Discussion Why Do You Think Servers Fail?

[Elfosass]

So every day we see servers open and close.

In your opinion why is that?

What makes you leave or stay at a server and what would you like in a server?

Edited February 23, 2015 by Elfosass

[Cray-Z]

They not close always because of players i see 150 on one server and close next days that means that owner open the server only for donations.

+they buy dedicated servers and waiting get rich of the server , one pc with 3-4 cost 20e/month dont buy 150 euro dedicated servers you can handle easy 600 people with that specs.

Edited February 23, 2015 by Cray-Z

[Karasu]

So every day we see servers open and close.

In your opinion why is that?

What makes you leave or stay at a server and what would you like in a server?

 

To not see you making one.

[Cray-Z]

To not see you making one.

:happyforever:

[Elfosass]

To not see you making one.

You just enjoy hating randomly on anyone don't you? Cuz what did I possibly do that mad you mad?

[Epiquin]

Lack of realised goals.

 

Whatever they are.

 

If I had a set of goals I wanted to achieve through the medium of a server and I couldn't achieve them, I'd close it too. 

[`NeverMore]

You just enjoy hating randomly on anyone don't you? Cuz what did I possibly do that mad you mad?

u defented reunion before ages against him

[Karasu]

You just enjoy hating randomly on anyone don't you? Cuz what did I possibly do that mad you mad?

 

 

u defented reunion before ages against him

 

I thought you were going to accept my opinion so why my post is deleted ? 

Eh Nevermore?  :happyforever: "legit"

 

Well whatever do as you please for now. Im not getting paid to waste my time with non-sense trivial bullshits.

Edited February 23, 2015 by Karasu

[Extreamer]

I thought you were going to accept my opinion so why my post is deleted ? 

Eh Nevermore?  :happyforever: "legit"

 

Well whatever do as you please for now. Im not getting paid to waste my time with non-sense trivial bullshits.

 

Karasu the master of the Edit button :), The only reason why servers fail because they are mostly ran on a shitty VPS with no protection, or a pack that is completely useless with no new features and no stability.

[Karasu]

like reunion  :happyforever:  :happyforever:  :happyforever: or frozen but thats just the beginning of failure.

Nevermore is the basic example of failure with his l2 empire, he had 180 online and he failed in 1 day. Thats how good reunion pack is.

 

My servers always last 1-2 months at least! "thats because community gets bored of just pvping randomly like fags" so...

Edited February 23, 2015 by Karasu

[Fortuna]

That's an issue of mid/high rate servers mostly since they do not require as much dedication as a low rate does. Basically, one problem is that people can have access to end-game way too easily, resulting in them getting bored extremely fast and finally quitting looking for something fresh. This could be fixed by constant and rational content release (at the extent it's possible in a private server obviously.) This includes events, gameplay/balance tweaks and whatever might be desired by the community. On balance, keep the players interested by not turning the game into a "routine". 

 

Also, direct comfortation against top-geared guys is not as fun for a new player, which discourages them from continuing to play. That's a common phenomenon in high/mid rates. When the server gets a bit old, pve is a PAIN for newcomers, since they get bullied by older players. I'm not sure what a good solution for this would be. Creating peace zones for pve ruins the entire concept of a PVP server. Maybe making PKing punishing could patrially solve this, since it also encourages clans to make wars. What's more annoying than a clan that does not accept or drops wars? :d

Edited February 23, 2015 by Fortuna

[`NeverMore]

like reunion  :happyforever:  :happyforever:  :happyforever: or frozen but thats just the beginning of failure.

Nevermore is the basic example of failure with his l2 empire, he had 180 online and he failed in 1 day. Thats how good reunion pack is.

 

My servers always last 1-2 months at least! "thats because community gets bored of just pvping randomly like fags" so...

U got 1070 posts on this forum and 1000 of them are containg my name!

Not to mention your 50 changes of sugnature where all of them was about me and my project! Even your avatar is about me and my project! haahahahah

I feel proud of me! 

 

NeverMore and l2jreunion seems so importand to you!

[Herlitz]

So every day we see servers open and close.

In your opinion why is that?

What makes you leave or stay at a server and what would you like in a server?

 

It's very simple. There are basically two kinds of servers, if we exclude those homemades not worth mentioning:

 

1. - Servers with a lot of hard work put in them but not enough advertising. They have a potential to be long, stable +1k servers since devs take care of them, make constant events, don't make OP donations etc; BUT they thought the players will somehow come on their own which didn't happen since they had no idea that such server exists.

 

2. - Servers with a lot of advertising, but non existent work on them - aka copy pasta generic middle rates á la L2Tales - 20-50x rates, alt+b buffer, gmshop up to S, done. A lot of people come because that's the most popular settings now, but soon they realize devs are just sitting on their butts, collecting the money and doing nothing - even the events are fully automatic. When they reach some final point there's nothing to do, because admin's bank account is filled and they don't care anymore.

 

L2 community is not as huge as it used to be, but I think there's still potential to create a largest server ever if you somehow manage to accomplish both these points. However it's obvious it would have to be unique project with continously updated lategame content, perfect newcomers packs after months etc and for love of heavens, extreme advertising.

[Epiquin]

 What's more annoying than a clan that does not accept or drops wars? :D

Forceable war for an adena fee. 

The aggressing clan must then hunt down the forced war targets to kill them in hopes of getting enough drops/rewards/whatever in order to financially break even with the war cost or maybe even profit.

 

Or just force war for luls. Lose some adena, bu no safety for carebears.

 

Good adena sink as well...

Edited February 24, 2015 by Epiquin

[jignick]

Servers fail to capture my interest.I mean one server that I would play the shit out of would be Interlude l2 pride(even now).The wannabe l2 pride servers are pretty bad and fail to capture the 'magic' of the original.