Valkyria wrote:
Damn, long time no see mate. It's good to see you back. One of a few real legits I met during my time in SRO. As you probably noticed, I'm still playing this game. Mainly on japanese SRO since about 1.5 years now. Wish I would have played there earlier.
Best SRO experience for me so far.
Oh, so JSRO is a thing now? Back when i was still playing i remember everyone saying that it is impossible to even log in there as a foreigner. And even if you manage to get on the server somehow, you would get banned almost instantly. But apparently that's not the case for you.
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The game got more and more pay2win. However there are some nice features too. My favorite one probably is Survival Arena. It's similar to BA but for 4vs4. Too bad I never was able to play it. Current Cap is 130 with 15 degree.
130 cap with D15 seems really ridiculous. Did they at least increase the EXP rates (or decrease the EXP requirements for leveling up) for lower levels so that you can reach the higher levels faster? And then around Lv.110 or 120 it goes back to the "usual" rates. I think they are doing something similar to that in WoW. There I managed to get Lv.90+ in less than 1 month and the current Lv. cap with the Legion expansion is 110. However i think it still takes quite a bit of time to level from 100 to 110 at the moment. I think with each new expansion they simply decrease the EXP requirements for the previous Lv. caps (which does make sense). So, did they include something similar in SRO?
Also are there any PvE activities that require multiple parties working together (between 15 and 40 people) similar to Raids in WoW? I remember that there was Forgotten World, but that's more like a dungeon in WoW, i.e. a single party of 8 people at maximum.
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Forget isro - bots everywhere. In some comments a character that is not part of a goldbot party was considered "legit" by isro players. That's ridiculous. I don't know of any legit movement.
Hm, just as i thought. It would have been really unexpected if things would have changed after all this time. Maybe if another publisher would have picked up SRO, who actually cares about the game. Wasn't there also a project for a new version of SRO under a different publisher? I remember that there rumours about it, when i still played, but i haven't heard anything about it. So it probably wasn't very succesful. I found some ingame videos on Youtube and also a forum about it (
http://www.sro2forums.com/), but the link to the Official Silkroad2 Website is unfortunately dead. Honestly the videos didn't look particularly exciting, so it wouldn't surprise me, if they just shut it down again since nobody played it.
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I'm the only foreigner in jsro together with some friends that play occassionally. Majority of players probably playing private servers but they usually die in less than a month. People like to do server hopping. I don't understand.
So, how many of you are playing JSRO right now? Do you have a full party of "foreigners" or do you mainly just party with Japanese? Are there any party activities at lower levels or is the server basically dead until lv.110 or even 120? And how do you get along with the Japanese people and how do you communicate with them? Do most of them understand english or did you actually learn Japanese?
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If you are up for anything, let me know. Some of us think about making our dream pserver but none of us can code...
Nope, I currently don't really have any plans. I am mainly playing Hearthstone nowadays and make it to rank 5 consistently every season with 2 Legend finishes so far. I could have more, but most of the time I don't really feel like going hardcore most of the time. This last month I have been trying WoW after I haven't played any MMORPG's for several years and it was a rather interesting experience, but I am not even sure if I will keep going with it. In the end it reminded me of SRO and the "good old times". So that's the reason why I am here now.
As I said I don't really have intentions of playing SRO again, I just wanted to see if some of the people from back then are still lurking around here.
As for the coding, I am familiar with scientific programming in Python and Fortran, but I am not sure if that would be useful for maintaining a private server. I honestly wouldn't even know, how to host it and then you also need to invest into hacking and DDOS protection, which isn't that cheap either. Otherwise the server wouldn't last very long.