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DemonMonger
02-02-2012, 05:56 AM
Im thankful that I can log on this game and not find my character deleted

I am thankful that every weapon and gem purchased with xim did not get removed because the devs didn't like it anymore.
(this just happened in a game what I was playing for 8 months - $1800.00 to build the perfect weapon and because users cried about the weapon, the AP-GM-Developers are going to remove the weapon from the game!)

Thank god for regnum online a game that has not deleted weapons/items/gems we paid for. :clapclap:

I think I will bring all my people from the other game over here....

No matter what changes were made here in regnum.. the game was still playable and fun.

(they just tried to download the game but cannot enter horus - they live in the united states NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo what happened)

Psynocide
02-02-2012, 06:14 AM
Regional barriers happened.

VeterKh
02-02-2012, 07:24 AM
(this just happened in a game what I was playing for 8 months - $1800.00 to build the perfect weapon and because users cried about the weapon, the AP-GM-Developers are going to remove the weapon from the game!)

(they just tried to download the game but cannot enter horus - they live in the united states NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo what happened)

not bad money that would make your penis bigger... but someone have bigger ...
NOOOOOOoooooooo what happened :rale:

Dupa_z_Zasady
02-02-2012, 07:43 AM
I am thankful that every weapon and gem purchased with xim did not get removed because the devs didn't like it anymore.
(this just happened in a game what I was playing for 8 months - $1800.00 to build the perfect weapon and because users cried about the weapon, the AP-GM-Developers are going to remove the weapon from the game!)


Damn! I finnaly know how to measure skill! Your skill is 1800$!

GreenAngel
02-02-2012, 08:05 AM
Hehe Raven has the best community I've seen, lots of GM's. Nice activities as well. If Ngd would do such things they would be the best :D. Though they won't...

GreenAngel
02-02-2012, 08:41 AM
Will never happen

Psynocide
02-02-2012, 09:08 AM
I'd rather say never.

Perhaps some may enjoy using GM's as agony aunts but personally I'd rather a GM appearance be a rare thing. I also think the GM's have better things to do than ensure every little aspect of the individual players experience is perfect.

Just in general, an actively involved approach is patronizing.. Raven can keep it.

Truewar
02-02-2012, 10:31 AM
I don't understand NGD's politics. On their side I would do

1. host 100% international servers without language\country restrictions
2. allow transfer option as а paid service between all servers
3. allow free transfers from overloaded servers to underpopulated ones
4. after all hosted servers goes overloaded publish new server

It is very simple. So I think NGD has some reasons to keep their rules. Maybe commercial ones.

_Enio_
02-02-2012, 12:07 PM
I am thankful that every weapon and gem purchased with xim did not get removed because the devs didn't like it anymore.
(this just happened in a game what I was playing for 8 months - $1800.00 to build the perfect weapon and because users cried about the weapon, the AP-GM-Developers are going to remove the weapon from the game!)

Thank god for regnum online a game that has not deleted weapons/items/gems we paid for. :clapclap:


You realize that raising levelcaps making your top notch gear obsolete comes quite close to what you discribe?

71175
02-02-2012, 12:19 PM
You realize that raising levelcaps making your top notch gear obsolete comes quite close to what you discribe?

Ehm. It's close. For warriors. Mages with top gear have it top unless somebody gets better. Archers with OP epic bows can challenge the ones higher lvl.

SilverHaven
02-02-2012, 01:35 PM
Hehe Raven has the best community I've seen, lots of GM's. Nice activities as well. If Ngd would do such things they would be the best :D. Though they won't...

Raven nice activities? Perhaps you mean another Raven. It's population is no better than when it started. It has been a year or so and it's still empty server most of the day, considering lucky day if we get 2hrs of "war" a day, which is mostly beacon spam 20 syrtis vs 8 ignis/alsius anyway (oh yeah, lately syrtis is just beaconed zerg vs everyone). If you compare with piranha .. that one got much better population is shorter time.
Both Raven and Horus are dead servers for me. True I still play on both, but it's mostly like ... I check map, if no forts taken, AFK a while till I get booted for not moving, try another server. Dead too? Watch some po...movies for a while and try in few hrs again. Login in the middle of enemy zerg next time, die, see that no one is on for having war, log off. Enemy zerg gets bored, and log off. 2 players go take empty fort. Every day Raven fun.

