Looking for low rate to low mid rate server!

[dirtbag]

Phasero was a good server… but ran down some bad luck.
I read a lot of discussion from phase and other servers and I know what the ideal server most people are looking for.

Looking for:
(Must)
1. Professional and/or dedicated GMs.
2. Rate minimum 5x.
3. Max level and job 99/50 (non trans) and 99/70 (trans).
4. Non/little/moderate amount of custom donation items which can be obtainable by quest or vote [1 or 2 specially for donors is ok but should require luck to obtain it].
5. No slotted head midgear and lowergear.
6. No extra custom slotted items (Eg. 2 slotted solar god helm).
7. Good network which can benefit and support both yours (USA or UK) and Asia regions.
8. NPCs such as healer, warper, and dealer together with kafra.
9. Convincing data storage and safety.
10. Resetter.
12. Important commands such as @autoloot.
13. No MVP cards from donation.
14. No premium member feature from donation.
15. No donation items which could cause imbalance like Gym cards which increases weight limit, +10 refiner, and so on..
16. Consistent gameplay. Ie. Not changing the gameplay whenever the GM wishes without proper discussion and debate with the players first.
17. No card remover.
18. Fixed abbey maps zoom or any other.

(Prefer)
1. Relatively new (2009) or opening soon. [Newb frenly if old]
2. Daily events (Once a week?).
3. Duel clienting disallowed.
4. Recruit at least 50+ players before server launch [check via close beta?].
5. Repeatable quest which can earn points for custom items.
6. Limited amount of exp field manual to help level up till certain level before removed.
7. No quest required for dungeon entrance/warp.
8. Bonus for partying.
9. Majority English speaking.
10. Specific channels for chat like Main channel, Party channel, and Trade channel.
11. Commands can be auto-on.
12. Have banker or remove the tax from kafra zenny bank.
13. Opened server without expecting donation to keep server alive. Ie. No financial problem and opened mainly because of hobby and passion.
14. Rate minimum 10x.
15. Job changer.
16. Other NPC such as stylist and universal rental.

(Doesn’t really matter)
1. Buff NPC. (Prefered to have if you allowed dual client)
2. Vendor area (sidewalk of street instead of everywhere).
3. Easier upgrading of equips to safe limit (Not mean increasing the chance of success) and easier purchase of forging items. In addition, easier refine of rough ores.

(Hope for)
1. Able fix duel clienting and mass autotrade vendors’ issue.
2. Able fix economy issue that can be exploited at some areas.
3. Fixing some known MVP cards imbalance issue.
4. Balancing sinX EDP and creo’s acid demonstration if needed.

I assure you this is one of the ideal types of server majority of people are looking for! If there is not one out there, please consider making one or even merging with other server to create one! Ty very much!

[Loki]

14. Itakou username must never be able to be created.

Lol?
That would be hard to confirm.

[dirtbag]

actually i state some minor reasons for all but removed as i felt will make the post too long.
The itakou was not an admin in phasero but his presence made a lot of people turn away as he seems to have a very bad reputation of wiping his server. Legacy i heard im not too sure as phase is my first and people think phase is just another legacy server from itakou.

[GM-Ymir]

I think Ymir-RO would be perfect for you.

(Must)
1. Professional and dedicated GMs - We take pride in our ability to provide a professional attitude and game play for everyone.
2. Rate minimum 10x to mid rate. - Our rates are 10/10/10, however as of current we're doing an exp event which makes them 20/20/10 for a short time.
3. Max level and job 99/50 (non trans) and 99/70 (trans) - We have that
4. Non/little/moderate amount of custom donation items which can be obtainable by quest or vote [1 or 2 specially for donors is ok but should require luck to obtain it] - We don't have donations, we don't have any customs either. Just a hat maker that makes various hats available.
5. No slotted head midgear and lowergear - Okay, this is the only thing that we can't offer, sadly. I don't know if any server exists that doesn't have slotted headgears however.
6. No extra custom slotted items - we don't have customs.
7. Good network which can benefit and support both yours (USA or UK) and Asia regions. Our server is located in Australia, however our WoE times are for players world wide.
8. NPCs such as healer, warper, and dealer together with kafra - We have all those.
9. Convincing data storage and safety - We make sure the security of our server, is tip top.
10. Job changer and resetter - We have those
11. Other NPC such as stylist and universal rental - We have those
12. Important commands such as @autoloot - We have those
13. No MVP cards from donation - No donations on the server
14. Itakou username must never be able to be created. - Just for you, I can make sure of this.

