Ammodytes

Maybe ill be back . If next project will be less items prohibited , ill be back for sure. Anyway , ty for your kind words Trau

Ty Mit , but as i said , i dont want to stress myself anymore. Really like party with you guys...forgot. Valhalla here. Regards to Tempest

GL guys then. Really apreciate ppl like you and hate ppl like me. Im not use to be chineze farmer . I already "left" the building. Went on more greener pastures :))

At its peak, Phoenix had around 550 online characters. Till this day, after 4 months, we still have ~37x -40x online characters, this shows how stable this server is. Regarding why people are stopping, I believe there are a couple of reasons:
It's the nature circle of MU, you get bored after awhile. No character progression due to RNG factors and bad economy. This happens very frequently. I knew a few players who left because of chaos globin. At one point, I considered stop playing because I failed 3rd wings 6 times in a row in 2 days. I offered like 3 condor feathers+2flame+jwl/credits, nobody wants to sell me. This server is very very bad in term of economy. Particularly, people here tend to hold on their valuable items and ask for ridiculous price.  The classes they played are weak. Some of us are very competitive, some tried very hard but their character was weak no matter what, so they left. Life stuff especially if you are a lone player. My team has 4 players but we mostly have had only 2 players active. I went on 3 week vacations, another took 2 weeks, and another took 2 weeks. It's summer. New server is open in around 1-2 months. I will stick around Phoenix though, reset server is not my taste anymore.  
Nevertheless, this is the most stable season that OldSquad has. In previous seasons, the online counter usually reduces by half after 2 months. Of course, there are a lot of room for improvement, such as making the game pace faster and improving economy. Now it is 4th month but no player with full socket set, only one player has 4th wings, a lot of people who played since the beginning still do not have 3rd wings, etc.
At the end of the day, stick around and have fun man. You always have Trau in this server.

Whats "end game " item  and when you should have it ? When you pass lvl 300 ? When you are 400 ? When you have 1 rr , 2, 3 ?
And if an "end game" item its hunt with "alts"  then , that player its out of his mind. And that map isnt easy , trust me 

Hello all!
I’ve been to this server for a bit longer than 1 month so far, already did my 1st RR and going up for 2nd, I’m hunting golden, participating in OSGM events, trying to farm materials and in general all so far so good.
I don’t know if I’m still a newbie or not, I will tell you some things from my point of view anyway.
First of all when I joined here I was not alone. I brought my friends and we literally about 12 different people started playing. After the 1st week 3-4 left and nowdays, one month after our arrival we play only 4 people. The reasons are surely personal for some guys but the majority of the ones left (the 5 out of 6 to be more exact) was because of server difficulty. In my opinion is a great server tho and yes the name “Semi-Hard” says it all. It could be more like 30%semi-70%Hard but anyway Once you get your 1st resets done or you just reach lvl 400 some things become quite easier and you have plenty more things to do. Also because of the RR system (zen required to reset and exp decrease/ml exp increase) it’s always challenging for the player and surely you have to sacrifice some things in order to benefit from others. The truth is, things need careful planning because the balance you try to maintain can easily break. And not straight after you make some changes but at a later time!
I started writing some suggestions about the economy a few days ago (this is the 2nd time I ‘m trying to make a proper post) which for the record I will include here BUT afterall it’s the players who make the economy . If the top players want to increase the prices in all top stuff they sell, which want-it-or-not you have to buy from them while being a “newbie” it doesn’t matter really if you increase jewels rate or zen gained or credits or whatever. They will just put the prices higher to match the new economical data. Profit is above all I think in the majority 😛
But before carrying on with suggestions I would like also to point out that this is a really nice and vivid server. It’s ALIVE. It has people – mostly nice people, who are willing to help you. And Adin doing great job, releasing small fixes with patched and in general is open to any dscussions.
And something also very important, as some of our top and old players already do, you should focus supporting on "Newbiew-Events". Killua and Dieeee along with some other guys already did 2 events, Reporter promoted and helped on the 2nd one donating also some jewels if I’m not mistaken. I believe you did a great job supporting this action. Just keep it up!!!
Suggestions time:
1) Increase the stat points gained after RR slightly (for example +20/+30 more stat points per RR).
(I dunno if technically that’s possible tho because of people who already did some RRs and will be lacking these ponts)
2) After the 1st RR make all characters to be able to warp to the same locations on the same levels.
3) Increase the drop rate of Splinters of Armor and Blessings of Guardian slightly. Seriously, is it just me or these things won’t drop at all?  
4) Make some forum or out-of-actual-game events with small rewards. Like the one Legion is already organizing with Hack-The-Account Event. Something to make people come in the forums and help the community grow.
example: Lore-telling/sketching contest once per 2-3 months.
EDIT: 5) Enable Marriage
Rejected from myself (  :P ) Suggestions from 1st attempt to post:
1) Increase the credits somebody can take slighty. I was thinking to suggest to increase credits won per golden/rabbit kill but its the end-game guys who hunt these and kill them anyway. So, it's not a *profit* for the new-“more newbie” or more relaxed players.
2) I would suggest increasing slightly the credits reward for weekly voters and give a small portion of credits for every OSGM event participation.
 
Thank you for reading this.
Kind Regards
/Mitsakos