Eyfura
02-02-2012, 02:12 PM
Im thankful about linux client. Regnum is also *free* to play.
About raven, Im happy horus is not like it. I heard people get banned there for very small and stupid reasons. Horus is nice, I dont feel like my every word is moderated... And lots of wars usually during evening

71175
02-02-2012, 02:13 PM
Raven nice activities? Perhaps you mean another Raven. It's population is no better than when it started. It has been a year or so and it's still empty server most of the day, considering lucky day if we get 2hrs of "war" a day, which is mostly beacon spam 20 syrtis vs 8 ignis/alsius anyway (oh yeah, lately syrtis is just beaconed zerg vs everyone). If you compare with piranha .. that one got much better population is shorter time.
Both Raven and Horus are dead servers for me. True I still play on both, but it's mostly like ... I check map, if no forts taken, AFK a while till I get booted for not moving, try another server. Dead too? Watch some po...movies for a while and try in few hrs again. Login in the middle of enemy zerg next time, die, see that no one is on for having war, log off. Enemy zerg gets bored, and log off. 2 players go take empty fort. Every day Raven fun.

You forgot Alsius Night Crew Of The Raven xD .

_Seinvan
02-02-2012, 02:18 PM
Raven nice activities? Perhaps you mean another Raven. It's population is no better than when it started.

*EU player complaining about North American sever population*
Try logging in ~6PM EST-11PM EST, plenty of action for me anyway. :p

I'm all for a server merge, but it has to be done the right way. I don't much care for Raven's GM team either, but they're pretty helpful a lot of the time. They keep the inner realm chat going and hold events that let new players boost through the early levels, and have recently begun EXP boost events for lower levels only. Props to them for at least attempting to keep new players around with community interaction ^^

_Enio_
02-02-2012, 02:23 PM
Archers with OP epic bows can challenge the ones higher lvl.

Well mine didnt, same with armors. For me evrything beside the OP jewelry got devalued completely for lvl60. mages the armors should also be useless, spellcastin mage's weapons not since the flaw of only cs having value.

Its a bad excuse that it can still be used, the stuff is now uttelry worthless. Core game starts with lvl60.

tarashunter
02-02-2012, 02:46 PM
*EU player complaining about North American sever population*
Try logging in ~6PM EST-11PM EST, plenty of action for me anyway. :p

I'm all for a server merge, but it has to be done the right way. I don't much care for Raven's GM team either, but they're pretty helpful a lot of the time. They keep the inner realm chat going and hold events that let new players boost through the early levels, and have recently begun EXP boost events for lower levels only. Props to them for at least attempting to keep new players around with community interaction ^^

+1 ,i also noticed Frosk online on Ra.
Well he helps a lot inner realm....helps newby understand the game + to do the quest + he speaks with players in inner.
Ra feels less empty,and see a GM online that often,helps to feel the intrest of the company in his own game.

Well mine didnt, same with armors. For me evrything beside the OP jewelry got devalued completely for lvl60. mages the armors should also be useless, spellcastin mage's weapons not since the flaw of only cs having value.

Its a bad excuse that it can still be used, the stuff is now uttelry worthless. Core game starts with lvl60.

About stuff....well,as every game OP gears are still OP.
Boss jewerly,is still OP,a player with boss jewerly,is god in game,it's enough log on horus,and see how some player hit hard with a simply boss amulet.
There are no chance of drop jewerly from common mobs,(would be nice add some random kind of jewerly dropable,some necklace,rings,etc),to allow all have a similar stuff.
Also,the OPness of this items,make an underwood commerce,with real moneys,that allow the reachest player to have this kind of boss drop.
A nice feature would be to make this boss rings,amu etc,not tradable.Be sure you will not see anymore only conjus and knight at boss kill,and it would stop the reachest one,to buy all the best gear in game.And i think it would gives more money to ngd too...who is reach will spend his money for more lucky box.
Also,a nerf of bosses ammy and rings would be not bad.
Is stupid have a marksman,that is able to hit 500+ with autoattack,or an hunter,that is able to hit like a marksman only because they wear a boss amulet.
With my stuff + a borrowed dragon amulet to do some test(on my hunter),i'm able to hit for 350 dmg on every class,and 420+ on mages...while another hunter without amulet,hit....70/80...if is lucky.

