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On last update people focused on updating skill lvls on 82, new zone 82 etc etc. I had a little bit of brain storming with my team one eveing about why eu ppl dont join this server. Here are our ideas. Premium - Similar system like 1st post on forum from new account. If new guy comes to server, he should contact admin (make big ad on main page about it or during account registration some special button). Admin can shortly verify if its new person joining server via chat/checking things from technical perspective and grant 1-3 months premium to his new 1-3 accounts or grant new kind of premium account on his main account that lets you log 2-3 additional chars w/o premium. The guy would be able to check out server w/o paying for premium. If it works maybe you could even extend this option and grant to his main acc some 1 month time limited items, like b weapon +10 armor +6 aq3 orfen 3 w/e. Drastically increase event rewards - mostly by time limited items. We all know how tiger event influenced on server. To make sure server economy doesnt get fkd by changes, add mostly TIME LIMITED rewards. But The rewards must be worth the efford! There are many options of items you could add. Baium talismans, fi6, B grade sets +8 a grade sets +6-8, B/A weapons +16 with chosen rune like 2h blunt with othel or mage weapon with cast speed. Add epics lvl 3 time limited. AQ3 core 3 orfen 3 baium 3, these are pve/pvp epics you could skip antharas/zaken if some ppl complain about influence on olympiad but in my opinion why not to let new ppl join oly with fair gear? Are old folks who already gathered gear afraid of newbies in time limited gear? I think most of ppl agree its more fair for every1. Make these time limited rewards last for 15-30 days and be pretty common. Ppl could farm 1st 3-4 days of event and collect few epics/items from opening like 30 chest rewards already - lets say 10% chance. You could even add this new anakim/lilith to these time limited items so ppl can test it out. You could consider adding real epics lvl 1 with lower chance as an option for new clans that have no chance to farm epics, to have a chance to farm it different way less efficient way. Prepare suitable zone with good exp/drop for new ppl. We have it already! The zone with very good adena and exp which is not suitable for 80+ yea right! Its devil isle. The zone needs just very little tweaks. Make mobs not being able to be pulled too far, maybe decrease p atk a bit or consider removing social agro from them. I think after eliminating "pulling train" problem there, its perfect zone for new ppl. Also you could increase gem a drop in new aoe zone so high lvl ppl feel no need to log boxes and abuse this low lvl zone farm. Remove drops from RBs or add time limited items instead of real ones so it makes sense for newbies to collect these items but makes no sense for old players cos items cant be sold for adena .Also remove death knights or atleast remove it up to 65 lvl rbs. If its done, you dont even need to bring back old map without rp respawn delay, bosses would probably be more available on map - the bosses up to 65 lvl atleast Consider adding more "full buff" consumables for newbies - preferably time limited so old folks dont create new accounts to abuse it Add this S grades already, make enchant rates very low so even top farmers run with +4-6 max. Items itself have huge stats, +0 is like +16 b grade, new folks could jump into s grade farm straight and dont care about star wars items of old players Make more newbie friendly farm mechanics instead of farmer friendly mechanics - i mean things like knoriks in loa. Similar system should work in gc/di/fi/new aoe zone. Lets say you farm DI, when you kill mobs there is chance to spawn midnight nightmare, when you farm gc, there is chance batur(boost drops ffs, havent heard any1 dropped anything from that sh1t so far) spawn, when u farm fi there is chance trex spawn, for new aoe zone you can add some new mini boss Looking for more ideas from community! cheers!

Removing this delay altogether would be beneficial to the server. Delay only benefits professional farmers, smelly rule!

where is 3rd option to remove this sh1t in general?

Yup, the delay should be removed.

