm sorry but your assumption is wrong mate. there are assorted number of nationality playing in this server from us based players, indonesia, malaysia, brunei, europe and many more not only pinoys play on this server.
I really didnt said "its full of pinoy" there are always some others too but after playing two days(17hours each) we never met players speaking english. Its just our opinion after this two days or the english ones only speaking on guild or party chat /hmm
Quote from: D3rwish on Feb 26, 2016, 11:22 PM
I really didnt said "its full of pinoy" there are always some others too but after playing two days(17hours each) we never met players speaking english. Its just our opinion after this two days or the english ones only speaking on guild or party chat /hmm
well regarding that matter the server is enforcing the english only policy on chat channels so everyone can understand one another.
Quote from: D3rwish on Feb 26, 2016, 11:22 PM
I really didnt said "its full of pinoy" there are always some others too but after playing two days(17hours each) we never met players speaking english. Its just our opinion after this two days or the english ones only speaking on guild or party chat /hmm
I would say there are a couple of Filipinos playing this server, especially since pRO has been gutted out of the MMO scene. But you can just ask them to speak in English and most of them will do. I have partied with lots of people coming from different countries already so I really don't see this as an issue.
My personal review
STABILITY 10/10 - Alot of players and i feel no lag. I live in Canada tho. 2.2k players no lag very wow, I can mob train empty map ez. /ok
HACKING PROTECTION 9/10. - I didnt see anyone bot or dual log as far as i know but i heard someone complain about a bot priest.
COMMUNITY 8/10. - Hard time finding english players sometime to party with me and/or to be understood by asians, but yo thats my problem... /pif
ECONOMY 10/10. - Almost anything can be bought already and the server is fresh and cool prices. /no1
MANAGEMENT 10/10. - 100% good active english speaking GM. /lv
PVP ?/10. - Haven't done any PVP yet :)
Waiting the upcoming 2/2 classes but with no release date yet. /sob
this server should release the new patch and episode updates or people will get bored in the long run of episode 4.
The server is quite interesting. Though, often times it dcs's still tolerable.
Quote from: sweetsarah on May 10, 2016, 06:30 PM
A big fat zero.
I've been waiting for days on a reply for support. I can't validate my account because for some reason, I never get the email. I've tried resending the email, changing the email, checking my junk mail, making a new account with a new email, none of them receive a validation email for the forum. No one responded to my tickets. No one responded to the live chat on the main website. No one responded to me in game at @request.
I can only conclude that management doesn't give a f*** about support, and doesn't want anyone new to sign up for their forum.
Actually we have a live chat in https://sarahserver.net :) You said your account was not validated yet you ask in game for @request? How come you were able to login without your account validated? totally not a player of sarah server. ^_^
(Despite having no other post under this ID, I am not a dummy poster and I am really playing Sarah Server.)
This server is great for having that strong classic feeling, and GM's are strict on rule breakers. I am an unsophisticated casual super lazy working full-time PVM player even though I diligently log on everyday, so this server is good for me that I can hunt and vend etc very relax-ly. Economy is good, stuff not hard to sell, and prices look affordable. They start opening more castles, and seems the WoE scenes have good future there.
I just wish there are many more English speaker here. It is very rare someone speak in English apart from main chat. People are quite friendly, they approach me from time to time, but I feel I will need to hotkey "Sorry I don't understand Tagalog" in my Alt+M soon. They will then switch to English but it feels not natural. In parties they will talk to me a few times in English, then back to Tagalog for 95% of the time. No I don't blame them and I understand completely. Just wish there were more English speakers in server!
Quote from: Voryry on May 11, 2016, 09:21 AM
(Despite having no other post under this ID, I am not a dummy poster and I am really playing Sarah Server.)
This server is great for having that strong classic feeling, and GM's are strict on rule breakers. I am an unsophisticated casual super lazy working full-time PVM player even though I diligently log on everyday, so this server is good for me that I can hunt and vend etc very relax-ly. Economy is good, stuff not hard to sell, and prices look affordable. They start opening more castles, and seems the WoE scenes have good future there.
I just wish there are many more English speaker here. It is very rare someone speak in English apart from main chat. People are quite friendly, they approach me from time to time, but I feel I will need to hotkey "Sorry I don't understand Tagalog" in my Alt+M soon. They will then switch to English but it feels not natural. In parties they will talk to me a few times in English, then back to Tagalog for 95% of the time. No I don't blame them and I understand completely. Just wish there were more English speakers in server!
Yes. Hopefully soon ^_^ we are still advertising in facebook and here in rms both in low rate and front page banner. and thank your that honest review
Quote from: StriderHiryuu on May 11, 2016, 06:51 AM
Actually we have a live chat in https://sarahserver.net :) You said your account was not validated yet you ask in game for @request? How come you were able to login without your account validated? totally not a player of sarah server. ^_^
??? Pretty sure she means forum account, not in game account. If it wasn't obvious.
Quote from: StriderHiryuu on May 11, 2016, 06:51 AM
Actually we have a live chat in https://sarahserver.net :) You said your account was not validated yet you ask in game for @request? How come you were able to login without your account validated? totally not a player of sarah server. ^_^
Read it again:
Quote from: sweetsarah on May 10, 2016, 06:30 PM
No one responded to the live chat on the main website
Quote from: sweetsarah on May 10, 2016, 06:30 PM
sign up for their forum
While it is pretty frustrating that it took me leaving a negative review to get a response at all, I'll delete it if it gets fixed. I don't hate Sarah server. I have donated $$ to the server already; I am just frustrated with being ignored and unable to post anything.
