RetRO Online - An emulation of Official EuRO absolutely free.

[Bullet]

RetRO Online - An emulation of Official EuRO absolutely free.
The administrator of the server intends to offer official RO experience with a touch of minimal Quality of Life features with strict zero donation/ pay2win options.

Dear all,

Following is an honest review of RetRO private server.
A classic pre-trans RO server. Launched on 24th Jan 2021.

About the game:
01. All Exp & all drop rates x1
02. Max level: 99/50
03. No Multi-client.
04. No phone number/ personal info requirement for game registration. But multiclient abusers check in place.
05. Renewal and 3rd Jobs will never be implemented.
06. Imitates the official classic euRO server progress, starting at Episode 5
07. No donation (Not even cosmetics)- absolutely no medium to make payment to them.
08. Gepard protection. No bots/ hacks.
09. Hosted from europe. Both americas and SEAs are now able to play together in a relatively smooth speed server.


The review:


The Bad:
a. Server released too soon upon the OBT. The OBT ran too short with x100 rate for about 1 day. Too little time to test game mechanics, bug tests and end game settings. The monster "parasite" was not listed on their monster DB and I did not have enough time to test if Alchemist skill "Summon Flora" would fail at level 5. My query on Jan 22nd in bug report seemed to be overlooked during the OBT closure and official release. Absence of information influenced my main character choice to rogue instead of alchemist as im not sure if it was/ will be fixed.

b. Minor glitches and errors. There we some glitches (not game breaking). eg. kafra transportation tickets being transferable, novice battle axe NPC sellable, char attack move routing to monster on clicks, heal bomb damage, flywing bug, missing packets random dc etc. This was fixed rather fast and were not affecting gameplay that much anyway.

c. Server has very little events (follows official like frequency). if there is, it is my bad luck it always falls on month ends (busiest week of my working day,+3/-3 of month ends). There was only a one time x2 exp event on around end of March, for a week- which i missed 

d. im quite a busy person with little time to spend. suggested a small donation feature to keep with Ultra-players who are progressing too fast with unlimited real life time. Suggested the 2 following features during the pre-release discussion in RMS,

Server Discussion / Re: New Classic Pre-Renewal Server Project
Quote from: Deja on Dec 18, 2020, 04:29 pm
There will also be no donation system whatsoever, no cash shop and no game-changing / breaking custom NPCs or @commands, which means absolutely no pay2win.
Respect this, but a transparency of donation received for minor/ limited value benefit would be ideal. like weekly limited bubble gum/ manuals/ for working folks. At least to fund for charity causes. see my comment on "quality of life"

i dont mind small donations for gums/ manuals to cope with my time constraint.
with good $ received and charity expenditure accounting transparency over decent donation items. i believe you can support time limited people like me and yet avoid being P2W or perspective of possible corruption.

The problem with new servers, for people with work-life-game balance is that, there is always over-active players growing and establishing too fast with huge gap with less active or newcomers. I think a regressive experience/ item gain% can help address this. A 2~3 hours per day gameplay (or 14 hours per week) quota per account could be balancing? if player played more than the quota hours, exp/item rate will regress to perhaps x0.5/ x0.1 etc depending on the over hours spent? in the spirit of keeping the game competitive to busy players yet accustoming to players with alot of free time to allow them to continue playing or encouraging life outside.

absence of any features that checks the balance of gap difference has influenced me alot of quitting twice. Its amazing that in 2021 there are still people with some special power that can bend the physics of time (too free to play too long). For a classic game, i was expecting busy adults spending some time to relish their childhood. But sometime, it feels like someone is playing to strat a childhood.

This has not affected that much and I've decided to stay due to the admins have been really keeping to their word. Absolutely no pay2win, not even cosmetics. In fact, they've provided name change, guild name/ leader change, gender change features completely $ free and strictly requires in game zenny. Talk about sticking to your philosophy, you can't beat that!

