The Good, The Bad and The Ugly:

 

Horizon:

 

When I went back to farm some World Cup Festival Box, the event had ended. Check with Estella to see if I won any prize for the Spain Flag but get nothing. While continue with my Pictorial Book Farming, I also try using my new Farming Toons. But the result doesn't turn out to be expected, higher level mobs had a very bad drop rate. Make some adjustment as some high level mobs doesn't drop the production material as stated at Weebly Site, like I got 36 Tail from Silver Fox but can't seem to get any Hide. Even Clever Fox only drop Hide after getting 24 Tail, so lower level mobs are much better for farming production material. But at least they are ready for the coming Halloween Event, but I am not sure if I will be using them as the other server Halloween Event might be much better.

 

There are banning of 50 account on Orisis Server due to duping of items, and a lot of stuffs had been removed. It had cause a shortage of stuffs on the server and the price of stuffs sky rocket to a crazy level. A lot of players start to quit and come over to Horizon Server as the economy is more stable as compare to other servers. The lack of events also bring some unhappiness to the players, most of the time there are not much active players. I just kill Raid Boss as usual to get more Tool Aid for god and also trying to stock up more Lucky Scroll for the coming Christmas Event.

Aphelion:

Although Horizon Server is having XP, SP and Drop Rate Event during the Weekend, the Aphelion Server had much better event with mobs dropping Coin of Master again. So I decided to spend the weekend at Aphelion for the better events, I also going to try the new Battle Pass System that come with the new patch. To my surprise I manage to farm 60K of Token in a day due the a glitch in the Battle Pass System which give Premium Rewards instead of Free Rewards, 40K of the Token come from the bug until they patch it on Sunday Night.

Other than the Token I also manage to get a lot of good stuffs from the Battle Pass System, 20K of other Token and 10K of Moonstone Box and Chaos Ball. It will took me a few days to clear them all, and I will have more stuffs to sell after that. At least there will never be any shortage of stuffs on this server, and I had seen quite a few common stuffs selling cheaper due to the new patch. Really impress by the effort that the staffs put in to design the improvement, guess it will slowly pull more players from other server in time to come.

Happiness is a Journey:

 Horizon:

A lot of unhappiness among the players after the migration of the server, some is having issue creating account, some is having issue installing the game, some is having issue with lost toons, lost pets and lost items. The stability of the server is also a major issue which had affect a lot of players on the first few weeks, and what add on to the unhappiness is the increase in price of the stuffs which is affected by the server merge and item mall pricing.

They had forgotten about their love for the game, they had forgotten what they enjoy most about the game. They keep holding on to the past and keep saying how Skill Point Farming is so much easier and how the price of stuffs had been cheaper. They do not have the patient to wait for the publisher to fix the issues, they do not have the heart to help new players to enjoy the game.

Only a few players still trying their best to help new players, and I am always there to support them in any way I can. Beamer had been trying to get Horse Mount for new players, and since I don't really need that many Horse Mount I give him a few for free to repay his kindness which he had shown me earlier. Elvis and Mother Nature still giving Windy Buffs whenever they can, but they seem to be busy and doesn't really log on to game very often.

Krystael Dagger had been teaching others with her knowledge and experience of the game, and I had give some Lucky Scroll and Tool Aid to Avatar to help with his farming and crafting. Avatar had decided to change his name to The Ancient One, and he had been buying Gems so that he will be able to earn gold fast. As he is the only one getting stuffs from the Item Mall, he became the popular guy like what Diesel use to be.

It is not about how rich you are, how high level you are or how many good stuffs you have. I had been able to achieve a lot when I play Aphelion Server, but that doesn't really make me happy at all. I still enjoy playing Low Level where I don't really need to spend much and still able to farm a lot of stuffs to help other. It is only a Chicken and Egg thing, no point bothering about which actually came first as it will never have a conclusion.

 

The economy of the game is also a double side effect, if some players start selling their stuffs at high price they will also have to buy stuffs from other players at higher price too. The only solution is to get more new players to farm for more stuffs so that the supply and demand will achieve a balance. The Social Economy can actually be explain with a Mining Towns Example, and a lot of people will be surprise that it is actually applicable to many other area in real life other than the game.

There are two Mining Town, one decided to invest the money to develop the town building school, pub, medical facility. The people who work there are happy and see a better future, so they decided to bring their family to live with them. In short time the town boom and develop into a big city as there are more people to contribute and share the resources.

The other town is the opposite where is remain as a run down town with no facility, the people there does not have a sense of belonging and start to leave after they serve their purpose there. From the above example we can see that whether a game thrive or end mainly depend on the population of the players and how the publisher handle the issues. It will be a win win situation if people had a sense of belonging and decide to contribute to help build a strong community which make everything better over time.

