Aeon Ragnarok Online Review

[Prism~]

This is my more in-depth review of AeonRO, as there is not enough room for me in the regular review section of the website.

I'm writing this review hoping the admin will see it, and take it as constructive criticism, and will use it to help better the server.

Server Ratings:

1. Stability - 8/10

Since the server has opened, it has been pretty stable, there were some issues with BG freezing people, and some d/cs from people every now and then, and lag, but things seem to have calmed down now. But I'm still giving it an 8/10 just because of all the issues we were having in the first place.

2. Availability - 8/10

Again, the server has been pretty available but, I can count a few times that the server has lagged and dropped out since it has been out. Things seem to be more stable now though, so I can give it an 8/10.

Community Ratings:

1. Friendliness - 9/10

People on the server are pretty great. There are a lot of nice people, that are pretty helpful with newbies. There's usually a lot of talking on #main which is nice, and mostly everyone is friendly to everyone. Once in a while there'll be a troll though, which is expected because it's RO. Which is why I gave it a 9/10. But, for the most part everything is just fine with the community friendliness.

2. Eventfulness - 5/10

There is an automated event every 30 minutes, which is great for event currency. But, there are hardly any GM hosted Events. I have been on the server about since it opened, and I have only seen 3 GM hosted events. I would love to see more GM hosted events. But, there is only 1 Event GM, which could be the reason for this. So I gave it a 5/10 because there are automated events, but very little GM hosted events.

Game Master Ratings:

1. Friendliness - 10/10

The GMs are very friendly, you can easily have a conversation with them, and they will talk right back to you. They seem to enjoy talking with the players. Nothing to deduct points from here.

2. Availability - 7/10

There is usually a GM on, but lately I've been seeing less of the GMs in-town. Since the server has opened, there has been at least one GM on at a time, for the most part. So, they are pretty active, but as of late, they could afford to be more active.

3. Helpfulness - 3/10

The GMs are helpful with helping people with technical issues, for sure. If there is someone with a problem on the forum, then they try to help them. But, when it comes to suggestions, they are lacking big time. There is a 2 page list of suggestions that for the most part, have gone unnoticed by the GMs, and if they have been noticed, nothing has been done with them. Most suggestions just sit there, even if they are accepted, and if the Admin does not agree with a suggestion, it's basically an automatic rejection, even if the community wants it. The Admin could use work on giving the players what they want/need, as long as it is within reason, and in my honest opinion, most of them are. Maintenance is another big issue, the Admin says he will do maintenance, then makes a bunch of excuses as to why he can't do it over the span of 20 days and then finally starts it. Hopefully this will change. So yeah, they are helpful with technical issues but, they lack in actually getting things that will make the server better, into the server. The admin always says he cares about the server, I want him to prove it.

Game-Play Ratings

1. Economy - 6/10

The economy on the server is kind of bad. Things are very over priced, even with a decently high drop rate. For example, a marc card which can easily be hunted, costs 5~7m, where it should probably be 3m. Due to an unexpected rollback, which was on the host's part, not the admin, the drop rates were increased by 2x for 9 days, which didn't help the economy much, just flooded it. Also, I am taking into account that the server is fairly new. So, I give the economy a 6/10.

2. Guild Competition - 7/10

There are a few guilds that compete in WoE here, mostly Element, Royal Imperium, Nacht, and WTF Just Happened. There is a good amount of guild competition, but, the server is still slightly new, so there isn't a whole lot. But, it's decent as it is. So, I give it a 7/10.

3. Class Balance - 9/10

Class balance is about the same as any MR server. Champs, Creos, and Sins mostly rule BG, but that is to be expected I guess. Some things have been done to BG to help balance it a little, for a few weeks Sins couldn't use EDP in Team Death Match, and when a losing team spawns in BG, they spawn in a block so they have a chance to retaliate. So yeah, 9/10, everything is fine here.

Overall Rating - 72/100

Other information:

Donation Level - Balanced

Customization Level - Occasional

There are some custom items, and custom instances are being added in.

Population - 80

The population has dropped from around 140 people down to around 70~90 lately.


Another note:

This was my review as a player watching the server from the beginning to now, about a month and a half. This server has a lot of potential, all it needs is more work put in by the GMs, and a larger population. I hope this helps the server out, and it can grow.