The Good:
a. Sticking to principles.
There were multiple QoL features requested by players, eg.
i. increase mob count in maps (valid request, you spend more time walking in certain maps rather thank killing)
ii. dancer/bard song lingering effect (another valid one, theyre almost obsolete zero brain requirement to play)
iii. MvP nerf/ upgrade request (ranging from being too weak or too strong)
iv. NPC warp to WoE
etc.

But they have sticked to their official RO principles without compromise to above somewhat borderline QoL valid requests. This promises long time stability vs. submissive to mass opinions.

b. Authentic periodically updated. The game really follows official settings. Spores and wolfs are poor exp starters like officials accordingly to the episodes. Old payon map (my favourite map and BGM, ever.). Dragonfly spawning at moc_fild06, no rybio in prison1, etc. Yet useful customization, eg. all mobs drop cards not according to episodes like orc archer card etc.

c. master storage. with no dual clients, this master account storage that shares across your 3 game accounts eases intra-account fund transfers, taxes applied.

d. No rush, slow episodic updates. Ensure long and slow game maturity that enables new game content for for future new comers to benefit.

e. Excellent ToS. Detailed and comprehensively covers everything. There should not be any random ban with out of the blue unwritten rule reference. You pretty much can know what you can and cannot do.

f. Amazing game support. Its astonishing, the Admin and the group of GMs are very responsive and helpful. Very quick in finding bugs and rapid fixes. Very consultative on game feature implementations/ changes. Impeccable support services at an absolutely free of charge is an experience I've never seen anywhere. Their discord channel is somewhat at sometime is littered with childish derp behaviour and GM professional response is always well composed and patience. Sometime worried that this small section of community will pull their patience over doing this free professional support service and game hosting. But they seemed to be really consistent with their free to play pure official RO service conviction. This is probably the only and strongest reason for me to stick with this game despite multiple "soft quits". You know the game will be always running with a strong support service behind to come back to relish your nostalgia.

Conclusion:
Personally,
This server offered the best experience following closely behind my all time favourites, KoreRO (bot allowed) and SimplyRO (classic x5).
But this game configuration & support system is simply best ever, it simply topples any minor issues they currently had.

Something about myself:
I've been pretty much solo-loner, only played my bro(Cashis/ Sylar- now quit). Missing my bots that assisted my low rates progression. Currently looking for WoE action (missed RetRO 1st WoE yesterday- another month end busy week). I've been slowly playing in the direction of WoE rogue. Although underleveled and outgeared possibly across the majority of players (that started like from day one like me). Gaming is my old bad habit, i dont drink or smoke. Restarted this habit midst of personal issue (break up) and lock-down due to pandemic, nowhere to go out. It looks like I will be sticking around here for sometime at my sweet pace. If this server shut down in future (god forbid), i would not regret for wasting my time cause i keep my healthy work-life-play balance.

Thanks to RetRO for being around. Kudos to the team for keeping this project successful!

[Eiponpon]

i gave this server a good try and cant recommend it. the main reasons that this is not a good server is that it is full of multiclienting and the inability to tell the true population worries me. multiple accs allows multiple autovending per person.

they will come and deny this ("Wosi2" was involved in the creation of the server and has known the other staff for years) but its true and population counter does not filter out multi autovending or regular multiclienting. bragi slaves were pretty common. its the open secret to deny this at this server even tho everyone knows about it. on top of that there are 'guild accs' and master storage that make supports uncommon here and go against the classic spirit

when I played I also hated the custom forge formula and the skill glitches but ymmv.

[Wosi2]

Cant agree with you Eiponpon.
I play on retRO since day 1 and have not seen any multi clienting so far.
On the Website you can see how many Real players and how many auto traders are online, so I do not know what you mean with inability to see true population.
Our guild on classic euRO had a guild account, so I dont know what you mean with destroys the classic feeling.
The forging formular is episodic not custom, the GMs even provided a source for this.
I have had no skill glitches so far, but thats just me.

