Hey there,
I would like your opinion regarding choosing project to begin building a low-mid Interlude rate server.
As far as I know, right now there the following options
-aCis
A decent project plus the price is rather insignificant. There are things to work on as far as I am concerned before you go live plus you need to work besically about everything custom you need since the project is pretty much vanilla c6.
- Morbius
I haven't spent much time testing the project plus I checked their free version and I don't know the progress that has been done since then, so pardon me if my judgment is poor, but it seems l2j frozen and aCis had sex and that project is the result.
-Orion
I checked their test server and I was really dissapointed. There are many customs mods but after checking a few classes and quests, there is a lot that needs to be done. The price is 50gbp and it is just for the datapack.
-L2scripts
The price is 1200$ for the source, 200$ just for the datapack without online limitation. I wasn't able to get into their test server cause their system is not windows 10 compatible and when I tried to check the engine.dll I got critical error. Anyway I consider it overpriced and I really don't think the file quality is worth the money they ask.
-Lucera
When it comes to payed files it's the first project that comes in mind. I spent a couple days on their test server, It was a bit laggy some moments and also the character movement/ geodata was a pain in the ass. The price is 120$ and as far as I am concerned you get access on the source code.
Am not a skilled dev, I mostly view the projects from a players prospective which means that I will probably need to buy dev servicies for the more complicated tasks which means that the overall cost of getting the server live will be increased.
The second part of the topic is about bot protection. I honestly consider it a joke to pay for any type of protection service since as a player I was able to run Adrenaline in any server. I know that there is the possibility to sell your house and give the money to SGuard for example to actually be protected. On the other hand it's 2020 and in my opinion spending countless hours farming is dead. Even on the official server they have added functions that are like bots and the mobile version is almost hands free. So from the administrators prospective I think is better not to give cancer to your community. Let them bot and just don't allow extreme abusing (solo epics, egg delivery etc).
I would like to know your thoughts and opinions. If there is any other project (paid or free) that is worth to check let me know.
I will also appreciate if the topic stays civil.
I know that many of you are trying to protect your own interests but I hate it when it becomes "longest dick competition".
Thanks for your time and am looking forward to your anwsers.