Ok kids, let grandpa Nansey tell you all a story... Once upon a time, asia prime was blooming! Blooming with intel's zerg (2-5 parties) coming to SV and spamming "11111" and "cccccc". Everyone was happy and life was sweet. Everyone except... HOM... HOM were fairly new to the server but still had some pretty stacked people pulling the strings. They were blessed to create a powerful red Dragon Slayer (some call it: the Zariche of the server)! Placing their hopes and dreams on that mighty artifact, they started demolishing RBs all around the map! The hype made it on the local newspapers (discord) and the flex was real. It was finally time... Time to test its power on 75 RBs! Picking up their courage and boxes, 2 brave HOM guys showed up in asia prime with 1 mission: to kill all bosses in their path! So they ported...they gated...they buffed...but...they didn't seem alarmed by the cameras that were watching them like a hunter eyes his prey. What was about to unfold in a few minutes...their body and mind could not grasp... Just as they were about to click Frenzy... a vicious zerg of evil WK led by intel69 swallowed them like a whale swallows the tiny mackerels! .............They were devastated...Shocked...This unforeseen abuse left a scar deep inside them. Back in HOM headquarters, 4 days and 5 nights with hardly any sleep...they found the courage to say "OK! we will do it in NA prime, its free!" And indeed! They were killing rbs in 2-3 mins. It was working. It was a new step. However, they knew this was the extent of their potential. Asia prime was still out of their league. Meanwhile... a hemisphere away...another masochistic duo took a weird interest in this challenge. They had no Zariche, no Baium 3, just dedication to the purpose and cat-sharp reactions...! A single "heh let's try it, dude." was enough to spark what was about to become a future of growth and glory. Yes. They did the unthinkable. They dared to enter SV in the heart of asia prime - like 2 robbers sneaking in the White House in broad daylight! ....But...the high-security cameras were still there... It was all or nothing. With a deep breath, they unleashed their zealot power and...it was over. The boss had been slain and the loot was sitting on their feet. As they could start seeing the figures of their mortal enemies appearing in the horizon, they picked up the drops and with a hi5 clicked the Scroll of Escape. The mission had been completed and the achievement had been unlocked. And guess what...it wasn't going to stop there. It happened the day after, and the next one, and the next. Of course...the vicious zerg was getting irritated and the security was reacting faster and faster. A lot of attempts were in vain and others failed although some came close to success, and even in some of those cases they would still pick up the loot. The incidents of October 6 (Baium's fiesta day) drove intel's zerg off the server. The clear owner of SV had been decided. Many attempts from intel's leftovers (aka kebaps) to disturb the balance have little-to-none success. This is a story about guts and teamwork. The End, spoiled brats. No animals besides kebap were harmed during these events

Actually even epics no need delay. more competition, more fun.

I really like the idea of letting people in with helping. I feel that some of the player base would help if they could.

