... don't get me wrong, the server seems promising etc... but setting the experience-rate to x1 is like shooting yourselves in the foot. Why?
Allow me to explain why this is a really bad decision:
First off: PvPer's, pvpers wont level x1 rates on a server they never even heard of (But Kronos is hyped!) No the server is not hyped at all, i know most active pvp players who play vanilla servers. I recognize pretty much all the names on the forums here, it's the same people who try every single server that comes out. And none of you can say that you have ever played on a x1 rate server with good PvP. Sure it's good for a few months but it will die slowly, just like all other servers. And most people i know had never even heard of kronos before i directed them here.
"Who cares about PvP? It's only like 5% of the people who play wow that cares about PvP."
Everyone should care about pvp, even if you aren't a hardcore pvper. Any server needs PvP to keep the stream going.
Day one 1: Server launch & people start leveling slowly with the x1 rates. if you are lucky you will have 500 people on launch, half of these won't even make it to 60(Judging from any x1 server launch) Keep in mind that alot of people will be in a "wait and see" mind. Which basically means they will log on once in a while and see if the server is growing before they put effort into leveling.
After a few months you will have maybe, maybe 100 people at level 60, now it's time for gear farming.
First off you need to farm 5m instances for a couple of weeks. This is the fun part imo, gearing a character from scratch.
Fast forward to raiding content: People don't need to farm 5m instances anymore and it's time to get them epics. A normal guild raids 3 times per week. Lets say you raid on a sunday and the next raid is wednesday. On a server with no PvP what will you do the next 3 days? (All professions 300/300 and you already got your epic mount.)
This is what will happen: People will log on for raids and log out after raids, the server will be stale without having BG's running. People will sit afk in IF/Orgrimmar all day waiting for a miracle to happen. We have all seen this before.
Sure some servers with x1 rates still got BG's running but these servers have been active for years. Just face it, people are tired of leveling. Just because some pvper leveled x1 rates on server X doesn't mean he/she will do it again on server Y.
Your best decision would be to make it atleast x7 rates.
It's naive to expect anything good to come out of x1 rates on a server with really low marketing.
Allow me to explain why this is a really bad decision:
First off: PvPer's, pvpers wont level x1 rates on a server they never even heard of (But Kronos is hyped!) No the server is not hyped at all, i know most active pvp players who play vanilla servers. I recognize pretty much all the names on the forums here, it's the same people who try every single server that comes out. And none of you can say that you have ever played on a x1 rate server with good PvP. Sure it's good for a few months but it will die slowly, just like all other servers. And most people i know had never even heard of kronos before i directed them here.
"Who cares about PvP? It's only like 5% of the people who play wow that cares about PvP."
Everyone should care about pvp, even if you aren't a hardcore pvper. Any server needs PvP to keep the stream going.
Day one 1: Server launch & people start leveling slowly with the x1 rates. if you are lucky you will have 500 people on launch, half of these won't even make it to 60(Judging from any x1 server launch) Keep in mind that alot of people will be in a "wait and see" mind. Which basically means they will log on once in a while and see if the server is growing before they put effort into leveling.
After a few months you will have maybe, maybe 100 people at level 60, now it's time for gear farming.
First off you need to farm 5m instances for a couple of weeks. This is the fun part imo, gearing a character from scratch.
Fast forward to raiding content: People don't need to farm 5m instances anymore and it's time to get them epics. A normal guild raids 3 times per week. Lets say you raid on a sunday and the next raid is wednesday. On a server with no PvP what will you do the next 3 days? (All professions 300/300 and you already got your epic mount.)
This is what will happen: People will log on for raids and log out after raids, the server will be stale without having BG's running. People will sit afk in IF/Orgrimmar all day waiting for a miracle to happen. We have all seen this before.
Sure some servers with x1 rates still got BG's running but these servers have been active for years. Just face it, people are tired of leveling. Just because some pvper leveled x1 rates on server X doesn't mean he/she will do it again on server Y.
Your best decision would be to make it atleast x7 rates.
It's naive to expect anything good to come out of x1 rates on a server with really low marketing.