Granny

Dearest Tessa, I have ignored this request. And this is for you, show us some love. Our own personal warrior princess. Likely a dude, but we'll pretend. [url=http://l2cosmic.com][img=http://l2cosmic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Tessa-Edition1.png][/url] Well, that was a nice little break from the mundane PR server work. Sorry folks, design stream is now done. But follow our twitch for more fun random-ass events! Now back to work! Cheers, Granny

Watch us live while I design Tessa a new signature. Afterwards, she may decide to use it or shamefully reject my symbol of love. http://twitch.tv/l2cosmic Cheers, Granny

No stone left unturned. I've forced myself to read a lot of topics in these threads. Some are so stupid. But a lot of great information exists in MXC for server admins. It helps cover every aspect of a server. L2Injustice is a great example of a good thread to read in full. There you will see a plethora of mistakes that you can then build on and improve. I should thank those guys for their contribution in a sense. Btw Tessa, when are you gonna change your signature to support us? I could make you a personal L2Cosmic SPECIAL TESSA banner. I know you love me ;) Cheers, Granny REMINDING MXC MEMBERS ABOUT OUR HOLIDAY WARRIOR EVENT: The first step to getting your free donation coins The second step to getting your free donation coins

Opening date is the 10th. That damn ad I put up before I changed the date. So now it's taunting me above. Lurking around! Original date was 12th (A Monday). So I pushed it to the 10th (A Saturday). It was something I overlooked a while back. I should really change that ad. I'll look into it when I have more time. Hope this helps. *EDIT: sent in a support ticket, renewed ad space, should be fixed some time soon. This should clear up any confusion. Cheers, Granny

Version 5: Reopens server and says sorry for getting hacked.

My brothers and sisters, for you are now my MXC family, Spread the word. Make us grow. Give us life. Show your support. Unite and stand strong behind the L2Cosmic banner. Help us, help you. Haha. Someone called me a preacher earlier (Aphrodite I believe). Thought I'd try to play the part. Perhaps I should change my profession to better suit my new title. But I love L2 too much to go all monk-like. A pity. In all seriousness, we really do appreciate all the support. Support our team, give us purpose, proud and strong. And I will do my best to bring you the best L2 server in history. This is my mission for the upcoming year. I speak on behalf of the L2Cosmic team. Remember, 100 COSMIC COINS for changing your signature here at MXC to our holiday warrior banner (more info in previous posts or opening post). 50 COSMIC COINS for making 20 posts in our forum, earning warrior rank and santa hat accessory for toon. Meaningful posts only count. This grants you a total of 150 cosmic coins, the price of our VIP for 30 days at launch. All at our expense. Tell your friends, CP, clan, about this promotion. And be prepared to migrate to our server; it's the last time you'll need to switch servers. And this is our personal guarantee. HAPPY HOLIDAYS. Cheers, Granny

Perhaps you're right. But I don't share the same feelings. L2Injustice. The name itself. This my friends, is what we call irony. Cheers, Granny

OH HAIL MARY. DEAR LORD, FORGIVE THIS SERVER. IT KNOWS NOT WHAT IT'S DONE, REDEMPTION IS NEAR. BURN BURN BURN. Haha. Cheers, Preacher Granny

Haven't played HELLBOUND in bloody ages. These files (good ones) are pretty darn rare. Good job with this project. It will probably be a huge hit. I love it! Cheers, Granny

This just takes the cake. I believe that this thread is proof that the quality of servers is really down the shitter. I understand this is a private scene, but there needs to be some sort of standard that we draw upon. L2Cartel? L2Injustice? Toddlers playing L2 admin from the looks of it. The first brand cannot even handle his/her staff, let alone 5000 players. The second brand can't even design a site/platform without the help of Stalone. It's become to easy, cheap, and accessible for players to open servers. So our options are filling up with more and more nonsense. You know, it's time you wake up and smell the shit in the air. Reopening this server is just offensive, from my point of view. You should have renamed your project and come under some pseudonym or something out of respect to the people that gave your shit a try and chocked by overlooking simple security issues like not hiring randoms that come knocking on your door. It all comes down to this one point though: If you can't control your staff. Good luck managing a populated server. Shameful. Cheers, Granny

I think you nailed it my friend ;) Don't forget your 20 posts. I received this from a player this morning. It's posts like this that give me the drive to push this project past its limits. Thank you for the support my friend! Hope you don't mind me using your words. I've omitted your username for privacy. ***Fixed the code for the banners*** Thank you for letting me know :) Cheers, Granny

