There is another thread about this, but the date for start is wrong, so admins can delete that thread if they want to or not

Server is on 2nd launch, since the 1st one it was a mixture of wrong rates setup and problems with ddos attatcks witch led to a kinda low community ( still it was playble ). I am not admin, nor is my server, so i'm not defending any wipe, as wipe are the last resort and it was just not the case, but before i made this post i asked admin about his plans for the server, and i'm going to post here the reply.

"(blabla). what are you're plans? what population you need to be satisfied? How much does keeping the server up cost you? Are you ritch, you plan to pay by yourself, or you hope to get some money from donation? Do you see the server running up for 1 year ?"

" I dont know, how many people will join now. I expecting +- 150 players. One think i can promise you is, that i will dont do wipe agin. Server have signed 1/2 year contract, yes, i have some money and pay it is no problem. I am not fixed to donations. Cost of monthly running is about 210$. At this time, the most priority is adveristing. If you can help me little, post server informations and opening date to some forums that you know. "

So having this posted, it's a little reassuring. If the server manages to stay up, and admin said that he managed to resolve the server shutdowns due to ddos attacks, i have every confidence that this server can grow quite nicely to a stable community.

Improved Website -> http://la2rune.com
Forum -> http://la2rune.com/forum/index.php

Rates: 5x all the way, adena is 7x, and obviosly quest rates don't apply to reward including recipes/scrolls.

There is curently a poll about 1st class proffesion, if it should be buybale/free or no. And that is all the customization there is to the server. (This means no mana potions, no buff duration customization, no " skill balanced ", and other things you can usualy find in mid/high rate servers)

Hardware

* Intel Core i7
* 36 GB Raptor 10k RPM HDD 16MB Cache (OS Drive)
* 72 GB Raptor 10k RPM HDD 16MB Cache (Auth, Server, NPCs)
* 250 GB SATAII 7200 RPM 16MB Cache (Backup Drive)
* 24 GB DDR3

Database Server:
* Intel Dual Core Xeon 5150
* 36 GB Raptor 10k RPM HDD 16MB Cache (OS Drive + CacheD)
* 64 GB Raptor 10k RPM HDD 16MB Cache (SQL Drive)
* 300 GB SATAII 7200 RPM 16MB Cache (Backup Drive)
* 12 GB DDR3


I wish all the best to all the players willing to join and play, or even come on launch to see how it goes. I personaly think it will be arround 300 players after 2-3 hours from start. Only problem that it is on Monday, but in the end, it dosen't matter the launch date of a low rate server, the only thing that matters is if the server provides a stable enviorment to play in. And i belive it can, and if it's not delivering, i'll be the 1st to point the finger, but i'm confident is not the case anymore, so all best wishes, and hope to see you in game !

http://la2rune.com/


START. 1.10.2012

Well, still in doubt. The old l2rune WAS fun. I'll prolly make an account or two, even if I said I wouldn't! A little curios to see if the same dwarves shows up!

Cya ingame. Maybe. Anyway, gl!

i'll show up

Honestly, the major thing i'm curios about, if it will manage to stay on line for 1 week without sudden offlines. If that will happen, and the server will be stable, then good things can happen. If not... it may be the end of it. Hope for the best

Well i wish you the best, is just bad how all L2 Community spread all over the servers and some moved on to another games, i myself went to Guild Wars 2 but i still like remembering old times in L2 and honestly i think there wont be a game which will provide so much fun as L2 did.

Hope you manage to get enough players to make a stable community, but i doubt since this is period where many servers are being open and as all know RPG opening x3 server also, is hard for new servers to open a low rate and i think this is mistake you making, you should start with higher rates and then when you get trust of community and people see you can put up with the task of running a server, then to think about low rate.

Once again best wishes with opening server, <3 music on site made me "emo" for a minute.

My old server from before L2Rune - L2Divinity - has also risen from the ashes, opening a test server. Almost same setup as L2Rune, lowrate 100% retail with autopickup. Both gave the same gameplay, not very populated, but enough to find pals.

L2Divinity lasted a few months before it crashed, L2Rune was wiped deliberatily after four weeks. Both gm's have some trust to gain.

Anyway, I dont spend time testing anymore, at least L2Divinity had good files before crash, we had squashed bugs all spring and summer. If the gm had taken dumps on the sql, it would just be a case of plugging the server.

Visited inhard.ru last night, and their fresh x20 Epilogue. Server opened yesterday, despite counter still ticking. Fun! Lots of ppl, and many english. Autolearn skills, and autopickup, otherwise retail with all quests and no custom shop/buffer. Maybe I'll hang around here untill I see how the lowrates settle.

Ps: They say the mysterious Oesen (whoever that is) is back with the L2Divinity crew. Remember him from the old lineage-server.com - he did a good job there, but had to give in; we were hardly never more than 3 ppl online at the same time.

Lets hope at least one of the two lowrates will fill up!

