heRO 2.0

[noah18cars]

A lot??of the people who are still playing (myself included) have spent years gearing themselves up on this server,??and I myself wouldn't want to part with all of that. (So many cards, so many shattered gears at the refiner, Countless number of monsters destroyed). With a new server, you'd have to do all of that yourselves.

This part genuinely surprises me. Considering how small the WoE is here right now, doesn't it feel kind of like the items that you've gathered for so long aren't serving any purpose anyway? Or are you a person who enjoys mostly PvM? If so, wouldn't the old server staying up still allow you to enjoy PvM with your old gears? I was thinking that veterans, especially ones who like WoE, would jump at the opportunity to start all over again and have a real challenge. Isn't that why the biggest guilds decided just defending a castle forever was boring and went to break all the other castles ecos a while back? I've never been as filthy rich as you though so I guess I can't really speak on this as well as you can.

There would??be NOONE to buy from, seeing as how the economy would have to restart as well.

On every new server I've played on this was the most trilling part! I think one of the most beautiful parts of Ragnarok is the purely player-run economy, and bartering for items and the rapidly changing supply and demand is what makes RO for RO to me. In fact, the stagnant economy is one of the most frustrating things about current heRO for me. Am I the only one who feels like this?

They decided to open a "new" server, same rate, custom gear a bit more balanced. They stopped working on the older server, most people moved to the new one and the old died.

This was my main concern honestly. I have no idea how you would balance the appeal of the two servers without dividing the economy. I myself would be all in favor of a total wipe, but I'm also poor so I'm very biased in that regard. I understand that approach is completely impractical for people like Joe. I was hoping to start a discussion here just to toss around a few ideas amongst ourselves to see if something like heRO 2.0 was even possible.

The computer/connection heRO is on could support more servers if needed. The ressources are not shared, the whole computer is ours.

Donations currently don't fully cover the server costs, I pay the rest myself.

Do you have a rough estimate on how much money exactly it would take to run a relatively large ad campaign on some kind of 'renewal', and then just run the new server as an experiment for like 2 months? Do you think a lot of people would come back if you sent out an email to everybody registered to the forum about it? I know it's not possible right now but I'm still thinking about if it could work somehow.. so I'll keep thinking and posting here for a bit I suppose.