RedSky Online | Cap 70 | PVE | D8 | EU & CH Balance | Cap Increase | Player Based

01/27/2015 16:54 TheBlanker#1
Are you bored of all the new features of new servers?
Are you tired of GM-s never listening to players' opinions?
Would you like to see a server where the classes are balanced and people play what they find FUN, instead of what's "OP"?


In this case, i'd like to introduce you to RED SKY ONLINE!

Server information:

-Vigor grains are disabled (standard vigor potions are still available)
-No coin system. No forcing jobbing or CTF.
-Elixirs and potions are stackable to 200.
-FGW/FW/CTF are working.
-Ip limit is 2.
-Job rate increased.


And here's what makes us unique:

-The server is starting with a lvl 70 cap

The level cap is an important factor on every server, just like end-game content, so we decided to start with a cap of 70 and keep raising it with time.

-Complete balance of European and Chinese characters

We got to know silkroad pvp as either pot wars, or characters 1-hitting eachother, depending on who presses a single button first. Let's admit: this is not fun. This is over.
After a lot of testing and skill balancing, we have balanced european characters to match the chinese ones in power. There's no more wizards 1 shotting everyone (and they don't get one-shot either),
no more 20 seconds sleep status, 80% stun chance and 15sec invincibility (bless spell). You will be able to find more details about the balance on our website.
Since we know that it's hard to achieve something as "complicated" as balance with just a few people, we always welcome feedback regarding balance on our forum (also here on ePvP). We are planning to constantly change what's needed so we can get a completely fair and balanced game in the end.

-An almost clean server

Have you ever thought about why older private servers had more fun gameplay even though having less custom features?
That was because YOU, the PLAYERS kept shaping the server. Here you get the chance to tell what you would like to see in the near future, what changes you think would be necessary, and any feedback in general so that it would be more fun to play :)

-SUPPORT

To achieve everything we want, cooperation is essential. We give you the opportunity for communication and listen to your opinion.
We take GM activity and managing the forum very seriously, as without these it wouldn't work.

And finaly,

-The Bot question

Since many of you hate hand-grinding, we are aware of this, however, we also don't want to end up having a server full of afk bots that don't contribute anything to the game, so this is the first topic we would like to hear YOU, future players opinions about:
How much should we restrict botting, should we allow it at all? Do you think they ruin gameplay?
Please vote in the poll at the top of the thread BEFORE RELEASE!

Server rates:

EXP: 8x
Party EXP: 10x
SoX rate: 1x
Alchemy rate: 1x

Explanation:
EXP: This is a very important part. We came to the conclusion that we want to bring the old feeling back, which includes a lot of grinding/partying. Although we set the EXP rate to 10x, it's only because we would like to encourage players to party up (which leads to much faster leveling, this is an ONLINE game after all)

SoX/Alchemy rate: The answer here is very simple. We want SoX and high plus items to be unique and rare on our server. When you drop a SUN or sucessfully make a +9 you shouldn't just be one of many.

The balance


Here you can find the changes made to the skills. Please note that we don't write exact values in order to prevent stealing, and that while some damage reductions may sound harsh, it could easily mean a 5% or 10% reduction which doesn't mean much. The classes are all more or less balanced in end-game gear (they were tested in D8 full blue Sun +7) at level 70, so it doesn't mean that anything before level 70 is also balanced.
We encourage you to provide us feedback about any of the changes as we would like to constantly improve balance to provide the most enjoyable PvP experience of any servers out there :)

China:

Basic idea of the changes: Chinese characters have no potion delay and can use vigor very often, so we had to reduce their damage so that they don't kill euros (or eachother) too fast in equal gear.

Heuksal: Soul spear soul damage reduced, spirit crash spear damage reduced

Pacheon: Anti devil bow steel damage reduced, Devil/Demon arrow damage reduced, Strong bow vision damage reduced and has 30% chance to stun, black hawk damage increased

Bicheon: Heaven chain damage reduced, Dragon sore/bud blade damage reduced

Europe:

We had a lot of work with European characters as they did way too much damage and Warrior was unkillable in good gear and Wizard was still 1hit to anyone else regardless of gear. In general we reduced their damage and buffed their survivability to make them more similar to Chinese characters.
Most of these changes are done through modifying their buff abilities, such as Life control for Wizard or Crossbow Extreme / Dagger Desperate for Rogues.

