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Originally Posted by diedeck
You can't be serious , Myth wasn't a funds problem actually so you are saying some bullshit there.
PST: Myth had a nice community.
You can have another example of shitty servers "Glory" not "PlaySRO"
PlaySRO had a shitty admin.
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Myth Online did had some Money Problems =)
Myth on hold
Hi, first of all, sorry for the inactive time on my side and the uninformation to you all.
I'd like to explain the situation clearly. Myth is about to have 1 year running, and things changed a lot since then. First of all, this was my first experience as a server administrator. In general, it was a really positive experience, very time-consuming, but in the end it was worth it.
As you probably know, everything worked fairly well before we added the Arabia update. Server wasn't very populated, but we had an stable gameplay and a good community supporting it (without any doubt, I'm pretty sure Myth got so far the best community on SRO pserver scene).
But things changed when I added Arabia. No one cared about myth on the past because it was a low populated server without bots and low rates, but once we added Arabia, we got everyone's attention, because we were the first server with it fully working, including the official servers. After that, the nightmare began. Attacks every day, lags, constant hosting migrations, it became really hard for both you, the players, and us, the admins to keep it working as it was in the past. We were an small team, we weren't expert on security stuff or something, so the situation overwhelmed us. This is where I gave the control of the server to Tronics, which did an amazing work on protecting the server and give it stability, so while there was still some lags, it was playable and on most part of the time. This was back on October-November 2012.
But the point of the topic is to announce what is happening next, so I will give exact information. Back when Myth started, we were getting around 800$ monthly, and the hosting we used was around 600$/month (2 servers). It was a happy world, no protection needed at all, and hosted directly on europe, so lag was never a problem. *********** takes 2 months to give you the money you earn, so I had to spent 2k$ +/- from my personal savings to keep it running until *********** did the first payout. Anyway, the months were going, the amounts didnt change, we had some problems with DDoS attacks but not too important, the income was stable and so on. Then the summer came, and we added Arabia on Myth. Attacks began, and server was barely on 1 or 2 hours per day, huge attacks, impossible to access the server at all, which made me piss off a lot. I started looking for protection solutions, but all of them were out of my pocket, it became obvious to me that keep the same quality level and keep the server on wasn't possible anymore.
I was already thinking about closing myth, because I wasn't able to control it anymore, plus other legal problems related with my country (all the money I got came directly into my bank account, and even while I only kept 10% of it because 90% left went to the hosting bills and paying other stuff (creeper/sherlock/nagato), it was undeclared money and soon or later it would become a problem that could ruin me in real life), it was when Tronics appeared and offered me a deal. I only wanted to keep Myth on, so after many talks I accepted and he took care of Myth until the current days. In exchange I gave him the full income, the control of Myth, and a promise of some work for him that I'm still doing. Tronics did an amazing job, Myth would be gone for months ago if it wasn't for him, but the problem is that currently the whole concept of Myth as it is right now is not rentable. The income is around the same (a bit less) than what it was back then (700-800$), but the spents on hosting and protection are way higher than it was back then, which makes Myth a money hole, and I don't want Tronics to deal with it anymore just for help me.
If you readed until here, take a break and drink a coffe.
So, what is the future of Myth?
I really don't want it gone, and I think still lots of stuff can be done on it, but we have to also change many core stuff on it.
So what we want to do is:
- Close the current Myth
- Migrate the whole Myth features and systems to v188 files
- Get back the old job system
- Add new features and improve the old job system
- Allow botting
- Start over from scratch, giving the same chances to old and new players
- Compensate old players with special visual stuff, such as unique titles, and special dress, and so on
- Add more end-content to the game
- And more...
Appart of the technical reasons (char data migration cannot be done from 193 -> 188), the mentioned start-over is another reason of why the wipe will be done. New client and server are required. It will take me few months to put the features that Myth have on the v188 files, so it won't happen right now, the server will stay alive for few weeks.
That's all. I'm sorry, and I hope you understand our position
Future of Silkroad? There isn't one if it keeps going like it is now. It's all about "Add-Every-Item-,-Make-It-OP-And-Sell-It-For-Real-Money" no other purpose. Sad thing was, most Peoples are just ignorant and arrogant, whining over Rates and because of this we have the current State.
Sadly such a Server like Myth Online is on Hold now because everyone fought over the Rates like Idiots *lol* instead sticking to a Community that could have been the greatest at all ...
Kids needs to stop using mBot, another Reason why every Server is dying cuz of the massive Amounts of Goldbots and such stuff but hell, nobody gets this because they're like "Oh shit, imma want to be the best and that fast". Isn't it somehow Ironic that everyone left iSRO because of the Goldbot Amounts ? I must say keep going, if nothing changes this MMORPG is surely dying 100% and don't blame Joymax for it, the Community made the Game since when does Bots need "New Monsters" and "New Items" when it comes to "Recycled Monsters/Items". If you don't get it, you're still stucked in 2007/2008.
Well I could go on and on but you know, instead of that I could write a whole Book *lol*