Hello
I'd like to invite you to Event Guild (low rate Gracia II)
With a group of friends we decided to open our own server. We are experienced players and know a bit about programming - enough to be able to introduce and maintain some custom settings to the server.
The server is billingual - polish and english and only those 2 languages are allowed on global chat channels. The website has 2 domains, however the language detector will display proper content based on the browser language settings. The website is located at:
http://eventguild.pl
http://eventguild.com
and the discussion board here:
http://eventguild.pl/forums.php
http://eventguild.com/forums.php
We named our server Event Guild because of our special attitude, which is frequent events. Right now we have ideas for 2-3 months of daily events. You will never be bored in Event Guild.
Another importance is that we didn't decide about the server settings upfront. We prepared some proposals of settings on the forum, however they are all up to discussion cause we want YOU, the players, to decide how the server you'll be playing on should look like. The most important thing you're chosing is the server rate (between x1 and x15). We suggest that all parameters (exp, sp, drop, adena, spoil, quest) should be set to the same value, however we are open to suggestions about this too.
In the same way you'll decide what will be available for donation (well, although a no-donate server is everyone's dream, we can't pay for it from our pockets). We also enabled the option to donate small amounts of money through a phone call. We believe those small donations will be enough to maintain the server.
We won't tolerate any bad behavior (bad language, begging, thefts etc) and we don't allow boxing. We modified the jail and that should motivate players to avoid this place ;). There are no limitations related to PK (except for getting the high score by killing allies or other cheats), but our event 'Arrest Warrant' will discourage (or encourage) to PK.
After the first few interested players filled the survey, the server settings would look like this:
Our server will be the newest l2j (currently Gracia II) with geodata and pathfinding. We will update it weekly after testing all the updates on the test server.
The server will launch when 500 people register on the forum.
The server hardware will depend on its needs. At the start we will go with:
Processor Intel Quad Q6600 4x 2.40+ GHz 64 bits
RAM 8 GB
HDD 250 GB
Connection 1 Gbps
When the players count increases, we're thinking about:
Processor Intel Bi Xeon Quad 8x 2.40+ GHz 64 bits
RAM 8 GB
HDD 2x 750 GB SATA2 - RAID 1 HARD
Connection 1 Gbps
... but this can change as the servers market is changing every minute.
If you like this article I welcome you to the Event Guild! :)