My in game account is fine, and validated. There is nothing wrong with my character. The problem is with making a forum account, which seems to be where a bulk of player issues are resolved.
So i've been playing since yesterday with 2 Friends on Sarah Server, like mentioned there is a problem with making an Forum Account. Thats why i've been using the Chat Support, and i roughly had to wait 10-15 Minutes, they instantly helped me without Problems.
Im playing from Germany, and im logging in with the Proxy from Frankfurt whicch they suggest and it really works, My Internet is pretty crappy, because of the House, but i have no Laggs at all, even while watching twitch.tv, so thumbs up for that.
One thing which caught my Eye was their Donation Information, they sell 1 Donation Ticket for 12$, sadly there is no further Information, like what currency, you get 1 item? Or what is it. Had to use the Forum to look further into it. And i found out that 1 Donation Ticket (12$) is 10.000 RoK Points, which is really confusing not even to mention that there is another donation currency, and that the ticket is Worth 10.000 Points, several People even suggested that on their Forum, they didnt change that yet, i mean its just so simple, put on the Donation site the Information at least that 12$ is 10.000 RoK Points.
nice server
very stable
so many players
GM's are active
smooth server
if you guys have a problem
in your ragnarok maybe its your connection
pick the right server for your connection
:)
Hi, player from Sarah Server and have been playing for around 2 weeks casually. I came across this thread and wanted to contribute so I created an account!
I came across this server while hopping across low rates server, then I saw in the voting sites that Sarah Server had a lot of votes and was around top 2. I was looking for a vanilla low rate RO server (no job changers, healers, warpers, etc.) where I can re-live my RO experience and do the things I didn't achieve way back in around 2004~. Sarah Server just fits perfectly for what I have been looking for!
Rates
The rates are x2 exp and x2 drop (x4 exp and x3 drop on weekends) which is great for someone like me even if I play casually (just around 4 hours a day, maybe 8 hours on a weekend).
Being low-rate, getting the most out of your zeny is really important! So far I've been enjoying playing this casual style of low rate RO where NPC items are actually useful. (also discovered that Munak Hats are great, 5 def 10% undead reduction for just little price since the player-base deems the headgear as not so useful :P)
Population
Levelling has been a blast so far! I never imagined you can party level in RO this much when you have a lot of players (you will never run-out of 12-man parties! except maybe for super off peak hours)
The server actually has a lot of active players, enabling you to party level starting from your first job until 99!
You can go to the following places and will have no problem looking for parties in these following places:
Lv10 - 30: Payon Cave
Lv40 - second job: Lutie
Lv40 - 80s: GH (archer, acolyte, mage classes mainly, but knights and assassins are welcome as well acting as lurers)
My highest level character so far is a lv78 wiz so I can't speak for the levelling spots at around end-game, but I am seeing quite a lot of shouts looking for parties in the following places as well:
Majoruros (The lowest cave of glast heim)
Turtle Island (not sure which level)
GH Castle (duo parties that want to farm)
Being low-rate, normal monster loots (sticky mucus, bug legs, zargons, manacles, etc.) actually matter a lot when you're just starting! You'll also find lots of merchants scattered across dungeons buying loot for a little overcharged price.
When you have merchants buying loots and selling supplies (arrows, fly wings, aspd pots), you know that the server's population is big enough to make merchant buying/selling viable :)
Be aware though that the server has a "Rewards System" that incentivizes players that stay logged on for prolonged periods, so you have A LOT of players just sitting around towns AFK just to have the Reward System kick in. At weekends, the player count reaches 3k+. I'm guessing the total number of actual active players during this time would be around 1500 to 2000, where the remaining 1000 are comprised of merchant buyers, vends, and the AFK people just waiting for the Rewards. (no real evidence, these are just my estimations)
Custom Features
As mentioned, the server has a Rewards System (you get points for every hour you stay logged in, increasing until you stay for 8 hours in a single character, and then the counter resets to 0). some of the things that you can get from the Reward System are:
1pt - Healing Potions (5 weight, heals around 150 hp)
2pt - Grape juice
50pt - Field manual
90pt - Job Manual
For context, if you stay for an hour, you get 10 points, and after staying for 8 hours you get 80 points.
Playing for 8 hours straight gets you 360 points, so if you play for 8 hours everyday, you're like getting 360pcs free potions for your levelling.
Personal preference, I'd be okay without such a system (making for a truly vanilla RO experience), but it's not game breaking enough and I'm fine with it.
Community
So far I've been playing with a lot of Filipinos, but if you ask them to speak english, they will! The community is overall nice, but of course with a big enough population, you'll come across those rare guys that grief, KS, lure on purpose, etc. I'm a Filipino myself, and I wish more people from the international community would join us here in Sarah Server! English-only rule is strictly observed in the Channel System to make the server good for everyone as much as possible, regardless of nationality.
Didn't expect to have other players leave a review as well. /no1 /heh
Do NOT make a priest on this server unless you want to put up with endless grief.
English person on this server, I do not speak Tagalog and had to have someone explain these lovely insults I've been getting:
I made an aco as my first character to level with a friend... From the moment I made it I was being called a "Bastos" ("unkind, rude, shameless"), a "Damot Tae" ("A stingy piece of s***") or had people try to mob train kill me... all for not healing and buffing everyone that ran at me spamming a flag emote or "ab" or some other random things I did not even understand at the time.
