I've been playing on this server for more than a year now and here's what I can tell you (no bs or sugarcoating it):
- farming is rather easy with dual box but it needs a lot of time, you won't make good adena unless you're a hardcore player
- most people have +++ gear and some know various exploits to OE, you will see same people selling OE weapons and after each restart the enchant grows. They sell, +11, next restart is +12 and so on until they reach+16 or more. There's something suspicious about that, all with new characters with names that don't make sense.
- sometimes the community can be quite toxic. If you have a decent weapon some players will try to train you hoping you will drop it. The chinos are doing this constantly in farm worthy areas. You can and you will drop stuff upon death, and the admins say it keeps the bots in check, but it actually benefits those high lvl dudes farming low lvl characters. Whatever, it's just annoying when you drop stuff just cause a 76+ char decides to stun you in toi or other areas.
- you will find parties at high lvls, if any (70+)
-there are a lot of bots but the admins are trying to do whatever possible to ban them. They ban them all the time, and there are periods when you can't see any, while other times you notice an increased bot activity. You will often find someone dragging 6 others behind him, buffers buffing at the same time and 2-3 chars hitting the mob. They will tell you some BS that it's macro, they' alt tabbing or stuff like that. just screenshot them and report it on discord, they often ban them.
-the thing that bugs me the most is the absence of catacombs and necropolis. I don't understand why they admins won't add them since these will be a lot of fun, farming would be profitable I guess, and clans with wars will have a lot of work to stay in them. Even more, it will be a honey trap for bots, so they will ban them faster (including the owners). The lack of these zones is the must frustrating issue for me.
-they don't include catacombs and necropolis, but they have devil's island with obscene strong mobs, the hunting area is mostly deserted because you can't stay alive for too long there and nobody bothers with it. Makes no sense to me, but whatever.
-You will get spammed by mails and messages from RMT bots, it is frustrating but you end up ignoring it after a while.
Overall, as far as I know, this is the most populated server and minus the things listed here, I enjoy playing on it. I have convinced two friends to join the server last month. I gave them gear and all to have a smooth transition and I'm curious to see how much they will last. Welcome and try to enjoy your time here!