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What do you mean by "best protection"? As far as i searched and looked Hyperfilter is the top and they can't putted down so easy. I think that this need of "not farming almost at all" came from the insecurity that the last servers gave them so they stopped having any expectations. I think that can be changed, not easy, but at least show that it can be also different. In the time that i've played lineage2 the most long relationships we bounded with others were not only in PvP, but also when we were grinding together for hours and we were talking on any subject ( ventrilo on that period of time ).

I think that this also depends a lot on the available servers that were on the market. And because only greedy servers, that's what players played. I think this can be changed. A big "boost" for us was PlayInEra server because they tried something different and they had success. Time will answer this question Regarding the DDoS i think HyperFilter is the best available protected server and it can defend us against it. Also i've heard that neither OVH can be taken down, but it can get very laggy and unplayable and as far as i know hyperfilter is 'next-level' so i hope/belive it will be ok. Regarding 'paying other clans' this strategy can work on short-term and if we bring quality/improvements and making a good community, we can pass this and restore a balance in this monopoly that they've created. But as i said to Eagle_Eye time will tell.

Hello guys, Yes, we are back! After few years we decide to come back. It’s the same team Lex and Tzu. For the guys that are new in Lineage 2 Community we had succesfull projects L2Pharos our 3rd server after L2Stars.com (~8 years ago, not .EU ) And L2Evolution.com. The ‘old guys’ can confirm that those servers were successfully ones without this `greedy-coruption-servers` etiquette that were killed by DDoS because we were competition. Also one of our biggest success was L2Silver which i think it doesn't need any presentation Let’s present us a bit: Lex – the guy who talk to the players all days and comes with ideas and improvements for server to make it a long-term server. Always thinking of new content/events/possibilities to make the server enjoyable. Tzu – the guy who don’t talk so much to players ( not really good at socializing like Lex), but who is the back of the server and take care of implementing Lex ideas. A little bit obsessed to check all the time if all is performant. Currently being Software Developer for 3 years ( sadly in C#, but it’s not such a big difference) Now how we decided to come back: In all this time ( 5 years ) by keep talking and last year we meet in a city and had few beers talking about that great times when we were having server and working on the server, and when one of us was distracted by something else, the other one would call him 24/7 to work on server ), after that we decided to watch L2Scene to see what’s happening, we saw that it’s in a more bad way that when we left, but the players community increased. After that, in 5 months, Lex arrived at my house (Tzu) and in a night we decided to come back and make it great again. A few thanks for the guys from: L2PlayInEra they started to change a bit the community and they had a nice success and I respect them. So in last 4 months we took informations, regarding all problems, what players want, we tested few servers and I think we understood what is wanted and put some time to start working on the idea. What we saw that was missing very much: a place where players can be a community without being forced all the time to move from one server to another and choosing not a good server, but the server that is not the worst. And that's what we try to accomplish. To make Private Servers community a little bit better. We want to see more good servers. We are still working on the server side, but the website is in BETA-Phase and we already have a forum: www.l2pharos.com – Website www.l2pharos.com/forum - Community Forum We’ve also added some features of the server and we will still add on the list more informations. We understand that is far from perfect, that’s why we delay the opening, even thought I think we will make it not even close to near perfect, with your help, we will! We ask you to give us any advises, or any suggestions that you may have As we you may have guessed we made a mid rate with the next features: Rates: Experience(XP): 30x Skill Points(SP): 30x Adena: 15x Drop: 15x Spoil: 15x Raidboss: 4x Grandboss: 1x(1 jewel per epic) Quest Drop: 3x Quest Reward: 2x Manor: 3x Weight Limit: 10x Enchants: Safe enchant: +4 Max Enchant: +15 Normal Scroll chance: 55% Blessed Scroll chance: 60% Elemental Stone Chance: 50% Elemental Crystal Chance: 40% Basic Features: Buff time: 2h Buff slots: 24 Dance/Songs slots: 12 Trigger slots: 12 Max clients per PC: 3 Subclass Max Level: 85 Protection(SGuard + Report system: enabled Geodata: enabled Subclass Quest: disabled Class Master: enabled AutoLoot: enabled AutoLoot Raidboss: disabled Offline shops: enabled Offline buffers: enabled Different Community Board: enabled Auction system: enabled Private messages history: enabled Droplist search: enabled Away system: enabled So far we do not have any Beta Date/ Opening date but we have an interval between 1 and 3 months.

Hello Sam, Any ETA when you will release the next version ?

Hello SamDev, Your website seems not to work anymore

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Exception+in+thread+"main"+java.net.BindException%3A+Cannot+assign+requested+address%3A+JVM_Bind maybe you opened the server 2 times and the port is already used so try to change the port. Second maybe you are under a router and you've put your external IP. There you should put your internal ip ( 192.168.X.X ) and then port forward from router settings. But those things you could've find just by copy and pasting the error message on google.

