“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien's epigraph to The Lord of The Rings
Thousands of server out there but all fail to unite the players and make them stay. So many servers coming out each day with their own ideas and edits but what most players are looking for is the old low level caps feeling.
If you don’t remember, for me these videos personally bring back all the old memories of playing with no special features just for fun all together; ~100 players level 30 killing Uruchi or a bunch of level 50s killing Isy. SO please take a few minutes to watch these next few videos before continuing to read.
Uploaded on Dec 23, 2006:
Uploaded on Nov 12, 2006
Uploaded on Jul 17, 2007
Now that you have watched these, I hope your nostalgia has hit you pretty hard. I hope you all remember when you were kids and just started playing Silkroad, having no idea what you were doing and creating weird characters. Remember the times when you used to go hand grind all day and at night stall your drops and wake up and see for the first time ever 10m+ gold in your inventory? These were the good days of SRO.
Before I start my “suggestion” it is true that I have no idea how to build a server and so on. But I’ve played on a lot of private servers and been disappointed by 80% of them. I will not name any particular cases but recently a server opened which was PERFECT. With all the “Special features” and new things private servers had been trying to implement, but done flawlessly with no mistakes. This server, as perfect as it was, died in two weeks. Thus I can say I have the sufficient experience and time spent on Silkroad to bring before you this idea.
Instead of all the servers DDOSing each other and trying to kill the game, how about people get together and work on a project to REVIVE THE GAME. A bunch of programmers, coders and so on get together and build a server that follows the exact steps Silkroad Online did.
Legend I: the European classes and areas were introduced to the International servers
Legend II: Fortress War was introduced.
Legend III: Roc Mountain was added and the level cap was increased to 90
Legend III+: the Bandit Fortress was added to iSRO, as well as Devil's Spirit silk dress.
Legend IV: 100 cap: 10th degree weapons and armor for both European and Chinese characters.
PS: I took this from wikipedia so I'm not sure HOW reliable it is but you get the main idea
(And this is where Silkroad dies in my opinion. Legend V and so on seems to ruin the game.)
So why not have a bunch of experienced server creators/owners run a mega-server? ~3000 slots. Create the server and follow THE EXACT SAME steps as iSRO did with their updates. Removing some small mistakes SRO did after consulting with the players online. Start the server at cap 60~ the add EURO race and so on.. Each update talking about 3-4 months depending on the players progression in the game! Recreate silkroad. Keep the rates relatively the same and maybe increase them to 4 or 5x for experience and keep the Alchemy rate the same. Why? Well, if the alchemy is too easy people feel worthless towards their items. THEY DO NO VALUE THEIR ITEMS. Remember the days when people were happy with +5? And that’s exactly why the server rates should be low. So people can value what they have. Do not add any of the special features that private servers added except a few necessary ones such as for example unique monsters dropping 1-2 globals and reverses. This will GUARANTEE us at least 2 years of gameplay and having the old feeling back of the game.
Once again this is just a brief suggestion, it’s too much to write out or explain every single aspect of on a forum as such.
I hope a group of serious GM’s who really love the game more than they love money get together and work something out using the ideas above.
I HOPE we can see Silkroad at its peaks again and we can experience ones more what we had when we were all kids.
And finally I hope you guys like the idea. I’m sure there will be loads of negative thoughts and criticism but I just said whats on my mind.
Oh, and one last VERY IMPORTANT POINT. With such a server we can advertise the game on forums NOT connected to SILKROAD and get a larger player base from other games. COMPLETE NEW COMERS. And bring back the real feel of the Silkroad roots.
Greetz
Ab3
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien's epigraph to The Lord of The Rings
Thousands of server out there but all fail to unite the players and make them stay. So many servers coming out each day with their own ideas and edits but what most players are looking for is the old low level caps feeling.
If you don’t remember, for me these videos personally bring back all the old memories of playing with no special features just for fun all together; ~100 players level 30 killing Uruchi or a bunch of level 50s killing Isy. SO please take a few minutes to watch these next few videos before continuing to read.
Uploaded on Dec 23, 2006:
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Uploaded on Nov 12, 2006
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Now that you have watched these, I hope your nostalgia has hit you pretty hard. I hope you all remember when you were kids and just started playing Silkroad, having no idea what you were doing and creating weird characters. Remember the times when you used to go hand grind all day and at night stall your drops and wake up and see for the first time ever 10m+ gold in your inventory? These were the good days of SRO.
Before I start my “suggestion” it is true that I have no idea how to build a server and so on. But I’ve played on a lot of private servers and been disappointed by 80% of them. I will not name any particular cases but recently a server opened which was PERFECT. With all the “Special features” and new things private servers had been trying to implement, but done flawlessly with no mistakes. This server, as perfect as it was, died in two weeks. Thus I can say I have the sufficient experience and time spent on Silkroad to bring before you this idea.
Instead of all the servers DDOSing each other and trying to kill the game, how about people get together and work on a project to REVIVE THE GAME. A bunch of programmers, coders and so on get together and build a server that follows the exact steps Silkroad Online did.
Legend I: the European classes and areas were introduced to the International servers
Legend II: Fortress War was introduced.
Legend III: Roc Mountain was added and the level cap was increased to 90
Legend III+: the Bandit Fortress was added to iSRO, as well as Devil's Spirit silk dress.
Legend IV: 100 cap: 10th degree weapons and armor for both European and Chinese characters.
PS: I took this from wikipedia so I'm not sure HOW reliable it is but you get the main idea
(And this is where Silkroad dies in my opinion. Legend V and so on seems to ruin the game.)
So why not have a bunch of experienced server creators/owners run a mega-server? ~3000 slots. Create the server and follow THE EXACT SAME steps as iSRO did with their updates. Removing some small mistakes SRO did after consulting with the players online. Start the server at cap 60~ the add EURO race and so on.. Each update talking about 3-4 months depending on the players progression in the game! Recreate silkroad. Keep the rates relatively the same and maybe increase them to 4 or 5x for experience and keep the Alchemy rate the same. Why? Well, if the alchemy is too easy people feel worthless towards their items. THEY DO NO VALUE THEIR ITEMS. Remember the days when people were happy with +5? And that’s exactly why the server rates should be low. So people can value what they have. Do not add any of the special features that private servers added except a few necessary ones such as for example unique monsters dropping 1-2 globals and reverses. This will GUARANTEE us at least 2 years of gameplay and having the old feeling back of the game.
Once again this is just a brief suggestion, it’s too much to write out or explain every single aspect of on a forum as such.
I hope a group of serious GM’s who really love the game more than they love money get together and work something out using the ideas above.
I HOPE we can see Silkroad at its peaks again and we can experience ones more what we had when we were all kids.
And finally I hope you guys like the idea. I’m sure there will be loads of negative thoughts and criticism but I just said whats on my mind.
Oh, and one last VERY IMPORTANT POINT. With such a server we can advertise the game on forums NOT connected to SILKROAD and get a larger player base from other games. COMPLETE NEW COMERS. And bring back the real feel of the Silkroad roots.
Greetz
Ab3
