After playing both Nostalrius & Kronos

[Gundreda]

What makes Kronos a "fun server"?

It's not a fun server, although it's altered xp rates has basically opened it up to that label -and I'm afraid that it's going to stick for a while.

The main problem, from my perspective is that it is a classicly themed modded server.

Tell you straight up, before trying Nostalrius Begins, I went straight for "the new kid on the block" when I was last floating around the lagacy community. I logged in and was immediately put off by the sight of SLEEPING MOBS. I mean like, lol, who in what universe considers that to be part of the original experience. Couple that with the showcase videos of how they've deliberately altered the behaviors of certain mobs and they've tampered with too much for my taste already.

They have simply created "their vision" of what vanilla actually was. Better efforts should have been given to re-creating the original experience.

But if you want to play on it and amuse yourself with the notion of it being "more classic than Nostalrius" then that's fine by me. It's your time and you can do what you want with it.

Besides, if you change your mind later YOU CAN ALWAYS TRY TO FLOG YOUR ACCOUNT LOL .. jesus that "business modal community" is another thing in itself.

[Doofoos]

it's going to continue to lose players.

i lold

Especially with Kronos having a x7 XP rate for 1 month.

lold twice

[Zacharybinx34]

if it was permanent yes. But for 1 month only to draw in new players and increase the # of players, I'm fine with that.

Its a precedent if nothing else. You would never feel quite sure that they will never do anything like this again. If their population doesn't reach its goal i'm not confident that they would not implement some special stuff.

Thats the appeal of Nost. You know 100% where this thing is going.

Also that 1 month x7. What do you think that will do? Maybe an influx for that 1 month. After that you will suddenly have a drop in intrest with alot less fresh 60s and people leveling. Because once that month is over i see little reason, even with the lag, to pick any server over Nost. And that will ruin the gameplay, economy, BGs etc for the people who did 1-60 wiht x7.
I'd much rather have my small delay on Nost and be on a server that is alive then give days of gameplay to another project and see that server die

Alive? Vanilla servers were alive, and Kronos would have been a High pop server, probably the highest pop during the vanilla days.

[twinkpvp]

Is fun that players go to the most pop server and let the low pop die, same thing happens on retail, some server are so fucking full and other just die because of low pop, i think what happens here on Nost vs Kronos is the same thing, Nost open first got massive pop and kronos end up being the low pop server noone wana play on it, is not because of quality or custom stuff on it that one server wins(they are both great servers), players just love high pop.

[Valandar]

Why is anyone paying attention to the opinion of a guy who was permabanned from Nost 2 months ago? I'm sure he has no biased opinions.

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[St0rfan]

Especially with Kronos having a x7 XP rate for 1 month.

How is 7x XP a vanilla experience

While they think it's a good advertising gimmick, it actually permanently taints their server for those that want the complete Vanilla experience.

Pretty much this. People who want the authentic vanilla experience will stay with Nostalrius. XP boost gimmic is a stupid wrath-baby-catering tactic. If Nostalrius loose a few wrath-babies to Kronos, I'm totaly fine with that.

[Pottu]

Crikey. So much hate in here.

You guys really need to realize that a lot of people play on K because the population there is more like what it used to be during vanilla (say what you want, but loads of servers had K like pop, and not a single one had Nost like population), and there is no lag, just like what the OP said. Simple as that. So every time you guys are here laughing because K is a "non-blizzlike dead server", there's people on K thinking how Nost is a "non-blizzlike" server, because the population here is nothing like it was on retail. And neither is the lag or the view distance.

Sure, your vanilla experience there might be ruined because somebody leveled to 60 with 7x xp or bought their char from the auction, even though you've all probably played with people who bought their chars from your lovely chinese friends. Or maybe your experience is ruined by seeing one of those 4 or so guys every couple of weeks with a cross faction mount, even though you probably see ZG mounts daily.

But for people on K, their vanilla-like experience is ruined by playing on a server with 10k+ people, even though you can't even see any of them because it looks like they're all stealthed until they all suddenly appear right in front of you. Or things like trying to open your clams and having to wait for 5 seconds to get the meat out of it, which happened to me couple weeks ago. Or PvP not being nearly as smooth and lag free as it is on K.

But, each to their own.

[Doofoos]

There is also one thing about K server - they and their fanboys advertising everywhere that K is far superior than Nost, detailed and bug-free server. I decided to check that "superior" quality once, after 3 months of playing on Nost, created nelfie on K server, leveled to 4 or 5 level, entered the cave with spiders, and there is a gap not so far from the entrance, and a big spider sitting on the hill after the gap. I pulled him just for lulz, expecting him to run properly around the corner and some tunnels, in the bottom of this gap so he can try to reach me, or if he can't, at least just evade ... but that spider just stand and watch. At one place. Targeting me, but didn't attempt to reach me, or evade ... only 2 mentioned choices were logical in that case, and he just died in the same place i pulled him.
I left K server and never came back after this, all that "omgsleepingmobs" and "superiority" is complete bullsh*t.

[Pottu]

Yup, I totally agree. Acting like K is some sort of a bug free superserver is just plain stupid. There's plenty of bugs there that annoy the heck out of me. Sadly it's the same thing everywhere, and people take negative comments about their server like personal insults.

I sometimes read the reddit page, and I've seen posts there get downvoted because it said that K normally has just 1-3 WSG's running any one time. Even though that's 100% true. But at the same time, I've been told probably a dozen times how it's just my own internet connection that makes me lag on Nos PvP server. Not the PvE server, just the PvP server. Ok.

[Celonius]

you know why there isn't lag?

because there is less then 300 players on the server

what's the point of playing a MMORPG with that ridiculous amount of players? I never understood that, seriously. I mean, I prefer to play a good Single-Player RPG instead of a MMORPG with that population.