YmirRO is an Australian based server which is hosted in the US. I myself, live in Australia so I decided to try it out. It is a low rate 10/10 server which HAD around 100+ online average, until the server mysteriously went down for 2 months without any notice or information given. Now on a good day it peaks at 45 players and around 60+ during WoE. It is also a no donations server, meaning they shouldn't reward donators with items. However, they began offering small incentives for donators. Nothing imbalanced like some other servers, though. They re-opened with 2x rates, this is probably one of the worst mistakes they have ever made. The people who joined initially enjoyed x20 rates which got them to lvl99 much faster than you would now, this really put off many newcomers today since they're surrounded by a sea of trans and maxed out characters.
Now off to my ratings.
Stability: 8/10
Because it’s hosted in the US, and this is an Australian based server, you will find some lag if you play in Australia. If you don’t play in Australia, you should be fine but there will be no point to playing since no one will be on during your timezone.
Availability: 5/10
I really don't know how to rate this. The server went down for 2 months without a word, but since then it has been online pretty much always. But that incident has still left many players uncertain and feeling insecure. I decided to give it half of the maximum score.
Friendliness: 6/10
Some of the players really friendly and some are the complete opposite. When I first joined there was one person who helped me a lot by providing me some basic gear and zeny to get me going. After playing it for awhile, I notice some players are very rude. Especially on the forums, they will flame you for the smallest things.
Events: 3/10
GMs are almost never online. No events are ever held by them. The only reason why I gave it a 3 is because I heard that there are some automated events. Haven't tried them.
GM Friendliness: 6/10
Some of the GMs are friendly and some aren't. I won't name any names here, but let's just say a certain friend of the owner needs to learn how to talk to people with some respect.
GM Availability: 1/10
GMs are hardly ever online. They like to solve most problems on the forums. Throughout my entire stay on YmirRO, I have not seen any GMs online at all. I live in Australia, so I'm online during the peak hours as well.
GM Helpfulness: 4/10
Getting instant support is impossible. You have to wait hours to get any form of support because they only answer through the forums, which they don't even monitor that actively. It takes ages for GMs to get anything done; they have to get support from the entire server before making any real decisions. Though, it isn't a lot of people, everyone has different views from one another.
Economy: 3/10
Very poor economy here, there are about 7-8 venders which have been there for many days and have sold nearly nothing. Zeny has almost no value here, apart from using the healer or resetting stats.
Guild Competition: 6/10
Guilds competition isn't too bad; there are quite a few guilds here that are active in WoE. The only problem is that there is one guild which practically dominates all the others, because they were here from the start. New guilds will find it very difficult to compete because most guilds already have all their gears and are Trans/maxed out.
Class Balance: 6/10
This isn't that bad either; once you enter the server you'll notice that not everyone is a SinX or Sniper. There appears to be SOME sort of diversity among the classes. I've seen much better though.
Final score: 48/100
I guess there aren’t any decent Australian servers anymore. I’m sure this server once showed promise, but the lack of active players in the community probably de motivated the GMs to the extent that the enthusiasm once shown is now gone. I’m going to have to find another server and bear with the American time zones.
