I've been playing on this server for a total of 378 minutes in two days -- yesterday and today.
I highly DO NOT recommend it, and in the next lines I'll tell you why. While the owners try to play that "original 2009 server" card, it has some systems that are nothing short of ridiculous.
Here is my summary of the most important parts:
* Player count?
In 378 minutes played on a Friday roughly between 5pm and 9pm, and Saturday between roughly 10:15 AM and 12:10 PM, playing in the blue kingdom and going on all channels... I have seen a grand total of... 0 players and 2 offline shops. I have asked in the chat if anyone is online and I've felt like trying to text my father who went to the store to get milk 15 years ago... complete silence.
* Bonus adders and changers?
Well, the server has a system where for every completed mission, you get some points called Yin. In the 380 minutes I've been online I made it to level 27 and finished ALMOST all missions up to that point. No AFK time. The result? I was able to purchase 1 adder, 1 changer, and have 3.876 Yin left. Most missions give under 500 Yin, so good luck purchasing 1 single adder that costs 17.520 Yin and 1 single changer costs 12.000 Yin.
This cannot be the only way to get bonuses, right?! That is correct. In the time I've played, I managed to get a few bonuses (like 4 adders and 6-7 changers) from boss chests -- Scrofa, Lykos, Tigris, Mahon, Goo-Pae, etc. BUT HERE IS WHERE IT GETS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!
Yes, you can get bonus adders and changers without Yin. BUT! If you use those adders and changers -- the ones that were not purchased with Yin -- on your equipment, then your item becomes BASIC. What does that mean? You cannot trade it, drop it on the ground, or even place it in the storeroom. Basically, you can't use a BASIC item on another character on the same account (like, say, a farmer), which is absolutely nuts. A complete waste of time. Not to mention, the green changers can only be used on items up to level 20.
So it's like... you can barely get any bonuses... and when you DO get them, you have severe restrictions.
* What about events?
In the 2 days I've played, the server had two events. One was moonlight boxes, another was extra XP. This is also a bit of a ridiculous system. To get the event, you have to right click on its icon to claim it, then go to your itemshop storeroom to get the event in the form of an item, drag it in your inventory, then right click again to claim it. So far so good. BUT.
The moonlight event was still available for 5 hours when I went on the server. It turns out that each individual player can only activate the event for 2 hours. So you don't have a 5 or 12 hour event or whatever -- you have a 2 hour event which you can claim at any point within the 5 or 12 hours, and can use as long as the 2 hours don't exceed the deadline of the event.
* What about items?
For one, it's very hard to upgrade any equipment because there is no market of upgrade items. Good luck farming for everything yourself. Now what I found weird is that even level 30 weapons (at least the level 30 bow) require upgrade items. If I wanted to upgrade the level 30 bow to +5 I needed 2 esoteric primers. The rest, I don't know, because that's when I decided that all these... let's call them unwise systems were making the game more difficult that it needed to be.
All in all, I truly don't recommend this server. It has some nice systems, like getting a horse at level 20 instead of 25. And I THINK -- I'm not sure but I think -- that you don't have to level your horse. I think from regular it turns straight into armored horse.
I'm not sure though because the system is a bit odd. You get your horse medal to the stableboy and press on the mission. Then it gets your horse medal and tells you whether you succeeded or failed the mission. I don't know what happens if you succeed. All I can tell you is I've failed 4 or 5 times with a level 1 horse. Maybe it goes to level 2, maybe it goes to armored. I was not patient enough to find out, especially since you have to farm your horse medals and they have a regular drop.