Perhaps it's not people's minds, but corporate greed? Perhaps the case is, people that donate will donate anyway, so why not exploit the donation list? From a corporate perspective...But I do not know enough about large corporations and their expenses to provide a solid argument to convince anyone. So it is what it is, I suppose. I'm going to believe in my community. That you'll support us and we will grow into something worth playing. ;) YES YES I KNOW FOLKS: THE MXC WARRIOR SIGNATURE WAS TOO BIG. I UNDERSTAND YOUR FRUSTRATION. YOU WANT THOSE COINS :-* SImply put, I had forgotten that I scaled down my own signature to meet the rules. I've now also scaled down the image in the url of the MXC warrior signature bar to 700x87. It should now work if you wish to participate in our holiday warrior events, MXC exclusive offer. Sorry about the problem. It completely slipped my mind. I've updated all posts now. Here's an example of the new code. FOR VIP: FOR NON-VIP: Use the following code below to change your signature to the above image for your profile for VIP: [url=http://l2cosmic.com][img=http://l2cosmic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MXC-WARRIOR-e1418038380269.png][/url]Use the following code below to change your signature to the above image for your profile for NON-VIP: [url=http://l2cosmic.com][img=http://l2cosmic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MXC-WARRIOR-TRIMMED.png][/url] Join us today. Support us. Cheers, Granny

Hi Tessa, To put it bluntly, we're not here to buy a Porsche. This project is special, set to revamp the current state of servers. If you understand this, then keep reading. If not, don't bother. For the most part, you are right, in the context of how servers behave in 2014. The player is often leaning towards extremes, either heavy donator or farmer. But I think there exists potential in a third kind of player. Perhaps he/she does not have enough to spend on greed-hungry servers, so chooses never to donate because items/perks are typically very pricy on those platforms, geared to maximize profits. Or maybe they find the principle of donating offensive. Whatever the case, one thing stands true: we're not here to rob you of your hard earned money. This I want made clear to the MXC community. Our business model isn't a model derived on maximizing profits. It's based on maximizing the lifetime of the server WHILE maintaining equality between the donator and the farmer. It is not a safe project like the other mid-rate servers. I could have easily opened a typical mid-rate server and, with my skills, made it profitable. This is simply not that. It is high risk, high reward. In this case, by reward, I mean rewarding to the player/community and not to my pockets ;) Our aim is to stay alive and pay off the server fees and not renovate my home. So your words were not chosen carefully. What you mean to say is my model will not make as much as the other models and, in this case, you are absolutely correct. But my model will bring substance to the community. Not everything is about money. This thinking is what killed this scene in the first place. No one willing to take a chance on building something with flavor because it may not be as profitable. Really primitive way to think, in earnest. Server fees with DDOS protection, we've run the numbers many times. We should easily be able to clear all expenses with a decent population. So no, the model won't backfire in theory. It just wont do as well as the others would, which I've outlined previously. I'm very happy with the system we came up with; it's something I would have loved to play on when I was a full time player. We wanted to give the community an opportunity to fall in love with our server, then when and if they choose to donate, it should feel like they're supporting a good cause and not just lining our pockets. This is a concept I hold dear to me. So why would I do all this for you? Because I can. It's that simple. I have the skills, the knowledge, and the means to so. There's certainly more to it. But you'd need to know me to really get the full picture. I'm essentially solving what everyone's been whining about for the past four years. One day at a time, step by step, we will build a good community. And we'll play this game with heart and substance. Join us. Cheers, Granny

And don't forget to check out our new twitch stream. This is a great way to monitor our progress until launch. Great stuff everyday!

HOLIDAY WARRIOR EVENT MXC EXCLUSIVE OFFER DEC 07 - JAN 04 Rules and Regulation below. Read carefully to participate. In total, if you complete both events, you will amass a total of 150 cosmic coins, earning yourself a free VIP for the first month. It's really as easy as that. No hidden strings, no funny business. I will personally grant you your reward at launch. You'll just need to give me your nickname on the MXC forum and the L2Cosmic forum. I can verify the signature and forum rank with that information and process your reward. Remember, it's really not about the reward. It's about building a good, honest community. So get involved today. :) Show us some love baby. ;) Cheers, Granny

