Taking their time, since RO has been out for a small child's lifetime. Sounds like they all fail to me. Except ones owned by certain RMS shareholders.
With RO you sort of need to take second best and live with it. There is no best, nothing will fit your needs 100%, and the things that DO fit your needs are so far into economy you won't be able to wean yourself into it. All the older servers are superior. The newer ones, anything made in 09/10 are pretty much guaranteed to be a money scam of sorts.. or be made by some person who can't resist the temptation to cheat. E-Peen runs wild in RO. The only way to really make a perfect server is to clone iRO and ban the Philippines.
People run servers for various reasons, and to base an opinion that certain servers are "better" than others just because someone has an "e-rep" doesn't make them better, worse, than any other server, when, it's really just their face popping up on RMS more often than others.
Popularity =/= a good server owner, runner, or manager: it just means they like to spend time on the RMS forums (possibly, to engage in the massive lulz factor like I do).
The only real way of seeing if it is "better", is to go in-game yourself and experience it and come to a conclusive opinion then, not to judge it based off someones "e-rep", because unlike an IRL reputation, people are more inclined to ditch an online reputation for money more-so than in the MMO called "Life". This has been proven over-and-over by various and infamous server owners: Ancyker, Zarik (I think that's how you spell his name), Haze, Lai, and etc.
It's VERY easy to change who you are online, and it's a lot harder to change who you are in real life.
If this "e-rep" thing were true, my server would be one of the best out there. This isn't true, because I know it isn't:there's always room for improvement.
However, I do see ways to improve my server, and I work on perfecting it each and every day. I'm probably the BIGGEST critic of my server because I want everything TO be perfect (or at least as close to perfect in my eyes), and I know that not everyone will like my server, or someone will QQ about some perceived injustice (Mi Gao *cough*) and take it up the donkey, but, I try to do the best
I can and try to create the best server I can for my players, and that's all a server owner can / should do.
And iRO isn't necessarilly the best way to approach private servers.
Private servers are made with the intention of trying to
BE different from the officials. The entire idea of private servers is to lure players to a server that has differences that a player cannot experience in an official server. Rates / items / custom this, that, and the other thing, are all things servers do. You never see banners like this:
InterestingRO 1x1x1, exactly like iRO! Official quests! Official Items! Standard Pets! Join Now!
Honestly, if your server was an exact copy of iRO, would your players play on your server?
No.
Why?
Because they can go play on a more stable server (Aegis) and, do it for free at the same time (Valkyrie), without fear of any private server problems. (Closing down, host issues, connectivity issues, wipes, hackings, etc. etc..).
While I appreciate you trying to add to the idea pool of creating the perfect server, your ideas won't work as they are founded on loose opinions that just won't work and will cause more disappointment than enjoyment.
That is all.
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