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Lith wrote:Yeah Silkroad Online is the ONLY good MMO game, I mean you can grind all day, or if you're really rich you can buy tickets to grind some more! DOUBLE THE XP, DOUBLE THE PENETRATION! :P

They should change the name of the game. Now it doesn't even relate to the real Silkroad. All everyone does in this game is either grind fast to the cap or fight in capes. Look, the SOX items has destroyed this game. Get any crappy ass character and some suns, there you go you're king of the Farking server. Let the 12 year olds worship your big fat ass. I bet your dad will be Farking proud that you spent the last 10 years grinding to level 140, and you put real life aside like salad you won't eat till you're completely farmed.

I'm tired of all these lame fuckers who think they have skill in Silkroad. When did pressing "F1 F2 F3 F4: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0" take some skill? Go play any FPS games and then come here and brag how cool and l33t you are.

You're sitting on your computer for 6 hours, you gain 30 pounds. Yeepy-kiyay mother fucka, you got 2,000 skill points! Oh wait, I forgot you need 348K more till you have the obese status. Sorry kid, might as well start a new character till you get it right.


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Lets call it Botroad.



and what the hell are you guys doing here? I surf this forum cause i like Silkroad and think its a good game...i hate ppl that just give Joymax names and whine whine whine about all bad things in sro. Just go play WoW and never come back here...i won't cry

you do not have the right to complain about anything that you got for free. If your pet or ticket doesnt work...ok, but we all know that there are bots and lag on sro so saying it everyday won't help. It is part of the game, accept it or quit. it's that simple


and your just complaining about games (you get fat by em ans other shit that depends on the person just as it depends on the actions he does)

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i think sro needs some sensible players

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Lith is right. Silkroad is not what it used to be.

I used to have fun in the game, i spend a lot of time on it and i got like 3 levels per month, because most of time I was having fun in the game.

But now the only point of the game has become to get to the cap. Bots get there in no time and as you (a lower level probably) want to have fun, you go:

- PvP: "Yay now I'm lvl 42 now I can pwn all those noobs". A bot will by that time be lvl 72 and pwn your ass, because he can't get enough of that, since he didn't play the game.

- Job: 1* popping, no more. Now they simply murder your camel.

- Guild Chat: Well thats the only thing left, but you need to find a real guild for this one.

As the game itself doesn't require skill in order to be good, why play then if you can get a free bot to do all the hard work for you. That is what Silkroad has become.

Again to mention Lith is right. Go play Counter-Strike and then say that you have some skills.
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Lith wrote:Yeah Silkroad Online is the ONLY good MMO game, I mean you can grind all day, or if you're really rich you can buy tickets to grind some more! DOUBLE THE XP, DOUBLE THE PENETRATION! :P

They should change the name of the game. Now it doesn't even relate to the real Silkroad. All everyone does in this game is either grind fast to the cap or fight in capes. Look, the SOX items has destroyed this game. Get any crappy ass character and some suns, there you go you're king of the Farking server. Let the 12 year olds worship your big fat ass. I bet your dad will be Farking proud that you spent the last 10 years grinding to level 140, and you put real life aside like salad you won't eat till you're completely farmed.

I'm tired of all these lame fuckers who think they have skill in Silkroad. When did pressing "F1 F2 F3 F4: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0" take some skill? Go play any FPS games and then come here and brag how cool and l33t you are.

You're sitting on your computer for 6 hours, you gain 30 pounds. Yeepy-kiyay mother fucka, you got 2,000 skill points! Oh wait, I forgot you need 348K more till you have the obese status. Sorry kid, might as well start a new character till you get it right.


Your completely missing the point. The game isnt about racing to the cap, it isnt about spending years of your life on it. Its having fun. Sitting there destroying monsters, talking to guild mates, going on hunting runs with close mates, thats what this game is about. Not about becoming "1337". MMO's are online games for a reason. So players can INTERACT. I am sick of hearing people like you preach your shit.

Sorry for the un-intentional flame, im pissed off at shit atm. My apoligies if it offends.


This game is not what you think anymore. Of course people interact, when they get pissed off by some noob ass then they go murder them and start up annoying globals.

Look at the globals from January to now, its always either prejudice against turks, pompom spamming shit bricks, gold advertising, and people putting shit into other peoples business.