(Prefer)
1. Relatively new (2009) or opening soon - We're about a year old.
2. Daily events - We do our best to offer daily events, many of them PVP based.
3. Duel clienting disallowed - We don't punish people for dual clienting, however it is disallowed during things such as WoE.
4. Recruit at least 100+ players before server launch [check via close beta?] - We're hoping to get above 100 players again.
5. Repeatable quest which can earn points for custom items - No custom items sorry.
6. Limited amount of exp field manual to help level up till certain level before removed - Field manuals are only won via events.
7. No quest required for dungeon entrance/warp - Our warper warps to all dungeons.
8. Bonus for partying - Party bonus is currently a topic of discussion we're going over, feel free to make other suggestions via our forum.

(Doesn’t really matter)
1. Buff NPCs - We have this

We're very flexible, and are always looking to make the server better for our players. I hope you'll come give us a try. Our website is www.Ymir-RO.net

[dirtbag]

Ymir, ty and it looks good. Checked it but no one seems to bother

Anymore plz?

[GM-Ymir]

Ymir, ty and it looks good. Checked it but no one seems to bother

Anymore plz?

Must of missed you while I was online today, best of luck with your server search. If you ever want to give us another go, you're welcome too.

[Ayu]

Sometimes it's hard for servers to make a direct fit. Consider back then PhaseRO exist, why would people try to make a clone of PhaseRO? Most of the time every server is at least slightly different than other servers to maintain its uniqueness. So if you are hoping for more fast reply, you may have to move a few things from the "must have, will not compromise" into the "prefer but not necessary" section so that more server qualifies to answer to your call.


With that said, I'll reply with a non-perfect fit for heRO server, but hopefully it'll still trigger some of your fancy.


(Must)
1. Professional and dedicated GMs
Every server can claim to be professional and dedicated... so I'll be daring and link you to the most recent "controversal" topic HERE. The topic is about a relatively new rule for heRO, and there's some members that aren't the most satisfied with the rule change. Up to you to read that thread as an example to decide if the GMs handled the matter in a professional, fair and just manner.

2. Rate minimum 10x to mid rate.
First rule heRO sort of fails at for your liking... we're a 5/5/3 server, but it's not a tough adjustment if you were originally from a low rate as well. Many of our players were from high rates and they transitioned to 5/5/3 just fine. I doubt that you'll find too much difference honestly except we don't share the same mavka issue as phaseRO did in terms of economic overflow due to crystal mirrors and roses dropping too much and selling too high.

3. Max level and job 99/50 (non trans) and 99/70 (trans)
We're right on that, job 99 for super novice as well.

4. Non/little/moderate amount of custom donation items which can be obtainable by quest or vote [1 or 2 specially for donors is ok but should require luck to obtain it]
The only pure donation gear is Emperor Laurel Crown and Laurel Crown (official items) which you can see, isn't very "high stats" anyway. Other donation items are only boxes, gift boxes and so on, which you can easily acquire ingame for heRO. In fact, almost all of our customs MUST be done by quests.

5. No slotted head midgear and lowergear
We don't have a lower headgear equip that has slow. We still have sunglasses[1] and glasses[1] from a repeatable quest that has a randomized 0.25% to drop either one, and is available for all players. So while they do exist, everyone has equal access to it, and chance to get a 0.25% quest reward is truly only for those really dedicated players who will repeat the quest even up to 100 times or more (and the quest isn't pushover simple item collection... step 1 out of 5 requires you to bring in 5 cards at once, try that for difficulty and not easily abusable to 'farm' sunglasses/glasses this way)

6. No extra custom slotted items
Well, our custom items have just as much slots as existing item (such as a custom armor having just 1 slot like official armors, or headgear with just 1 slot as well.) No defensive equipments have 2 slots or more in heRO.

7. Good network which can benefit and support both yours (USA or UK) and Asia regions.
From our main webpage:

 Technical specifications :

    * heRO Server runs on a dedicated computer
    * Intel Duo-Core 2 E8400 3 Ghz FSB 1333 Mhz 6 MB cache
    * 4 GB of memory DDRII PC 6400
    * Professionally hosted at iWeb on one of their ultra fast connection
    * eAthena emulator
    * Linux Ubuntu OS for stability
    * The Patch Server and Control Panel runs on a different server
    * Backups are made on a regular basis


8. NPCs such as healer, warper, and dealer together with kafra
We have healer, warper and kafra. Tool dealers are in their official locations.