Edit:i forgot,i use a magna bow,that is lvl 45,and is most powerfull of anyother bow in game.Would be nice let magna items have the same stats and increase the required level,or nerf them and leave them lvl 45,like what as been done with boss weapons.
How is possible that a lvl 45 weapon does more dmg than a lvl 60 epic one?

Warthog
02-02-2012, 03:15 PM
(they just tried to download the game but cannot enter horus - they live in the united states NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo what happened)


This is something I don't understand while still is as it is. If I remember correctly from my brief following of realms online. At some point after there opening they either cut a deal with NGD (Or NGD doesn't check on anything whatsoever) to where they were to allow people from other regions, not just North America play on that server. Which was not the intended function of it. That's all fine and dandy, except if they remove the restriction there Why do they keep it on Horus to where new North Americans are always sent straight to Realms online.

It just shows how no matter what they say NGD really does not care much for Horus. Those of us from North America can not tranfer to the server they send any new friends we wish to bring to game. An some like me, who a long time after lvl cap raise an stuff are still no where near 60 let alone WM. An have no wish or need to kill that many things to get there have zero reason to invite friends to game. If I won't get a lvl 54 to 60 I have had for years what makes you think I would want to grind out a whole new toon or set of toons? I know kinda off topic, sorry.

While it may be a pain in the ass, there are prolly ways to work around the being sent to Raven thing. Though that would prolly be against ToS and could get you or them in trouble.

Shwish
02-02-2012, 04:07 PM
I'd rather say never.

Perhaps some may enjoy using GM's as agony aunts but personally I'd rather a GM appearance be a rare thing. I also think the GM's have better things to do than ensure every little aspect of the individual players experience is perfect.

Just in general, an actively involved approach is patronizing.. Raven can keep it.

The difference is that GameSamba does not develop the game at all hence they have the manpower to assign a GM online at all times. NGD and GS could form a partnership (as they have done on the Raven Server) where GS takes control of running the server while NGD focuses fully on the development of the game. In your logic isn't that better?

There has been talk about this on the GameSamba side. We'll see in the future if its taken any further.

PT_DaAr_PT
02-02-2012, 04:26 PM
The difference is that GameSamba does not develop the game at all hence they have the manpower to assign a GM online at all times. NGD and GS could form a partnership (as they have done on the Raven Server) where GS takes control of running the server while NGD focuses fully on the development of the game. In your logic isn't that better?

There has been talk about this on the GameSamba side. We'll see in the future if its taken any further.

I has question: Have you played on Raven yet or have you not realized how much of an awful idea that is?

Psynocide
02-02-2012, 05:20 PM
...

By my logic, I'd rather not.

I enjoy the freedom of not feeling a GM breathing down my neck, benevolent intentions or not - I'm a grumpy bastard and would rather not suffer surveys and moderation, in other words, I'd rather they piss off :viking:

If an issue needs addressing, this is what the forum's for.

Shwish
02-02-2012, 05:41 PM
I has question: Have you played on Raven yet or have you not realized how much of an awful idea that is?

I do play on Raven and personally do not want the two servers to merge nor do I see a need for it.

_Enio_
02-02-2012, 05:53 PM
I do play on Raven and personally do not want the two servers to merge nor do I see a need for it.

Population wise it wouldnt hurt to merge, im quite sceptical about the moderation though. Also they already do events i cant vote positive, i.e. a competition with bossrings as prizes (srsly.) but requiring you to hand out your rl pics/info to just even attend to the event.

PT_DaAr_PT
02-02-2012, 06:04 PM
By my logic, I'd rather not.

