Seems like L2Citadel will come back with a sort of c1 > Hellbound evolution style server.

http://l2citadel.com/forums/topic/3755- ... entry28825

thier hb server was very decent, just again tard childish community killed it with non stop rushing and leaving after sub nobles...

about this idea, i dont know, i dont like this chronicle update stuff. we all know that in some chronicles some classes are op, in others they are pretty much useless. also chronicle update is very hard stuff, i remember so many servers who strugled to update even from c4 to c5, or from c5 to c6, and this is way harder than that.
also it disbalances gameplay, there will be zones changes, quest changes, item changes, skill changes.... it will be chaos...


and at the end of that, i doubt server will survive more than few chronicle updates...

c1>hb evolution would be overkill. there is no way to keep donations balanced and sustain the money needed for such project. it would be better simply do c4>hb evolution.

Not much content before C4 anyway. Idk, I doubt it's going to be as popular as their previous projects

From what I understand it is not full chronicle change, mainly focused on areas and mobs. Not classes, skills etc. Will have to wait and see what they come up with.

still the amount of work devs needs to do is huge and how you going to maintain money income..

smells like tons of bugs and glitches

I don't see why it would be. Script editing is not hard and if you screw something up with a typo you know it as soon as the server loads so it is easy to see.

ok then. C1/C2/C3/C4/C5/C6/T1/T1.5 (HB). In total 8 chronicles so updating them every 3 weeks would still make server life time about 3-4 months and this is not what Citadel wants to do. They want a server living at least a year.

Now it depends what they want to do. Do they want project based on their own HB files or they willing to get new ones of chronicles likes GF/H5.

The problem is that C1/C2 even C3 will be completely non sense chronicles for current L2 community. Current community can't even properly play C5 anymore. So the better way would be making project of C4>HB evolution with their own HB files and then keep upgrading to GF and H5. But still a question how many people willing to play more than 3-4months on same project. We all know that the "most fun" parts are first months of server start.

Personally I would drop server evolution project and simply make season based project. Server last 3-4 months or when community feels the end has come. After every season gameplay would be looked and check what was overpowered or underpowered and do balance changes. And launch server once again. The only question would be, on what chronicle we build this. I would prefer GF cause it mostly has everything what we want from "modern L2" and there are no silly looking balance changes like rush on all melee classes (H5).


Anyway, L2 is old game, games like LoL/Dota2/CSGO even Overwatch now outshines all other games and keep taking people from all other smaller games. MMORPG needs changes on its own. For me looks like MMORPG is dying game genre.

Well it has been made official, now just have to wait for details.

I have high hopes for this server. Currently there only are Classic servers doing this theme and these are either too low populated (imo), paid (retail subscription) or intentionally and silently unbalanced to favor biggest donors. So this one might be the good, free and balanced..which means perfection. I can't wait for the info to be published by admin.

Same shit as always.
Server launches.
People get hyped.
Server runs fine few month....then all of sudden people start to leave.
Server dies.

Fuck L2 Community nowadays.

I wish 99% would stop playing L2 so there wont be zillion of servers.
Just few quality servers were "loyal" players play and stay.