This server does not allow Dual Clienting, and such exacerbates the problem. A second computer is required to have a buff priest, so instead, (nearly) everyone thinks they are entitled to b**** and moan and insult priest players who do not buff them or heal them. This is especially infuriating when you're leveling and they start KSing you because they somehow think doing that makes you more likely to buff them. They killed my s***, means they helped me so I should heal and buff? No.
Major problems with what I assume are cultural differences from how most American/Canadian players play RO vs Filipinos.
Some maps are marked as "Free KS" meaning no matter who you are, expect some dumbass hunter to come along and KS the living hell out of you and walk way after taking your loot, spitting in your face, and demanding you buff him.
They market this as "The Friendly Server"... I have experienced VERY little "Friendly".
Quote from: Blinkers on May 23, 2016, 05:27 PM
Do NOT make a priest on this server unless you want to put up with endless grief.
English person on this server, I do not speak Tagalog and had to have someone explain these lovely insults I've been getting:
I made an aco as my first character to level with a friend... From the moment I made it I was being called a "Bastos" ("unkind, rude, shameless"), a "Damot Tae" ("A stingy piece of s***") or had people try to mob train kill me... all for not healing and buffing everyone that ran at me spamming a flag emote or "ab" or some other random things I did not even understand at the time.
This server does not allow Dual Clienting, and such exacerbates the problem. A second computer is required to have a buff priest, so instead, (nearly) everyone thinks they are entitled to b**** and moan and insult priest players who do not buff them or heal them. This is especially infuriating when you're leveling and they start KSing you because they somehow think doing that makes you more likely to buff them. They killed my s***, means they helped me so I should heal and buff? No.
Major problems with what I assume are cultural differences from how most American/Canadian players play RO vs Filipinos.
Some maps are marked as "Free KS" meaning no matter who you are, expect some dumbass hunter to come along and KS the living hell out of you and walk way after taking your loot, spitting in your face, and demanding you buff him.
They market this as "The Friendly Server"... I have experienced VERY little "Friendly".
Hello,
You can always report ill behavior players on our forum. Our staff are very active on punishing those who dont abide by the server rules. Its seems your not active on our server community.
Quote from: StriderHiryuu on May 23, 2016, 10:23 PM
Hello,
You can always report ill behavior players on our forum. Our staff are very active on punishing those who dont abide by the server rules. Its seems your not active on our server community.
The problem I have on reporting is I don't understand what these people are saying, most of the time... So I have no idea if it's even worth reporting. Is Bastos ill mannered? I have no idea if it's a curse or a common word like "jerk" in english.
Quote from: Blinkers on May 23, 2016, 11:47 PM
The problem I have on reporting is I don't understand what these people are saying, most of the time... So I have no idea if it's even worth reporting. Is Bastos ill mannered? I have no idea if it's a curse or a common word like "jerk" in english.
We have livechat on https://sarahserver.net you can always ask the staff regarding those players who you think are trashtalking or has inappropriate behavior. Just dont forget to screen shot
Actually that is something I don't understand either. What it the point of making "Free KS maps"?
Does it basically mean KS-ing is allowed?
I play with @noks almost all the time, and avoid the Free KS maps because being KS-ed just makes me upset. I know I can KS back, but I am from English speaking servers and that is not how I do, I just can't do it, much like why we eat cows but we don't eat dog. By trying to avoid Free KS maps if I can help it, I missed out something here.
If you'd like to attract international players, maybe this could be considered.
Quote from: Voryry on May 28, 2016, 06:49 PM
Actually that is something I don't understand either. What it the point of making "Free KS maps"?
Does it basically mean KS-ing is allowed?
I play with @noks almost all the time, and avoid the Free KS maps because being KS-ed just makes me upset. I know I can KS back, but I am from English speaking servers and that is not how I do, I just can't do it, much like why we eat cows but we don't eat dog. By trying to avoid Free KS maps if I can help it, I missed out something here.
If you'd like to attract international players, maybe this could be considered.
You mean they don't want us as '' international '' players ive been called a dog dog and white trash fat american by all these pinoy. From where i am from you dosen't ks people like that and you clearly don't call people like this , The player base are very rude/hater you won't be able to chat with people if your'e english most of the time, they won't invite you either into party/guild. So basiclly what i am saying if you speak english and you play on this server it's pretty similair to a RPG without MMO.
yeah this is not a server for english speaking players,i made a priest first too and the lack of respect coupled with the blunt demands for buffs was super annoying/disrespectful.
Not to mention i dont fit in 90% of the partys i join(due to language/culture barrier),so i end up listining to a pod cast or the radio while i play.
imo,if your english speaking player this is not the proper server for you. The ratio of english to philipino guilds is like 50:1, it doesnt matter if your advertising the server more now days or not,the culture of the server seems pretty much cemented with pinoys.
Another shocking aspect i learned is the rmt,someone told me they make more money playing ro then finding a full-time job in the philipnes.For me this totally turns me off,because now i know people are out there working diligently to make $,while im just trying to casually meet the goals of being woe ready. Its pretty shocking stuff if you look throught thier forums in the banned/rmt section.