[Noble]

I am a player since the 1st day and I've also been on the beta test server since the very beginning. I can also affirm that I've been an enthusiast of Aeon and always believed in its potential as a stable-well balanced server. However there are some aspects I'd like to review/point out.
(I  am going to quote the above post for reference).

This is my more in-depth review of AeonRO, as there is not enough room for me in the regular review section of the website.

I'm writing this review hoping the admin will see it, and take it as constructive criticism, and will use it to help better the server.

Server Ratings:

1. Stability - 8/10

Since the server has opened, it has been pretty stable, there were some issues with BG freezing people, and some d/cs from people every now and then, and lag, but things seem to have calmed down now. But I'm still giving it an 8/10 just because of all the issues we were having in the first place.

As stated above, the server went through several lag issues and disconnections; I don't know if those were DDOS (if they still happen nowadays on RO) or host issues, anyway they seem gone. I still get some lag spikes now and then, specially in BG, but I guess it is because I live in Europe and have an average ping. 7/10

2. Availability - 8/10

Again, the server has been pretty available but, I can count a few times that the server has lagged and dropped out since it has been out. Things seem to be more stable now though, so I can give it an 8/10.

Agree. 8/10

Community Ratings:

1. Friendliness - 9/10

People on the server are pretty great. There are a lot of nice people, that are pretty helpful with newbies. There's usually a lot of talking on #main which is nice, and mostly everyone is friendly to everyone. Once in a while there'll be a troll though, which is expected because it's RO. Which is why I gave it a 9/10. But, for the most part everything is just fine with the community friendliness.

Definitely a friendly community, you can have some enjoyable chat of any kind in the #main channel, players are helpful and most of the time nice with newbies. Occasionally there are trolls and catfights going on, but nothing (to my opinion) really serious. The community is fine also on forums, which is not too much lively and neither too much dead, both GMs and "veteran" players reply quickly to the forums' topics/discussion and I never seen a thread transforming into an endless drama (which is quite important to me). 9/10

2. Eventfulness - 5/10

There is an automated event every 30 minutes, which is great for event currency. But, there are hardly any GM hosted Events. I have been on the server about since it opened, and I have only seen 3 GM hosted events. I would love to see more GM hosted events. But, there is only 1 Event GM, which could be the reason for this. So I gave it a 5/10 because there are automated events, but very little GM hosted events.

I agreed with Prism on this, but the past week I've seen the Admin and GMs take some actions about this topic. A new Event GM has been added to fill that vacancy in the Europe night time, this has been recent so I can't really tell if it will be effective, but I appreciated the effort.
I'd give a 6/10 because it's still something that needs to be developed.

Game Master Ratings:

1. Friendliness - 10/10

The GMs are very friendly, you can easily have a conversation with them, and they will talk right back to you. They seem to enjoy talking with the players. Nothing to deduct points from here.

8/10 they are friendly indeed, I don't want to give a higher rating for a couple of reasons. 1st, to my point of view, a GM or at least the Admin of a server should NEVER be too friendly to the point everyone can freely talk or bug to him/her and in the case of Aeon this is happening too often. I beg pardon for my bad English, what I mean is Admin Reality is seen mostly as "one of the players" rather than an admin; perhaps it's just m feeling idk.
2nd I gave a 8 because I've seen a couple of times GMs replying rudely to whining players, I know that players are annoying 60% of the times, but as a GM you should not tell them to quit or go whine in another place...and stuff like that (yes to me it is rude).
Beside these couple of tings, GMs on AeonRO enjoy spending time in game with players, talk to them..a lot, they reply suddenly to any kind of request

2. Availability - 7/10

There is usually a GM on, but lately I've been seeing less of the GMs in-town. Since the server has opened, there has been at least one GM on at a time, for the most part. So, they are pretty active, but as of late, they could afford to be more active.

