When does a server fail?

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Originally Posted by .Summer This is not supposed to be some discuss. Just a fact and clean up to everybody that thinks their server is good, but fail. First i want to talk about donation. Donation is always failing as long it give overpower like alot more levels, then non donaters. Or new items for only donaters, wich is extremely stronger. What fun is there in that a donater can fuck a nondonater in 1hit, but nondonater can't even hit on the donater? Nothing. Well Donations should be fairly spread, so they might get the better things etc., but should fairly also be possible for non donaters. All should have a chance to get on top. If you have a problem with this type of game play, don't play on the servers that offer an unfair balance then Next thing is the nobility where they donate 999999999. Thats just sucky, cuz what about new players? They got no chance or what? When is on 500000000000?. Thats just redicioulous. It should be hard to gain nobility. Not just those who can click 999999999 and OK most times. Again, choose another server maybe? Now we are around donations and nobility, lets go to something other, called respect and staff. A Server should not choose staff after first day. Just because some random unknown peoples say "Hey can i be gm, if not i leave" or "Hey can i be gm or pm. I am really helpful". No ur not helpful, you just ask here, cuz no other places want u. Everyone has to start from somewhere, as you keep mentioning the "new players" don't get a chance with Nobility/Donations above...So why not try and become a staff member of a server? If you really were helpful you wouldn't ask for gm or pm. So many servers have bad staff because they do that, they should wait 1month to see whos doing a good job in helping, without asking for it. Then sign them up. Servers usually don't last a month. Remember you dont have to hurry up, you got the whole life. Because everyone wants to play a 2D game from 2003 their whole life. Next thing is features and there is really alot wich makes the server fail. What is the point of a million reborns? when there is no difference on them? If you really should add mroe reborns, they should be fairly different and have different quests etc. Because the market caters to what the players want...duuuurrrr Level 255 gear? HAHAHA, serious thats just wierd. Why should peoples have this gear, why not just original gear, instead making the server unbalanced. Cuz the level gear higher then 130, isn't at normal stats anyway. Because people want a challenge and change compared to the same thing every day Remember the gear gets a choosed % everytime change level. Oh now I know why? Cuz you only have pserver to get money from donators. True, you can get money, but they should go all straight to server, to make bigger host etc. The whole point of making a revenue stream is not to cut even with the project but rather make a profit off of it (making more than the costs). Hamachi servers with donation should never exist. As much as using Hamachi shows signs of weakness, it allows a greater number of people to use and experiment with servers/sources. Now what about the site? I got one question. Do you see any mmorpg sites with no gameguide or forum? I haven't seen. All sites should have a forum and a game guide with all informations about server features. Haven't you noticed? A Private Serer is a server that is private of the official MMORPG game...so if you want a game guide, go the official site. It dosn't matter how much you write, but that you actually wrote some. That does just show you care about your members. Having a game guide doesn't prove shit. You could type up a guide just to attract more people to profit off of them, not care about them. Thats all i want for now. Feel free to come with ur comment about this and what you think makes the server fail or what they could do better. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by LetterX How about, you stop bitching about others success, you become competent yourself, stop using such a shitty source (the LOTF 5165) and make a server you think is better than all the rest, and then let the players decide if what you think is true. And to answer your topic question, a server fails when the person running it is incompetent.

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Originally Posted by kinshi88 Giving awesome gifts for donating is bullshit. The whole point of a private server is to get away from giving money to people(TQ) money for shit. If you see a shit server with a shit website giving amazing prizes if you give them money, leave. The server will be done in a week or 2 anyway. It's not worth it.

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Originally Posted by pro4never This should be all common sense... no.. LESS than that :S Being said, there are two ways a server 'fails' 1: when the owner loses track of their purpose (they fail themselves) 2: when the server loses track of their target audiece (they fail the players) It's simply the ways in which these failures occur that changes.

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Originally Posted by copz1337 A server fails when bad GMs take action and ignorant players join. And .Summer, IP banning a whole country isn't a fail, especially Egypt.