New Beginning, Easter Event:

 

Horizon:

It had been about two weeks since the server start, the first week had been chaos with a lot of missing toons, missing pets, missing stuffs and missing golds.  I was not affected by the missing toons or missing pets, but I am affected by the missing stuffs and everybody is affected by the missing golds. To my surprise they decided to merge the server despite the fact that they promise to keep everything as it is before the migration, it is kind of good for me as I don't have to split my time between both servers and suddenly got a lot of stuffs from other server which I am unable to sell.

I spend the first week organizing my toons and stuffs, and finally able to start enjoying the game when they start the Easter Event on the second week. As it take 24 hours to completely delete my old toons to free up the slot before I can create new toons, and most of the toons I am going to delete are the repeated ones from the other server. The server lag, time out error and constant disconnection had made the whole progress more difficult as by the time I manage to log on to my toon the other toon will have disconnected.

Finally mange to figure out that those non popular channel like 1, 4 and 6 are much easier to get in as compare to those popular channel like 2, 3 and 5. Guess all my farming toons will be getting Blue Name by the time I complete their setup by the end of the Easter Event. The Trading Agent is back and it had been a great help in selling stuffs due to the server stability issues, they had resolve the missing toons, missing pets, missing stuffs and missing golds issues but they remove the Ace of Diamond instead.

Before I even got my golds and stuffs back, I already manage to sell some of the stuffs and got back about the same amount of  golds. I even give away a lot of stuffs too, to help and repay the kindness which others had shown me. I give three horse mount to Beamer as I realise I don't really need that many of it, I give all my Moonstone to Mother Nature as she really like the play with the slot machine. I give Avatar a lot of Lucky Scroll and Tool Aids which should be able to last him a few months.

Aphelion:

The private server had start the Easter Event a few days early than the original server, the rewards for the quest are much better as usual when compare with the original server. They also organize a lot of events over the weekends in an effort to attract more players to stay with them, and there are also a lot of new players joining within that few days. A few of them seem to be the Alternates of Lorena as they continue to beg for free stuffs, even though the way they do it are slightly different but you can easily notice as the motive are the same.

The first one was named DylaN, he is using the same method of waiting at store keeper and asking others to give him stuffs which others doesn't want anymore. When I expose his real identity he keep denying and later change another toon with different name and try different method. The other one is LEVI which claim he is unable to kill Newbie Hunter at Level 21 and request for my help. Then later switch to THANOS which claim he need a Pet for pick up, I gave him a Two Head Canine which is very good like the Chameleon and  Golden Carriage which I gave Lorena before.

Just a day later I saw him trying to sell it at almost twice the market price, then another toon named BaltoN appear and keep wanting to buy all kind of stuffs but only offer ten percent of the market price. He keep claiming that he is new and don't have much golds, but all the stuffs he want are very premium and good stuffs which I myself cannot even afford. Some players actually took pity on him and start giving him a lot of stuffs for free, I can also do the same but it will not really help him or do him any good.

There are no poor players, only the lazy one. If they can't even farm stuffs to sell, they are just going to be a beggar all their life. They always claim they don't have so much time to play, but they still wasting most of their time standing around doing nothing. If they had so much difficulty playing such an easy game, they might as well quit and make life better for everybody. Even if they manage to get a lot of free stuffs and sell it to become rich, they will never go far both in game or in life as they do not have the knowledge and experience.

Another Newbie:

 
Met another Newbie named Bloodmage while farming for Boosters at Burbank Farm, I had become a Newbie Magnet. She doesn't want to join guild for Experience Lock, doesn't want to get a Guardian. She doesn't want to do Skill Point Farming, just want to Level Up fast.

I already advise her against that but she still insist on doing it, guess it will be another test for me then. I show her all the basic she need to know, even how to harvest for pet food. She didn't have enough gold to buy stuffs, so I give her 1M to buy the knife and hammer and even give her 20 Tool Aid and a Drake Egg.

She told me she turn herself into a Jaguar and don't know how to turn back, I told her just click on the blinking icon on the right will do. She log off about a few hours later and never appear again, I hope I will see her again on weekend.

Light Of The World decided to become a Spam Bot after his class change at Level 31, he is not even interested to do anything other than preaching his gospel. He told me he got about 50M and if he spend 10K spamming per day he will be able to do it for 5000 days which is about 13 years.

He is very proud to become a Royal Knight, he thought Royalty is relate to his God. I told him that King Solomon create the Templar Knight to protect the Ark, so he got the facts all wrong.

He also told me he had apply to become a Game Master, imagine him using the Announcement System to preach his gospel a lot of players will go crazy and quit. I ask the Light Bringer friends to invite him for Extreme Cube so that it will reduce his spamming to about 50 days.

