this is your boi PlainLazy and... and due to bit more of a free time I've gotten after ACO's shut down, I've decided to bring back some serious conversations back to elitepvpers co section... But not only that...
In this thread, I'll review private servers, tq co patches/updates, bots, hacks, glitches and finally whatever interesting is happening on the epvpers. Obviously, I'll review only whatever is somehow connected to Conquer itself.
You'd ask - why da fuck you want to do something like that?
Well, there r plently of reasons.. One of them is that I've got some free time to spend, another is that I've always thought that this kind of thread would bring something fresh and possibly cool to epvpers, and yet another is that I need some english lessons fosho. Let's say this is my practice =] (Feel free to highlight my grammar mistakes in posts below)
Oh, alsooo, I'm not trying to start a flame war nor offend anybody.. Anything posted in this thread is only my objective rating. Agree or disagree with it. Also PLEASE COMMENT below, I want this thread to involve into source of informations about what's new, interesting or less interesting in "conquer world" and whatnot but also into serious discussion's thread.
For now, I'll review one private server and at least 1 information regardin conquer or epvpers. If you want me to review your server, feel free to post a link below or PM me.
Aight, enough of an intro.. let's revieeeeeeew =d
02.04.2010
Pwnquer
1. Intro:
First, when I've read about that server in advertisment section I was like... ewww, another coming back server, another so called "legendary server", another... trash server. That day, I didin't even feel like checkin their site or so, it seem'd like another over-advertised ps with dreams to be something big.
However, along with the time, yet before ACO shut-down, I was askin it's members what are they going to do after it goes down, where will they go, will they move to some private server? Suprisingly for me, many people has called Trinity-Gaming up.
2. First feelings:
First of, I've got on their website and.... another, nice in this case, surprise! It's site look'd good, clean, lil bit of shiny which I liked (=D) and besides bottom part, pretty proffesional =o Checked all the hyper-links, navigation bars etc. Everything was workin' well BUT, can't be that pretty either, right? =D [Huge plus for website's design]
Thing that was definitely a minus for me was voting pop-up... I know myself that those pops-out help a lot and whatnot but... having them on EVERY single page is just another downfall... And even tho it was poppin-out at each page, I didin't feel like voting more or so.. Actually, it came up pretty irritating in the end... [Unluckily, a minus on this one]
Besides that, server status wasn't showing players count even tho, I'm pretty sure it was supposed to. [Tiny minus for this one]
3. Server itself:
It's time to log in and rape some newbs, right? =D Yup, I've got to the stage of downloading a client and what? Another nice surprise, hooray! Client was downloadable from 6 different mirrors! [Definitely, a huge plus]
Downloaded, registered an account, finally logged in. Server was empty but I'm not rating for it 'cause I believe that server is pretty new. [Neutral]
I've chosen taoist and got to kill some bad-ass peacocks or so and... Surprise, yea, yet another one =p What was the surprise? Well, as a taoist... I couldn't hit pheasants with a thunder o.O I was like.. maybe I don't have enough mp but I've bought a pot and still couldn't use it... Then I thought that I might need a backsword to cast it... Nope, wasn't that either. Finally, I've leveled to ~7 level and gone bit down and... I could hit turtledoves with thunder!
No shit but I seriously don't know what to think about it o.O And for about an hour I didin't get to find out what's going on so..[Lil minus for confusing me, lol]
Leveling rates... Well, I certainly didin't feel like it was 2x rates since half of my taoist leveling was beatin em peacocks/pheasants/whatever with bs x.x Hoooowever I've seen other classes leveling pretty well so I'll stay neutral on this one [Neutral]
Drops rates... It was certainly better, during like an hour of me leveling, I've looted like 3 supers, 2 elites, few uniques and lots of refs. I dunno about others but I like fair rates and this one seem'd absolutely OK. [Plus for this one]
In-game features... Too bad as low-level'd char I couldn't taste probably most and those best features there are but... I've seen some cool things yet.