I tried joining an english community/guild and most of the players aren't around long. They often quit with the reason of language barrier or just straight up annoyed with the crap attitude everyone on this "friendly" server has. Doesn't matter if it's a KS map or not, if @noks is on or not, some idiot is going to be effing with you and insulting you when you tell them you can't even understand what they're talking about.
Going to farm solo for something? You're gonna have some asshatt hunter KSing you.
Going to Duo farm? Going to have some asshat hunter Ksing you.
On a free KS map trying to level because the only place parties on this server level is called a free ks map? Expect to deal with endless grief from "roaming parties" KSing or people just being jerks.
There is no "friendly" on this server, I think someone mistranslated "friendly." the word you wanted was "Asshat".
Updated my review again.
I think this will be the time I quit being active in the server. I'll be staying online just chatting with in-game friends but that's it. The community is very toxic already. If you play to relieve stress, this server's not for you. It's fun for a while though.
Stability (8/10)
Not any significant lag as far as I am concerned. I do face disconnection if my character is idle for more than 15 mins. or something, apart from that its all pretty smooth and nice.
I may have seen a couple of complaints about lag during certain WoEs, but that's pretty much it.
Game Masters (9/10)
Very easy to reach, especially on forums. They are doing a great job managing the server. I like that fact that they stick to their decisions and not get overwhelmed by ranting and nonsensical pursuasion by players.
Community (7/10)
80% of the server is Pinoy. Thankfully they can understand and speak decent English. The only problem is they automatically assume everyone around here is Pinoy and talk in Tagalog to you, so you need ask them to speak English every time.
There are multiple English guilds around so if I find a way into those you are good to go.
Market (10/10)
Market's pretty set and nice. Easy to access vends from the site itself. Also, the market channel makes it very convenient.
PVP and WoE
I haven't done much of these yet, but PvP rooms always have 20ish people in them. As far as WoE is concerned, there are a few competing guilds. More seem to be coming as 2-2 classes join in this July.
Pros
1) Great population, Easy to find parties. (2k+). No dual clienting or @autotrade, so the player count is real.
2) Interesting ingame events and facilities like reward points to make life easier and fun in a low rate such as this.
3) Great balancing of skills and stuff.
4) No pay to win. Super balanced.
5) Pure nostalgic classic feel.
Cons
1) Majority of population is Pinoy. So you need to do some work to find and get into the English community.
2) I am sorry to say this, but with Pinoys comes trashtalking, KSing...etc etc. so you will have to deal with that. Most of them are nice, but then there is always the bunch.
My recommendation?
Don't hesitate, come and join the server. There's a reason why its the best classic LR server around, and Ranks 2 in all the RO private server fraternity.
Looking to see you ingame.
Rating this Server Very Very low, do not play on this server.
1. This is a very racist server, your not allowed to communicate on your own language
2. Very Strict as s***
3. They ban you when ever they want without proof and proper investigation.
(example. they noticed someone gave you an item or zeny, they will note that as RMS-real money trading then boom your banned)
3. rates are modified as s*** usual card drop is reduced from 0.1 to 0.01 piece of cake 1500z but on their server its only 500z
i gave my girlfriend her starting items that would cost approximately for 1m zennies. then after a week she got banned
dont play on this server if you dont want to experience the same thing. but you really want to get s*** on the head go on. This is based on my OWN experience and just an opinion
Minuses:
- very low rates (2x with useless voting system), need 8x minimum
- no @autotrade, @autoloot, @autobuy
Pluses:
- 99/50 with online 2.5k
- no lags
Quote from: nuvacaseto on Jun 23, 2016, 12:34 PM
Minuses:
- very low rates (2x with useless voting system), need 8x minimum
- no @autotrade, @autoloot, @autobuy
Those aren't minuses. Those are your preferences. You shouldn't have played in the first place if you didn't the rates. Also, voting system is pretty nice since there is more to it than just increasing rates. Don't play LR if you can't handle it.
Hello, I'm a huge admirer and fan of sarahserver, but since I'm from Brazil the lag is too high for PvP or WoE (my main objective) and I'm pretty sure I am not the only brazilian player on your fantastic server.
So I would like to ask if there's hope for those of us who live in South America to gain a server hosted in south america or even in Canada - we had a brazilian private server hosted in Canada (PandaBRO) with a very good ping, however it went bankrupt.
I would be very glad to hear some news about this and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Ragnarok in our country used to be a huge game, but now it's overtaken by ROP's, greedy politics and we don't even have a old times server as a option to play... I look foward to hear some news related to this subject.
Thank you very much for your time.
Quote from: Dahaka on Jun 28, 2016, 09:07 PM
Hello, I'm a huge admirer and fan of sarahserver, but since I'm from Brazil the lag is too high for PvP or WoE (my main objective) and I'm pretty sure I am not the only brazilian player on your fantastic server.
So I would like to ask if there's hope for those of us who live in South America to gain a server hosted in south america or even in Canada - we had a brazilian private server hosted in Canada (PandaBRO) with a very good ping, however it went bankrupt.
I would be very glad to hear some news about this and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Ragnarok in our country used to be a huge game, but now it's overtaken by ROP's, greedy politics and we don't even have a old times server as a option to play... I look foward to hear some news related to this subject.
Thank you very much for your time.
Have you tried our proxy servers? I have talk other brazilian players with our proxy and they seem to like it. We could add another proxy near your country if these proxy doesnt work well with your connection
Quote from: StriderHiryuu on Jun 29, 2016, 03:56 PM
Have you tried our proxy servers? I have talk other brazilian players with our proxy and they seem to like it. We could add another proxy near your country if these proxy doesnt work well with your connection
Currently I'm playing in the New York proxy, the ping there is much better, but it's only good for PvMing.
