Allright then, it seems it is time for a proper review after playing this server for around 20 days.
(First things first, it is necessary to know that me and a couple of friends were there when Mega opened his very first SRO-R server, we was with him for a couple of hours testing sh*t etc. He was such a lovely and helpful guy. I am quite sure he don't remember this to be honest.)
I am gonna start with the positive side of this server. I am telling you guys, this is probably the best edited server ever in Silkroad P server history. Amazing support from the game lv1-70, literally enjoyable and brings back old memories.
Few highlights: The game has a calendar system that rewards you every single day, it raises its reward if you login multiple days. very good idea. Jobbing system is amazing with R files, lots of locations to trade and you also have 8 safe trades/day. Thief rewards raised, so good to play as a thief as well.
CHN-EU balance seems very good. As CHN you have 4 masteries in total that you can use. And as long as I know EU has been nerfed to match proper game balance.
Levelling is very easy as the game has an inbuilt macro and quest system. All of the quests gives you good amount of EXP.
FGW system is amazing even on low level, from 35-70 you are all able to go in and the game rewards you with "Faded Bead" that gives you a random amount of sp = gap9 sp farming is not required. It also gives talismans that you can use to get 8D sun weapons. These weapons are kind of cheap for gold as well so it is actually easy to get these until you make it to 64.
And now the dark side of the moon:
After 70 you need to have a good guild/union as 5 star trades are totally impossible alone. That part is a little bit annoying, personally I couldn't get an invite from any of the hunter/trader guilds, I have been told that only lv90 allowed to join them and few of them even tells you that you need to have full SOM+10 set.
Haha, SOM+10 set... So it is very easy to get the current max set as long you are a donator. Otherwise, without guild it will probably takes forever to farm out the set and as this server is progressive, not sure if it's worth the time you invest in.
Here I need to mention that I was always a donator on good Silkroad p servers and I was about to buy a generous amount of Sailor Points - Silk, whatever - until I realised what is the base of this server today. No, this server is not free2play. You can't reach anything good without donating. I have been told - so not sure if it's true - that the first "few" donators got their max set from the server's staff for real money. (Maybe from MegaMax but still not sure.)
My personal opinion is that: yes they have most probably sold these items. (Reason I think it is true, SOM has been integrated in the server just a couple of days ago and there is at least 10-15 players who already have SOM+10 wep/set.)
Events: So far, I saw events only for max levels. Under 20 days I couldn't see a single event for low levels. (Maybe I am just unlucky, who knows..)
And as it is good old Silkroad, you can't expect people to help you, you wont be able to join any parties as low levels and you won't be able to get ANY items as drops. So at the last event I got 14% exp and 1 hp potion.
When I mentioned this in global chat (yes, the game gives you globals as well at some point.) I have been told not to provoke in public chat and if I don't know that items are free to pick up for anyone from certain unique, then just shut up or I get banned. Very rude and not even close to the guy who we remember.
So my overall rating is: waste of time to play here if you don't have a proper guild and a high amount of money that you can spend on the game.
(Yes, I am expecting to be banned today. Tbh, I don't care anymore, rudeness of him/his staff ruined the whole experience.)