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Developing a server takes hours beyond hours a day of planning, programming, and testing, etc. On a private server, you're not getting paid to do anything. You're doing it out of pure enjoyment and paying for it out of your own pocket. When you start getting disrespect from the players and feeling like you HAVE to do this, it becomes a chore, and nobody likes doing chores(procrastinating on vacuuming for 2 hours now so I know...). Once you have a hobby you enjoy become ruined, you lose a lot of will to continue developing more content. No will added to no time results in not wanting to spend the little free time you do have developing for a server that's dead at the moment especially if when you do something it's only non-stop complaining and bickering from everyone instead of being appreciated for what was done. I think that's Far's point, one of which I get from being staff on other servers.

Developing a server takes hours beyond hours a day of planning, programming, and testing, etc. On a private server, you're not getting paid to do anything. You're doing it out of pure enjoyment and paying for it out of your own pocket. When you start getting disrespect from the players and feeling like you HAVE to do this, it becomes a chore, and nobody likes doing chores(procrastinating on vacuuming for 2 hours now so I know...). Once you have a hobby you enjoy become ruined, you lose a lot of will to continue developing more content. No will added to no time results in not wanting to spend the little free time you do have developing for a server that's dead at the moment especially if when you do something it's only non-stop complaining and bickering from everyone instead of being appreciated for what was done. I think that's Far's point, one of which I get from being staff on other servers.

Just to throw an idea out there: maybe to spice things up, put statless shield skins in npc, then eventually when more content comes out, have shield skins drop with stats. Might be something that'd be decent to do. 

Golden Girls: Core Edition

Then maybe the problem isn't mage's mdmg  but fighters's mdef.

Put, Fitz. It's able to be used in past, present, and future tense written as just "put". xD

I've noticed throughout the years of playing private servers, a lot of server owners become egotistical "trolls" for a nicer word to say it. They build their community, they make a pretty penny off of it, and then they treat the players like crap. It's sad that the owners would treat the players as such. This game is a business and the players are your customers, LOYAL customers. To lie and deceive them in such a manipulative way after already wasting their efforts to gear up and raid is rather unprofessional and disrespectful. Nonetheless, they're the ones paying for your services. To so easily say "Good bye" to a player who has been active and led an active guild which basically started the server and flourished the economy, is wrong, but whatever I say isn't gonna matter anyways. People can say it's bullshit to have a rollback. People can say you should be used to the way Far is. No. You don't get used to it. That's like starting your own business and slapping every customer that walks in and tell them to get the fuck out and expecting the business to stay afloat. You just don't do it. As an owner, your players should be able to trust you to run a FAIR, BALANCED SERVER in service, pricing, and game play. Taking advantage of staff powers is not a way to get players to want to stay. But at this point, clearly Far doesn't seem to care. He entertained himself at the players' expense. Wtg.

I've noticed throughout the years of playing private servers, a lot of server owners become egotistical "trolls" for a nicer word to say it. They build their community, they make a pretty penny off of it, and then they treat the players like crap. It's sad that the owners would treat the players as such. This game is a business and the players are your customers, LOYAL customers. To lie and deceive them in such a manipulative way after already wasting their efforts to gear up and raid is rather unprofessional and disrespectful. Nonetheless, they're the ones paying for your services. To so easily say "Good bye" to a player who has been active and led an active guild which basically started the server and flourished the economy, is wrong, but whatever I say isn't gonna matter anyways. People can say it's bullshit to have a rollback. People can say you should be used to the way Far is. No. You don't get used to it. That's like starting your own business and slapping every customer that walks in and tell them to get the fuck out and expecting the business to stay afloat. You just don't do it. As an owner, your players should be able to trust you to run a FAIR, BALANCED SERVER in service, pricing, and game play. Taking advantage of staff powers is not a way to get players to want to stay. But at this point, clearly Far doesn't seem to care. He entertained himself at the players' expense. Wtg.

I've noticed throughout the years of playing private servers, a lot of server owners become egotistical "trolls" for a nicer word to say it. They build their community, they make a pretty penny off of it, and then they treat the players like crap. It's sad that the owners would treat the players as such. This game is a business and the players are your customers, LOYAL customers. To lie and deceive them in such a manipulative way after already wasting their efforts to gear up and raid is rather unprofessional and disrespectful. Nonetheless, they're the ones paying for your services. To so easily say "Good bye" to a player who has been active and led an active guild which basically started the server and flourished the economy, is wrong, but whatever I say isn't gonna matter anyways. People can say it's bullshit to have a rollback. People can say you should be used to the way Far is. No. You don't get used to it. That's like starting your own business and slapping every customer that walks in and tell them to get the fuck out and expecting the business to stay afloat. You just don't do it. As an owner, your players should be able to trust you to run a FAIR, BALANCED SERVER in service, pricing, and game play. Taking advantage of staff powers is not a way to get players to want to stay. But at this point, clearly Far doesn't seem to care. He entertained himself at the players' expense. Wtg.

