Hey guys, Dex here.
The low-medium rate is magical. Hard to maintain. You can't balance it easily like high and ultra rates. Enough 1 smaill mistake and the overall economy fucked. It need much time to plan and execute a medium rate server.
I'm currently out of development but planned to do a pure ep8 with low-medium rate (10-20x rates) based on full original drops and contents but most of bugs fixed. Server costs are not so high nowadays even on DDoS protected hosting.
If no server like my idead opened until January and the community really want it + my friends like Tidus will help me and i could get 1-2 active staff member for support than i can do. But i will do it on pure ep8. Dungeons up to MO but a slow gameplay enviroment.
The server could open in 2 way.
First way: No donation, than no mShield and hacker patrol and server side checks against hackers. In this case surely will be hackers. I can manage the server and web hosting fee's alone and can run it years in this form.
Second way: Soft donation, (No gears like amped sets, cd weapons, just like safeguard, extenders and misc items.) Due the server rate they will be mostly very expensive! Example 1 sehh would cost approx 100 euro. This will able to let me work as a job on the server. Also i could pay mShield and some protection ways + if developers wanted.
PM me if you wanna help me in any ways.