First of, few NPCs rewarding cps for some drops. I liked this one 'cause its pretty nice and not painful way to get at least a lil bit rich. However, this one wasn't that perfect either. First of, I saw an NPC on the market offering 1 Cp for each PKTicket, I was like.. Sure, give me my cps! Then, I've got to TC and noticed another NPC gatherin PKTickets for... 6 cps each. Felt lil scammed lol.. Not much of a minus but having them 2 NPCs is just confusing and totally unnecessary. [Considering those two things together, still, little plus]
Another cool thing were different NPCs on the market, one of them.. LadyLuck was offering 1000-5000cps for a LuckyJade. I don't know how to get the luckyjade but I always support custom events which requires time but also a lil bit of luck. [Plus]
Another cool thing that I've noticed was "Wacky CP lottery". I believe it was based on a dice game even tho I was too poor to play it, [Plus for custom features!]
Another cool thing I've seen was an NPC to.. increase max durability... Definitely a plus for nice and useful feature. [Plus]
One thing that I've considered as a minus was merged Warehouses? o.O Well, I've put items in TC and could take them from MA's wh.. Little minus for a unnecessary wh's limitation. [Minus]
4. Staff
I didin't get to know em more or so but I've noticed few acts definitely rated as a plus. For a still pretty short period I was on the server, I've seen Ocularis (head admin tho?) offering his help on the service chat. Definitely a plus for supporting new-comers. [Plus]
I was about to rate their act on forums and chat as well, but never got to see them there so... I'm stayin neutral. [Neutral]
5. Bugs
Wellllll, there were bugs but still not as many as I thought there will be.
First of all, the mystery spell casting as a taoist? I dunno if it's bug but it was pretty irritating and totally unnecessary so. No minus here cause I've already gave it one above.
Second of all, some of the mobs were spawning for like... 6 in one spot? I believe it would be pretty painful for raging trojan so.. [Lil minus for this one]
And finally, thing that fucked me up.. Bugged mobs. Yea some of the magic mobs were actually hittin me within ridicuously (or sth like that) high range... How high? Well, Robin was hittin me standin next to TC's pharmacist. Btw, I couldn't run from it, even scrolling didin't help. I had to actually re-log to take off his attention, lol[Huge minus]
6. Summary
Well, I could certainly call it SurpriseCO instead of Pwnquer =D But after all, my feelings about the server just got better and better. And as you can see above, pluses cover'd the minuses =D
7. Rating:
Server: Pwnquer
Site:
Style: Leveling
Rate: 7.2/10
Note: One of the best "classic" servers I've seen in a while. Definitely worth a shot for people lookin for fairly fast leveling and missing the old school conquer.
Another downfall...
Yeasterday, I've read this thread -
and I've seriously lost rest of respect I had to that company. Tbh, I've never hated TQ. They were company like any other... Seling db's for rl money? 70+ percent of mmo's sell advantages. Lottery? It's just a boost for the db purchase but after all it's giving kinda fair chances to get wealth for everybody (Yea, i havent won shit from it but i know guy which spent loot'd db into lottery and won the biggest money pack =x). After all, all of there acts were supposed to get bulkers and them wealth but I believe they have never discrimanated the casuals. I mean, you surely had to work x times harder for same gears but.. I know people playing for years and their gears equald bulkers' gears.
But seriously... changin promotion's reward? I mite just imagine their meeting
Boss: Damn... we're going down cause of those damn botters.
Employee1: Damn them...
Employee2: Yea...
Employee3: *cries*
Employee4: Well, let's change promotion's rewards! It'll stop them a little for sure!
Employee2: But.. what with the people that were water-farming for years?
Boss: Ahhh... We still got bulkers, don't we?
Everyone: Yea!!
Boss: Alright, BULKERS!! on 3
Boss: 1..
Boss: 2..
Boss: 3..
Everyone: BULKERS!!
Lololol, nah, I'm just trollin but seriously... what were they thinkin? Imho it's just a show of their weakness. They can't handle with upcoming bots and botters so just decided to screw up everybody? As well with their loyal casual customers which were possibly near the bulkers by fair water-farming for years?
Bleh.. And what's your opinion on this one? Is TQ ever gonna turn back and create some worthy games for casuals?
Botters' wars..
Some time ago, I saw this thread -
and I've stopped for a while on it e and started to wonder... why do epvpers react quickly while there r some private servers ARGUMENTS and they just let it be while some of their member is.. well... stealing their other member's hard work and leakin it for free..And what's your opinion on this one, guys? Should epvpers allow threads and releases like the one above? Discuss.
Like seriously... Wat da fuck were they thinkin and how do they imagine playin that kinda sub-class...
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