Discussion L2 Classic servers popularity

[Pleyne]

All in all, want to ask if those classic servers are popular enough at these times?
I know that there are not lots of classic servers, but when i log in to check i make impression that 40% of players are phantoms.
So what's your opinion is it worth it to open classic server (zaken)?

For example the features (events and all other functions would be the same as in L2Zaken project - almost their files).
H5 is drained, every week 2new projects minimum (so let's say there are 100 servers with 50players in each)..

[Herlitz]

First off, zero point in releasing a low rate Classic server - people who want to pay monthly fees are on official servers, people who don't are on Classic.club, and those who for some reason don't want to go there are on Dex or some minor projects. No opportunity there.

 

But there's definitely plenty gold left undigged in the Classic mid rate/high rate area - so far all the mid/high Classic servers opened were basically no names - in other words, people who realized there's this opportunity, but they simply didn't have the advertising power of the big names to really make it.

 

The whole L2 private servers scene basically waits until one of the huge servers decide to make the "classic" recyclable H5 midrate with all the GM shops/ alt+b / npc buffer etc., just with Classic files. The reason is simple - Classic is vastly superior to H5 in practically every conceivable way when it comes to servers with midrate settings - whether it's balance (it was good on H5 but it's near perfect on Classic), the ways to improve (e.g. on H5, enchanting your armor just gets you some p.def which is often negligible - on Classic, getting your set to +6 and more is vital since it opens a whole new options, which alone gives a game hundreds of hours of extra endgame time), the UI, the oldschool vibe (extremelly important on a 10+ year old game) and loads of other fixes and improvements.

 

People are simply used to the H5 since there hasn't been a real opportunity to migrate to any 'relevant' Classic midrate. Once they do, there won't be many people coming back to the H5 since there won't be any real reason when it comes to the chronicle.

 

But while it's obvious that Classic midrates are the future, I'm not sure if I'd really invest time into making one unless I'd have a huge advertising budget, because people first need to learn that Classic is better than H5 from a big project, as I mentioned before. If I was serious about it, I'd probably offer a collaboration with some of the big projects; also many dead projects have their social network sites with many followers, and their owners often have their players' emails - a huge advertising opportunity there, but as always it's all about the money :)

 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2018 by Herlitz

[Pleyne]

Thanks for the answer, might I get some information on packs around community?
I mean there are only L2Scripts and L2JMobius.
As i don't have any problems while fixing bugs or adapting code to packs, I have huge problem - no experience how Classic should work and where should i look after receiving bug report.(Short version: How to get accurate information how something should work on Classic chronicle, if you're not Classic chronicle player?)

[SweeTs]

1 hour ago, Pleyne said:

How to get accurate information how something should work on Classic chronicle, if you're not Classic chronicle player?)

You should start playing Classic or code custom, as you feel is right :D

 

Eventually try to google for given feature, you may find something on L2 sites/forums. There are no real sources for such information, Classic server is the only one, I believe.

[Mobius]

First of all, if you want to see how things work, you should have an active account on Innova.

If you cannot afford it, there are tons of information on the retail site, wiki and forums.

[vampir]

or buy classic l2off