[MUST READ] Lets get together and REVIVE SRO.

[Skelior]

Originally Posted by A new hope

There is no hope.
The community is totally ****** up.

We should build a time machine and go back in time. That's the only solution.

I aggree with that. Long ago when ECSRO started the community was the best. Now it´s only bout who makes more edits and who fails the most...Silkroad isn´t silkroad anymore. I wish I could go back too. There´s hope, they´re trying to make a time machine through black holes. Perhaps it works ... Then we can play ECSRO, LOL!!

[julioxdcesar]

Originally Posted by AbThree

“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.


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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

Old silkroad is never coming back again, I played in many servers that tried that, nowadays ppl know everything in the game. the bot becomes our daily bread. Even the Isro took his own path.

[martynas123boxter]

Such server you guys are talkin about would fail, and it is guaranteed, first thing is that this community is totaly ****** up and it may not be compared to one i saw 2007-08, second thing is that as soon as this project would reach atleast 400-500 users(players) some dickwaffles would start ddosing and exploiting **** out of it, another reason why would it fail, lack of player interest, if you're going to make one with small rates and no bot, it would be even worse, we have plenty examples, Venture(now closed) that was awesome server, community has destroyed it.
So basicly what im trying to tell you, stop wasting your money, your time, and let silkroad die.

[brewkrew]

There's only one way to start. Contact the managers of all the private servers you find under the private server thread. Get them to talk it out in a private chat room. Won't solve all your problems, may not solve any, just trying to help with ideas. They can start off with the basics, like a joint client with multiple servers for different weapons caps... worth a try

[Nezekan]

Originally Posted by brewkrew

There's only one way to start. Contact the managers of all the private servers you find under the private server thread. Get them to talk it out in a private chat room. Won't solve all your problems, may not solve any, just trying to help with ideas. They can start off with the basics, like a joint client with multiple servers for different weapons caps... worth a try

Shame 80% of those 'managers' are clinically retarded and the other 20% would never ever want to work together with people that have 3 copies of the 21st chromosone

[phreeak]

sro community is ****** up, so the pserver scene. its nearly impossible to make an decent pserver which runs more than 3 month. Either the greedy admin destroy the server, the corrupted GMs, the players or ppl who ddosing this **** out of the server. Or everything at once...

[bxxb]

Originally Posted by phreeak

sro community is ****** up, so the pserver scene. its nearly impossible to make an decent pserver which runs more than 3 month. Either the greedy admin destroy the server, the corrupted GMs, the players or ppl who ddosing this **** out of the server. Or everything at once...

Its a nice adventure

When you're really hight you don't give a **** about sro you enjoy the aftermath

[Ahmos2009]

Why do you play SRO ?
I play SRO for fun.
Do you have fun ?
No , I don't.
So , why you play ? Do play on old memories?
..I think I do.
Do you want my advice ?
No , but say it any way .
Get A new game and you will have a new fun with your friends.

[Pur3slayer]

Don't think about Sro.. it's dead... just dead... and the resaon is not Joymax with UpDates


JUST THE ******* BOTS//SBOT//AND ALL OTHER ******* BOTSKilled Silkroad

[AbThree]

Omfg.. I'll shoot myself. This thread inspired a wave of wanna-be "old-school" servers with 8d cap and so many features..

***, some people..

[timosdoss]

Some years ago when a pserver was opening all the players were joining without making any question or complaining about something they don't like. Nowdays everyone find something to complain about, psro players have many choises with all this private servers open. Releasing all this files and tutorials was a really bad move, almost everyone is able to make a pserver now psro has lost its quality, sorry but its too late.

[Dizzy1353]

It's too late to propose such a thing, because most of the players are magrebian.
and most of the server owners are magrebian too...

Those ones wont be interested in playing on that server which would consist 60% of players on your idea server.

Also most players would be interested in playing a server with high rates than low rates because of time spend to make full stuff, full lvl, full all...

Only the Old school players would play on a server like this one because they have the will to play, but there is not more than 250 players like those ones.

Anyways, its a good idea, but it came a lot too late.

cheers, Good Luck and Have fun

[sinxtra]

Even the guys which are not so retarded can't work together, has been proven alot of times.
Ludoworks
PrimeSRO
Skalidor
Unnamed Server 1
Unnamed Server 2
Both servers didn't even get past discussion.

It's a dead end, there is no way you can revive the SRO scene with all those retards and wannabe hackers.
It's a joke, better find a new game

[Callum]

Originally Posted by sinxtra

Even the guys which are not so retarded can't work together, has been proven alot of times.
Ludoworks
PrimeSRO
Skalidor
Unnamed Server 1
Unnamed Server 2
Both servers didn't even get past discussion.

It's a dead end, there is no way you can revive the SRO scene with all those retards and wannabe hackers.
It's a joke, better find a new game

With 50% of the servers problem being the servers 'pro team' the other 50% is the stupid ******* community which comes along with it

[theross]

My hopes really got into skalidor, even willing to join the team to help them out.

But my feelings are that the sro scene is over.
As the one above me said: 50% of the problems come from the community.
blacklisting, dossing, ddossing, finding magic packets to crash the servers all this greediness will simply not allow to revive the scene.

Furthermore, as soon as someone opens a badass server, where tons of players play, it takes a few eye-blinks until some other **** open the same type of server.
The community then says: "fulfill our wishes, or we will leave the server". Mostly spoiled kids. And then you have the 50%-community-split.. again and again and again. You'll have 5 active players each server again, like it is now.


War is over kids, your teddy died. Go home and seek something else to play.