However if the ping is good enough for WoE and PvP, this server has everything to make a great impact in the brazilian fanbase, here's a petition https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Lancamento_de_um_servidor_OldTimes_pelo_bROLUG/?fbss (https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Lancamento_de_um_servidor_OldTimes_pelo_bROLUG/?fbss) made by the RO fans to Level Up! Games (the company in charge of ragnarok online in brazil) requesting a old times server. As you can see, the petition stoped in ~4,2k players, who are willing to play in a server of the same characteristics as yours, but the company is not interested in making one, according to them: they're focusing in the Renewal system only.
The current brazilians Private Servers don't have enought players for a proper WoE, they are all scattered across many different servers and they don't provide the same feeling as SarahServer do. That's why I'm so interested on your server, but in matter to play it, the ping must be lower. I'm no expert on this subject, the example I've made about the proxy in Canada may not be the only or best option to diminish the lag, I trust in the staff of sarahserver to make the best possible choices about this subject.
Thank you for your attention.
Quote from: Dahaka on Jun 29, 2016, 06:50 PM
Currently I'm playing in the New York proxy, the ping there is much better, but it's only good for PvMing.
However if the ping is good enough for WoE and PvP, this server has everything to make a great impact in the brazilian fanbase, here's a petition https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Lancamento_de_um_servidor_OldTimes_pelo_bROLUG/?fbss (https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Lancamento_de_um_servidor_OldTimes_pelo_bROLUG/?fbss) made by the RO fans to Level Up! Games (the company in charge of ragnarok online in brazil) requesting a old times server. As you can see, the petition stoped in ~4,2k players, who are willing to play in a server of the same characteristics as yours, but the company is not interested in making one, according to them: they're focusing in the Renewal system only.
The current brazilians Private Servers don't have enought players for a proper WoE, they are all scattered across many different servers and they don't provide the same feeling as SarahServer do. That's why I'm so interested on your server, but in matter to play it, the ping must be lower. I'm no expert on this subject, the example I've made about the proxy in Canada may not be the only or best option to diminish the lag, I trust in the staff of sarahserver to make the best possible choices about this subject.
Thank you for your attention.
Hello.
Okay I understand. I think we can add a proxy in canada in our next maintenance and hopefully it will lessen your lags. ^_^
My personal review about Ragnarok Sarah Server
STABILITY [8/10]
Given that I'm playing the game on an old laptop, and 1 MB connection, I only experience occasional lag and DC. mostly happens during WOE.
HACKING PROTECTION [9/10]
So far, so good. I even scarcely see and reports of hacking incidents reports about it on the servers forum.
COMMUNITY [9/10]
Good community, most of the people are friendly enough, and it is never hard to find a party. but of course like in any community there are those toxic player, just like IRL.
ECONOMY [8/10]
Been playing for a couple of months now, and i could see that prices seems reasonable. slight changes in prices due to events that increases the need for a certain item. donation items is not OP.
MANAGEMENT [10/10]
GM's in game and in the forums are very active. always ready to help out and hear everyone's concerns.
PVP [??/]
I don't do PVP,
I have been playing on-off for months now.
- Overall it is quite close to Classic, apart from free pots and manuals. Some commands like @rewards, @noks, @time, etc, but not too many that it ruins Classic feeling.
- No job changer, no stat/skill reset, no stylist NPC. Battle manuals can be obtained by either logging on AFK for hours, or by buying in cash shop. Cash shop also offers Kafra Card, Gym Pass, Token of Siegfried, Bubble Gum, Giant Wings,and costumes.
- Free pots and manuals obtained by logging on in game. That is how there are always 1.8k - 3k accounts logged on any time, most of them are AFK collecting "pogi points". The real active players aren't that much, maybe some hundreds.
- Populated, yes (despite the AFK characters, there are still enough people around). Easy to get parties, quite easy. Easy to get good party, I don't know.
- Cons: KS-ing and rudely attacking other parties' mob are encouraged by GM. Some maps are officially @noks free, and that behaviour is extended to other maps by rude players. And there are a lot of rude players !! I am not sure if the @noks free maps is designed for Pinoys because they are used to KS-ing, or players got rampant with KS-ing because it is endorsed by GM. Chicken and egg. Keep in mind, in the end this is a Pinoy server, despite they are trying to make it sound "international".
Example: Wiz + hunter standing among an established party, casting SG & Arrow Showers to mobs brought by the party's lurer. You can't do anything to make them leave, because it is legal and allowed. They are allowed to take part in your mobs' exp, take benefit of your songs, enjoy the safety of standing with the party etc.
- No bots, at least not what I can see. This allows low level or casual players to still earn zeny by hunting stems, poison spores, irons, etc.
- Active GM hunting RMT-ers and scammers, and punishment is public.
At this moment, I am still playing here, but I am staying away from partying.
So i've been playing this server for around a month, thought id drop a review from a non-pinoy/non-south east asian player.
STABILITY: 9/10.
Haven't had any issues, minor lag at time though.
HACKING PROTECTION 9/10.
Never noticed any bots
COMMUNITY 5/10.