Bullet provided a pretty accurate and objectiv review imo.

[dahman]

That was a nice read Bullet  

the 1st woe had fights between 3 guilds. i dont have exact numbers, but it was arround like:
SkillCapped(arround 20)
NoFunAllowed (arround 15)
TheGame (arround 10)

2 castles open.

SkillCapped defendet the 1st castle with a few ppls,
while sending attack squads into the 2nd castle where the other 2 guilds were fighting.
so inside the 2nd castle, there were perm guild vs guild fights.
NoFunAllowed got the 2nd castle in the end.

it was very entertaining to experience a woe again, in this state of a 1x server, without all levels maxed out, without perfect builds, without perfect equipment.



one sidenote- that you can see on all lower rate servers:

Dont worry about a few players, having a boost because they are organized and spending alot of time ingame,
since the server provides slow episodic updates, those "fast paced" gameplay will soon come to hit a "endgame wall".
episodic, as well as level and pretrans gear wise.

this is when the casual gamer can catch up and close the gap further and further over time.
the only thing that breaks this one more time,  is the rebirth update. but this far far away.

thats why a slow episodic pretrans server is a really good setting for a casual gamer.
even on a 1x

[Kirchen]

General

RetRO is a very young server that is currently running on epsiode 6.
It has 1x Rates and aims to be a emulated "Achim" EuRO. ( the real one, not this trash 4game or fro)
There are certained things planned to improve game and RetRO experience such as a new website and client.
Right now its running on a old hercules client, that has trouble with nividia as well as no shake. Just to call some issues. However its stable and I havent gotten a gravity error or any other error since about 2 months.

The Server has potential and it can get to a very decent experience. Its population is not big, but thats due to the audience it trys to reach for. Not because of bad gms or anyother negativ effect that might be a reason.

WoE has started and was very entertaining for a small server. It doesnt allow multi client that means that despite the "low" online numbers during the week it has 3 guilds competing in woe and fighting each other.

The econemy is tricky, because its not too easy to just buy woe mats from the market or sell stuff right away. Atm its mostly like a "need-buy" and not a this is a good price, or i would like to have that item kinda thing. Wich ends up in some items being expansive but sometimes a good item also being very cheap because there was no demand for it.

If you are looking to re-experience 1x, looking for a server to just play ro with your friennds, or if u are tierd of the usual p2w, multi client , costume servers. This one is your chance to get a real nostalgie hit. The GMs are trying hard and are very helpfull.

This is a video of the first woe. I personally hope for 2-3 more guilds joining with 10-20 people. Hopefully see you soon !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaPRUsJDqRM&

[Nova]

I had actually planned to write a review about this server, but I've only been playing here since a week or so, so I didn't feel like I knew enough yet to write an accurate review. Happy that you wrote a reasonably in-depth one, so I'll just add my experiences here.

I'll just go ahead and say that this is without a doubt the best 1x non-official server I know of. So it's probably the best 1x at the moment.
Servers are very stable. The ping is great for European players and I've heard it's fine for other regions as well, although I've read that they would add proxies if the demand is there.
RetRO closely follows classic EuRO episodic progression.
The staff is very nice and helpful.
Friendly community although that counts for most classic lowrates.
The owners work with a (classic) plan. Sometimes they make changes, but they mostly strictly do their thing. You know what you are getting.
Economy is not the best as items are still quite scarce, but that will naturally change when more players (100 online average) gradually join the server.
They have a nicely formatted discord with clear info.
They have a complete and accurate classic database on their website. Website is currently in the process of upgrading and database will be back up in a few days.
The server is still "fresh".

All in all I have no complaints at all and I think that I will make this my permanent RO home for the foreseeable future.
And that's saying a lot coming from me honestly.

[Wosi2]

Thats true, for rare items you sometimes need a little bit of time to get them. But it is constantly getting better and better.

