Information about RU and EU communities, if you want reasons why this is the case with such a big online difference and quality of the server, leave a reply!
Hi! I'm an old member of MXC, since 2009 to be exact, it is just a different account I'm using. Now throughout my Lineage II playing years, I've experienced many servers that are hosted in Europe and Russia. Since I speak Russian, I played a lot with my friends and noticed many differences between the two "worlds". I say worlds because the communities are so far apart, it's like we are not even playing the same game.
Let me start off with official RU-off servers. 4game is the core of L2 and always was. Cadmus, Athebaldt, Teon are the three musketeers of the series and are a prime example of a perfect server with balance and excitement.
Now in RU community there are no homemade servers unlike the EU group. Simply because people there have self-respect, dignity and common decency not to start a server to enchant to full and kill everything that moves, then collect money from donators who want to beat the top players and once they fail, close the project down, change your forum name, server name and repeat.
Since I joined the RU community, I was actually waiting for people to mention a homemade server, never once have I heard it being mentioned or talked about. Every single server that opens is a premium, server hosted and web hosted project with a massive system behind it. Complex protection, balance, geodata, are all examples of what is included in our servers.
NOW, I don't intend to bash on your ideas or ability, take this rather as the blind truth and something people need to hear, for example you, if you have or planning to open a homemade server. Please don't
Another difference is the online player capacity. Whilst looking through the topzone and hopzone sites, I found that admins proudly advertise 300-500+ online. When I see that I laugh, like is there enough space to walk through Giran with that a m o u n t of people? xD
Now, the following sites are amongst the TOP pvp servers in Russia and admins are looked up to in every way.
The average cost of these projects are $10,000-$15,000 USD and the profit made from donations varies from $25,000-$40,000 USD
This covers project cost, and allows for a profit as well. This is all withing the first week or two. It may seem surreal to you right now and you may doubt me, but I've been there and talked with the owners of the projects. It is exactly what I just said
With this being said, go on these sites and witness the online, it is in Russian on the site of one of them and spelled like this: "Онлайн" <-Look for that
1. www.line-age.com has online of ~5k-6k during daytime and ~1k-2k at night
2. www.teon-pvp.com is a project that is standing strong for almost 3 years now with a STABLE online of ~6k-9k at daytime and ~3k-4k at night
Do you see the difference between RU and EU?
That is all for now, leave a reply, and if you want I can proceed with another topic covering the main reasons WHY EU servers don't succeed as much as RU
Thanks, and bye!