Hey community,
some of you possibly know me from other servers, some might not know me or my name at all. But let me start this thread by saying I'm mostly burnt out when it comes to vanilla and I will NOT play on Kronos. So take my opinion with a grain of salt. The sole reason I am even posting this is because I want to see Feenix go DOWN and I want the private server community overall to change very much to where a higher standard of quality is required by players instead of just accepting the status quo, no matter how bugged it may be, in favor of a big community.
Why not have both, right?
I see this as something that might actually be possible with Kronos (and previously I thought Valkyrie could do it, but nevermind with them still being essentially Rusian). However, the reason Valkyrie failed is not only that but also staying so strong on x1 rates. The could never get more English speaking players to join the fun at x1, because more people at 60 got burnt out (of not having enough people to raid with and just afking) than new players came in in a consierable amount of time. So after each hype (like 3 or maybe even 4 times) it slowly died off again. People also got burnt out of leveling to 60 at x1 alone (due to overall small [English] population). I understand that Kronos will try to prevent this by forcing everyone to speak English, but can't we all agree that this is a vicious cycle? If you're stuck at 100 players once (or even 300) and not enough new people are joining to replace the old ones, you cannot keep a server alive AND the new players will have nobody but themselves to level with, which makes the vanilla grind booooring as hell (and it IS a grind).
So what if you could combine both, a constant influx of new players and a shorter grind? I think nobody here actually wants x7 (or even x4 and x5) again, but what about x2 and x3? From what I've seen in the vote, the people who were okay with these rates were roughly on par with the people who wanted x1. And anything higher really isn't that good, because you still want players to invest time in their characters so they won't leave the server. Don't stop reading here, the important part is below.
Then how about a custom voting item that lasts for a couple of hours. This way most of your players will vote constantly and you will be on top of the voting sites and at the same time, you will keep the server active by getting new people on board who actually fill up the lowlevel areas.
These items would work the following: You can vote every 12 hours, this would earn you enough points to buy 1 of 2 different items that you can use ingame. The first item lasts 8 hours and gives you x2 xp, after that, if you want to level hardcore 24/7, you will have to continue at x1. This server isn't supposed to give you anything for free after all.
The other item is supposed to appeal to casuals more, it will give you x3 xp for 4 hours, because you are unable to play 8 hours that very day, for example. However, this particular item overall does not reward as much experience as the other one does, just more of a much shorter amount of time. This way, it is essentially not as good. These items would also REALLY make people roll alts more, because you could gather voting points for alts and then level them at x3 constantly after saving up for a month.
Of course these numbers aren't final and just suggestions (as is the whole thing, obviously) and there is no need to implement it in a way that allows saving up for alts at all. But I think the whole thing is worth considering, if you really want to surpass Feenix (in quality, you surely already have done so).
some of you possibly know me from other servers, some might not know me or my name at all. But let me start this thread by saying I'm mostly burnt out when it comes to vanilla and I will NOT play on Kronos. So take my opinion with a grain of salt. The sole reason I am even posting this is because I want to see Feenix go DOWN and I want the private server community overall to change very much to where a higher standard of quality is required by players instead of just accepting the status quo, no matter how bugged it may be, in favor of a big community.
Why not have both, right?
I see this as something that might actually be possible with Kronos (and previously I thought Valkyrie could do it, but nevermind with them still being essentially Rusian). However, the reason Valkyrie failed is not only that but also staying so strong on x1 rates. The could never get more English speaking players to join the fun at x1, because more people at 60 got burnt out (of not having enough people to raid with and just afking) than new players came in in a consierable amount of time. So after each hype (like 3 or maybe even 4 times) it slowly died off again. People also got burnt out of leveling to 60 at x1 alone (due to overall small [English] population). I understand that Kronos will try to prevent this by forcing everyone to speak English, but can't we all agree that this is a vicious cycle? If you're stuck at 100 players once (or even 300) and not enough new people are joining to replace the old ones, you cannot keep a server alive AND the new players will have nobody but themselves to level with, which makes the vanilla grind booooring as hell (and it IS a grind).
So what if you could combine both, a constant influx of new players and a shorter grind? I think nobody here actually wants x7 (or even x4 and x5) again, but what about x2 and x3? From what I've seen in the vote, the people who were okay with these rates were roughly on par with the people who wanted x1. And anything higher really isn't that good, because you still want players to invest time in their characters so they won't leave the server. Don't stop reading here, the important part is below.
Then how about a custom voting item that lasts for a couple of hours. This way most of your players will vote constantly and you will be on top of the voting sites and at the same time, you will keep the server active by getting new people on board who actually fill up the lowlevel areas.
These items would work the following: You can vote every 12 hours, this would earn you enough points to buy 1 of 2 different items that you can use ingame. The first item lasts 8 hours and gives you x2 xp, after that, if you want to level hardcore 24/7, you will have to continue at x1. This server isn't supposed to give you anything for free after all.
The other item is supposed to appeal to casuals more, it will give you x3 xp for 4 hours, because you are unable to play 8 hours that very day, for example. However, this particular item overall does not reward as much experience as the other one does, just more of a much shorter amount of time. This way, it is essentially not as good. These items would also REALLY make people roll alts more, because you could gather voting points for alts and then level them at x3 constantly after saving up for a month.
Of course these numbers aren't final and just suggestions (as is the whole thing, obviously) and there is no need to implement it in a way that allows saving up for alts at all. But I think the whole thing is worth considering, if you really want to surpass Feenix (in quality, you surely already have done so).
was a general statement