Wizard: Life control doesn't reduce your HP anymore, it still increases magic damage (not as much as default) and gives some physical and magical absorption. Meteor, Fire bolt, Earth shock damage reduced, Lightning shock's fear duration reduced

Rogue: Crossbow Extreme and Dagger Desperate don't reduce HP or Defense, they give lower damage % than before, and also provide a little defense
The damage of most of their important damage abilities was reduced for both dagger and crossbow

Warrior: Maddening damage reduced, Sprint Assault stun chance reduced, Dual Axe skills' damages reduced

Cleric: Bless Spell duration lowered to 25 seconds

Warlock: passively increased magical and physical absorption, (some of it is put on Dusk Armor so make sure to use it for maximum effect), Blood/Death flower damage reduced


We hope you like our idea and that we see you soon, because YOUR opinion matters! :)

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The server is opened, everybody welcomed.

Regards, TheBlanker (RedSky Team)

p.s: I know that the Thread is a complete mess, i cannot post pictures yet :confused:
01/27/2015 17:12 Sensei_Aino#2
Sounds good :) If there is no beta I hope that game will be without bugs
01/27/2015 17:16 TheBlanker#3
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Originally Posted by Sensei_Aino View Post
Sounds good :) If there is no beta I hope that game will be without bugs
Till we are waiting for the players to see what they want, we didn't do anything big that could be bugged. The balance is still "on beta", because there are way too many situations and even we tested it a lot, we couldn't test everything. There will be still changes at that, thats it :)
01/27/2015 17:17 Katara*#4
Hehe I came here to hate,neah I came to wish you all luck on the world to make an good server,and you should add bots.
No bots,no activity,thats how the sro community.. :)

and you need over 50 posts to make the pictures working on you'r theard.
Just put them,and I'll qoute to make them workin and after you collect 50 posts,the pictures will be working.
01/27/2015 17:20 kekeith#5
should be able to stack elixirs till 500 and also stones...
01/27/2015 17:21 ​Exo#6
You should add some images to the thread.
01/27/2015 17:26 TheBlanker#7
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Originally Posted by You'reDestiny View Post
Hehe I came here to hate,neah I came to wish you all luck on the world to make an good server,and you should add bots.
No bots,no activity,thats how the sro community.. :)

and you need over 50 posts to make the pictures working on you'r theard.
Just put them,and I'll qoute to make them workin and after you collect 50 posts,the pictures will be working.
According to the daily amount of posts we plan here to answer the players, 50 posts wont take long.

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Originally Posted by kekeith View Post
should be able to stack elixirs till 500 and also stones...
We are increasing them.

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Originally Posted by xExorcist View Post
You should add some images to the thread.
Thats why it looks like this:

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Originally Posted by TheBlanker View Post
p.s: I know that the Thread is a complete mess, i cannot post pictures yet :confused:
01/27/2015 17:28 nonoasas#8
need ip input
01/27/2015 17:31 kekeith#9
to avoid a lot of afkers do ip limit ... ~5 accounts max per pc?
01/27/2015 17:34 TheBlanker#10
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Originally Posted by nonoasas View Post
need ip input
You have to upload the whole client, ipinput wont work properly.

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Originally Posted by kekeith View Post
to avoid a lot of afkers do ip limit ... ~5 accounts max per pc?
Forgot to mention that, the ip limit is 2.

Added to first post.
01/27/2015 17:38 thus007#11
what about the best weapons and how can we get them ??

allow bot with ip limit 3 maximum
01/27/2015 17:45 TheBlanker#12
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Originally Posted by thus007 View Post
what about the best weapons and how can we get them ??

allow bot with ip limit 3 maximum
The best weapons are Seal of Suns and by the default way. We decided not to add a coinsystem, because you can only find servers with that, but really rare to find one without that.

Still, its the player's choice if they want it or not, the future updates are on your hands.
01/27/2015 18:03 Sensei_Aino#13
Hope that people on 70 will do sth else not just farming soxs/elixirs
01/27/2015 18:16 mariosko1987#14
Ofc they gonna bot farm sox and elixirs, what else? u can do some pvp ofc but whats the fun without fb set / weapon lets say +5, increasing cap isnt good idea because it make people bot again and again to get new deegre after u increase cap, but its just my opinion, i wish u good luck.
01/27/2015 18:17 XpR#15
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Originally Posted by TheBlanker View Post
The best weapons are Seal of Suns and by the default way. We decided not to add a coinsystem, because you can only find servers with that, but really rare to find one without that.

Still, its the player's choice if they want it or not, the future updates are on your hands.
Sun d8 on cap 70 ?