Arcadia Online REOPENING ANNOUNCED

[iMissDecentServers]

Latest teaser. Quest Window turned into an Encyclopedia to help you get started with quests and dungeons. Pretty good middle-ground between RO and more modern MMOs since it seems that at most it leads you to the starting NPC and gives you a small brief, instead of being a full guide carrying you through it with full locations and navigation.

[OldPoring]

I don't understand how "REOPENING" is combined with "NO WIPE"? So the server was shut down before?

So much discussion, and this is the first time I've heard about this server, was it popular before? What is the old name of server, in what years did it work?

[iMissDecentServers]

I don't understand how "REOPENING" is combined with "NO WIPE"? So the server was shut down before?

So much discussion, and this is the first time I've heard about this server, was it popular before? What is the old name of server, in what years did it work?

Yes it was closed early 2022.

Arcadia Online is the new name for the old server OriginsRO, very popular server for being one of the few servers are the time (currently the ONLY) to stay true to being fully classical pre-renewal with no custom changes or rebalances other than rates and real quality of life changes that doesn't interfere with the original game.

Also massively respected for NEVER TAKING OR ACCEPTING DONATIONS, payments or anything related to money. THE SERVER IS COMPLETELY FREE, with no cash shop or any greed bullsh*t you usually see in other servers that always lead to favoritism and corruption.

[OldPoring]

wow Of course, I know the server, I have  account since 2018, even before It became super popular.
Many have been waiting for, but now the main question is, with the preservation of all old accounts?
Because if you offer to start from zero, this, unfortunately, is not "NO WIPE"

I see
NO WIPE, NO progress lost,  Your accounts and characters will be just the same as it was 2 years ago.

Very interesting If this is true. To what extent will the server be able to restore its former power and pull its old players away from the projects where they have crawled

[Lili]

Yes, I've been patiently waiting and of course  I will play that server for years to come.

[stareczhory123]

To address the toxicity debate:
...

One example, based on a real story would be:
- Player A drops his item for trading with another character to the ground in Prontera.
- Player B, who has a clean record, picks the item up.
- Player A asks back for his items, claims he wanted to trade it to another character.
- Player B says "It's your own fault, you weak human.", "You're a fool, weak flesh" and other insults out of nowhere. Clearly stating he will not return the item and that Player A deserves this.

Now this was reported by Player A. We checked the chat logs and if the item was actually dropped by A and picked up by B.

Due to the severe negativity of player B towards a stranger who nicely asked for his stuff back,
due to the fact that we think this is very wrong ethically and that at least in a game we can get some slack of the cruelty of this world, player B was permanently banned, despite it being his first incident.

That seems a bit excessive for a permanent ban. Permanent bans should be reserved for more serious offenses, you do realize you can hand out temporary bans/mutes instead right? If you start handing out permanent bans for every little "offense" you will drive normal people away from your server for good.

[OrcLordDaddy]

From my own experience from before the server went down:

Out of all PServers I hopped on, OriginsRO / Arcadia Online felt the most like iRO Classic Loki from 2011.
Game mechanics felt incredibly accurate and only very rarely, if even, I encountered those "uncanney valley" PServer inaccuracies, where you know that something is wrong but you can't pinpoint it because the last time you played an official classic server was years ago.

I'm just sad that no other PServer tries to be this accurate and good.

Server wise alone I can fully recommend anyone to play on Arcadia Online if what they look for is a super close experience to iRO Classic Loki 2011.

[Arcadia Online]

That seems a bit excessive for a permanent ban. Permanent bans should be reserved for more serious offenses, you do realize you can hand out temporary bans/mutes instead right? If you start handing out permanent bans for every little "offense" you will drive normal people away from your server for good.

People rarely ever change. Of course there are little offenses, this isn't one of them.
Since I quoted from memory let me paste the anonymized chat log here:

Via whisper:
A: Hey, Give back my Clip
B: Why?
A: I reported you. If you give it back i will cancel it
B: What for, fool? You gave it to me. THanks, bye
A: No I dropped it to transfer
B: You have very low cognitive abilities

In public chat:
B: This fool is crying over the creamy, because foolish enough to dopr on floor, lol, what a loser xD
B: "report" your a$s, low IQ trash
B: This will be a lesson for you, trade next time, foolish filthy bag of meat and bone

Now if one thinks that scams, deceit, emptying an entire guild storage and other bottom of the society behavior should be fine, since people are responsible to not fall for them:
I'm glad that we don't seem welcoming to these people.

Of course we hand out temp bans and mutes as well.

[ForgotMyOldAccount]

wow Of course, I know the server, I have  account since 2018, even before It became super popular.
Many have been waiting for, but now the main question is, with the preservation of all old accounts?
Because if you offer to start from zero, this, unfortunately, is not "NO WIPE"

I see
NO WIPE, NO progress lost,  Your accounts and characters will be just the same as it was 2 years ago.

