Originally Posted by 111qqq111
THIS IS MY COMPLETE PANDORA LIFE REVIEW
I Started Pandora Server When Evolution Server went down as many others.
I Have played spando for more than 2 Years ( not uncluding my few month breaks here and there ), Ever Since Evolution Server Closed. When i First start the server it was VERY good, lots of players lots of Events, Gms online everyday, lots of player support and very fast too. The GMs were so happy to have us from evolution server we boosted their PVP economy and player base to its best its ever been.
the PVP was a constant All day long, Events Every day. There was Like 100 people at the MM events i would lag so much But it was so amazing i never had seen something like that before. Me and so many others were so glad we joined spando.
Occasionally Donations got lost and me and my friends never got our items or refunded the money.. Ok.. Thats fine, i kept playing, Server Was still very fun.. Then Came some of their MANY Screw Ups..
They made all the NOS in the item mall Free for all and many other item to gain infinite money easy to exploit.. Lots of players left the server including one of the top guilds on the light side... Yes ok it was fixed after a week or so.. Server was Fun and great at this time will many events happening everyday and more people joinning the server. Pvp was great At most times even though most of the players can link themselves so that they can never kill anyone or be killed.. We all got used to this kind of PVP...
Then at some point the GMs made another screw up.. they messed up with their item mall patch making it so when u buy some of the items that were free, u get all the lv7 dex forbid life rec wis fortune int lapis that you need becouse the item was free. Ok thats kool.. we used linking hammers to link them which were free in the item mall also Becouse OP hammers were still donation only at that time. For some of us that was pretty kool.. even me i didnt really hate it that much even though I alrdy had linked most of those lapis anyways.. now the noobies got to have them easier than how i got them.. For this many more players left the server again.. But yet still more joined and the server was still very popular and was very fun.. with events happening all the time.
The next BIG mistake the Admins made was deciding to open up their 2nd server, Splitting our population pretty much in half.. hurting the player base on the main server and making less players that were in PVP..
Now.. starting to get into 1 year and a half into pando shaiyas life..
The de buff lapis Era Arised.. Some players like me and a few others sparked everyones interested into using Mass Debuff lapis in their wepons.. it was very fun at first and made us so good at 1v1.. practically noone could kill me in a 1v1 duel.. Then came many copy cat people, trying to create their own de buff wepons.. using them in PVP.. at this time you needed Full stacks like 1000 red and yellow dispell potions in your invetory for just 1 hour of pvp lol.. was still quite interesting for some, But these lapis made so many ppl QQ about them they started to not join the PVP after a while.. PVP slowly started to die off little by little, players tarted to quit and seek better PVP servers.. I can still say even then this server was the best for me, it was a lot of fun, but the PVP was practically dead.. 99% of my time was Spent in the Auction house, Reselling to make my gold.. Or in apulune 1v1ing.. As everyone knows, I very much enjoyed to 1v1.. Hehe.. Events still happening at this time but less frequent now and less GM activity on the server.
Some time later... people got bored of player the normal way.. and began to do some bad things.... they became the exploiters.. The duplicaters.. They raged rampant on the server, duplicating Debuff lapis and fortune coin lv5's to the point where u can get all those de buff lapis in the auction for practically near to nothing when they uised to cost 20+bil for individual ones.. stacks of 255 fortune coin 5's would pop in the auction house all the time for 4bil.. and you can resell them for 17bil.. Economy on pandora started to Go to shit and prices started to sky rocket on everything to high becouse of the people duplicating. I personally knew of full guilds and soo many other people that duplicated everything from Gold to Lapis to All their gears. The admins were very awarre at this time about the duplicating and the hacking but ceased to do anything about it.
This made all the de buff lapis Wide spread in the server So you could easily have any wepons You wanted with pain 67 blindside 67 toxin 7 freezing 7.. Anything you wanted.. And at this point the remaining PVP in the server became de buff fests.. with stunnings and dispell potting.. and people towning out and going to auction house.. The PVP was pretty much Dead. and forums Were full of QQers about the de buff lapis.. the prices... Everything.. Yet the Admins and Gms still did nothing to prevent the duplicators or the de buff lapis form killing their server. There was little events at this time and the GMs would come online 1-2times a week..