Jeez this is a tough one, THE GOOD: i love the fact that it is crowded af. I come from TalonRO and the liveliness factor is stronger here. Almost no map feels like your are alone farming in an offline game which i love, i dont mind having less mobs to kill though. For anyone skeptical on the population i can assure that this is as crowded and lively i have seen any RO server since 5 years. THE BAD: The community might be big but its mostly south east asian players, i know people keep saying that its international and stuff, but people just come up to you and assume you know their language, thats just a testament to how its not really an international server. It gets annoying after a while and makes you feel like an outsider. But most of them do speak English and you would find a good amount of friendly folks. This problem can be solved if English speaking crowd were to actually start playing here. Ohh and yes be prepared to be ksed alot.
ECONOMY 7/10.
Quite alright, things are not too pricey. [15k&20k for Elus and Oris, pretty classic i know]
MANAGEMENT 7/10.
Disadvantage of playing Talon is the fact that no other server's management seems professional enough, that being said GMs are approachable and active(kinda).
Some thoughts:
I am not sure but ive heard this server is gonna remain classic and never get trans classes. I just hope they keep releasing content or the server is gonna reach a stalemate.
They have 2 stupid server announcements that are on a loop at 2 minute interval. Despite how harsh this review might seem, i still have had good fun playing this server. It has some real strong nostalgia- scattered vendors in pront, massive parties in almost every dungeon, a hefty dose of ksing(which makes me happy for somereason), dead vendors and buyrs in almost every map enterance. Give it a try the sheer playerbase might just be the most fun part about this server.
First of all the last time i played Ragnarok was waaaaaaaaay back 2005 so its been 10+ years since i set my foot on Midgard and main reason why i stopped investing time in the game is because what is has become. for me its too complicated now.
Random day some time in 2016, out of no where i felt the urge to play MMORPG again, Ragnarok never crossed my mind as i didn't like how it is now. Then while browsing in the a private gaming site Sarah Server came across with the word "Classic" which caught my attention. To date i am a grown man with a full time job but for the love of the server i still find time to play. /ok
STABILITY (connection, performance) 7/10
Like most private online server the game play is a bit slow and laggy due to the hosting which is fine.
I am using some latency fix stuff but ever now and then lag still incur.
HACKING PROTECTION 10/10
2 thumbs up on the hacking protection and i am not really familiar with the protect stuff but as far as i can see the game is CLEAN! every now and then an A-hole player would attempt to hack the game and they will succeed but i trust the server that it is being dealt with.
COMMUNITY 8/10
Community is very good! though majority is Filipino players but still you would get to encounter people from other country which makes the game diverse. And GM are REALLY strict when it comes to RMT(Real Money Trading) which i totally agree with because it makes the game balance. I think the GM's arent bias because i have seen couple of people which were banned even though they donate in game. /no1
ECONOMY 8/10
I have been playing for a month now and i can say that even though farming is though due to the rates(which by the way i enjoy) i was able to get my character some decent items.
Donation rewards are not overpowered items but only costumes which i am good with because that gives us less fortunate people still compete with rich players and making the game Pay to Win.
though you can sell the costume for zeny i don't really mind because doesn't make other people stronger anyways.
MANAGEMENT 10/10
Just play the game!!! for a person like me that gave up hope in MMORPG long time ago this server made me love the game again.
great server i love it, its fun trying to play without all the s*** the newer episodes have, only problem is being english and not being able to find parties even using very simple communication like "lvl xx inv plz" ignored like 90% of the time
As I am actually playing this server right now, been playing it for like 4 weeks, I want to give a review as well.
Stability: 8/10The server itself is pretty stable, I didn't disconnect while doing anything active yet, it doesn't lag and it seems to handle 3.000 users well.
You sometimes disconnect in the night while staying AFK in town, which is annoying, since the longer you stay online, the more reward points you get. DCing resets this and it's somewhat a luck-thing.
Hacking Protection: 8/10They are using Gepard-Shield. It protects against most basic things, but it seems sometimes some users are able to bypass it. I've seen one botter and a report regarding him yet, I've seen 4 reports for macro-users and a lot of dual-clienting seems to happen, though, I've also seen photos of people using 5 computers at the same time and we're not talking about an easy topic at all here.
Community: 6/10Mostly filipino. Yes. They are mostly nice people, you can talk to them in english, they respond in english, they help you, go party with you and talk with you.
Sometimes people simply assume you're a pinoy, which can be annoying, especially if your party suddenly starts talking tagalog, everyone ports away and you're left with wondering what happened and where everyone went.
To get through it, it helps learning a few words of tagalog. With "pa resu" for res, "pa baps po" or simply "ab" for buffs and "sali <level>" to enter a party you get to 99 easily.
I've meet a few europeans, I've even been in parties where simply everyone came from somewhere else around the world, it's not that it's only pinoys.
If you're playing this server, keep in mind that those people mostly came from phRO and BalikRO. They could speak tagalog there everywhere and they're assuming Sarah Server is the "new official Server", kind of, so they keep on talking it there.
The server language itself is english and it's forbidden to talk Tagalog in public messages like shout, the channel-system or chat-rooms (Event though it's mostly not enforced).
I've also seen racist people from other countries trying to bash on them (Character names like "Pa means no for me" and guild ranks insulting Filipinos) which isn't really nice as well. I see it as their realm, not mine. I join them, so I have to get used to them. Simple as that.
