Oh god. That is my nightmare. No joke. I was so puzzled to see people pouring into this forum. "Do they even realize what this server is like?" I ask myself that all of time.
Mordo did handle this issure easialy but there was a good few reasons for that: First of all, russian ofi just closed, 2nd they had 2x rates XD 3rd, so much of people who joined, happened to be on strong guilds in ofi.
Here, well.. The best example i have, is bobo bv server, the last one i played. It also had soft cap after lvl 70. As i expected, a lot did quit after a week, however now that i think about it, it was way easier to monopolize it, cause with b2 droping UGs, while everything was low rates.. As result, i had 2 banks of UGs later, not much people knew how to handle bosses in dw with lvl 65ish gemless teams. It is where you actually greatfull for a con champ being able to get so tanky even early, since the hardest part is to get your team to boss, afterwards it's simple.
Another example as abyssmall, but i am not 100% sure what happened there. I had kamis in my guild, we did start soundly, even though after 5 days there was weird guy who boted himself ahead of us, but still, it was exactly what i expected, long grind, the joy of winning very first ca on server, farming kals while fighting other parties there. However then i had to go far away for month or so, and when i was back there was lvl 100 people wth kylin sets, i was like wtf happened XD
As for this server, as it is, it is better to know how much people will willing to mall for pet items, otherwise it could the very reason many people won't ever considering playing this server seriously.
Honestly tho pure vanilla gets boring really quickly and most people here are used to fast leveling and +13 equipment so yeah chances of people quitting early is high, i just hope zankza can introduce some changes to keep players interested.
Actually that is not true at all. There are so many things that you can do in vanilla to grow. Some of those people even forgot they exist at all, since it is more eficient to just buy gems from npc on most of the servers =D My only negative feeling about pure vanilla is being unable to/have insane hard time to getting pet items, fusion items, bags, leveling items with the game methods. Especially if no tree of fortune. While i don't expect any changes, if there ever be any, i just hope they are minimal. It is like a delicate operation with a scalpel, rather then using a chainsaw, like the most servers out there =D But i think it is silly to talk about changes before server even started though.
