We're Elmorelab project, and we're here to present you an opportunity to live through an unforgettable gaming experience.
Some of you already heard about us, some are closely familiar, and maybe some of you just now learning about us. In any case, it's a great opportunity for people who are looking for a fresh start that leads to stability.
Some of you have probably played on our x3 Bartz and x1 Teon servers.
Both servers have rich, extensive history. Bartz was opened at March 2020, which means it's more than 3 years old at this point, and x1 have recently celebrated its first year, going strong!
In less than a month we're opening new server - Lionna x5.
We've introduced stage progression on Lionna. That means there's gonna be a ceiling for everyone. Each stage introduces its own limitations. For example, no matter how hard you try, you cannot surpass 51 lvl during the first stage, which will last 10-14 days. There are gonna be multiple stages with their own ceilings, which are naturally gonna equalize the environment for everyone.
This limitation is also applied to epics, which are gonna be introduced later on.

Website: https://elmorelab.com/
More details about server: https://forum.elmorelab.com/index.php?t ... 2023.4371/

I have readed that you`re going to merge the new one with the x3 wich makes it irrelevant really

How so? I've always been fan of merging servers after sufficient time has passed. Asterios has been doing this for ages and has been incredibly successful with their project thus far

You might know that x3 has been around for more than 3 years, it needs an influx of new players who want to start from scratch and not play a race with existing players.
So we are making new server, six months are given for development so that later people could join the existing x3 while already having 70+, it's a win-win, old server gets new blood, new players get to join all the fun on high levels and meet other people, join stable clans, etc.
This is a classic strategy of many servers that want to support online on their main servers. Having many different servers wouldn't work in most cases, it's best to focus and improve what we have.

Because you are merging the servers in 6 months, you are still racing against existing players. People who have been collecting resources for 3 years. It's basically a lost battle and makes starting on 5x way less appealing. The only appealing thing is to play 5x for 6 months and then quit again, waiting for the next opening. It’s a fine way to do it, but I don’t think this new server is quite going to give the boost you guys expecting.

If you guys truly want to try something different, open a server with an English language focus and IP block Russians from it. That's something no one has done and could easily be the next big server. I constantly see people talking about how they would want to play the game, but they don't because of its community.

I don't know about that...wouldn`t it be better to close the old one and open a new one...?

From a business point of view - better. But we have a different view of the server. We have a lot of players who are already 40-50 years old, they don’t play all day for 4-12 hours, but they still play with us, this is the most important thing. We can't just cancel their character progress. We promised to support the longevity of the server - we do it.

I am rly interested on the concept with stages on a "catchup" server. How is someone about to catchup a 3 years server when there is limitations in game?
It seems more likely you want player to get slaughtered in your main server and i doubt your x5 with this stages concept will gather more than 200 ppl.

no limitations - ppl will get slaughtered before they get to the main server. this way casuals can compete in mass events too. its not like the limitations are long. The only thing i find strange is 40/50 lvl epics appear on 75 lvl stage. they could add em 1 stage earlier imo.

Agreed that 6 months seems to be a too short IMO. I understand the concept, that competitive no-lifers will get everything they need in that time period to be able to compete on the highest levels with the old servers and casuals can be casual on any levels, but I think it's kind of neglecting the "middle ground" players who want to stay relevant in late game content, for whom 6 months on a x5 C5 server seems a bit too short.

About that Russian blocking, you seem a little too obsessed by it lol I don't think majority of people care that much, not enough to join a significantly less populated server just because of it anyway.

You don't hear people caring because they simply don't play the game or interact with it anymore, as every server is just terrible. I would rather play with low pop server where the whole community is English speaking, then having thousands of Russians ruining the server.

And yes, I'm obsessed because I think there is still potential to have a proper community in this game. It’s just not even worth trying when the barrier to communication is so high. There is a reason why the biggest MMORPGs create servers for certain languages.

The main point of this server is to be able to start as equals. You may be starting with some old players from x3, yep, but you're doing same type of content, gearing at the same rate and you have equal chances to compete, without them having 10+ noblesse characters in relog to mess up your day. You're not gonna farm an enormous amount of items/adena because of natural limitations (which are mainly imposed to shackle the no-life gamers from x3 who already know this game at 100%), but you'll get to the end-game content, which will allow you to get into fun stuff on x3. That's the main point, people are mainly discouraged by the fact that you need to race till 70+ to get into server politics. But with x5 opened, there will be other players playing among you, your levels, with a similar goal. It feels uniting, at least for me.

Well I understand your preference but I don't think most people care as much. Russian speaking players simply make majority of L2's community, if you somehow prevent them from joining the server altogether it would be incredibly difficult to attract enough people to make the server run in long term. Furthest you can go (imo) is enforcing English in all chat. If GM sometimes logs in and gives 1 day mute for anyone using non-english language in all chat repeatedly, people will soon learn to use only english there and you don't have to deal with limiting players online