Very interesting If this is true. To what extent will the server be able to restore its former power and pull its old players away from the projects where they have crawled

I don't really get this. The server has been around for years before the shut down. Players, quite literally, have hundreds of millions of zeny and multiple level 99s. The server looks good from a mechanical perspective but I honestly don't think it has much life to it without a wipe. I hope they prove me wrong but there's a reason why fresh servers typically draw more numbers. Players love having a fresh start on equal playing fields. Some of the oldest servers around have maybe 10 players online at any given time. All RO servers have a finite lifespan, such is the nature of the game.

[Arcadia Online]

I don't really get this. The server has been around for years before the shut down. Players, quite literally, have hundreds of millions of zeny and multiple level 99s. The server looks good from a mechanical perspective but I honestly don't think it has much life to it without a wipe. I hope they prove me wrong but there's a reason why fresh servers typically draw more numbers. Players love having a fresh start on equal playing fields. Some of the oldest servers around have maybe 10 players online at any given time. All RO servers have a finite lifespan, such is the nature of the game.

We've been around since 2013 till 2022.
In the end we still had 1200 autotraders and > 400 players online daily.

Consider that just like there are people that share your mindset, thinking a server has finite life and needs to wipe in order to have a fresh start with magically more players, despite doing so repetitively, there are also people that have the exact opposite mindset.

Now, we don't know how many people have this mindset opposite to yours, a mindset where people just want to have a server to play on, take a break for years, come back, and all their items and characters are still there.

But it honestly doesn't matter to us. We just want to have a server, that we like to play on and put our passion into. That feels comfortable to play. That takes our fear of losing all our progress. That lets us relive this nostalgic game, without massive rebalancing, but with improved UX.

If this means that eventually most players may lose interest and stop playing, doesn't matter. We will still be there, when you decide to play again, with all your characters untouched.

[Gulielmus]

I don't really get this. The server has been around for years before the shut down. Players, quite literally, have hundreds of millions of zeny and multiple level 99s. The server looks good from a mechanical perspective but I honestly don't think it has much life to it without a wipe. I hope they prove me wrong but there's a reason why fresh servers typically draw more numbers. Players love having a fresh start on equal playing fields. Some of the oldest servers around have maybe 10 players online at any given time. All RO servers have a finite lifespan, such is the nature of the game.

This reminds me a lot to some people that wants to kill an angel, holy 1 mob for social interaction.

[OldPoring]

Players love having a fresh start on equal playing fields.

But you will never have equal playing fields. those who did not have time to join new server in small window of opportunity at the time the server is opened.
In addition, rating is x5 and there was a monster of the day x10, and a huge market, no problem for progress.
If you personally do not like to accumulate millions of zeny  on one server and you like to start from scratch, who prevents you from doing it yourself? But wiping is unacceptable.

B: This fool is crying over the creamy, because foolish enough to dopr on floor, lol, what a loser xD

This behavior of B is bad, but one who droped Creamy, his fault. I transfer sorts of cheap loot in this way, but not rares. Or on a server with a very small number of players.
Who prevented him from transfer across Kafra or the second window? And he droped it on the floor in a huge populated server in Prontera. He's a fool, that's a fact 

[Gulielmus]

But you will never have equal playing fields. those who did not have time to join new server in small window of opportunity at the time the server is opened.
In addition, rating is x5 and there was a monster of the day x10, and a huge market, no problem for progress.
If you personally do not like to accumulate millions of zeny  on one server and you like to start from scratch, who prevents you from doing it yourself? But wiping is unacceptable.

He is trying to cater the WoE/PvP "nomad" scene with his argument. PvM is just what you pointed, it doesn't matter if someone has a GTB when fighting Hill Winds.

[ForgotMyOldAccount]

He is trying to cater the WoE/PvP "nomad" scene with his argument. PvM is just what you pointed, it doesn't matter if someone has a GTB when fighting Hill Winds.

I mean even if you only play PvM, there will come a point on every server where you have every item you could ever want and have 99d the handful of classes you want to play. There isn't infinite things to do in Ragnarok Online pre-re, there aren't new episodes being released and a constant stream of new content. Just my opinion. If people feel happy stacking hill wind cards in storage, I think it's fine and even admirable to do so but many RO players enjoy the sense of progression.

[distilled1]

many RO players enjoy the sense of progression.

Yes, and for those players who have no ability to use their imagination, who lack the ability to create their own fun at end game via social events/activities or unconventional gameplay, there are a seemingly infinite number of private servers that constantly inject "new content", whether it's custom content or copied from official kRO.

Let players who dislike changes and constant updates have this one server to rely on for once, so they know they can always take breaks and come back to a familiar world where they don't have to study new mechanics or additions. Let players who want a window into their nostalgia a less altered version so they can come together with others who share their nostalgia.