Later Gms decided to add spando merchants for you to buy OP hammers and rec runes permenantly, Released many tiered events to gain donations, started the process to add ep5.. Duplicating Exploit was still not fixed yet at this time..
At around this time is when i decided to give spando a break becouse it was getting increasingly boring to play becouse of the lack of PVP and a lot of friends left for other servers.. I quit for about 6 Months..
I'm not sure the excact month that i came back but it was maybe around october or september.. Ep5 was in full swing.. Everyone was running around with full Justia sets ( compliments of the Recent Teired event GMs did, which if you spend i think it was 200$ you get 4 full sets of justia or the equivilents. ) I believe the duplicating Exploit was fixed at this time.. ( But some people know how to bi-pass it with certain thing I will not explain, but for the most part duplicating was done with. ) To my suprise the server still had so many people playing on it, and it even looked like there was more people online than i had seen in quite a while.. Few days later GMs added Cave of Regnum..
It was very awsome to see this new cave.. and to kill the mobs inside.. the enchants were very popular and sold very well in the auc house.. Then Ranger Assasin Exploiters started to show up... Everyone and anyone started to use R/A to kill the mobs in cave of regnum and the queen boss ( Which drops lvl 70 wepons exclusivley )
So there for these items become very abundant and in auc house you can see 50 ppl with shops up of PM me in skype blah blah name to offer for this 70 item, in which most of them obtained threw R/A glitching..
Ever Since i had came back to the server.. There was a Grand total of 2 events held. Even though i see the GMs online somtimes. They were very hidden now.
A month or 2 of this passed and the GMs did nothing about the glitch.. They made a few patches stating that they had fixed it, but it was not fixed. Later They decided to make cave of regnum to have a short opening time of 3 hours a day and 3 days a week. A lot of people complained but this is how it came to be. People with work or a life could never join that place again, including me. After a week or so Less people were selling items in the auction house Due to the time on the cave of regnum.. and less players started to appear online.
The server was still decent at this time, the only PVP that you could find was at the Demi god Element bosses and they lasted only until the bosses were dead. It was fierce competition and a lot of fun to compete for the drops. Most of the time the Lights Won. But there was some window in the early hours of the morning that the furys got those bosses 100% of the time becouse of lack of lights logged in.
Later After multiple attempts the Admins finally figured out what took other servers days to fix.. They finally fixed the A/R DMG glitch.. All Was Happy at this time now, not knowing how bad this would actually effect our server.. A week went by.. and day by day less people were selling their items in the auction house and in trade chat to the point where it went to 5 people selling the items. And almsot imposible to find a 70 weapon. Server was dieing again.. PVP was dieing.. people even got bored to show up to fight the demi gods or to even pvp anymore.
At this time now the server was full of noobs.. A few top guilds on each side and the rest were all nobodies.. These tops guilds were what still made this server playable. Little did they know what was coming soon.. Recently A big Issue Happened with Demolition Guild from light side and Sturgis Guild from darkside.. Admins Targeted them claiming that those guilds made so many people leave their server for being "greedy" ( meaning not allowing others to have any of the demigod bosses ) This Might have been true, but This is true for all servers.. the top guilds will get the best bosses many times that they spawn.. GMs did not realize that this coupled with their own mistakes is what make the players leave their server, and natural boredness. Targeting these guilds, ( Demolition and Sturgis ) Now They were forced to Fully Leave the server, Thus damaging pandoras player count once again.
I had quit Pandora again a few weeks prior to this happening.. But In recent I have logged into pandora to "Check-up" and to do some 1v1s with old buddies who cling onto hope. Auction house is a Dead Zone. Economy still sucks so bad you need to have 100bil to buy 1 justia Piece. And Barely anyone speaks in trade chat.
I am tired now, This took me a long time to write. It's very late here so excuse me on how i wrote it sometimes i got lost in my thoughts. This is my personal opinion for Pandora Server, I Loved this server so much for the first year and a half that i played it despite all the mistakes the GMs create. I cant say that i have ever had more fun on another server. Even the time on evolution server, I think pandora had topped it. But in the late Pandora is very bland and lacking in interest / players / pvp / support, and the GMs become too cocky. I wont ever forget about my time on Pandora server But It will NEVER be the same as it once was, Never, im sorry it wont be.
-- Indugo
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