I enjoy the freedom of not feeling a GM breathing down my neck, benevolent intentions or not - I'm a grumpy bastard and would rather not suffer surveys and moderation, in other words, I'd rather they piss off :viking:

If an issue needs addressing, this is what the forum's for.

Not only that but under NGD's full control of the servers you're genuinely playing Regnum Online, the developer's vision of the game is intact and the players have total freedom to do the best they can do with what the game offers. On the other servers, the partners have adapted the game more to their own policies, the code might be the same but the experience is slightly changed in some way.
In Raven's case, the game hasn't just got 5 different rules, the name change was actually a good idea to separate from Regnum Online's reputation.... You have to play it for yourself to see what I mean about this, though.

And for this reason, I am thankful for Regnum Online. :D

I do play on Raven and personally do not want the two servers to merge nor do I see a need for it.

Do you still think it would be a good idea?

Here's a little observation I made:
Realms Online
Server Raven - 9 months old - Has got a boost of players from Horus, Ra, Nemon, Niflheim and Muspell
What I get to see most of the time: http://i.imgur.com/GGZUc.png

Regnum Online
Server Piranha - 6 months old - Has got a boost of Brazilian players from Ra and Horus
What is happening most of the time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5RywVF0sj4


Sure, I may not be covering everything, but you can see there's obviously something not working well in Realms Online.

All hail Regnum Online!

71175
02-02-2012, 06:06 PM
Population wise it wouldnt hurt to merge, im quite sceptical about the moderation though. Also they already do events i cant vote positive, i.e. a competition with bossrings as prizes (srsly.) but requiring you to hand out your rl pics/info to just even attend to the event.

Just have read about that event. I hope they won't give power smite or ignean fury ring at least :rale: .

esp_tupac
02-02-2012, 07:47 PM
Don't be so sure, as the saying goes - never say never.

justin bieber ftw >,<

Klutu
02-02-2012, 10:12 PM
I really don't wanna see Raven merge with Horus and have GM's Moderators up my ass 24/7

Tedious little events that involve finding one of the GM's in the inner just takes away from the actual warzone..

Anytime Ive logged into Raven it's just a grinding & social server in my eyes

Unk0
02-02-2012, 11:31 PM
despite the bug & imbalance we still play and enjoy the game ^^

@Daar whoo it's still playable with this small screen?

isgandarli
02-03-2012, 12:17 AM
Merging Raven with Horus could be only in dreams. Just a little tech hint:

How they will merge two servers, when the databases are different, so what will be with the players with the same names? :)

tarashunter
02-03-2012, 12:53 AM
Agree,cannot merge.
I don't see the problem with the presence of developers in game...it would be nice in my eyes.
I never played Raven,i don't know what developers there do.
But i see GM on RA..he done nothing special...just help the comunity,nothing more.
I would invite you all to log in horus...you all have a char here...in the last 3 days,horus=zombie apocalipse....just mobs,10 syrtis,10 ignis,2 alsius.
We are currelnly playing in 22 in the whole server :D

SilverHaven
02-03-2012, 01:42 AM
Merging Raven with Horus could be only in dreams. Just a little tech hint:

How they will merge two servers, when the databases are different, so what will be with the players with the same names? :)

Problem with names could be solved in a same way as names from tyr. they got added (tyr) to their names, at least that's what i think since i met few players with those names. Worse would be that some players (like me) have alts in different realms on Raven and Horus, and for multi realming, GameSamba gives away bans, or thats what I heard happened to one ignis warju who started to play in syrtis (won't name him).

Personaly, I wouldn't mind the merge as long as there is no GameSamba GMs and boosts or non-sence events 24/7. I would be even more happy if Raven just died and we got alts transfered to Horus, it would help Horus a bit and timezone issues exist either way, so no problem in that.

learntoplay
02-03-2012, 03:15 AM
I heard happened to one ignis warju who started to play in syrtis (won't name him).


Biwie. Trololol.

Justin Bieber can just fuck off.

