The server has a lot of advantages (well, those are advantages in my opinion):
1. Dual box is limited to the money aspect (if you want a box - 10 EUR/month each box, which means there are basically no trains);
2. Minimum donate shop (you can buy premium which grants you an opportunity to log a box and 10 percent exp/sp rune). Also you can buy hats. Since nothing else is here to buy, I recommend you to buy hats. The more you have, the higher karma and blessings of the Gods you have which helps you to drop high quality items while exping (or atleast that's what I tell to myself buying those hats...);
3. I have seen a lot of new players. Raids till 50 are not being killed instantly, but after 50... well, let's say you have to be fast as soon as the raid spawns.. or the fake china clan (which are russians with a clan crest of china) will farm it in 5 min. Or maybe china itself, depends on the timezone, because we basically have people from all around the world;
4. You can talk with most people in english (though you can see those chinese "things" and russian "suka blyat" sometimes);
5. I saw 20 battles at once in olympiad not that long ago, so i guess it's good for a server 4 years old;
6. Etc., not sure how it is on high level, i'm a new player here. Exping by the way is very fast with those raid parties and 9h raids (i'm almost 60 with my box pp in about 10 days). Pro tip for new warriors: when you get to like 35 - go leech on those 9h raids, very fast exp.