Btw. Nice Video @kirchen.

[Deja]

Thank you for your honest review and constructive criticism Bullet and of course the rest of you.

We are continuously trying to improve our service and the server and only with criticism it works.

If you still have questions about the summon flora skill or similar, send us a dm in discord, so that this is not lost.


Greetings and thanks again.

[Wosi2]

Your very welcome

[Kirchen]

server worth playing if u aim for the original ro experience.

still gorwing, just wanted  to share the recent woe video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cm5vqh3wH4

[Eiponpon]

fyi theres evidence floating around that the staff are secretly giving out major items here

I would avoid this one

[Wosi2]

Eiponpon stop spreading false rumors about retRO please. I know about the screenshot you are talking about and it is clearly not from retRO

The watermark is missing, which every retRO screenshot has and also if you read the chat box you can see that this is not the official retRO server.

If you have any real proof, please provide it or stfu and go play travels.

[Eiponpon]

thats a weak cover imo. the screenshot section is full of screenshots w/ out watermarks. some ppl take them with windows and post into paint.

theres another screenshot with a watermark floating around and you can still see the ghostring card in the chat. very very fishy. i gave a solid try to retro during the first month and the other guild there had suspicious items already

[Wosi2]

And still you provide no proof whatsoever for your claims..

Screen is from a testrun for the aws they put up. As everyone who saw the screen can read in the chat window.

[Eiponpon]

testrun? what were they testing? retro has been live for 8 months

ping? do you need a ghostring card to test ping?

run

[Nova]

fyi theres evidence floating around that the staff are secretly giving out major items here

I would avoid this one

Eiponpon can be put on your ignore list as the account is most likely used by LJ to falsely accuse other lowrate servers of things that are simply false or didn't happen. It's also used to discredit genuine negative reviews about his server in these forums.

Backstory:
LJ the owner of another server unjustly banned a whole lot of people, including several guilds for criticising his game-altering changes on a lowrate server that is advertised as classic. These people moved to RetRO and were received with open arms. The staff thought this to be a good time to upgrade the server connection to something much better, which gave NA players and other regions much better ping to the server. A few players were asked to test their connection in a test server and that's what they did. They were probably frolicking about in there with for example the GR card, because why not it's a test server. In the end everything was deleted obviously.

[Shuchou]

Lord J AKA Eiponpon is just jealous every player he pushes away with how toxic he is to retRO. There is maybe 40 players left and 30-40 autotraders, his servers dying so he's gotta try something to get members back, half of which are banned due to talking in private channels or trying other servers but falsely says everyone was a multi or rule breaker. His toxic behavior is now starting to bite him in the donkey, but thanks to him being a toxic person retRO is at 170 players andw ill most likely hit 200 in a week or two.

[Eiponpon]

nova can safely be put in your ignore list. he was banned from travels months ago and has been spewing false info ever since. now he is defending what looks to be blatant corruption so im not surprised

you didnt answer any of the questions

why would the admin joke like that? with someone he just met? its indicative of other behavior imo
what were they testing? retro has been live for 8 months
was it ping? why do you need a ghostring card to test ping?

In the end everything was deleted obviously.

none of us know that we but do know one guild got mvp cards very early

[dahman]

and thats exactly the problem of ppls spreading stuff, without knowing context, just for the cause of "trouble".

why would the admin joke like that? with someone he just met? its indicative of other behavior imo
what were they testing? retro has been live for 8 months
was it ping? why do you need a ghostring card to test ping?

reason behind test stuff:
while the server is 8 months old, it had a recent BIG change in hosting into AWS Cloudservers to provide a "best as possible" ping from all arround the world.
some ppls dont know about these, but u can have a "100 like feeling ping" even tho you are at the other side of the globe.
retro gms invited some ppls from diffrent world locations to test these.

about the card:
u could also assume that the gr card was not a trade, but simply a @item id  command, duo on the test server the chars were able to do that.
and even if not:
its a test server after all, so it doesnt matter. ppls can do what they want on a test server. thats what it is for.
if you are on a test server, you tend to troll arround and do "lol"-Stuff for no reason.

it was stupid from Savyon to post a screen from a test server, he could knew that some ppls will put it out of context (like we see here).