On topic: I liked the little to no interference from the devs and gms on Ra and Horus, I played a few hours on raven and that was enough. I agree with this, wholeheartedly in fact :clapping5365:

Don't bloody merge.

You just "on topiced' to an off topic discussion lol.

Shwish
02-03-2012, 05:13 AM
On topic: I liked the little to no interference from the devs and gms on Ra and Horus, I played a few hours on raven and that was enough. I agree with this, wholeheartedly in fact :clapping5365:


The GM's donnot interfere with your gameplay. They offer fun alternatives to the usual grind all day routine but you're welcome to ignore them. They wont stop you from doing what you want to do and I rarely see banhammers going out in game. They also help new players out in an otherwise quiet realm chat.

Angel_de_Combate
02-03-2012, 09:04 AM
The GM's donnot interfere with your gameplay. They offer fun alternatives to the usual grind all day routine but you're welcome to ignore them. They wont stop you from doing what you want to do and I rarely see banhammers going out in game. They also help new players out in an otherwise quiet realm chat.

Spamming my chat boxes with stupid competitons and boost events interferes with my game play. I don't like things to be too easy. :D

Angel_de_Combate
02-03-2012, 10:27 AM
You just "on topiced' to an off topic discussion lol.

Stop being pendantic. :p I on topicted(*sounds better than topiced) the off topic discussion. :D

On the actual topic: Things to be thankful for..hmm teh sexy ponies..

DkySven
02-03-2012, 10:53 AM
Tyr was merged with Horus, because it had most of the time 15 users online and maybe 40 on peak times in weekends and the Dutch company supposedly managing it didn't do a thing, they didn't even try to make it seem like they cared. As long as the same doesn't happen on Raven, I don't see a merge happening.

You realize that raising levelcaps making your top notch gear obsolete comes quite close to what you discribe?

I didn't actually mind too much about gear devaluating. I liked the game better when we only had xymerald items as special items, which meant some extra damage and hit chance. It looked like the game was more about player skill back then.

Angel_de_Combate
02-03-2012, 11:02 AM
On actual topic: Things to be thankful for: That Dky was an awesome Gm on Horus. :D

remedy
02-03-2012, 11:57 AM
Continuing the Raven bashing.,

I happen to try Raven on a particular realm some days ago out of curiosity, needless to say, the experience left me bitter.

The following are my personal opinions.

1) I found the GMs there to be very immature, trying to even draw a comparison to Frosk is an insult to him.

2) I lol'ed at some of self proclaimed best players on Raven who utterly sucked when they were on Horus. Same goes for some other non-Horus players who have the level, but lack the brains to know their class.

3) The community on Raven sucks, if you don't happen to be in one of the popular clans, they never talk to you, respond to you in any matters at all.

4) The wars, lol, what can I say about wars on Raven., on a particular day, say 20 people of the opposing realm are sitting your fort, 5 allies would be fighting and dying to them, the rest would be in inner (or even at save altar) going like this.,

player1: Hi player2 <3
player2: player1 <3
player1: I <3 moree
player2: I don't
player1: :(
player1: </3
player3: I luff ya more player1 <333
...

Just made me sick to the stomach.

5) So you got a brand new level 60 on your first char., what to do next? Hell ya, let's grind another 60, like a boss.

In conclusion, I'm thankful that Raven happened and all those type of characters left ship and Horus got filtered. Sure Horus has it's ups and downs, but still it's primarily a war based server even with all the oddballs in it. I hope those people never return Horus and there never is a merge of any kind at all.

Horus forever! Or in their fashion, I luff ya Horus <333.

Klutu
02-03-2012, 05:09 PM
Continuing the Raven bashing.,

I happen to try Raven on a particular realm some days ago out of curiosity, needless to say, the experience left me bitter.

The following are my personal opinions.

1) I found the GMs there to be very immature, trying to even draw a comparison to Frosk is an insult to him.

2) I lol'ed at some of self proclaimed best players on Raven who utterly sucked when they were on Horus. Same goes for some other non-Horus players who have the level, but lack the brains to know their class.

3) The community on Raven sucks, if you don't happen to be in one of the popular clans, they never talk to you, respond to you in any matters at all.