I've noticed throughout the years of playing private servers, a lot of server owners become egotistical "trolls" for a nicer word to say it. They build their community, they make a pretty penny off of it, and then they treat the players like crap. It's sad that the owners would treat the players as such. This game is a business and the players are your customers, LOYAL customers. To lie and deceive them in such a manipulative way after already wasting their efforts to gear up and raid is rather unprofessional and disrespectful. Nonetheless, they're the ones paying for your services. To so easily say "Good bye" to a player who has been active and led an active guild which basically started the server and flourished the economy, is wrong, but whatever I say isn't gonna matter anyways. People can say it's bullshit to have a rollback. People can say you should be used to the way Far is. No. You don't get used to it. That's like starting your own business and slapping every customer that walks in and tell them to get the fuck out and expecting the business to stay afloat. You just don't do it. As an owner, your players should be able to trust you to run a FAIR, BALANCED SERVER in service, pricing, and game play. Taking advantage of staff powers is not a way to get players to want to stay. But at this point, clearly Far doesn't seem to care. He entertained himself at the players' expense. Wtg.

I've noticed throughout the years of playing private servers, a lot of server owners become egotistical "trolls" for a nicer word to say it. They build their community, they make a pretty penny off of it, and then they treat the players like crap. It's sad that the owners would treat the players as such. This game is a business and the players are your customers, LOYAL customers. To lie and deceive them in such a manipulative way after already wasting their efforts to gear up and raid is rather unprofessional and disrespectful. Nonetheless, they're the ones paying for your services. To so easily say "Good bye" to a player who has been active and led an active guild which basically started the server and flourished the economy, is wrong, but whatever I say isn't gonna matter anyways. People can say it's bullshit to have a rollback. People can say you should be used to the way Far is. No. You don't get used to it. That's like starting your own business and slapping every customer that walks in and tell them to get the fuck out and expecting the business to stay afloat. You just don't do it. As an owner, your players should be able to trust you to run a FAIR, BALANCED SERVER in service, pricing, and game play. Taking advantage of staff powers is not a way to get players to want to stay. But at this point, clearly Far doesn't seem to care. He entertained himself at the players' expense. Wtg.

I've noticed throughout the years of playing private servers, a lot of server owners become egotistical "trolls" for a nicer word to say it. They build their community, they make a pretty penny off of it, and then they treat the players like crap. It's sad that the owners would treat the players as such. This game is a business and the players are your customers, LOYAL customers. To lie and deceive them in such a manipulative way after already wasting their efforts to gear up and raid is rather unprofessional and disrespectful. Nonetheless, they're the ones paying for your services. To so easily say "Good bye" to a player who has been active and led an active guild which basically started the server and flourished the economy, is wrong, but whatever I say isn't gonna matter anyways. People can say it's bullshit to have a rollback. People can say you should be used to the way Far is. No. You don't get used to it. That's like starting your own business and slapping every customer that walks in and tell them to get the fuck out and expecting the business to stay afloat. You just don't do it. As an owner, your players should be able to trust you to run a FAIR, BALANCED SERVER in service, pricing, and game play. Taking advantage of staff powers is not a way to get players to want to stay. But at this point, clearly Far doesn't seem to care. He entertained himself at the players' expense. Wtg.

I've noticed throughout the years of playing private servers, a lot of server owners become egotistical "trolls" for a nicer word to say it. They build their community, they make a pretty penny off of it, and then they treat the players like crap. It's sad that the owners would treat the players as such. This game is a business and the players are your customers, LOYAL customers. To lie and deceive them in such a manipulative way after already wasting their efforts to gear up and raid is rather unprofessional and disrespectful. Nonetheless, they're the ones paying for your services. To so easily say "Good bye" to a player who has been active and led an active guild which basically started the server and flourished the economy, is wrong, but whatever I say isn't gonna matter anyways. People can say it's bullshit to have a rollback. People can say you should be used to the way Far is. No. You don't get used to it. That's like starting your own business and slapping every customer that walks in and tell them to get the fuck out and expecting the business to stay afloat. You just don't do it. As an owner, your players should be able to trust you to run a FAIR, BALANCED SERVER in service, pricing, and game play. Taking advantage of staff powers is not a way to get players to want to stay. But at this point, clearly Far doesn't seem to care. He entertained himself at the players' expense. Wtg.