[Eiponpon]

why do you need a ghostring card to test ping? lets not play dumb he wanted to entice them

not at all surprised they got banned from travels

[Fangdal]

fyi theres evidence floating around that the staff are secretly giving out major items here

I would avoid this one

So this is your original statement.

You talk about "enticing" yet here in this statement you are "enticing" people into believieng that something is happening without giving any evidence to your claims, you are just looking to provoke people and plant the seeds of doubt into people in a very malicious way.

In fact the person providing the actual screenshots is the one that is defending the server because those screenshots clearly show that the situation happened in the resent test server that was used to test the connection to the new server provider they were going to use.

Why you didn't showed the images? It is simple: You yourself know that the screenshots prove without a doubt that this happened on a test server and you know they can't be used to prove your accusations, that is why you decided to just throw the stone without showing the pics.

If you really have nothing more than this then you are a proved liar.

[Eiponpon]

brand new acc to defend retro corruption. not surprising but u dodged all of the questions

• what were they testing? ping?
• why do you need a ghostring card to test ping?
• what makes you think they didnt get anything else if the admin is willing to do that for ppl he doesnt even know if he thinks they will migrate?

this is everything wrong w/ pservers nowadays

[Eiponpon]

someone posted savyons merchant 'finding' this

[Savyon]

someone posted savyons merchant 'finding' this

https://imgur.com/a/ef8fAzk

[Fangdal]

brand new acc to defend retro corruption. not surprising but u dodged all of the questions

• what were they testing? ping?
• why do you need a ghostring card to test ping?
• what makes you think they didnt get anything else if the admin is willing to do that for ppl he doesnt even know if he thinks they will migrate?

this is everything wrong w/ pservers nowadays

I made my new account not to defend but to confront you, at this point your "evidence" is laughably weak.

-Obviously testing the server performance/stability and that everything was fine.
-I don't know the story of the ghostring but it was probably just something that Deja thought it was funny, he specifies that it will get deleted when the manteinance is over.
-From the screenshots themselves you can see it was a joke or some fun the gm played with the player in question, the same screenshot shows that Deja said everything was going to be deleted.

[Fangdal]

someone posted savyons merchant 'finding' this

Well, without context that screenshot looks indeed suspicious but as you can see below you there is an explanation for it.

[Eiponpon]

ive played em both. played retro for a month and then quit and went to travels because of the bugs. my view is that theres no reason to play retro when travels exist because travels uses more accurate software

ragnarok travels is the all around best lowrate experience ive had since iro. u can trust everything works correctly and its rock solid stable. party ratio per player is the highest ive seen too

retro has a lot bugs many skills and items are just flatout implemented incorrectly. its also suffering from a corruption scandal. the usual suspects will defend this by claiming it was just a joke or something but either way its sus and I wouldnt trust. no reason for the admin to give a ghostring card to a guild leader. so inappropriate. strong avoid

[graeff]

ive played em both. played retro for a month and then quit and went to travels because of the bugs. my view is that theres no reason to play retro when travels exist because travels uses more accurate software

ragnarok travels is the all around best lowrate experience ive had since iro. u can trust everything works correctly and its rock solid stable. party ratio per player is the highest ive seen too

retro has a lot bugs many skills and items are just flatout implemented incorrectly. its also suffering from a corruption scandal. the usual suspects will defend this by claiming it was just a joke or something but either way its sus and I wouldnt trust. no reason for the admin to give a ghostring card to a guild leader. so inappropriate. strong avoid

Stop spreadling lies. For anyone thinking this is true, just read this whole thread, in which every accusation is explained, then Eiponpon just makes up more and more s***, forgetting every false accusation he made in the past. https://forum.ratemyserver.net/server-reviews/retro-online-an-emulation-of-official-euro-absolutely-free/?all

If you want to learn about J's and Eiponpon's tactic on this forum, take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmVkJvieaOA

They will never try to debate when their attempts to discredit something fails, they will either stop replying or come up with new lies.