The hardest thing with the community is the typical KSing-attitude. Some maps were KS-free until the last update, which meant you were free to KS anyone there. Now it got forbidden since it simply was too much KSing, but people still KS and GMs are too stuffed up with reports overflowing.
You have @noks which doesn't help really well in parties, but it helps you if you're farming alone and don't want to get KSed.
There are some toxic people, but there are toxic people everywhere, so what does it matter.
Economy: 4/10Trashed by reward points.
There is a system that gives you reward points based on the time you were online. Many people simply stay AFK over night (which makes up like 40% of the population on this server!) which results in having like 2,5k RP each day.
As Grape Juice can be bought for 2 RP, simply everyone got like 1k Grape Juice each day, which makes things like typical grape farming absolutely useless.
There are no Homunculi yet, which in turn makes Alchemists rather useless right now (Potion pitching not needed at all)
Some classes like Monks profit greatly from it, as they don't need to farm manually to run WoE and PvP.
Next to GJ you can also buy condensed red potions for 1RP which most people use as their primary healing item.
The community doesn't want it removed, since everyone got used to it and they simply don't want to start to farm now.
Management: 7/10The GMs are generally good, professional and capable. They do what is right for the server, mostly. The only bad thing is: They are slow. They respond slowly, they seem to not take part too actively in discussions and finding solutions for something takes a long time.
Some things are handled rather bad, such as character deletion. You can only delete characters when the server is in maintenance, using the Sarah Server website. This is a protection against scamming in some way, but honestly, I feel like there are better solutions than that.
There are no signs of corruption whatsoever and they are actively banning everything that harms the server permanently (e.g. RMT)
Generally it has been a fun experience to play on Sarah Server. You get to see real RO, as it used to be, as it was the greatest fun, as it should always be.
When have you been able to make a fortune by selling warps with a priest in Payon the last time?
When did you go to Toy Factory 2, enter the warp to it and the second you're in you get a party invite resulting in a 12-person party moving on to Glast Heim later?
When have you been standing in Magma with bards, dancers and 3 wizards, 4 lurers pulling, snipers protecting the wizards with Arrow Shower for leveling up?
I found a Skeleton Card the first minutes on this server (Cards are 1x), I made a fortune!
You get to see things you don't see on other private servers, simply because of the low rates, the sheer amount of players and because of the small level of customization (which is a good thing!)
Yes, many people are AFK. But that doesn't remove the 1.800 people not being AFK.
I can recommend this server to anyone searching for a good low-rate experience and doesn't hate filipino people.
Learn a few basic words of tagalog and you'll get along with them just fine.Quote from: lllaaazzz on Aug 20, 2016, 12:56 PM
great server i love it, its fun trying to play without all the s*** the newer episodes have, only problem is being english and not being able to find parties even using very simple communication like "lvl xx inv plz" ignored like 90% of the time
Try "sali <level>". Always worked for me. If you're being nice, try "sali <level>
po"! "sali party" seems to be "searching for party" (Asked a filipino)
Follow a party, make a chat with ALT+C and write "sali <level>". Wait for either "gap"-response (You're out of the level range) or an invite.
Money Talks server, selling +10 gears for the right price if you know how to contact him. One of the GM Namely (Ro Je) is very Rude always get into a fight with player not very good costumer service/very sensitive. Other GM is nice though (Raven) I respect her. Lots of toxic players which admin is listening to because he don't want to lose them since money talks. Admin have no sense of Justice, if you are the only one it does n't matter if you're correct you will be wronged because all toxic player is against you. Rules applies depends on how important you are in the server. Previous server of the owner was shutdown due to corruption. Don't waste your time and money in this server.
Quote from: ServerCritic on Sep 09, 2016, 05:10 AM
Money Talks server, selling +10 gears for the right price if you know how to contact him. One of the GM Namely (Ro Je) is very Rude always get into a fight with player not very good costumer service/very sensitive. Other GM is nice though (Raven) I respect her. Lots of toxic players which admin is listening to because he don't want to lose them since money talks. Admin have no sense of Justice, if you are the only one it does n't matter if you're correct you will be wronged because all toxic player is against you. Rules applies depends on how important you are in the server. Previous server of the owner was shutdown due to corruption. Don't waste your time and money in this server.
Totally not true :) We ban all rmt and any rmt related case. We are also strict by the rules regardless if your donator or not and we can prove that in our forum. Show us some proof of what you are saying and we will show ours in our forum
Quote from: StriderHiryuu on Sep 09, 2016, 10:39 AM
Totally not true :) We ban all rmt and any rmt related case. We are also strict by the rules regardless if your donator or not and we can prove that in our forum. Show us some proof of what you are saying and we will show ours in our forum
Don't BS me, your forums are for front only. Your server is full of toxic peenoise, you only ban those rmt that you can't benefit from. Server security is questionable, yet one of the guild who caught hacking was pardoned, why? Money talks, full of hacking incidents, but nothing have ever made to the forums why? owner does not give a s***. Just look at the owners previous server, cause of closure was corruption, remember MediaFire huh StriderHiryuu? I don't need to prove, just try playing there and you will see it for yourself I'm sure of it. Also one of your GM is hot headed btw.
Quote from: ServerCritic on Sep 09, 2016, 03:07 PM
I don't need to prove
Well, it would actually be pretty awesome if you can provide any kind of proof. I am playing this server for a while now and I didn't sense anything in that direction yet.
It's true that some people were able to bypass security systems in some ways, but those that have been reported have also been banned.