9. Convincing data storage and safety
Successfully stopped a DDoS attempt against the server in March (some players in their RMS review commented on this event and the result of it), never had a single wipe in 3 years.

10. Job changer and resetter
We don't have job changer as you'll need to do the job quest (and platinum skill quest), but really they are not difficult quests at all. Stat resetter we have one, but to reduce abuse of rapidly changing builds without care, it comes with a cost at lv 40+ and it increases depending on your base level.

11. Other NPC such as stylist and universal rental
Stylist yes, universal rental no sorry.

12. Important commands such as @autoloot
List of player commands

13. No MVP cards from donation
We certainly don't.

14. Itakou username must never be able to be created [for new opening server at admin space].
If he has full intend to stalk a group of players, he'll resurface even with other names. So I don't think that this is really a concern. What you should be concerned about, is just how easy does the GM team of a server succumb to "RO celebrities" or player demands. heRO server in this department, well you can sort of see into how well we do here in that thread I linked you above regarding #1.




(Prefer)
1. Relatively new (2009) or opening soon -
We're 3 years old. It's sort of a trade of easiness vs stability. 3 years record of no wipe and no closing down is a pretty strong one compare to many servers that sadly close within just a short year.

2. Daily events
Wide variety of events, and we aren't some one trick pony with just DB party, hide/seek, pvp tourney and trivia. Look at our Event Archive in heRO wiki for a log record of every event hosted and what day they are on.

3. Duel clienting disallowed
That's actually a bannable offense for heRO. Absolutely this is not allowed.

4. Recruit at least 100+ players before server launch [check via close beta?]
We can hit 300+ with merchants. Taking out auto trading merchants, we still have 200 real players (and 200 different individuals at that due to no dual client.)

5. Repeatable quest which can earn points for custom items
We don't have daily or endless repeatable quests. We do have many events for you to earn customs: weekly event of Muspel Monday that opens in a certain time on Monday (time different every week depending on which week of the month it is) to battle in a dungeon with customized and challenging monster with item drops that are official creation yet usually unobtainable/rare (such as holy dagger, angel dress, ring of water, etc). There's heRO's signature event the Trial of Heroes which is held monthly, a very large scale event to earn Light and Dark allegiance wings in the server (and before we scream "WINGS ARE IMBA" I recommend you to look at the wings' stats first before hitting the panic button)

6. Limited amount of exp field manual to help level up till certain level before removed
The MvP of Muspel Monday weekly automated event, Surtur, drops it as a MvP item 100%, but then last time he's killed is like a month ago due to his difficulty at guarding all of his goodies? So at the very max, it's one battle manual out to the server per week, assuming that players actually suceed to defeat Surtur, AND he drop that as his mvp drop too. Very, very limited of this, I'll say.

7. No quest required for dungeon entrance/warp
heRO sort of fail on this preference again... you do need the quest in heRO.

8. Bonus for partying
Bonus exp for partying in heRO by % depending on number of players in party! As long as you aren't afk of course then actualy exp share breaks for the afk players. We want you to be partying, not for 8 people sitting in a corner then afk for hours while 1 person leech everyone else on end to abuse the party bonus. You have to be present and 'move' to receive the bonus, making it so that you get bonus if you are actually partying, not just for being inside the party.

(Doesn’t really matter)
1. Buff NPCs
Nope, we don't have it.

(Hope for)
1. Able fix duel clienting and mass autotrade vendors’ issue
Duel client is again a bannable offense, and autotrade currently we still have far more players than merchants lol. More merchant isn't always a sign of population cheating, as it also represent actual growth in economy in the diversity of items on sale and available.

2. Able fix economy issue that can be exploited at some areas
Zeny sink in "many" different ways... such as a pricy stat reset above lv 40, unique Nobility System to win nifty yet non game changing attributes (want to host a birthday party on RO server with the GMs help for all your friends? also to look nifty to have your name on the nobility board? All fo this comes at a 'minimum' price of 25 mil.. probably more if you want to be a high ranking noble ), Great Fairy Auction, and remember the 'quest' for slotted sunglasses/glasses? The 'cards' that it use are all low level or common training ground monsters for low-mid level players, thus effectively making an indirect 'transfer' of zeny from high end players who will NEVER visit these types of places as they buy these low level, usually useless cards (like poring, thief bug egg card, etc) from new players. New players get an easier time to start if they land on a formerly useless 'junk' card, and old players have to spend zeny to buy formerly useless 'junk' cards. Quite a brilliant economy balancing strategy imbedded in a form of a highly repeatable quest with charming prizes by our admin GM-Pandora, no?  