[Eiponpon]

graeff is in the same guild as the guy who recieved the ghostring card. this is everything wrong w/ some private servers. the admin of retro handling a prospective guild leader a ghostring card isnt a lie. it happened. the excuses ive heard so far it was it was joke and they were just 'checking performance'. but they always dodge the questions that matter

• what were they testing? ping?
• why do u need a ghostring card to test ping?
• what makes you think they didnt get anything else if the admin is willing to do that for ppl he doesnt even know if he thinks they will migrate?

[dahman]

ive played em both. played retro for a month and then quit and went to travels because of the bugs. my view is that theres no reason to play retro when travels exist because travels uses more accurate software

ragnarok travels is the all around best lowrate experience ive had since iro. u can trust everything works correctly and its rock solid stable. party ratio per player is the highest ive seen too

retro has a lot bugs many skills and items are just flatout implemented incorrectly. its also suffering from a corruption scandal. the usual suspects will defend this by claiming it was just a joke or something but either way its sus and I wouldnt trust. no reason for the admin to give a ghostring card to a guild leader. so inappropriate. strong avoid

again these false rumors spreading? 

but well, its up to the peoples to choose:

A server where the GM team take care of the community, listen to their voices, actually tests stuff sometimes with them on a test server (thats where the gr screen is coming from)

or a server that have a big history of banning ppls that mentioned their dislikes on certain decitions.

i mean sure, if u want to play on a server with a north korean leading style, go for it.

just check the forum and reviews:
what could a neutral person think?

Spoiler

1 person getting banned and write a bad review: "nothing unusual"
2 ppls:  "nothing unusual, just some cheaters got cought?"
5 ppls: "uh okay, maybe a group got cought?"
20+ diffrent ppls over serval weeks/Months:
"something is strange, they all say they raised their concerns and just suggested something there, and got banned? 20+ diffrent peoples?
yet the GM says they all "cheated or were fake". hmmh his copy paste answeres doesnt look professional...

also always the same person defending travels- with a strange logic and behaviour....

can this rly be just the casual "cheaters?"

[close]

boy, ofc not. you get banned and accused of cheating if you raise your voice there. thats why. and the diffrense between the RetRo test server screenshot with the GR and the "TravelsProblem",  is that the "TravelsProblem" actually has impact on the server, community and the time you spend on a 1x server.

i know its hard for someone who spend lots of time on a 1x server to see the truth and that its something wrong behind the scenes on Travels. Even more if theres a core of ppls like Eiponpon who spread wrong rumors and lighten the fire with nonsense.

Spoiler

just check previous posts of him and the thread linked
https://forum.ratemyserver.net/server-reviews/retro-online-an-emulation-of-official-euro-absolutely-free/?all

he asked for a reason why the GMs droped a GR card on a test server , he got the answer from lots of different ppls, but ignored all those posts and keeps on writing stuff like "why noone answer this"....
even here....
cmon its just brainwashing stuff - same behaviour like if you whould listen to "flat earth society" ppls.