Have to disagree a bit, after playing divinity and ex l-s.com. Divinity had let's say " decent " files, there were still bug's present to the day it closed, bugs that affect gameplay and they are not present on rune. I'll just give 2 or 3 examples, 7 signs festivals score was not showed( not to mention 7s festival in iteself was bugged, mobs did not attack, mobs did not jump on you near finish, special area did not gave a bost to mp/hp regen) - not the case of rune, were it works perfectly, moment i registerd the score it showed up, Pailaka 61 ( 35/73 also) were not working propely, form missing html to lamatan followers doing absolutely nothing - again not the case of rune were it works flawlesly- actually struggled to finish it on rune, 7s quests ( did not had the chance to test on rune) were bugged to the core making them way to easy to complete, snow greater wolf/fenir stats totaly wrong, and finaly probably the most mesed up of all, was chamber of delsuion... that just ruined the game, you could actually solo there, getting huge xp/lots of stones/iccarus drops/imba spoils. Oh and did i mention about the party xp bug? were i could take a level 31 char into party with a level 77 char and boom powerlevel - tryed the bug on rune, does not work. So litterly, i could make a 80 lvl char in 2 days on a 5x server you know? party bug/ bug cod/ and voila.. now tell me that is a low rate gameplay... common. ( you know, when it closed, i had lvl 85, and all 3 subs 75? in what... 1 month, on 5x server. And actually it was in 1 day, about 3 or 4 instances, from when i got 80 on 2 chars. and full dyna jewls, almost complete dynasty set, iccarus hall, hundreds of stones - dropped - ... i mean yeah )

There is 1 aspect were i have to bow to divinity crew, absolutley no bots. No programs worked, if you made a level, or if you aquired adena or anything, it was by you're own hands. L2 rune, has problem in this area as some bots do work. But overall, after actually playing divinity to the end game, i can't say it was better then rune, not even close.

About Oesen, he was the main admin of l-s.com, and if he's back, and want's to pickup were divinity left ( pick up their s.hit and make it work ), i'll leave every server/game i'm playing, and go there Beacause that dude, really deservers it. Trust me.. you haven't meet a l2 server admin like that.

Anyway, right now... go go l2 rune

Have to admit, there WAS open bugs on L2Divinity, remember those mentioned. But I'm a casual player, and had both my mains in B-grade. Was wandering happily around, crafting BW. Reconed those bugs was settled by the time I reached hihgher levels. Which I didn't. And server WAS stable.

Well, those were happy days! Will prolly log in on L2Rune on monday, or sometime next week. Got nothing better to do. But this will be the n'th time I spoil SSD rec from Turek War Hound.... Getting somewhat tired...

Just to make this thread in front of that retarded wannabe scam thread made by some idiot kid with to much time on his hands, that instead of using them to give him a little pleasure he uses them to make himself the laugh of the pmfun.

So the real start is tomorow 1.10.2012, at 19 gmt +1 . Updater and Game account will be updated on site, like it should be.

All the best Go go go http://www.la2rune.com

In war, love and l2, everything is allowed

There SHALL be some confusion around server-start. Check this:

I have kept an eye on inhard.ru the last week. They had a countdown, and planned start on friday. I logged in a few hours after, full server and fun! Jolly good! When I tried on saturday, I could not get in. When I visited the website, the countdown was started again, announcing new opening on sunday! Weird. May have missed something, but doubt it. On friday evening, all were running around with newbie buffs and yellow cubics. Tonight, server has 500+ online, felt like more on friday.

server managed to stay on so far, with no big downtime, shout is global, so you can ask for help. Population i'd say about 100 in general, 125-150 in peak hours.

Many drop-in's, ppl checking server out, even recruiting for the new rpg soon opening. Lots of q in chat, "how long online" - "how many online" etc....

At the time beeing, 3 things are important:
- gm must NOT pull the plug
- Those playing must NOT leave
- All essential offline shops/crafts must be present in Giran

Still low numbers, not easy to gather kama/rb party. If eveningh is quiet, chill out, do quests, craft Majestic and Blue Wolf! And chat! There will still be a couple of months before we can say for certain that this server will survive. When A-grade items is offered in Giran for those to lazy to craft, then server will have a good chance!!!

Hmm, bump. Few words, server has about 1 month now, had it's problem`s, it's stable as in no downtimes like before, it actually runs smooth. It's going to be a restart today, to adjust q the rates, but all in all it runs ok.

Even if it's " 1 month " server, it's for all things still like a fresh server. No castles taken, no subs yet, no overpowering clan, server needs a badly infusion of players. It survives, but it needs players, 50-100 more to make it work.

Everything still run smooth, but do you have any idea if gm will clean up the forum? It's practically dead, and filling up with ads. Community needs a clean and vital forum. Other than that, no complains. New month in the horizon, which mean a voting campaign. Campaign and campaign, if you check hopzone, you see our server has only 2 regular voters. If we doubled that, we would be on top among gf servers. Not much more to it.

do you read forum from this server ????????????? are you joking that ppl will come this serv when they see 80+ pages flame and spame forum and 0 info