3. Fixing some known MVP cards imbalance issue
We keep MvP cards as they are from official. "Balance" in the eyes of the beholder, and we are very aware that we can't please everyone. Not like anyone can donate for it or anything... if you want a mvp card, you camp it and compete with everyone else in the server for it.

4. Balancing sinX EDP and creo’s acid demonstration if needed
Same stance as #3 here: we kept them these 2 skills as it is.



And as a side note, every server claims to have either 0 customs, or "many custom quests"! Just how many is 'many' though? Look at heRO server's custom quest list to see how do we live up to this claim.


And before horo says it: yes I posted *another* wall of text in server seeking forum XD;

[Serenity]

Heyla, dirtbag, it appears quite a few PhaseRO players have migrated over to ElysiumRO. The rates aren't as high as you'd like, however, you can receive 50% Field Manuals from voting or via donation which raise your experience intake to 7.5x/7.5x for a half hour.

I've taken the liberty to highlight features ElysiumRO has that you're looking for in green, and highlighted features it lacks in red.

Looking for:
(Must)
1. Professional and dedicated GMs
2. Rate minimum 10x to mid rate.
3. Max level and job 99/50 (non trans) and 99/70 (trans)
4. Non/little/moderate amount of custom donation items which can be obtainable by quest or vote [1 or 2 specially for donors is ok but should require luck to obtain it]
5. No slotted head midgear and lowergear
6. No extra custom slotted items
7. Good network which can benefit and support both yours (USA or UK) and Asia regions.
8. NPCs such as healer, warper, and dealer together with kafra
9. Convincing data storage and safety
10. Job changer and resetter
11. Other NPC such as stylist and universal rental
12. Important commands such as @autoloot
13. No MVP cards from donation
14. Itakou username must never be able to be created [for new opening server at admin space]. ... Lol.

(Prefer)
1. Relatively new (2009) or opening soon
2. Daily events
3. Duel clienting disallowed
4. Recruit at least 100+ players before server launch [check via close beta?]
5. Repeatable quest which can earn points for custom items
6. Limited amount of exp field manual to help level up till certain level before removed
7. No quest required for dungeon entrance/warp
8. Bonus for partying

(Doesn’t really matter)
1. Buff NPCs

The server opens on June 1st and we're expecting 40-80+ (possibly more around 90-100 based off of the amount of active members checking back daily on the website/message board) online at the server's launch.

And since you made note about it, backups are automated and run four times daily and are saved to five different locations.

If you're interested, feel free to check the server out at, http://www.elysiumro.com

Banner:


Hope to see you there!

[dirtbag]

hi, its been long, thank you all very much for help especially hero and elysium server.

Hero and elysium, i would really hope to join you guys if your rates werent that low. There is much grinding even for 10x and the closedown just dont give me the mood to restart at even harder grinding. Still, thx a lot.

I edit more requirements after my disapointment of the last server. I wont say which and why except if you PM me because this is not the place to do it. Also, they looks like really a lot now but actually they are usually obvious and usually already implement for low rates.
-also edited the itakou, I dont belif i will have that bad luck actualy meet him again :p

I am still trying to find new server and i will be patient till end of this month (June 2009) because i cant really play yet anyways. So any more recruit plz its very much appreciated. Thank you.

[EarlyRO]

Come give EarlyRO a try you might find a new home! We got most of what you ask

(Must)
1. Very!
2. 7/7/5 it's lower than you ask BUT we're a non-trans server therefor reaching max level is much faster,you only have to get to 99 once,no need to trans and level again 3 times slower.
3. 99/50
4. No custom sprite,a few custom hats which are official hats from newer episodes but with balanced stats,such as Alice Doll = Poo poo hat.
5. None.
6. None.
7. Professionally hosted.
8. Healer once per hour. Warper but you have to visit first before you can use. Kafra of course ^^
9. We do regular backup and the server is stable.
10. No we don't have a job changer sorry. Our resetter lets you reset until a certain level but not after.
11. Stylist yes with 300+ dyes but no rental npc.
12. Yes we have @autoloot and other commands such as @ii @mi @autotrade etc.
13. No MVP cards at all!
14. Some feature for donor but nothing that can't be worked in game by other players we try hard to keep it all balanced. For example there is the hat of the month feature which donor can get a little ahead but non-donor can get for a full month still. For example the Hat of July is the Lotus (= AOA stat) and donor can get it now while non-donor can only get it in July,but the hat is only cosmetic anyway.
15. Nothing imbalanced.
16. There is the "Opinions" forum to discuss/poll before any change is done.
17. No card remover.
18. We don't have Abbey sorry. We are an old school server and we have up to Yuno,Louyang,Ayothaya,Gonryun and Amatsu with their fields/dungeons.