I've noticed throughout the years of playing private servers, a lot of server owners become egotistical "trolls" for a nicer word to say it. They build their community, they make a pretty penny off of it, and then they treat the players like crap. It's sad that the owners would treat the players as such. This game is a business and the players are your customers, LOYAL customers. To lie and deceive them in such a manipulative way after already wasting their efforts to gear up and raid is rather unprofessional and disrespectful. Nonetheless, they're the ones paying for your services. To so easily say "Good bye" to a player who has been active and led an active guild which basically started the server and flourished the economy, is wrong, but whatever I say isn't gonna matter anyways. People can say it's bullshit to have a rollback. People can say you should be used to the way Far is. No. You don't get used to it. That's like starting your own business and slapping every customer that walks in and tell them to get the fuck out and expecting the business to stay afloat. You just don't do it. As an owner, your players should be able to trust you to run a FAIR, BALANCED SERVER in service, pricing, and game play. Taking advantage of staff powers is not a way to get players to want to stay. But at this point, clearly Far doesn't seem to care. He entertained himself at the players' expense. Wtg.

I've noticed throughout the years of playing private servers, a lot of server owners become egotistical "trolls" for a nicer word to say it. They build their community, they make a pretty penny off of it, and then they treat the players like crap. It's sad that the owners would treat the players as such. This game is a business and the players are your customers, LOYAL customers. To lie and deceive them in such a manipulative way after already wasting their efforts to gear up and raid is rather unprofessional and disrespectful. Nonetheless, they're the ones paying for your services. To so easily say "Good bye" to a player who has been active and led an active guild which basically started the server and flourished the economy, is wrong, but whatever I say isn't gonna matter anyways. People can say it's bullshit to have a rollback. People can say you should be used to the way Far is. No. You don't get used to it. That's like starting your own business and slapping every customer that walks in and tell them to get the fuck out and expecting the business to stay afloat. You just don't do it. As an owner, your players should be able to trust you to run a FAIR, BALANCED SERVER in service, pricing, and game play. Taking advantage of staff powers is not a way to get players to want to stay. But at this point, clearly Far doesn't seem to care. He entertained himself at the players' expense. Wtg.

In all honesty, I think this was not called for at all. It officially wiped out any competition on the server between guilds and that's what kept the server thriving. Deviant didn't always win, nor did Maj or Rapture. I don't understand how this was necessary. All of us that worked months for gear and weapons have now had that hard work put to waste and ML gear and LH weapons are gonna be an overkill, and SL is plain useless now. The only reason I'd find this a suitable decision is if it was released after a cap raise where people mostly had ML gear/weaps and were working towards the next level of better gear and weaponry.
 
Finally!! xD Made it way too easy to farm any lower leveled "raid".

In all honesty, I think this was not called for at all. It officially wiped out any competition on the server between guilds and that's what kept the server thriving. Deviant didn't always win, nor did Maj or Rapture. I don't understand how this was necessary. All of us that worked months for gear and weapons have now had that hard work put to waste and ML gear and LH weapons are gonna be an overkill, and SL is plain useless now. The only reason I'd find this a suitable decision is if it was released after a cap raise where people mostly had ML gear/weaps and were working towards the next level of better gear and weaponry.
 
Finally!! xD Made it way too easy to farm any lower leveled "raid".

The point of the cool down is the same point for every other instance(guild or party) and raid. Without it, it would take almost no time to get drops needed thus saturating a server with a rare item. It'd only lead to boredom and drops being obtainable far too easily.And relating to your "No knight" comment, our glads can handle tanking just as easily as knights, so no need for 'em. 

The point of the cool down is the same point for every other instance(guild or party) and raid. Without it, it would take almost no time to get drops needed thus saturating a server with a rare item. It'd only lead to boredom and drops being obtainable far too easily.And relating to your "No knight" comment, our glads can handle tanking just as easily as knights, so no need for 'em. 

Just to throw an idea out there: maybe to spice things up, put statless shield skins in npc, then eventually when more content comes out, have shield skins drop with stats. Might be something that'd be decent to do. 

It's disgusting to think that there's no longer any diversity in perms since everyone will now be using the same weapons.

This.

100 promo... it's like that 3 hour car ride to see your grandparents knowing the day is going to be boring as all hell but in the end you know you're going to leave with money, cookies, and a full belly.... hence making it worth it....

This. I definitely wouldn't mess with 50 blues rarity. It's something people farm hard for and I'd hate to see a 50 blue, which people seem so fascinated by when they finally drop, become a dull highlight of the game. I'd definitely try to figure something out to keep 45 teva weapons as useful as they are now. Even if it means dropping DDM's lvl cap to 49. I don't think dropping it by one level would hurt that much. It takes all of 10 minutes to relevel another char and switch over the gear to a new char.