That feel

[Tasdik]

When you can scare an entire server into not trading.

[byourdi]

ur bad kid

[EquityMaster]

lol is Myth still alive?

[Tasdik]

[omier]

Chinese character with euro skills. What's up with that?

[Tasdik]

?

[omier]

I see a char wearing chinese thief's outfit and running like a chinese character, looks like sword/shield in the hands. And the skills on the skillbar are wizard and cleric skills.

[Tasdik]

Oh. It is a euro wiz/cleric.

They gave different kind of job suits. Not race bound.

[iztupido]

lol is Myth still alive?

lol silkroad still exists?

[Tasdik]

Actually added a guy to the guild last night who knew me from azteca. Ha.

[Crowley]

You never cease to amaze me

[fckerr]

well you are 3 thieves in that party so you are not alone ._.

[Tasdik]

I wiped the entire trade myself.

[Bananaman]

cant believe the server is still running, is Tasdik like the only guy left supporting the server? I check the population and it was... 185/1000. . .

back in teh day I saw it peak at 1450/2000+

In anycase, I was thinking about why this server failed and realized that the unaffordable prices for most of the people on the server (who are living in places where their money isnt nearly worth as much as the Euro/Dollar) were a HUGE factor in the death of the server.

Here's why:

Even with all the problems and full retard moments the Synx team had, the server wouldn't have died if silk was cheap enouhg for people to stay on the server despite all the issues it was having.

[Tasdik]

Interesting. Never really thought about silk prices being such a problem.

[.curve]

Well when the theme of private servers is pay to win, silk suddenly becomes a factor

[Tasdik]

Pay 2 win is wildly useless on myth now.

Haven't donated in a month.

[Bananaman]

Interesting. Never really thought about silk prices being such a problem.

I didnt think so either untill I saw the video and realized where Synx and the crew continued to go wrong (since it wasnt with just one thing)


This is important. . .

PLAYERS

ARE

"CONTENT"

actually let me rephrase that:

PLAYERS

ARE

THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTENT YOU WILL EVER HAVE.
Lose your players, lose your server/game.




If you lose over 80% of your player base in the first few weeks becuase of problems with your server, then all of a sudden in the midst of all of this, roll out a payment system that 95% of the players (do to their country's location) can't participate in, they leave.

I'm not even going touch on the silly job coin system they had where basically the mods had to ban people because of the whole job coin abuse, that they could have easily fixed, had they prioritized, keeping and growing their player base.

Bascally, they were pretty much forcing players to either quit, or get banned as they felt they couldn't compete (P2W)and chose to exploit their way to the "fun."

Pretty much Synx had his priorities completely wrong. Instead of trying to do the bagdad update, he should have been solely focused on stopping the bleeding away of his player base. Hell, a lot of people just went right back to Theta! A lot just quit Sro for good.

Another thing I need to mention, I always see people say stuff like " oh well the"PLayers need to help advertise the server, not the devs"

I'm sorry but this is 100% wrong.

ESPECIALLY for people who are PAYING the devs for the EXPERIENCE of playing a decent server with a decent amount of players. (Remember the mantra? "Players are content")

if you're asking player to PAY the devs for the server then asking them to do their work for them in bringing people to the server, then you're doing it wrong. People dont play games to have a second job, and they certainly dont play because they want to PAY to have a second job in a virtual game world! They play to have fun.

it really is up to the devs to provide a quality product, especially with all the P-Server competition out there.

Synx had the perfect chance to capitalize on this, over 5.4k THOUSAND facebook likes. . .for a server of 1500 slots. He should have been able to have a HUGE population. and if he had silk affordable for all, he would have money rolling throuhg the door. . .enouh to actually hire mroe experienced coders and pay them to fix the game issues! Hell, he could have even had people from low currency exchange rate countries pay LESS if he wanted to and keep the silk prices for those in first world countries the same. . .you know, since the people from the first world countries say how the silk prices were "Fair" and all. . .then let them pay the high prices then!)

It was pretty much a big mess, Synx didn't know what he had, and how rare in the SRO community that actualyl was, he simply failed to capitilze on it. the game probably would have been fine even up to know he hadn't even enabled 14D for job wars, or did the 130 cap update. But instead focus on keep the population high, and stablize the server. . .quickly.

THEN roll out Job coin systems that were well thought out, so that there would be no incentive to exploit it and no need to ban have the server. . .further dwindling the population.

Now of course you can all say, that this is "hindsight 20/20" but. . .it's not. people were pretty much screaming at the top of their lungs to Synx about doing this. . hell, I even mentioned nearly all of these points to him at some point.

He just didn't listen. . .I figured he woudl have listened to me especially after finding that huge exploit that would have ruined the game (and needed to cause a wipe had it gone on long enough) but no, he was in his own world. So everyone else left.

At least I leanred one new thing: If I find an exploit, abuse the hell out of it and tell no one. (Also meaning I make sure that no one finds about about it. . .so no flaunting shit like a retard would)

[Tasdik]

Yeah, Synx farked it up, no doubt about that.

What I wonder is, will Skalidor be the same?

[Atibu]

Hosting a server in theory is quite easy, but in real life it's much much harder than it looks. There are so many factors that you need to take into account, and people can start leaving for the most stupid reason ever, unfortunately the silkroad community is not used to anything, the only thing they care about is having endgame gear when they start and being better if they donate.

About skalidor, it's the same as velestia v2, which is the same as velestia v1, which is the same as generic sro v6546, better yet, they didn't even fix the latest agentserver exploit (though I don't think anybody fixed it yet) so I'm guessing it's doomed from the start

[.curve]

Pay 2 win is wildly useless on myth now.

Haven't donated in a month.

>Haven't donated in a month
>Premium in screenshot posted 4 days ago

[Tasdik]

Bahaha. I buy silk in bulk. Pretty sure I've had the silk for that prem for a few months.

[.curve]

Bahaha. I buy silk in bulk. Pretty sure I've had the silk for that prem for a few months.

Then why do you keep skimping out on paying for dinner, dick

[Qynchou]

Bananaman, is that you ric? Because it sure looks like it. You havent developed a server so talking shit 24/7 is really easy.

Synx didnt fail because he didnt care about the playerbase, Myth failed because of constant lags, downtime and bugs.