well, you guys really don't make it easy for us, especially since you don't seem to read properly enough. :wacko:
let me make another try to clear things up a little bit:
What there WILL be on Kronos that's not 'blizzlike': a 10g respec Cap !
'What the hell Kronos, how come you do that SHIT ?! That's not BLIZZLIKE?!': We know this is a modification. And we made that decision with a purpose.
We have quite some experience in the p-server scene and 1 thing that has been a problem on SO MANY other servers is the PvP status. BGs don't open as frequently as most players wish they would. Let alone, how often does it happen that multiple BGs run at the same time ? Yep, pretty rarely or close to never. And that's a problem we want to tackle.
Most of the times, it turns out that most PvE players only reluctantly join some BGs, if they do at all. That is, because they can't afford paying the full respec fee several times a week. And the vanilla community of today doesn't like to go into something with a disadvantage, which in that case means, most PvE players stay away from Battlegrounds because they can't pay for a proper respec all the time.
Going into Bgs with pve speccs only leads to frustration, because you almost can't win against a proper specced group and it also leads to flame among team members: 'how you dare joining BG with pve specc, ******, get out of here'.
The pvp community probably wouldn't be big enough to keep the pvp busy, exciting and refreshing. That's why we want to make pvp more accessible to players who focus more on pve, because both, the pve players and the pvp players profit from this.
A server with a pop of 10k+ (BLIZZLIKE pop numbers) could manage without modifications, on private servers though, this is not realistic.
We are sure, you will LOVE this and it will only help the server.
We are not Blizzard Entertainment, this is the vanilla wow private server scene, we have to make at least a few modifications to make things work. (The result will be more blizzlike (pvp activity), than keeping the respec cap at 50g, trust us when we tell ya !
What will be on Kronos that IS BLIZZLIKE ?
- the XP and Gold-,Item drop rate.
Kronos will go with normal, (or the word you seem to like more: BLIZZLIKE) xp rates. Gold drop from mobs will be normal (BLITZLEIK) as well as green, rare and epic item drops !
- then, for us the even more important thing and especially one of the things that all other server fail to have:
well scripted and working dungeons and quests !!
You call a server 'blizzlike' that has x1 XP rates, but terribly scripted dungeons, without working special events, unfinishable quests and totally wrong damage calculations (spelldmg coefficients etc etc) ??
well interesting point of view !:cool2: We do not call that 'blizzlike'.
What did i forget that you asked about:
Hearthstone CD: Hearthstones will have the full 1h cooldown on KRONOS ! Twinstar's TBC server halfed the cd on their server but NOT on Kronos !!
Also, we fixed an exploit that people love to use: teleporting out of a dungeon via grp leave to save your HS cooldown will not work here. It will put your HS on 1h cooldown after using this way of teleport. Also, the unstuck function will not teleport you to your HS location or Starting Area or whatever, like on other servers.
Auction Houses: WILL NOT BE LINKED ON KRONOS in the beginning ! We reserve the right though to change it, if the server really needs it. (When there's poorly filled AHs on both sides over a long time)
BG Queue Command: on some servers (which people still call 100% blizzlike) such commands have been in place and the community seemed to like it (which is probably why people ask about it here in the first place).
We have shortly exchanged our thoughts about it among the team and we don't like to enable this globally and without any restrictions (like level restrictions). But a final decision has yet to be made.
Donation Items: We only give out items that are not obtainable through ingame play !
These are collectables like Pets (from Blizzcon events, collector's edition etc), the pre 1.4 Mounts (only the mounts, not the required riding skill) and a Tabard. If that is unacceptable for you, then so be it . Interesting way of choosing a server though ... :whistling:
so much to your questions. If you had gone through the info on kronos-wow.com and the FAQ on these forums here, you would have gotten these answers yourself, just saying. Other than that, read carefully what people write here on the fourms.