4) The wars, lol, what can I say about wars on Raven., on a particular day, say 20 people of the opposing realm are sitting your fort, 5 allies would be fighting and dying to them, the rest would be in inner (or even at save altar) going like this.,

player1: Hi player2 <3
player2: player1 <3
player1: I <3 moree
player2: I don't
player1: :(
player1: </3
player3: I luff ya more player1 <333
...

Just made me sick to the stomach.

5) So you got a brand new level 60 on your first char., what to do next? Hell ya, let's grind another 60, like a boss.

In conclusion, I'm thankful that Raven happened and all those type of characters left ship and Horus got filtered. Sure Horus has it's ups and downs, but still it's primarily a war based server even with all the oddballs in it. I hope those people never return Horus and there never is a merge of any kind at all.

Horus forever! Or in their fashion, I luff ya Horus <333.

You literally summed up my entire thoughts on what raven is like for me..

PT_DaAr_PT
02-03-2012, 05:59 PM
Continuing the Raven bashing.,

I happen to try Raven on a particular realm some days ago out of curiosity, needless to say, the experience left me bitter.

The following are my personal opinions.

1) I found the GMs there to be very immature, trying to even draw a comparison to Frosk is an insult to him.

2) I lol'ed at some of self proclaimed best players on Raven who utterly sucked when they were on Horus. Same goes for some other non-Horus players who have the level, but lack the brains to know their class.

3) The community on Raven sucks, if you don't happen to be in one of the popular clans, they never talk to you, respond to you in any matters at all.

4) The wars, lol, what can I say about wars on Raven., on a particular day, say 20 people of the opposing realm are sitting your fort, 5 allies would be fighting and dying to them, the rest would be in inner (or even at save altar) going like this.,

player1: Hi player2 <3
player2: player1 <3
player1: I <3 moree
player2: I don't
player1: :(
player1: </3
player3: I luff ya more player1 <333
...

Just made me sick to the stomach.

5) So you got a brand new level 60 on your first char., what to do next? Hell ya, let's grind another 60, like a boss.

In conclusion, I'm thankful that Raven happened and all those type of characters left ship and Horus got filtered. Sure Horus has it's ups and downs, but still it's primarily a war based server even with all the oddballs in it. I hope those people never return Horus and there never is a merge of any kind at all.

Horus forever! Or in their fashion, I luff ya Horus <333.

I luff this post <333

SilverHaven
02-03-2012, 06:01 PM
...

Signing dis

VandaMan
02-03-2012, 08:17 PM
Meh, I don't really see what's so terrible about having GMs and such. Just don't pay attention to the notices, and don't participate in the events. Other than that it's the same as any other server. XP boosts running all the time doesn't make people not want to war, people being retarded makes people not want to war, and that's on every server.

PT_DaAr_PT
02-03-2012, 09:05 PM
Meh, I don't really see what's so terrible about having GMs and such. Just don't pay attention to the notices, and don't participate in the events. Other than that it's the same as any other server. XP boosts running all the time doesn't make people not want to war, people being retarded makes people not want to war, and that's on every server.


Yeah, for some people it's easier to ignore problems than for others. Raven could have had a better outcome like Piranha if they weren't so obsessed in trying to control every tiny aspect of your gameplay. Not everyone enjoys being told what to do like mindless sheep, those who do are now the ones you have in the war zone. Nice quality filter you have there.
On Piranha they too have special events, XP/drop/gold boosts, but unlike Raven they don't freaking over do it, they can actually be considered valuable. Horus receives a boost and a visit from a GM every Friday, what more can you ask? Players feel blessed and announcements are viewed as holy words. (Frosk be with you)

As I said some time ago, Raven is not for everybody's taste. Too bad for GameSamba that this englobes a lot of potential players.

Kitsuni
02-03-2012, 09:26 PM
Continuing the Raven bashing.,

I happen to try Raven on a particular realm some days ago out of curiosity, needless to say, the experience left me bitter.

The following are my personal opinions.