I don't agree on this, they are quite available, if not in game at least you can feel free to PM them on the forums. What I don't like is the forum chat being spammed with questions and request when players should post a topic instead, anyway even forum chat gets a reply from a GM pretty much suddenly. 9/10

3. Helpfulness - 3/10

The GMs are helpful with helping people with technical issues, for sure. If there is someone with a problem on the forum, then they try to help them. But, when it comes to suggestions, they are lacking big time. There is a 2 page list of suggestions that for the most part, have gone unnoticed by the GMs, and if they have been noticed, nothing has been done with them. Most suggestions just sit there, even if they are accepted, and if the Admin does not agree with a suggestion, it's basically an automatic rejection, even if the community wants it. The Admin could use work on giving the players what they want/need, as long as it is within reason, and in my honest opinion, most of them are. Maintenance is another big issue, the Admin says he will do maintenance, then makes a bunch of excuses as to why he can't do it over the span of 20 days and then finally starts it. Hopefully this will change. So yeah, they are helpful with technical issues but, they lack in actually getting things that will make the server better, into the server. The admin always says he cares about the server, I want him to prove it.

Totally agree on what has been said above. I'd give a 5/10 just because I've seen a little effort from Admin in recruiting more Staff.
If I had to explain this lack of "helpfulness" I'd point my finger at Admin Reality, I decided to give a chance to his server and as I stated before, I was very enthusiastic about his project because I've had the chance to meet him as a player and as an old RO player he knows well the game mechanics and every single possible exploit (which, to me, is a big +), which means he can easily find a way to "fix" the said exploit/problem. HOWEVER Reality have been working alone (with a little help from a developer/coder) on TOO MANY things at the same time, which I think compromised his work in term of quality and time. Some things have been already decided and won't be changed under suggestion, some other will be reviewed, but currently there are some significant implements that need to be done (such as BG fixes, quests, woe fixes...etc).
A positive aspect is that when maintenance comes, it comes in bulk and many fixes take place.

Game-Play Ratings

1. Economy - 6/10

The economy on the server is kind of bad. Things are very over priced, even with a decently high drop rate. For example, a marc card which can easily be hunted, costs 5~7m, where it should probably be 3m. Due to an unexpected rollback, which was on the host's part, not the admin, the drop rates were increased by 2x for 9 days, which didn't help the economy much, just flooded it. Also, I am taking into account that the server is fairly new. So, I give the economy a 6/10.

Can't give now a real opinion, obviously there are some people that over over over price their junk but checking forum's vending section and #vending channel the economy seems pretty stable and prices are average as in other balanced mid-low rate servers. I'd also mention that donations are reasonable, not OP and most important, available in game through quest. To me is a 6 or 7/10

2. Guild Competition - 7/10

There are a few guilds that compete in WoE here, mostly Element, Royal Imperium, Nacht, and WTF Just Happened. There is a good amount of guild competition, but, the server is still slightly new, so there isn't a whole lot. But, it's decent as it is. So, I give it a 7/10.

Sadly I work when WoE is on .___.

3. Class Balance - 9/10

Class balance is about the same as any MR server. Champs, Creos, and Sins mostly rule BG, but that is to be expected I guess. Some things have been done to BG to help balance it a little, for a few weeks Sins couldn't use EDP in Team Death Match, and when a losing team spawns in BG, they spawn in a block so they have a chance to retaliate. So yeah, 9/10, everything is fine here.

won't give a rate to this, because I think that class balance depends on players' abilities most (and many players just go champ 8D ), as said above some changes have been done to balance BG a little.

Overall Rating - 72/100

Other information:

Donation Level - Balanced

Customization Level - Occasional

There are some custom items, and custom instances are being added in.

I like the idea of Admin Reality to add customizations "drop by drop" and not in bulk
Population - 80

The population has dropped from around 140 people down to around 70~90 lately.


Another note:

This was my review as a player watching the server from the beginning to now, about a month and a half. This server has a lot of potential, all it needs is more work put in by the GMs, and a larger population. I hope this helps the server out, and it can grow.

[Prism~]

~Update Based On Things That Have Changed~

This is my more in-depth review of AeonRO, as there is not enough room for me in the regular review section of the website.

I'm writing this review hoping the admin will see it, and take it as constructive criticism, and will use it to help better the server.

Server Ratings:

1. Stability - 9/10

Since the server has opened, it has been pretty stable, there were some issues with BG freezing people, and some d/cs from people every now and then, and lag, but things seem to have calmed down now. But I'm still giving it an 8/10 just because of all the issues we were having in the first place.

2. Availability - 9/10

Again, the server has been pretty available but, I can count a few times that the server has lagged and dropped out since it has been out. Things seem to be more stable now though, so I can give it an 8/10.

