Want to know who your GMs are?

[GM-Pandora]

Lately we've been hearing a lot of sad rumors about corruption on this server. Let me start by assuring you that those rumors are completly false.

First, let me tell you more about the heRO GM team and their friends (I know, I know, the text is long XD)

We started playing RO about 2 years ago on a small server, we were noobs back then *lol* but we enjoyed playing together, it was really fun to play an online game with a bunch of real life friends. It was on that small server that we created our first guild and started to woe. At first it was bad, we stunk!! But we had fun! When that server died we moved on to another, much bigger server.

We created our guild again and we leveled our chars together, we were already more used to the game and knew our classes a little better. Since we all spoke french, we invited other players in our guild even if they were not real life friends, as long as they spoke french too. This created a bound between us (and was also convienient since we could speak our main language in guild chat, even tough most of us also spoke english). After a few months on the big server we started to woe again, it was much harder.

Big servers have lots of good players and the server already had strong guilds! But in the end, it was good for us, because it thought us to strategize and to play together. We started using microphones to speak to one another during woe. We made plans to attack in woe, using each class to their avantage.

After some more months had passed we conquered our first castle, a short victory for our guild. We were not able to keep it of course, but it was a step in the right direction. We made plans to defend, got alliances, leveled some more, hunted long and hard for our gears. Eventually we were able to conquer and keep a castle. Long story short, we started with nothing but through lots of efforts we achieved our goal. The big server closed down, with no indication as to when it would reopen, after a few days we went in search of a new server.

We found another small server where we decided to remake our guild, it seemed like a nice place, there were many events and they gave points to buy custom gears! We had more fun on the new server, woe were much easier than on the big server (no offense to ppl who came from there XD). We quickly made a name for ourselves. We had been playing RO for over a year then, so we were used to leveling and hunting, we knew the good spots and we kept on helping each other. The core of the guild was the same as on our first server, along the way we had made more friends, some stuck with us, others left. Notice I only mention our guild once per server, while other guilds always changed, broke down, died or were remade, ours was united and stuck through all that time.

It was on that server that most of us first made it to level 99 and reborned. After a few months on that server we had a very strong guild, we had a lot of very good gears, we held numerous castles. Not to sound braggy, but it almost became boring! XD The core of the guild had been playing RO together for almost 2 years! We knew the game very well, had proven we could level high and woe pretty good.

It was around that time (during a party at Ben's house I think) that we spoke of making our own server.

We were at that point where just making our guild again on a new server sounded a bit dull, we had done it numerous time, had leveled many characters, hunted a lot of gears, conquered a lot of castles. We wanted more.

The idea took a bit of time, discussions (arguments too XD), tweaking and such, but finally we made heRO! That bunch of friends from the first server are the GMs that you know now. We each have our own skills, so together, I think we make a good team ^_^ Some are more into scripting or events, others are really good at handling patchers or helping players by solving tickets.

I think I speak for all of us, when I say that all in all, we enjoy being GMs! We are having a lot of fun and we love this server <3. However, that does not mean that we stopped liking to play RO.

Some of the GMs also play on the server, with legitimate characters, all that knowledge that we gathered over 2 years is not gone. We still know where to hunt, how to level our characters and how to play. Also, remember our guild I spoke about a lot, well the "core" of the guild are GMs, but that did not mean we just closed contact with the rest of our former guild. We invited them, as well as a lot of people from our previous server, to play on heRO. They're still our friends and/or people we enjoy playing with.

So what about the GM's legitimate characters? Some people seem to assume that because someone plays both a GM and a player, that they must be cheating. Well no, that's not the case. If any of the GM's playing character made it high it's not through cheating, it's simply because they know how to play!

Anyone can hunt cards and equips, it just takes time and effort (teamwork helps a lot too)! If you're not happy about your level or the equips of your own character, well get off your butt and get working on it! Stop pointing fingers at others and stop being envious.

So how to prove we are not cheating? We can't and we wont. You'll just have to take our word for it. The heRO GM team is not corrupted. We play fair and square!

If you don't like it, we're not holding you here by force, the door is there and you're free to leave.

That being said, I'd like to stop hearing ranting about this issue. And no, I won't tell you the names of the legitimate characters of the GM. If other GMs want to tell you who their characters are, that's their choice and they are free to do so! Some people know, some *think* they know and others have no clue, but it makes no difference, please stop viewing them as "GM chars", they are player, just like you. ^_^

You may comment in this post if you wish, get it out of your system if you have something to say, but keep it clean!