1) I found the GMs there to be very immature, trying to even draw a comparison to Frosk is an insult to him.

2) I lol'ed at some of self proclaimed best players on Raven who utterly sucked when they were on Horus. Same goes for some other non-Horus players who have the level, but lack the brains to know their class.

3) The community on Raven sucks, if you don't happen to be in one of the popular clans, they never talk to you, respond to you in any matters at all.

4) The wars, lol, what can I say about wars on Raven., on a particular day, say 20 people of the opposing realm are sitting your fort, 5 allies would be fighting and dying to them, the rest would be in inner (or even at save altar) going like this.,

player1: Hi player2 <3
player2: player1 <3
player1: I <3 moree
player2: I don't
player1: :(
player1: </3
player3: I luff ya more player1 <333
...

Just made me sick to the stomach.

5) So you got a brand new level 60 on your first char., what to do next? Hell ya, let's grind another 60, like a boss.

In conclusion, I'm thankful that Raven happened and all those type of characters left ship and Horus got filtered. Sure Horus has it's ups and downs, but still it's primarily a war based server even with all the oddballs in it. I hope those people never return Horus and there never is a merge of any kind at all.

Horus forever! Or in their fashion, I luff ya Horus <333.
This is my honest opinion, everyone is free to disagree with it...

In the beginning, Raven wasn't bad. It was actually the most promising server there ever has been, as it solves most of the issues in Regnum like the steep XP curve (frequent boosts), and having lots of trouble getting started in the game (GMs being around to help).

The problems start there however. The GMs... aren't what they should be. They get way too involved in their job, rather than being neutral like a leader should be. Sometimes I have even seen them get downright personal with players, and many times I have also seem them "help" players by telling them about game mechanics that didn't even exist. The biggest problem here is that the Game Counsellors (GC) knew the game, but the SGMs did not, but the SGMs didn't seem too good about listening to GCs before stating illogical nonsense. Now I may not always be right, but at least I do my homework a bit before I start talking. Half of these people don't even play the game.

Secondly, Raven maintains all of the problems of Horus, including time zone problems, low war turnups and the PvP server mentality, without actually adding anything to it except for the fine points mentioned above. Gameplay in Raven borders upon better (those small, epic fights that happen occasionally) to completely bitter (trying to take a GC down for 30-40mins while only five enemy players keep walking back from their save and killing you, because you just don't have enough damage to kill the GC). Admittedly, most of these ppoblems are caused by NGD improperly balancing the game, not Raven. But on Horus you have enough players to counter the negative aspects of the game (excepting beacons, which have become a plague on Horus and RA), while often on Raven you don't. This is frustrating.

For the most part, I agree with the quoted post. I just wanted to add these few points about my personal opinion. Raven is not a bad server, it was and still is very promising, but no one seems to be leading it anywhere, like Horus it is just dead in the water. Several years from now, it will still probably even have the same population. Which is a great shame considering that international players can play there, but some cannot on Horus (my original reason for joining Raven).

Kittypretty
02-05-2012, 06:22 AM
I was hopeful till I read the part about deleted characters, oh well. :crying1:

oh and stuff I paid for, for a bug not abused by me, and not disabled even after the exploit was well known.

otherwise happy my current characters aren't deleted, however I don't freely loan nice items I used to, and I don't buy xim anymore.

Feel like can't trust anyone in a game, when it shouldn't even be a concern to lose items that aren't even real anyways, that isn't the point. the point is it is hardly fair system, with batch deletions of players caused by the next bug abusers havok, So I choose neither. I try to support the game in other ways I guess, trying to find new players to join, though I don't feel secure in spending money on this game at this time.

Past is past but still happened, good game, but on thin ice concerning how the staff handles cheaters here, never a good feeling to not know even if you abide by the rules, something can f*ck your day up anyways.

if it changes someday then sure I'd feel comfy and spend here and there, but as one player, they won't miss my money I imagine :D

So what I have to be happy for, a fun game and a great community, but sadly my experiences don't mirror yours nor can I be thankful for them (not) happening to me, cause they have. :cuac:

get in touch when you want me to be a GM :D