[close]

but you all can be sure, everyone from Travels who changed, were welcomed warmly on RetRo.
yes its "hard" to start all over again. but in the long run its worth it and you can be sure to be on the right side.
It feels like playing for the Rebellion, instead for the Empire. its just the right thing to do in the long run.

and if u like to play "on the dark side" be aware of a possible ban if you "missbehave" against the GLORY OF THE EMPEROR - WHICH NAME SHALL NOT BE NAMED - because we are nothing but merely ants besides his POWER AND KNOWLEDGE OF RO xD

[Eiponpon]

a prospective guild leader doesnt need a ghostring card to test ping. it was personally traded to him by the owner. i would not trust a server like that

[dahman]

a prospective guild leader does not need a ghostring card to test ping. it was personally traded to him by the admin

try to think logic (and neutral) for 1 second:
what whould you do if i whould give u access to a test server for 1 day?

YOU TEST STUFF and fk arround OFC!!!

thats the most normal thing to do on a test server.

If you whould ask me:
"can i test some other stuff? like the gr ghost vs normal monster hits?
can i joke arround abit?

id be like:
"yea sure, its a test server after all, everything gets deleted again....
here, have some @gm commands, fk arround and have fun"

and now we have a screenshot and you spreading rumors.

peoples like you are the reason, why the GMs now dont allow ppls to test their stuff on the test server anymore.
im sure you are happy about this

[Eiponpon]

it wasnt made w/ gm commands. the retro admin went out of his way to personally trade a prospective guild leader a ghostring card

ppl can deny all they want but the intention was obvious imo, he wanted them to come. this corrupt buddy buddy stuff is far too common on servers. i wouldnt trust a server where anyone thinks thats ok. only thing I can think of now is how the biggest guild there from origins got mvp cards so fast when this takes years on every other lowrate i played

[dahman]

it wasnt made w/ gm commands. the retro admin went out of his way to personally trade a prospective guild leader a ghostring card

i never said that the card was made w/ gm commands. pls dont put my question above to you out of context.
a test server is made to test stuff. why are you ignoring .... nvm. well i guess you just try hard to bash. every normal person out there reading those lines, will get it.

only thing I can think of now is how the biggest guild there from origins got mvp cards so fast when this takes years on every other lowrate i played

this shows that you have no clue whats going on and just try to bash and spread false rumors again.

plottwist: Skill Capped is the biggest guild (and core members coming from oRo). They have 0 MVP Cards.
the current mvp cards are spread across the smaller guilds.

the speed of having mvp cards on a 1x server is based on 2 things:
- ammount of ppls that farm mvp (or mvp kills in general)
- luck

if you were on other lowrates that didnt had a mvp card since years, one of the above things were just not big enough.

[Ayahuasca]

it wasnt made w/ gm commands. the retro admin went out of his way to personally trade a prospective guild leader a ghostring card

ppl can deny all they want but the intention was obvious imo, he wanted them to come. this corrupt buddy buddy stuff is far too common on servers. i wouldnt trust a server where anyone thinks thats ok. only thing I can think of now is how the biggest guild there from origins got mvp cards so fast when this takes years on every other lowrate i played

You are a liar and the sole propagator of this lie.

they always dodge the questions that matter
what were they testing? ping?
why do u need a ghostring card to test ping?
what makes you think they didnt get anything else if the admin is willing to do that for ppl he doesnt even know if he thinks they will migrate?

All of these questions were publicly addressed https://i.imgur.com/53jbGGc.png. Note the 65 positive reactions to the comment. You are lying again saying they are "dodging" the questions. If you feel your last question hasn't been answered - no other incentive is needed besides being the only other viable 1x server available.

Your comments are purely in the realm of misleading speculation. You need to stop presenting them as factual truths without proof which you have done multiple times. And those screenshots in no way provide any form of "proof" (they actually work against your presumptions in the chat log).

The most interesting part of this response was searching Retro Discord for any discontent from denizens of Retro. Literally no established player complained. In fact, the only notably negative commentary was an anonymous new user appearing, grilling for proof, responding rudely to players who responded reasonably, and having a Retro player who is also on Travels responding, and then that player shortly thereafter being banned from Travels.   https://i.imgur.com/Z0NRWbO.png (Go view the discord if you don't like the fact that's cut up.)