(Prefer)
1. Opened in March 2009.
2. We have events often hosted by the GM. There is also the daily Golden Dragon summon in a random town.
3. Duel clienting is not allowed.
4. We had over 50 players on the opening evening, the server average population is about 60.
5. No exp quest sorry.
6. No Exp field manual.
7. Amatsu and Ayothaya dungeon requires a quest.
8. 5% extra experience for each party member in share.
9. English is the language of the server.
10. Only @Main on/off.
11. You can set commands at the Early Girl NPC to have them auto on or off upon login.
12. We have a banker.
13. Server fees paid for we don't depend on donations. I'm very passionate about the server and hope to see it keep growing over time.

(Doesn’t really matter)
1. No buff npc.
2. We have the Alpha Prontera maps, most people vend in Upper Prontera. It's a cute old version of Prontera.
3. Easier upgrading to safe limit which has no impact on the chance of success, but regular phracon/emve seller and refiner.

(Hope for)
1. Duel clienting is not allowed and cannot be done with the client we use, culprit found using a modified client or using 2 computers to connect are punished with a permanent ban. @autotrade shops are welcome,players have items to sell and it helps the economy.
2. The economy is good so far.
3. We removed MVP cards entirely.
4. No SinX or Creator,only the good old classes that were perfectly balanced before the trans classes emerged.

Our website: http://www.earlyro.com

[dirtbag]

it seems like a lot of good low rate servers have rates below 10x. Due to that, im gonna change my mind and try all servers mentioned.

*Edit*
(Must)
2. Rate minimum 10x. >>> 2. Rate minimum 5x.

(Prefer)
14. Rate minimum 10x.

(Doesn’t really matter)
1. No buff npc. >>> No buff npc. (Prefered to have if you allowed dual client)

Really need a place to settle. Hopefully I can find one before me and all my friends have holidays.
thx.
Posted on: Jun 16, 2009, 11:11 pmBump, searching for server again.

[Max]

Join us on Yaros
http://play-yaros.com

(must)
1. Check
2. 10x rates
3. Check
4. No donations.
5. Check
6. Check
7. Hosted at a datacenter in the Netherlands on an Intel Xeon Quad Core (3 Ghz) and 2x AMD Opteron Duo Core (2,4 Ghz), both with 4 GM memory and 100 MBit connection.
8. HP healer, warper, resetter, tool dealer in the center of Prontera
9. Have never had data loss on similar setup in 5 years
10. yes
11. You have no 11!
12. No @ commands
13. No donations
14. No donations
15. No donations
16. Official gameplay, no customs.
17. Check
18. Same as on official servers

(prefer)
1. Opened last month
2. Normally once a week, but we're having a Summer Event this month which means events happen more often and rates are temporarily increased
3. No dual clienting possible/allowed.
4. We had an open beta with 300 forum members, although that didn't translate into the desired ingame count
5. Only the official repeatable exp quests
6. Invite-a-friend and Guild-Package rewards for new players
7. Dungeons that require a quest stay that way
8. Only the 25% more exp for every additional player to hit the monster
9. Everyone speaks english as main or second language
10. No such thing
11. No commands
12. No bank
13. Never have accepted donations for rewards, never will
14. Rates are 5/5/5, now during the Summer Event up to 7/7/7
15. Not available
16. Other NPC such as stylist and universal rental.
17. Official Kafra shop npcs, some newbie help npcs, random scripted themed town invasions 2-3 times per week.

Other reasons you should play on Yaros:
We have the latest official content: full episode 12.1 and near complete episode 13.1, starting on episode 13.2 soon - regular updates. No custom items. No donations. No bots due to our antibot/antihack software. Friendly community. Opened last month (only 1 trans char (hp) on the server so far!), and now we have a Summer Event with increased rates to allow new players to catch up quickly (more info on Summer Event: http://play-yaros.com/yaros-summer-event-t211s0.html).