I was not talking about that Alex ( aka Mouse ). I was talking about Alex which i had some projects which maybe they were not the best but there weren't any corruptions discussions because we did not had such thing: L2Evolution, L2Pharos, L2Stars

The only thing that i do not understand is why you copied the name. I know you already open few servers since few years ago, but the original L2Stars was on start of Mid rate servers, after l2-ah.net. The server was owned by me and Alex and that server really had good reviews, and not a single fight regarding corruption and things like these. It's a shame that now l2stars is associated to coruption/donations/greedy server. I am sure old players knows what i am talking about and also you, the owner of it.

Hello Sam, I would gladly help you in testing the application and also as a contributor since i have some experience with C# ( 2 years and half ) My username is AndreiD on your forum.

Thank you Akar0 for your fast response. I have tried to do this, but is doing the same thing. I am out of ideas. Do you have any other hint?

Hello, I tried to run locally on my computer and it works perfectly, but i have a problem when trying to set it on another machine. Login server works perfectly. Gameserver show "Light", but when i select it i get "You have been disconected...." GameserverHostname = * ExternalHostname = myexternalIP ( i am NOT behind any router ) InternalHostname = 127.0.0.1 Do you guys have any clue?

Hello guys(and girls) I wonder what are the differences between Smartguard and SGuard? Advantages/Disadvantages?

They were at my house, i think you know who i am talking about when i say "they"

Sincerely, I do not care if you believe me or not. It's not my objective to make someone believe me, the only reason i write those things is because I keep seeing this posts about Stalone being a saint or something like this ( and believe me or not is just a small part of the stories regarding Mid Rate servers and what's happening there ). Please ask Stalone regarding his Porsche 911 that costed about ~25.000 Euro if i remember right, and again with this things i scratch only the surface. I just want to be sure that people are reading different opinions and make their own decision when judging someone. Not really, i mean yes it was also Jakk but that was at the end of my carrier regarding L2Server. When i talk about vote script that was way back, i think 4-5 years. I really do not know, but Jakk appeared way later and the only difference that was with Jakk was that he was the public person that took all of the hate for DDoS, but in private when i was talking with Stalone, he was the head behind this. And also Achylek i am not sure if you know the story behind the origin of files that Era/Tales and how they obtained this files. I will not say the story, because it's something that it's not ok how it happened, but i am sure if you ask you can understand that something is stinky. Don't worry private servers owners, thats all stories i will tell, i do not intend to attack any of you, but i just wanted to stop all those things Stalone is great, Mouse is bad. Sorin is whatever and whatever stories. They all wanted the same thing in the end, money. And i can admit it that i had the first motivation for doing server, but i always had Alex ( the owner of l2AH 5-6 years ago) which maintained me on a good way and we did not have such big success ( because of DDoS) but at least if I say my servers i won't be attacked with things like "donation server". The only time i gave epics and +6 items ( but not something bigger then that) was when i bought protection from dragonara.net and the price for protection was 1000$ and i had also the costs of the dedicated server about ~ 80 Euro from Hetzner. @Achylek i appreciate that you don't started trolling instantly when you replied.

Yes, it's a good guy?! What about the time ( 2-3 years ago or even more) when i opened a server and because the server was protected for DDoS, but the website wasn't he put the website down with 2 hours before start? And that's not all, he made pressure on me to give access to paypal and if i give him 20-25% ( do not remember exactly how much) of the donations he will stop DDoSing me. Oh and also, he wanted to tell me what donations to have and also of course to give some chars full items and GM access to his account. That's the good guy Stalone? I won't talk about Mouse because he is the same type of guy but at least he didn't come to me blackmail me because we are neighbors and we know each other before having servers when he was playing L2AH owned by the other member of my projects Alex L ( NOT Mouse because he is also called Alex ). Stalone, I think if you remember i was the first guy in L2 Private Servers that written the script for Votes, which i gave to Mouse for free and then he sold you for 1000$ and the promise that you don't DDoS his server and instead you DDoSed and closed my server? Or you remember when i called your personal home number and your mother answered the phone and then you called back scared to stop calling this number and you were raging and promised that you never give DDoS again? The only thing you did you stop bragging about DDoS and I couldn't prove anything and the costs to go to Europol and report you were very big because i would have to go personally in France and made a big file for you. There are more stories regarding this L2 Mid Rate guys including me, mouse, stalone, sorin, the only thing that me and alex( NOT mouse) was that we were fair play all the time and we considered that the quality of server should make the players chose, not "killing" other server with DDoS so the players won't have where to choose.