I think it's impossible for us to start another server with tons of changes.
In my opinion, the problem is and will ever be, and that comes with every game - there is only one "first-time" when you played a game.
Especially for silkroad-players like us - we are here to consume this "first-time-experience" again and again.
We all had the issue to achieve anyting in a specific place. If it was alchemy, or just trying to kill the best unique. And we spent tons of hours to get something done, while we also had the time to do so. Nowadays, we all have jobs, or at least the most of us and we also dont have the time to play the game for like 8-10 hours a day and even if we could have that time, we wouldnt do it, when there is a girlfriend or a wifey and some of us even have kids already.
Paying for something special is better, than spending 8 to 10 hours a day, where we all make more money if we just go for some real-life-work and pay the time-difference...
And that is all for that "first-time-experience", we will never hit again. Nowadays it's more likely to get some silks for 20$ and get your sox weapon. And if you want to get it even earlier, you can pay 50$ or 100$ to get the sox weapon.
If you want to create a server, which already exists, you need to add the new community, which has the time to invest it - and that's just impossible.
Unless you would not create a revolutionary feature, it's all about the same.
Invest some money to get what you want.
We all have the money to get what we want in some way. Some of us can invest more, some can do less...
I have like cried for days when I had my first +7 weapon at isro, and even premium and devil was something special. I can remember that even top-players with a decent gear were struggling to get Lvl 90 and also had issues, when they couldnt buy a new premium for theirselves.
All of the more special ingame-content was very unique.
Today you would not even think about a start without premium, 2 to 3 dresses, devil and even visuals, which are just braindead.
While we invest like 50$ to start at any new server, we had 50$ into our whole sro carreer, before the private-sro-scene started...
Theres always just one time for the "first-experience" and we had them - and we failed through the years to get it back again.
In my opinion. There is no chance to get anything back again.
But hey.. My last hope would be, that there is something, which is like isro.
100% isro rates, with a good damn community. Server cap of 3500 for the extra nostalgic feel.
100% isro, 100% bot-time. Yeah there is no sense if you need 30 Days to get max level, but sro was never ment to do so. And tbh, i personally like to see my bot. It's some kind of happiness to watch it
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Start again at level 60 or 70. and then raise the cap if we are at max level.
I think you can add a better drop rate for sox stuff... But nothing to crazy... Back in the old times we had like 4-5 players with some super-special gear. It was freaking rare.
And thats a point, where you could add more players to get it.. like 30 or 40 with some special gear.
But dont make it sellable. It should be absolutely amazing and rare to have such a beauty into your account.
That should be the base. And we can build the last parts, if we can achieve to have a good community, which invests some time, when they can.
Cheers