Just today I logged into Greece, Xian, Eldorado and Persia and theres always some noob saying "**** off" or "stfu i wasn't talking to you". I kill someone in cape "Oh shit lagggg sorry lol didn't have pots on either" then later "**** YOU ASSHOLE I'M GETTING MY MAIN." I sit there for 5 minutes and no one comes. What a lying dumb ass.

This game brings drama seriously, I don't think I can go back to this game.


You dont have to interact with people like that. I have a thing called a guild and a union, in their i have good mates. I love those people, they make what the game is. Not some globaling ego filled 14 year olds.

You can choose who you wil associate with or not. Sure i read those globals, but i laugh at how much they fail life, and then i dont global back. Instead i talk to my mates. Thats what i meant by interaction.

But this is how i see it and play the game. w/e works for you.

Aslong as you are happy with your decisions, then i respect your choices for them.

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haha that looks like guildwars
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hitman144 wrote:player mods , ingame ,

the [GM] go look for legit players that dedicate some of ther time to silkroad and are nice players willing to help ban bots , players can report bots to the [GM] and the [GM's] can bann the reported bots.

after a certain number of reports the player mod has done , he can be given the ban hammer , and he can ban bots without permission

that would get rid of almost all the bots in the game


+ a lil more :D lol ^^

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satman83 wrote:3= Mods who actually enter the game more then ever 5 months

5= an consent active mod in each server to deal with problems as they
happen (like WoW)


cSRO has a "request help" feature in the system menu to send a report to a GM. I wish iSRO had that...

satman83 wrote:6= removal of item mail or make the game pay 2 play...i think after 3 years
that JM should make up their minds about which way they want this game
to go


Well Joymax has to get their money from somewhere. I don't think they could make it entirely free to play. I think it's fine to allow people to play the game completely free of charge, but provide extra goods/services to those willing to pay for it. You pay, you get extra benefits.
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SRO needs the merchant system from Granado Espada (stall offline items for 24 hours) :banghead:
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MOre xp when you are a high lvl becuase grinding is really boring

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Colb wrote:
DragonTalon wrote:And i would also like "quests" that are actually quests. Not just something where you go talk to some random NPC and go collect purple bags -_-. I wanna go slay a dragon or something like that.


I did a series of quests that led up to one final boss (I think 3 or 4 total quests). I didn't do any real grinding. Killed the boss known as Capt. Ivy and I got 20 zerk scrolls :D


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tedtwilliger wrote:
Lith wrote:Yeah Silkroad Online is the ONLY good MMO game, I mean you can grind all day, or if you're really rich you can buy tickets to grind some more! DOUBLE THE XP, DOUBLE THE PENETRATION! :P

They should change the name of the game. Now it doesn't even relate to the real Silkroad. All everyone does in this game is either grind fast to the cap or fight in capes. Look, the SOX items has destroyed this game. Get any crappy ass character and some suns, there you go you're king of the Farking server. Let the 12 year olds worship your big fat ass. I bet your dad will be Farking proud that you spent the last 10 years grinding to level 140, and you put real life aside like salad you won't eat till you're completely farmed.

I'm tired of all these lame fuckers who think they have skill in Silkroad. When did pressing "F1 F2 F3 F4: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0" take some skill? Go play any FPS games and then come here and brag how cool and l33t you are.

You're sitting on your computer for 6 hours, you gain 30 pounds. Yeepy-kiyay mother fucka, you got 2,000 skill points! Oh wait, I forgot you need 348K more till you have the obese status. Sorry kid, might as well start a new character till you get it right.


Your completely missing the point. The game isnt about racing to the cap, it isnt about spending years of your life on it. Its having fun. Sitting there destroying monsters, talking to guild mates, going on hunting runs with close mates, thats what this game is about. Not about becoming "1337". MMO's are online games for a reason. So players can INTERACT. I am sick of hearing people like you preach your shit.

Sorry for the un-intentional flame, im pissed off at shit atm. My apoligies if it offends.



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Lith wrote:Yeah Silkroad Online is the ONLY good MMO game, I mean you can grind all day, or if you're really rich you can buy tickets to grind some more! DOUBLE THE XP, DOUBLE THE PENETRATION! :P

They should change the name of the game. Now it doesn't even relate to the real Silkroad. All everyone does in this game is either grind fast to the cap or fight in capes. Look, the SOX items has destroyed this game. Get any crappy ass character and some suns, there you go you're king of the Farking server. Let the 12 year olds worship your big fat ass. I bet your dad will be Farking proud that you spent the last 10 years grinding to level 140, and you put real life aside like salad you won't eat till you're completely farmed.