Hi Huck, We appreciate the support my friend. Every time you tell a friend, mention us to a colleague, or whatever the case, we grow in numbers and in strength. ;) Happy Holidays. Dearest Modi, There are 3 business models to sustain a server. Here they are: We offer you custom items/gear/consumables for donation, distancing the balance between donator and farmer We profit highly and close down in three months because everyone that donates has everything they need after a few months since live. So donations essentially stop ~ at 3 months and we close, open under a new name. Rinse and repeat. We provide you with impaction perks like ++enchant chance for VIP, 30% xp/sp for VIP, or a monthly fee to sustain our costs and make this a profitable business, etc. Remember, we've invested enough money to buy a car (used of course :D). Not only do we need to make this investment back, but we need to make it in surplus so we can improve our overall service and infrastructure. Also, having a paycheck always helps keep my interest in ensuring that you're 100% happy. We give you a donation system that has no impact on extended game play, establishing a balance between donator and farmer. We cater the package to be valuable even after 3 months from launch. So donators will want to support us for a long time to consistently remove a restriction. Multi-boxing is very big in L2, but it is in no way mandatory. I can farm my DA to 85 without needing to box at all. For 5 euro / 30 days you can not only multi-box but use a .offline shop. Very small perks for a nominal fee, the price of a high-end espresso. This is basically the package in which we'll make our capital. And yes, we'll make far less capital than option #1, but this is a penalty we're willing to pay to give you quality service. Consider it our gift to you. Judging from your tone, it seems you think I am doing you some kind of disservice with option #3, which is simply not the case. We are tinkering with the idea to make the minimum non-vip box limit to 1 instead of 0. We'll suffer a heavy hit in donations as a result but it may be worthwhile if the general consensus is in favor. There's an old saying though, "if you listen to the people, they'll rob you blind." I'm sure you're smart enough to figure out its relevancy to the process of setting up a Lineage 2 server. Hope this clears up any confusion to others as well as Modi. Happy Holidays. Cheers, Granny

We've molded the structure of L2Cosmic to give substance to servers. So players that like playing SWS/BD/PP etc can do so on our server knowing their buffs actually matter to a group. Besides NPC buffs are a different game. They enable you to do raids you otherwise couldn't, pvp in a way that is often favored in one direction, and other nonsense. I've personally always hated this style of play. But nowadays you cannot avoid it. All the servers that offer retail-like experience are Russian. And Russian servers are more of a best of a bad situation, speaking from experience. But the EU scene, if we're frank, pales in comparison to the Russians. We're like a step behind in regards to quality, effort, and care. Until we came along ;) At the very least with L2Cosmic, you can rest assured that our server model was designed to keep the server alive after the 3 month mark, and this revolves around the retail-like qualities. You can't have a server last more than three months if you've achieved everything in three months. There's simply nothing left to do but siege and oly at that point. Longevity is very important to us. But you really can't please everyone. It's just how things go. I am, however, certain of three things: We will do everything in our power to bring a large crowd. We will provide our player base with excellent service. We will give you a fair-play, corruption-free environment. L2Cosmic can open the door to change. You guys need to decide whether to walk through or feed the dogs another month ;) And yes, we are OP. ;) You're a smart cookie. :D Cheers, Granny

Whoa now. He's my boy! Give him some love ;) Cheers, Granny

Haha. I think you may be right. I hope those epics don't leak out ;) Cheers, Granny

I'm interested to see how many people with back these guys. It looks very troll. Cheers, Granny

Yea you should come to Canada and party with us on the 1st! It should be good boys. Go tell your friends about us ;) Cheers, Granny

LIES! L2 is only game out there.

Stalone does provide a big community though. So it's like a catch 22. You either find a better server or play on an already populated one. And if u play the already populated one, u need to deal with its policies / greed factor. And it's not bugless, lol. Even retail has bugs. I wouldn't make such claims for any server pack. Cheers, Granny

Oh preacher, I shall follow you into the depths of despair! My hero, my captain! This guy deserves some lovin' Love u baby! My connections with the Russian powerhouse, L2-Scripts (partner), has given me insight into major projects involved here at MxC. For those interested, the majority of Stalone's power comes from you, playing there, giving him donations. Other projects that I do not want to name are in kahoots with him, so they've formed a sort of monopoly. Success nowadays comes from security, ensuring you have minimized the likelihood of this monopoly shutting you down. They don't have as many tools at their disposal as they claim. But they do have enough pull to close down the morons that overlook the security aspect of their server. We've partnered with L2-Scripts and not Stalone, building a very strong server. Our security admin is the head l2-scripts server admin; he joined us because he loves our project's structure and design. Either case isn't ideal, but this monopoly will break eventually and your L2 will once again be less corrupt. You people need to decide when that happens. My 2 cents. Cheers, Granny

I'd stay away from the politics. Haha. Glad it seems cleared up now. I told you, little squabbling kids running servers in 2015. At each others throats over a few grand, presumably. Get yourself GM staff that aren't 15 and in high school. Or make family GM. Even if you come back stronger than ever I would never play since your overall management seems very poorly structured. I'm sure others agree.