Community Ratings:

1. Friendliness - 9/10

People on the server are pretty great. There are a lot of nice people, that are pretty helpful with newbies. There's usually a lot of talking on #main which is nice, and mostly everyone is friendly to everyone. Once in a while there'll be a troll though, which is expected because it's RO. Which is why I gave it a 9/10. But, for the most part everything is just fine with the community friendliness.

2. Eventfulness - 8/10

There is an automated event every 30 minutes, which is great for event currency. But, there are hardly any GM hosted Events. I have been on the server about since it opened, and I have only seen 3 GM hosted events. I would love to see more GM hosted events. But, there is only 1 Event GM, which could be the reason for this. So I gave it a 5/10 because there are automated events, but very little GM hosted events.

Game Master Ratings:

1. Friendliness - 10/10

The GMs are very friendly, you can easily have a conversation with them, and they will talk right back to you. They seem to enjoy talking with the players. Nothing to deduct points from here.

2. Availability - 9/10

There is usually a GM on, but lately I've been seeing less of the GMs in-town. Since the server has opened, there has been at least one GM on at a time, for the most part. So, they are pretty active, but as of late, they could afford to be more active.

3. Helpfulness - 8/10

The GMs are helpful with helping people with technical issues, for sure. If there is someone with a problem on the forum, then they try to help them. But, when it comes to suggestions, they are lacking big time. There is a 2 page list of suggestions that for the most part, have gone unnoticed by the GMs, and if they have been noticed, nothing has been done with them. Most suggestions just sit there, even if they are accepted, and if the Admin does not agree with a suggestion, it's basically an automatic rejection, even if the community wants it. The Admin could use work on giving the players what they want/need, as long as it is within reason, and in my honest opinion, most of them are. Maintenance is another big issue, the Admin says he will do maintenance, then makes a bunch of excuses as to why he can't do it over the span of 20 days and then finally starts it. Hopefully this will change. So yeah, they are helpful with technical issues but, they lack in actually getting things that will make the server better, into the server. The admin always says he cares about the server, I want him to prove it.

Game-Play Ratings

1. Economy - 6/10

The economy on the server is kind of bad. Things are very over priced, even with a decently high drop rate. For example, a marc card which can easily be hunted, costs 5~7m, where it should probably be 3m. Due to an unexpected rollback, which was on the host's part, not the admin, the drop rates were increased by 2x for 9 days, which didn't help the economy much, just flooded it. Also, I am taking into account that the server is fairly new. So, I give the economy a 6/10.

2. Guild Competition - 7/10

There are a few guilds that compete in WoE here, mostly Element, Royal Imperium, Nacht, and WTF Just Happened. There is a good amount of guild competition, but, the server is still slightly new, so there isn't a whole lot. But, it's decent as it is. So, I give it a 7/10.

3. Class Balance - 9/10

Class balance is about the same as any MR server. Champs, Creos, and Sins mostly rule BG, but that is to be expected I guess. Some things have been done to BG to help balance it a little, for a few weeks Sins couldn't use EDP in Team Death Match, and when a losing team spawns in BG, they spawn in a block so they have a chance to retaliate. So yeah, 9/10, everything is fine here.

Overall Rating - 84/100

Other information:

Donation Level - Balanced

Customization Level - Occasional

There are some custom items, and custom instances are being added in.

Population - 80

The population has dropped from around 140 people down to around 70~90 lately.


Another note:

This was my review as a player watching the server from the beginning to now, about a month and a half. This server has a lot of potential, all it needs is more work put in by the GMs, and a larger population. I hope this helps the server out, and it can grow.

I edited it so that it reflects all the work the admin and GMs are now putting into the server.

[StephyBlop]

Hm i'm not sure wich timezone you're in Prism, but these past days i've seen 2 GM hosted events PER DAYS (like the past 3~4 days or so). Theres also a new Event GM that got hired so yes, definetly more GM events lately =x Just though i'd say it~

[Prism~]

Yeah, I updated the rating, but didn't change the info underneath. Laziness, and whatnot haha

[Reality]

Thank you for your review. We have taken measures in order to make zeny farming a little more viable and make the server a little more newbie friendly. Our staff is quite a bit larger, now, as well, in order to provide a little better coverage.

-Reality