I'm tired of all these lame fuckers who think they have skill in Silkroad. When did pressing "F1 F2 F3 F4: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0" take some skill? Go play any FPS games and then come here and brag how cool and l33t you are.

You're sitting on your computer for 6 hours, you gain 30 pounds. Yeepy-kiyay mother fucka, you got 2,000 skill points! Oh wait, I forgot you need 348K more till you have the obese status. Sorry kid, might as well start a new character till you get it right.

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satman83 wrote:What SRO needs

1= bots to actually be banned more then every 5 months

2= system in place/improvement on the server so bots cant enter/re-enter
the game
I doubt this will ever be accomplished. It's difficult to do, and can easily be circumvented if it were implemented

3= Mods who actually enter the game more then ever 5 months
Yeah, more GM interaction would indeed be welcolmed... They aren't even on when they do their server announcements. Atleast you could global at them back in the days.

4= If JM actually listen to us and gave us what we wanted..instead of ignoring
whatever we tell them as even tough were the second SRO game made, we
arent based in asia ¬_¬
Half of the suggestions made by players are outright stupid. What you don't consider fair or find to be unbalanced are at times needed game elements. Like the mana shield for example. People seem to bitch about it all the time, but with the damage glaivers deal now, it's almost needed. Besides, some of our suggestions actually have made it into the game and MD did mention that they reported our input.

5= an consent active mod in each server to deal with problems as they
happen (like WoW)
Be gorgeous if it worked out... but with half of player base having the intelligence of a rock, the mod would have to spend more time sorting through bullshit complaints [scamming... getting thieved... getting ksed... bla bla] that he would never even have time to address real issues

6= removal of item mail or make the game pay 2 play...i think after 3 years
that JM should make up their minds about which way they want this game
to go
If you can't afford item mall and you're bitching about how it unbalances the game play, gtfo. The game is free to play as you please, if you wish to contribute to JM, you can buy goods from the item mall. That simple. Why remove the item mall and make the game p2p if this system works out fine anyways? People who want to play for free can, and people who wish to blow their freshly earned quid on the game can do so as well. I like the current system a lot more. When I need to grind to the next cap, I have to spend money on tickets, if I just want to take a break for school and play every once in awhile, I can logon without paying.

7= Updates when the asia based games get them...its insulting to us that
JSRO and CSRO get updates before us even tough we came out before
they did
ksro + isro = JM owned. jSRO, cSRO, vSRO etc, are all SOLD by JM to other companies. JM sells them the updates as they come. There's nothing insulting about it. kSRO is JM's beta testing ground for the updates and iSRO is JM's marketing tool for the game. The other versions pay JM quite a significant amount to get the updates, while we just bitch and moan about everything.

8= imporvement on lvl system at high lvls...its stupid how even as a lvl60
and using a GT i gain little to no XP because of this stupid system.
ATM, I really don't have too much of a problem with the leveling system, although it's obvious that it takes hella longer to grind from 79 to 80 then from 69 to 70. Only thing I'm curious about is how this will work at say the 100 cap...
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Nyahgis wrote:
satman83 wrote:What SRO needs

1= bots to actually be banned more then every 5 months

2= system in place/improvement on the server so bots cant enter/re-enter
the game
I doubt this will ever be accomplished. It's difficult to do, and can easily be circumvented if it were implemented

3= Mods who actually enter the game more then ever 5 months
Yeah, more GM interaction would indeed be welcolmed... They aren't even on when they do their server announcements. Atleast you could global at them back in the days.

4= If JM actually listen to us and gave us what we wanted..instead of ignoring
whatever we tell them as even tough were the second SRO game made, we
arent based in asia ¬_¬
Half of the suggestions made by players are outright stupid. What you don't consider fair or find to be unbalanced are at times needed game elements. Like the mana shield for example. People seem to bitch about it all the time, but with the damage glaivers deal now, it's almost needed. Besides, some of our suggestions actually have made it into the game and MD did mention that they reported our input.

5= an consent active mod in each server to deal with problems as they
happen (like WoW)
Be gorgeous if it worked out... but with half of player base having the intelligence of a rock, the mod would have to spend more time sorting through bullshit complaints [scamming... getting thieved... getting ksed... bla bla] that he would never even have time to address real issues

6= removal of item mail or make the game pay 2 play...i think after 3 years
that JM should make up their minds about which way they want this game
to go
If you can't afford item mall and you're bitching about how it unbalances the game play, gtfo. The game is free to play as you please, if you wish to contribute to JM, you can buy goods from the item mall. That simple. Why remove the item mall and make the game p2p if this system works out fine anyways? People who want to play for free can, and people who wish to blow their freshly earned quid on the game can do so as well. I like the current system a lot more. When I need to grind to the next cap, I have to spend money on tickets, if I just want to take a break for school and play every once in awhile, I can logon without paying.