server is hard stuck,need changes or RIP

100% agree. Entry into the server is steep. Here are some of my thoughts on other variations of what you said @Rizos so admins could determine which process is easier. 1) make daily Strix quest give some number of buff scrolls (2 hrs of total time or more?) that only last 1 week or 3 days (allow not everyday farming but encourages constant logging in), but the buff scrolls are better than beer even. Make them include full buff and disco at that level (or just full) that way there is no need for PA and trying to manage that for new players. Make buff scroll stop at 75+ daily so top level players do not get and is time based scroll so expires and cant stock up at lvl 70 and rush to lvl 80 with no box. 2) Increase level for free armor again. Had moon quest, have C grade now. Don't stop as Rizos said, but maybe easier is give Top A time limited gear. Top A is at least good +++ of B gear but has draw back of not having amazing +6 and +8 set bonus. Time limted +6 or +8 sets sound hard to code too . (Event): Exactly as he said. The balance of the event items can be done in the time. Make the duration the balance, so if event is 2 weeks, jewels only last 1 week so there are weeks in a month that wont have full free epics in oly. Gives people that have them real advantage still, gives new players boost and chance to fight on some weeks. (DI zone) also agree. Took a good amount of the money motivation of DI out now, maybe tune gem A towards higher areas and increase exp in DI so it is entry into GC??? Leave gem A to drop there, but maybe reduce chance in DI, add to FI, and increase heine. Gives new players chance to get money with Gem A and B weapon keys but gives solid exp location like LoA used to be. Needs some thinking on how to tune, but it is an area that is there. Could maybe even increase exp x2 or something and make monster level much lower so it is no use to existing players to get exp there. (new player exp) L2 is best played in group, but unless you are bringing full CP it is hard for new player to keep getting decent exp above lvl 75/76. Most CPs are not open for all roles and pretty much want Bd/SwS bc they are boring class and hard to keep people playing them. So it is fairly important to allow new players to keep getting decent exp until they are minorly relevant and/or find a CP to play with. But right now it is quite a hard to stop of exp and requires finding a CP very soon after hitting lvl 76 which is low lvl for most CP. Lastly, driving is always a thing so can say just play char inside CP, but we play MMO's partially bc we like OUR characters. So there is more importance on lvling their own character. So maybe even SV needs exp boost to help players keep grinding exp at ok pace. (new player gear) The difference between entry players and top players is probably 1000+ hrs of time in game. That is fine and hardcore players should have advantage, but advantage is nuclear bomb vs pellet gun. Top A "can" fill that hole slightly, but if time limited gear is introduced there is still Mount Everest in front of you to get real +10++ B grade weapon and +6/+8 armor. Another major problem with A grade now, is 75 DKs specifically. A grade could have been tuned like Rizos said to have low enchant drop rate and easier base weapon farming so there was way for players to get real Top A weapon; however, 75 DKs drop enchants and improved enchants at rates that top players would abuse if A grade was made easier to craft/drop. (S grade) It sounds like from patch that this will be last A grade patch which makes it sound like S or S80 is around the corner. Great!!!!!!!. Echoing Rizos make it so base weapons are easier and enchants require farming. Gives newer players way to be 50-60% as powerful as top players without being irrelevant forever. The bigger topic of next gear set and if possible should be implemented sooner for A grade too; OVERENCHANT BONUSES!!!!. Even if S grade armor comes out, there is almost no reason to move into S armor rather than stay in +10/+8 sets for top players. The set bonuses on A and maybe S armor needs to be edited to have some of overenchant bonus and/or edited to be good for the classes that use the armor set. Admins, We know you don't have infinite time and resources to do these things. So I think this is where communication from you towards the community needs to be increased. You have a large number of players that play this game regularly and in large quantities of hours. Make a list of things that players can help with: coming up with ideas, replicating bugs on test server, coding for those that know how. Make it similar to bot report and/or quest logging done recently, if you help admins with work you get a bonus. This is also good for newbies because they can get some of these rewards that full CPs might think will take away from group play. But, the players need information on what they can do to make the server better instead of just waiting around for new content from you. Finally, We all know this server needs money and PA system alone is decent source; but if some of these changes are going to be introduced it will reduce the income of the server for people buying CoL to sell for adena to buy gear. Ok, so lets unbox this. If new players wont pay for PA until deep into game, and wont donate large amounts to get gear to be relevant you will lose money. But if a lot of people join the server is good for the server too. So maybe think of new way to do the auction on website and/or make new gear only tradeable on auction and require "Auction Tokens". Auction tokens can be bought with Euro and for existing players they can use in-game adena to buy auction tokens (maybe at worse rate than euro? to encourage money to server?????) This gets very hard to make a specific set of items only tradeable on auction, but obviously you still need to make money and is better to "tax" all players a little money then to require 1 new player drop 1000's of euro's to join server and keep afloat. Old MMO's had monthly subscriptions, we have PA. You need the constant money, but it needs to change that all players contribute small amount vs new players drop 1000 euro and top players just buy all COL and never pay for life. Community please roast this section and come up with better ideas, but this server is living off the back of new players that I guess we assume are born in Dubai and have whole country's worth of money. We need something to split burden of server cost, reward players that farm a lot, but not require new players to pay for server.