Watching the forums daily, I didn't see any reports that suddenly disappeared.
Please provide some proof, right now your words are exactly as much worth as Strider's. That would help everyone.
Quote from: ServerCritic on Sep 09, 2016, 03:07 PM
Don't BS me, your forums are for front only. Your server is full of toxic peenoise, you only ban those rmt that you can't benefit from. Server security is questionable, yet one of the guild who caught hacking was pardoned, why? Money talks, full of hacking incidents, but nothing have ever made to the forums why? owner does not give a s***. Just look at the owners previous server, cause of closure was corruption, remember MediaFire huh StriderHiryuu? I don't need to prove, just try playing there and you will see it for yourself I'm sure of it. Also one of your GM is hot headed btw.
I dont know what you are talking about /heh clearly you are the one BS*** around with no proof and seems your accounts a newly registered just want to take the server down :) We have active forum and all are judge fairly based on our server rules.
Quote from: StriderHiryuu on Sep 09, 2016, 11:16 PM
seems your accounts a newly registered just want to take the server down :) We have active forum and all are judge fairly based on our server rules.
Seriously? I myself made this account here just to back what ServerCritis was saying. The server is full of lies. It was pretty decent at first but suddenly went downhill because of your greed.
You made personal changes to the server, that even the Classic RO lived 10+ years without doing so. Especially that monk nerf, which reduces its potential damage up to 30% on PvP/WoE just weeks before your major event, Agit Lords.
STABILITY (connection, performance) 8/10.
Availability is almost 24/7 except ofcourse during maintenance/patch.
HACKING PROTECTION 5/10.
DDoS Attacks during last minute WoE and not doing anything to compensate(ie. Extend WoE for atleast 10 minutes maybe?)
COMMUNITY 2/10.
Lots of toxic players.
Lots of scammers.
Lots of spammers(Chat/Megaphone).
Lots of skill abusers.
Before
ECONOMY 8/10.
Very healthy economy.
Lots of other players to trade with.
Now, after that latest fishy update
ECONOMY 3/10
Lots of players already quit. From 2.5k average to now 1k-1.3k both including AFKs.
Imagine losing almost 1.5k players in just 1 month. I'll let you decide on that.
If you want proof regarding this, just visit their website. Players count: Peak : 3,899 / Current : Average 1k-1.3k
Losing lots of players had huge impact on economy. Prices changed by +/- 50% to 80%.
MANAGEMENT 0/10.
They took it for granted. When there were still 3k+ players, almost no event have been held. (There are no automated event maybe for the classic feel). Atleast a simple hide & seek or Q&A Event once a week would be great. But no, they only did this when the player count dropped to 1.5k-2k. But even that couldn't stop people from quitting. Maybe it's too late?
There was this GM named tor sen who got into a heated argument with players. The one i wrote about DDoS Attack during WoE. That GM lose on the argument and just started muting players. Worse? A Guild master of an active woe participating guild has been banned (which was later got unbanned after explaining to other GMs, but later quit because of GMs being bias).
Admins avoiding questions on forums.
Not listening to the majority of players.
Locking threads after losing an argument.
Very poor technical support.
Very very very bias management.
PVP 0/10
This is where most of the toxic players meet. Almost everyday you will see shouts of trashtalking pvp players, calling out names, which was broadcasted throughout the whole server.
My friend told me that this is already their third or fourth server. The first ones didn't last long because of corruption and DDoS attacks, which they believe from their haters from previous servers. Using different server name when making a new one.
Oh and it's already been de-listed here in RMS.
Edited: Community is terrible. No servers are perfect, but majority in this server are filipinos. And Filipinos are among the most ILL MANNERED people you'll ever encounter online. I do NOT recommended this server at all.
I've been on this server for just over a month now and so far so good.
I'll start with the good things =)
1. Love the proxy servers, I'm playing from Australia and connects through USA proxies, ping is VERY good.
2. I haven't experienced much of the hatred mentioned by other people, the community is generally nice, occasionally you do see a few rude people but I don't think it's fair to judge the whole population based on this. Things are however different in popular leveling maps, everyone doing anything possible to steal other people's mob, I personally have no issue with this because i like competitions and we are all exp hungry =).
3. Very active PVP, on average there are around 20 people in the pvp room. Althought i do find average skill level of players in the pvp room to be some what noobish.
4. Custom new features are consistently being put into game which is a big plus from me.
5. No bots sighted so far.
6. No game breaking mvp/mini boss cards, some people suggested have them implemented for PVM only which i agree. =)
7. Everyone seem to be enjoying the game =)
And of course every coin has two sides, here are the downfalls.
1. Not enough Events, we are getting about two new events per months plus some on going events from previous months, for me I'd like to see some sort of event every week.
2. GM does accept suggestions but only if it's aligned with their goals, take WOE 2 for example, I saw a number of players backing it but was rejected for unspecified reason which is a big let down for people.
3. Everyone assumes that you are Pinoy, i'm sure many have mentioned this, it does get kinda annoying when people keeps on talking to you in Tagalog, it makes us international players feel isolated.
4. The modification on trap pushing really handicaps hunters' gameplay in pvp, I've been a hunter player for years and not being able to push traps around really make hunters look insignificant compare to other classes, some may argue that this change was to stay true to the classical RO way but at what cost??? I'd like to see this changed back to how it should be later on, hopefully really soon.
From a players who's been playing everyday since November........