rathidragon wrote:
Dear G-d...
I remember getting impatient after 5 minutes.
Is there a good reason for this to happen?
Good reason? Definitely not.
Bots have overrun the servers and even if you do login then there are tons of bots almost everywhere. If you play euro you'll be fin until Hotan around lvl 42. If you play Chinese you'll be fine until around lvl 20. After that bots have covered alot the areas where you can grind. There are still spots where you can grind but, they either don't have good spawn rate of give you a status effect like zombie etc.
I would play a different version of sro like tsro or csro. They are the Taiwanese and Chinese sros. There are guides to registering in the "Other SRO versions" section. These have no bots, no traffic and there are some communities that english players have established.
There is also a sro "private server" coming out soon known as esro which is supposed to be an improved version of the current international sro without bots etc. All I can tell you is that it's coming out soon.
I wish you luck.