Looking for a few experienced L2 staff members for my upcoming server. Yes I am aware the community is packed full of fail servers and the player base has become highly "Nomadic" which makes it quite hard for a server to succeed. But - I miss the old days of packed highly competitive servers with booming economies and huge wars.

I want am going to do my best to try and bring those days back. I will give a brief idea of what the server will be about. Keep in mind this is in the very early stages and I fully expect it to be a few months before we open.

Server Details

Platform - Interlude [OFF] Vanganth
Location - Switzerland
Bot/Exploit Protection - Server is secured against all known bots, exploits, and 3rd party programs such as auto clickers
DDOS/DOS Protection - Server and site located on a protected network that specializes in DDOS mitigation. We will be protected against any attack up to 10 Gbit/sec. A attack that exceeds that is extremely unlikely. The largest attack I know of on a private server is 5 Gbit/sec on Celes (Azure).
Rates - It will be low rate I have not yet decided on the exact rates.
Donations - Too early to say but there will be minimal donations and definitely nothing that will imba the server.

The goal of this project is not to bring anything new or earth shattering to the game but to provide people with a secure, stable, and professionally run server. People do not have to worry that the server will be taken down after a few days because of a DDOS or exploit. Our protection is extremely good. I am a systems administrator by trade so I know a little about it

Staff

I am posting this very early because I need to get to know any potential staff members very well before I bring them in. If you are interested in any of the positions listed below you must meet a few requirements:

-- You must know Interlude very well and I am not talking about playing on L2J servers. You must also be a Low Rate guy/gal as obviously gameplay differs as does the player base between low, mid, and high rates.

-- Your English must be very good (both written and spoken). The server will be English speaking only in main chats (trade, all, and hero).

-- You need to be on IRC whenever online. Be prepared to hangout with me on IRC for a few months if you want to become staff.

-- You must be mature, patient, and able to keep your cool when dealing with people. L2 players can be a little "salty".

Staff Positions

1 Forum Moderator
1 Event GM
1 Game Master
1 Advertising Rep
All staff will also double as IRC moderators.

There is no ETA for the server and I expect it will be a few months. There is a ton of work to do. I am currently putting together a marketing plan which will begin 1 month before the server opens and this will be a integral part of making the server a great experience for people. I will be focusing on SEO (the competition for L2 related keywords is very low), we will have banners on all major sites such as pmfun, I will be writing a press release and having it released on L2 related blogs, and more. This should bring real good traffic, I also plan to target new players that have not played before.

I am a old-school low rate player and have been playing the game [OFF] only servers since C1 so I know the game well. In fact it is the only game I have really played and I most likely will be playing it 10-15 years from now. I hope we can make this a server of old!

Join me on IRC

ircDOTstraticsDOTcom
#L2United

TheReturn

GJ for you. we are still waiting for good IL server

IMO, you would have to be little sadistic to open yet another low rate IL. Yeah the Chronicle is sweet, and brings back memories, but in the same time, it's a very hard chronicle, and the experienced players got little older, have jobs, families, maybe not that much time to invest into a low rate IL. The project is fine, but beacause of the "hardcore" mode you'd have to be to play this chronicle, when things are not that easy as in Gf/Epi, when only a box is not enough to do anything at higher level, and might aswell stay in clan hall, when there are so many odds against it... it's just kinda " mission impossible ", and you'll prolly leave a message as i've seen this days " we did our best, but ppl don't play the game anymore ". Server`s open&close everyday, you think anyone will care that you took half an year to open it? for the majority will be just another server that starts on xx date.

If i was in you're place, i would keep the ideea, but go for Epilogue or at least Gf, simply beacause even in the eventuality that the server is not populated from start, you won't get " stuck " with nothing to do but beg for party. And maybe other players that are looking for Epi/Gf chronicles will join also.

That's just my opinion, and there was no bad intenton into my post.

Best regards

Valid points and I agree completely as I am one of those "used" to be hardcore players that now for many reasons cannot devote nearly as much time to the grind as i used to be able to. I understand it completely and know many old friends in the same position. I have a few ideas that i am working on to overcome these problems and keep the low rate style of play but alleviate time needed ingame as well as the dependency on parties.

Your opinion is welcome and valued and I thank you for it

The Return

Just a couple updates. I finalized the deal on DDOS protection, bandwidth costs, and price for co-location of the server today. I will be setting up some vbulletin forums later today so people can join if they like and ask questions. It will also give me a handy place to document and record everything. The main site will be a combination of wordpress and dragoneye cms. It will not be ready for at least a few weeks, maybe longer.

But the ball is rolling. I will be posting up a test IP that is in the same DC as the server will be co-located and I encourage people to run ping tests and tracerts on it and post the results in the forum. This will help us identify any routing issues before the server launches. The DC will work with us on the BG Mix so we can fix some routing issues if they are on the DC side of things.

TheReturn

i am also from this players hard core from C1 but.... i find logik why ppl dont wana play on hard rate server for example 5x-7x... wery simple. when we are waiting for server why start play and dont go sleep cose we dont wana what someone make bigest lvl whant we but.... when we must go job or school and we come home and see what yesterday we was top 1 and now just top 200 we just stop play and looking for nev server.... so.... thats why we need 1x-2x server rate for game where we dont need to no life 2 days and than go job and think if someone will be better.... on 1-2x rate servers is not for no lifers cose no life mode dont help there we need just good friends and craft... spoil do some think.... also we can go shop/job/school and than we come back no one will be 20 lvl highen whan we and we still will wana play there cose some lvl diferent not much whan server with 5-7-10x rates and in 1 day diferent all will be 20-30 lvl more than we... sorry for my english like i say better server is 1-2x rate for ppl who have jobs and still like hard core servers old school

I would love it if people would play a low rate like 2x server. I am not sure though that anybody has that much enthusiasm for L2 anymore. Would sure be interesting though!

1 thing I forgot to mention in my first post about the Advertising Rep position. The person must be able to read and write Russian.

So I thing that even if the population is low if you manage to keep the server up and its community happy (without bugs, lag, bots.... ) for months, your server will get popular and you will keep those players and more will join. Me and my friends have started in 2 servers in the last month, they both closed.

There is big interlude community that want to play low rate but its in many small servers or bored from moving from one server to another.

web page ?
forum ?