7= Updates when the asia based games get them...its insulting to us that
JSRO and CSRO get updates before us even tough we came out before
they did
ksro + isro = JM owned. jSRO, cSRO, vSRO etc, are all SOLD by JM to other companies. JM sells them the updates as they come. There's nothing insulting about it. kSRO is JM's beta testing ground for the updates and iSRO is JM's marketing tool for the game. The other versions pay JM quite a significant amount to get the updates, while we just bitch and moan about everything.

8= imporvement on lvl system at high lvls...its stupid how even as a lvl60
and using a GT i gain little to no XP because of this stupid system.
ATM, I really don't have too much of a problem with the leveling system, although it's obvious that it takes hella longer to grind from 79 to 80 then from 69 to 70. Only thing I'm curious about is how this will work at say the 100 cap...
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Lith wrote:
tedtwilliger wrote:
Lith wrote:Yeah Silkroad Online is the ONLY good MMO game, I mean you can grind all day, or if you're really rich you can buy tickets to grind some more! DOUBLE THE XP, DOUBLE THE PENETRATION! :P

They should change the name of the game. Now it doesn't even relate to the real Silkroad. All everyone does in this game is either grind fast to the cap or fight in capes. Look, the SOX items has destroyed this game. Get any crappy ass character and some suns, there you go you're king of the Farking server. Let the 12 year olds worship your big fat ass. I bet your dad will be Farking proud that you spent the last 10 years grinding to level 140, and you put real life aside like salad you won't eat till you're completely farmed.

I'm tired of all these lame fuckers who think they have skill in Silkroad. When did pressing "F1 F2 F3 F4: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0" take some skill? Go play any FPS games and then come here and brag how cool and l33t you are.

You're sitting on your computer for 6 hours, you gain 30 pounds. Yeepy-kiyay mother fucka, you got 2,000 skill points! Oh wait, I forgot you need 348K more till you have the obese status. Sorry kid, might as well start a new character till you get it right.


Your completely missing the point. The game isnt about racing to the cap, it isnt about spending years of your life on it. Its having fun. Sitting there destroying monsters, talking to guild mates, going on hunting runs with close mates, thats what this game is about. Not about becoming "1337". MMO's are online games for a reason. So players can INTERACT. I am sick of hearing people like you preach your shit.

Sorry for the un-intentional flame, im pissed off at shit atm. My apoligies if it offends.


This game is not what you think anymore. Of course people interact, when they get pissed off by some noob ass then they go murder them and start up annoying globals.

Look at the globals from January to now, its always either prejudice against turks, pompom spamming shit bricks, gold advertising, and people putting shit into other peoples business.

Just today I logged into Greece, Xian, Eldorado and Persia and theres always some noob saying "**** off" or "stfu i wasn't talking to you". I kill someone in cape "Oh shit lagggg sorry lol didn't have pots on either" then later "**** YOU ASSHOLE I'M GETTING MY MAIN." I sit there for 5 minutes and no one comes. What a lying dumb ass.

This game brings drama seriously, I don't think I can go back to this game.

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Trice wrote:If all the people in china jump at the same time...


That's an earthquake.
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Trice wrote:If all the people in china jump at the same time...


That's an earthquake.
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[TS]=Hark=[TS] wrote:
Colb wrote:
DragonTalon wrote:And i would also like "quests" that are actually quests. Not just something where you go talk to some random NPC and go collect purple bags -_-. I wanna go slay a dragon or something like that.


I did a series of quests that led up to one final boss (I think 3 or 4 total quests). I didn't do any real grinding. Killed the boss known as Capt. Ivy and I got 20 zerk scrolls :D


:love: i seriously love you right now.... its a long story if you want me to say it ill say but its too long for one post i think (about zerk scrolls and how you get them, and someone calling my friend a peice of shit hacker)


I just got done doing that quest. It took me 18 minutes to kill Ivy, and I even had zerk and am lvl 50. I was constantly getting hit with KB and KD and stun.

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Manowar wrote:Jump + sro lag = not good


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