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by the Tyr community

** (more players = more competition = more interaction = more challenge = more FUN )

Yes, a game should always strive to get more players because all that above is true. But when you need to make a merge of servers to attain that, something is very wrong. That is very clear by this other comment bellow:

** Will Baldur and Freya merge too?(That would be fun)

When there are no more servers to merge, what could be done? Merge with Perfect World?

I’ve been to another meeting with Level Up! staff on the end of 2007. Some very brief history of bRO in 2007. Rok Points were launched around March on the 3 servers it had. Mid-2007 there was a merge of the 3 servers into 1. On the end of the year Level Up! confirmed to us that in no way or time the new merged server had more players than the 3 separated players had in the beginning of 2007.

Well, on the end of the year they’ve launched a new free to play server and that server is going well, while the other one is at least stable enough. It seems that Level Up! (br) learned that it should do what people want, not what they want. I say that because:

1) The old servers that were merged did not want rok points in any way. There was a clear “if Level Up! wants that, make a new server with that stuff, we’re fine the way we are now”. Well, Level Up! didn’t care to listen, launched the items and got people quitting over and over. Every new launch there was new complaints. Level Up! learned something from that, never launching the most polemic items such as enriched stones or experience / drop altering items.

2) Mid-2007 merge happened. Sincerely, I think it was much more carefully planned than pRO merges with way less bad results (like name stuff). People expected (as was advertised by Level Up!) GMs online as there would be just a single server. As you may guess, even that didn’t happen. Number of players just kept rolling down.

3) In the end of 2007 Level Up! surprised most of the community when it announced a new free server. Although I was not surprised and was even expecting that to happen, one thing that they made clear surprised me. With the new free server, rok point stuff would be launched there and there would be no more things launched on the subscription server, maybe some not powerful hat for collectors or some item the community asked. The clear division people asked when rok points were launched was finally happening, at least in a way, and good results from it were happening.

I said all that because Level Up! should always look and take care about *why* a merge had to happen in the first place. I will not tire to say that merge is NOT a solution, just a painkiller. It’s really ok for an emergency situation, but it’s not something that the company should take lightly. You may screw up way more things than you can guess.

In my opinion, the “dominant server” to be altered in such a way of getting that many PK maps is simply wrong. As a suggestion, the bRO free server has 2 maps (I think) altered with pvp enabled. One of them is right of Einbech and has even MVPs there - a nice addiction considering no teleport. So, you could turn some useless map no one goes to into a pvp map along with some nice feature for people to adventure there. And it would not bother the leveling spots Tyr people go. Maybe, I don’t know what .ph people like. But Wauks, be sure to talk to your community about those pvp issues. Account split, name change, rank reset… there is already plenty of bad stuff for players to deal with.

Mr. Wauks, sorry but i just notice that you’re a bit bias with this entry,,
it was stated in the Tyr-Urdr Merge Mechanics that there are PK maps (most of which are MVP boss maps),,
if the people from Tyr really wanted to play in a server with PK features, they should have started making characters in Urdr rather than waiting for this kind of merge,,
Tyr was said to be the dominating server in this merge, but then why is it that Urdr’s PK feature still prevailed though it was only available in selected maps,,

*sigh*

So that they will dominate? Wala naman kalaban laban ang Tyr at Urdr sa LU. Kung LU na kalaban wala na. Kung sino gusto nila manalo un talaga mananalo. /heh

Ayusin nalang sana mga ginagawa nyo. Sana walang mga bugs. at sana walang mawalang mga gamit dyan sa mga ginagawa nyo kung sakali.

he’s been firing at us anti-pk (tyr) players.

^ are u a retard or ARE U A RETARD?
we dont want the system thats why we chose to play in tyr. if PK was our brand of fun edi nasa URDR na kami dati pa. boring kami? lol. we dont like PK, now does that mean were boring? what about you? ano ba ginagawa mo sa server mo? PK lng ng PK? NOW THATS BORING for us! please dont shove to us that one thing u said isnt boring, ksi on our side THATS BORING and will completely destroy our gameplay. it has never been an issue of weak/strong/scared and what not for us. cos if we were PK-minded retards like some people that’ll PK anyone the whole day, then we shouldnt have chosen Tyr (Odin) in the 1st place.
if ur from URDR… ill say this: we dont like the PK feature as it is, then lilipat pa people like you sa Tyr? thats too much. and please keep ur posts to urself, nagmumukha kang t@nga.

@waukeen:
sir, sorry for this reply. i had to say this to defend our side. he’s been firing at us tyr players.