Thinking of rolling here

[corkus 0]

Hey guys,

 

I'm fairly new to private servers as the only one I have played on was a TBC server called "Vengeance of Azeroth".  This server died out pretty quickly and I found myself looking for something new.  As legion has died down as well I am looking for something else.  I know I probably wont get the most unbiased opinion coming to a forum of active players but was wondering if it is worth it rolling here as a new player.  I found my last private server was very "clicky" and it was hard to get into a good niche of players.  Also does horde or alliance "need" players more? 

 

Hope to hear from you,

Corkus

[j9a2per1990 32]

The Horde need your help, corkus, really.

[That Druid 6]

It depends on what you expect from a private server. If we are talking about Elysium it has plenty of pros:

• Fairly good open minded administration, ready to admit some flaws and work toward a solution. If you are banned for something - chances are you deserve this ban, not because some 16yrs old moderator felt power
• Many updates - you do see the work being done on a weekly basis, just check patch notes
• Decently scripted server in general. And you also can find many little things working here that are broken anywhere else
• Pretty nice (?) international community. Ofc sometimes you meet toxic players, but I had good experience in chinese, german and russian parties so far. Old players from Valkyrie are loyal to project and play mostly for fun and community
• Server is fresh, you won't have that many problems if you start playing right now
• No cash shop and no P2W system. Though there was some information about possible transfer between factions and decorative pets purchase - I don't really know, but even in this case it's not bad.
• Low latency and no random disconnects, stable server as it is now (not tested with 2++k players and sometimes players discover new ways to crash the server)

Cons:

• Low population which sometimes makes it difficult to find a party, especially during leveling. Not so many people of your level range in your zone - sometimes zero.
• Even though there are many things that are broken elsewhere, there are also some important things that are broken here but working anywhere else
• Alliance is thrice as active as Horde on bgs and it's almost impossible to raise your rank because of low population. Join Horde if you are going to pvp, it will be difficult though
• There were some serious mistakes in server management during the first two months after it's release so we can expect more (?). Many players just left and won't try this server again.
• Server is progressive in terms of available quests and instances, but at the same time it uses 1.12 database with the latest versions of items that don't make sense. For example you can expect players wearing Don Rodrigo's Band with Alterac Valley release which doesn't really fit with other available items and is overpowered. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one.
• There are some occasional wow errors (like when there are too many players on the ship between Menethil and Theramore) and screen freezes (mostly during combat and pvp) which is probably a server-side problem. Some players don't experience these at all

 

Server is unique and in my opinion has by far the biggest potential, compared with any other existing vanilla server atm. If you don't like something you have an opportunity to influence the server progress. Still has a long way to go and appropriate decisions to make. I'm afraid if you played right now you would have a bad impression about the server since population and few important bugs continue to be the main problem and are annoying. But if Elysium succeeds in building playerbase and fixing at least important issues with current mindset it will become a strong enemy even for some upcoming projects that everyone is waiting for. And at this pace it can happen soon. I don't play here until that time You might wanna find a social/leveling guild and just try it out for yourself, many players are happy with what they have right now (by "many" I mean like 500 or so lol). Whether it's going to grow or get even lower depends on developers and further project's politics, can't predict.

 

Source: I've been playing here since PTR, now waiting for changes

[killerduki 54]

screen freezes (mostly during combat and pvp) which is probably a server-side problem. Some players don't experience these at all

 

 

You can fix those if you set Terrain Distance to lowest.

 

I never get screen freezes since then

[j9a2per1990 32]

GG. The Driud.

[meddlingmage 3]

Would you mind elaborating on this?

• There were some serious mistakes in server management during the first two months after it's release so we can expect more (?). Many players just left and won't try this server again.

[That Druid 6]

 

Would you mind elaborating on this?

• There were some serious mistakes in server management during the first two months after it's release so we can expect more (?). Many players just left and won't try this server again.

 

First of all whole "Open Beta" idea was very controversial for me. Devs decided to release a server (Elysium) based on some new core, that hadn't been tested before(?), instead of Valkyrie's core. And then players should have tested that new core during few weeks before official server start. There were not so many testers and those, including me, who were testing random things - they still reported a plenty of serious bugs (e.g. completely broken stealth mechanics) that should have been eliminated before the launch. Of course devs didn't have enough time to deal with them, and they didn't even nearly fix as many problems as there were reported (not some missing gossips, but really game-breaking bugs). After that they launched the official fresh server, that couldn't handle 1+k population during the first day, still with many discovered and "ignored" bugs, and many more not discovered yet. Server was really unprepared and many players called it a rushed start.

 

Since there was no real chance to test basic gameplay before, players found new bugs during leveling and devs fixed the worst of them (or at least the bugs they could fix). So during the first few weeks of official Elysium you could pretty often experience random restarts to apply different hot-fixes. I believe there were at least two major changes with geodata with following different pathfinding problems after that. There was a problem with migrating on a new hardware, that was solved only one month(?) later. It took some time to implement automatic rank update system - before that devs did it manually at saturday night, right during the online peaks and wsg/ab weekends (lol I remember the whine). If you look at 14.10.2016 patch note you will see that things that should have been fixed during the beta were marked as "Work In Progress" and it's only then when they fixed Faerie Fire bug that I personally reported two months before this patch note. They had to fix more important things instead, like Windsor escort quest. Also administration changed it's politics regarding some questions at least few times. As an example:

 

we came to terms that the timeline in its current state will not allow us to do that.

 

There were many more things.

 

My personal opinion is that it's still a good administration. Believe me or not I've seen some really bad server management on other private servers and even though sometimes things here don't go smoothly I still have a feeling that these guys are trying to provide at least somewhat good service with as little trouble for players as possible. With all this Nost hype stakes are even higher, and now they can use experience of Nost devs to avoid mistakes in the future. I hope they won't be so "reckless" now. They were much better at any other activity, like responsibility and caring. And compared with first three weeks, administration looked much more solid during the last three weeks.

 

Sorry for my english

Edited November 7, 2016 by That Druid