I don't understand why Chinatown is taking the risk of lowering rates. x5 was great and Dawn had a winning formula because of it.
Stupid decision imo.

Majority of community support and want x3.(at least until this moment x3 is winning by votes.)

That's a logical fallacy. You're implying the community wants 3x, but the reality is that 3x won over 1x and that's it, the choice of 5x didn't even exist.
How do you know the community doesn't actually want 5x? There's a high possibility that 5x would have won if it was an option. For me 3x is too low, and you can see that other people agree with this sentiment in that thread.
On top of that, 3x is getting dangerously close to RPGCLUB's 1x which is a major competitor.

Let's not pretend there isn't a big elephant in the room. Chinatown closed the old server on a whim, that's a huge red flag. This rate debacle is another one and will split the community.
If he continues doing silly shit like this I won't join this server. People wanted the old unchanged Dawn. This server is barely in the stages of 'early project' yet he's already beginning to change a winning formula.

Only thing that remains to be seen is what kind of 3x rates will Chinatown choose. 3x is low enough to make a full 3x XP/SP/Adena/Spoil/QuestXP/QuestReward. Anything lower will be pretty silly, maybe aside from the spoil rate.

Before, forum users participated in a unofficial poll, where x3 with majority of votes won versus all rates x1-x10.

ChinaTown held server open for 2 years, without ever forgetting about it. Without donates. It's unique just because of that. For me it's very far from the red flag.

Ok. Where is that poll?


I never said China did a shit job running that server. I only said he fucked up by closing it out of the blue.

I understand why you are upset, but i disagree. He really did a great job by running that server. He had rights and reasons to close it.

Sorry but in my vocabulary, "I got bored" is not an excuse to close the server with hundreds of people logging every day. You can get bored with a game of Solitaire and close it, because nobody else really depends on you there.

Obviously, compared to majority of servers these days, he still did an insanely good job; keeping up Interlude for 2 years is something not many has done in the history of L2. But that still didn't give him right to wake up one day and think "well, eh, I'm kinda bored with the server, so instead of players having a worse experience with the server due to lack of updates, I'll let them have no experience at all because I'll delete all the progress they've done in past 2 years"

You just don't do this kind of thing and it's not an excuse. If you're bored with the developement - let the server run it's own life. If money is the problem - open a donation. When the server was closing, it had a very decent and loyal community which I have no doubt would've raised enough to cover the expenses.

To me that's just a red flag, and if I was to join this new server, I'd need a guarantee from ChinaTown that he wouldn't pull off this monkey again.

As for the rates I think it doesn't matter all too much since it's obviously a longterm project. Personally I'd probably like to see the 1x as it would have this "well yeah we're here to stay" vibe in it, but otherwise anything under 10x goes in my book.

I was so excited about the new server, but was also kind a shocked for the rates. I haven't really decided if I'm going to give it a chance in this situation. Honestly I don't believe It will survive.

I can play x1 and I have played it before. The problem is that most people think about it as a just slower game progression than x5. This is only a small portion of the whole truth! You can't use shots because they burn all money from mobs. Shadow weapons burn money too because no matter if server is x1 or x10 they cost and last the same. You have to run to not burn money on teleports too. Those little details that are not considered by many will make them quit before level 40. Solo players are the backbone of a long lasting server and x1-x3 is nightmare for soloing.
Also the lower the rates are - the bigger the gap between different types of players get. When retail started the top grade was B for a reason, not S...
A server is still alive when new players join months after it opened. They joined x5 but will they join a x1-3? I'm not sure, never saw it before... we'll see now I guess...

Sorry but in my vocabulary, "I got bored" is not an excuse to close the server with hundreds of people logging every day. You can get bored with a game of Solitaire and close it, because nobody else really depends on you there.

Obviously, compared to majority of servers these days, he still did an insanely good job; keeping up Interlude for 2 years is something not many has done in the history of L2. But that still didn't give him right to wake up one day and think "well, eh, I'm kinda bored with the server, so instead of players having a worse experience with the server due to lack of updates, I'll let them have no experience at all because I'll delete all the progress they've done in past 2 years"

You just don't do this kind of thing and it's not an excuse. If you're bored with the developement - let the server run it's own life. If money is the problem - open a donation. When the server was closing, it had a very decent and loyal community which I have no doubt would've raised enough to cover the expenses.

To me that's just a red flag, and if I was to join this new server, I'd need a guarantee from ChinaTown that he wouldn't pull off this monkey again.

As for the rates I think it doesn't matter all too much since it's obviously a longterm project. Personally I'd probably like to see the 1x as it would have this "well yeah we're here to stay" vibe in it, but otherwise anything under 10x goes in my book.

http://www.l2dawn.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4504 unofficial poll about rates.
I understand why you are upset, but i disagree. He really did a great job by running that server. He had rights and reasons to close it. And i even support him with closing it.(don't want to explain it here, why i support him in that decision.)
Keep in mind - 2 years uptime for C6 server nowadays. Doing it for free. And working hard to provide the best experience possible in the market today. -Very far from "fucked up" in my opinion, if we look at the competition, then it's even further from "fucked up".

You should be thankful that in 2016 you could experience Interlude server with 2 years uptime and no donations other than hat accessory.