Discover a few things while helping newbie, so all the effort didn't really come to waste. Light Of The World start to spend money on Item Mall buying useless Wedding Costume and Custom Title, the Costume will only last a month and the Title only last a week. At least the title will give some boost, but he just want to look presentable for his gospel preaching.

Fall Event extend for another week, I will be able to farm more Boosters to sell. If I farm 100 Boosters per day and sell them at 10M each I should be able to recover the 12B which I spend on Advance Grade Reformer during the Game Master Buff Event, but I will still have to spend another 6B for the upgrade stone to upgrade the Erebus Set.

Maybe high level is not really my cup of tea, had to spend a lot to get the gears and stuffs you need. Erebus also did not drop upgrade stone as expected, and gears are really hard to sell in Merchant Mode. Guess I will stick to low level and farm consumable stuffs which is easier to sell. After all these are what I enjoy most about the game.

Discover that Apollo Mars is able to trade some of the untradable stuffs after getting the Merchant Profession. Guess I can start selling the Power and Berserker Potion as they seem overrated to me. The remaining one should be able to get 4B or so, at least I wouldn't be broke after buying upgrade stone.

Dumb Ass:

Met a stupid player on T5 named LudwigVH, he claim that I Kill Steal his Grand Balrog. He is using a low level Titan named Hendrick to kill Elder Drake, it had to stack all the 5 buffs from Drake Egg in order to survive. I could have easily mob kill him if I want, but I buff him instead with Divine Shield to increase his defense.

It was also killing very slow, so I predict it must had been doing that for few hours. I arrive at the location and start my hunt, within minutes the Grand Balrog spawn. I manage to kill it before the high level Knight arrive, he was riding his Knightmare Mount searching high and low for Grand Balrog.

After some time he realise that I had already kill it, I was already collecting Drake Egg when he arrive. He seem very upset about it, I try to trade with him to transfer the drops to him but was rejected. He thought he had been working so hard for few hours to make it spawn, and he didn't even bother to switch to other server to try his luck.

I went to other server to continue my hunt, I thought maybe if Grand Balrog spawn in other server I can whisper for him to come and kill it. I manage to get Grand Balrog to spawn at the third server after that, but I am unable to get him on chat as he might be offline.

I got no choice but to kill it myself, I was lucky enough to get Tears of Knight Rare Accessory drop from it. Guess heaven bless those who are good, I always kill Grand Balrog and leave the drops for my guildie who are farming for Skill Point at Sasquatch near Hunter Drenior.

A Level 94 Rogue name Longshot start a chat with me, she told me her Guild are not active and the Guild Master had been offline for a week and the Guild Advisor had been offline for a month. She decided to let her Level 9 Mage named TheEvilWithin to join my Guild.

She later even let her Level 90 Night Shadow join my Guild too, and I think the Level 9 Knight is also one of her sub. One of the Level 9 Titan seem to be her Apprentice, and I also had a Apprentice who join the Guild. I think I met her at the other server as I saw her collecting Drake Egg and buff me with Hard Boil as usual, her Rogue is named SexyPigs. She told me that she will also buff my friend and his guildies if she happen to see them.

Manage to sell my Wooden Treasure Key at 300K each to a high level Specialist named ZeeD at T3, saw a lot of players selling it at about 500K to 1M. Guess the high level need potions from the Wooden Treasure Chest, mange to earn 60M with 200 keys sold.

Manage to get a +19 Master Stone from Laca Ball with Gold Token, too bad it is at Server E. If it was at Server T, I would have sold it and become a Trillionare. It is able to get the gear to +17 when use it with NPC Maiya, players are able to get +30 Master Stone with monthly password change.

 4 Billions:

Manage to sell 1300 Tool Aid at 500K each, make 650M overnight. Now my wealth had reach 4B, saw some Chaos Stone selling at 180M but so far still haven't found any Lucky Stone at 50M. I will just wait and observe longer to see if the price will drop further, no rush for it until I decide to level up my toon to 53.

Got 3 Summon Book from Moonstone Statue with Perfect Moonstone, will be able to carry out Operation Tele Tubby again. Got more of it on other server with Teleport Book too, but not much use for it.

So far the only tradable stuff is the Cool Down Potion, saw other players selling it at 40M. Platinum Stone Remover, HP and MP Booster and Blessed Iris are non tradable so I got to use it myself.

 

Rare Accessory:

Been hunting Grand Balrog with my Level 35 Royal Knight for the past few days, think I had kill more than 50 of it. The strange thing is that it doesn't drop any Rare Accessory even though I am using Item Drop Booster and Lucky Scroll. After analyzing the situation, I conclude that my Level is too much different from it to get any drop.

Change to my Level 33 Royal Knight for the hunt and it give me a Tear of Knight at first kill. I never believe my luck, it had been the Rare Accessory which I had always wanted other than Crest of Rainbow and Stone of Shadow. I believe that if I continue with this process I will be having all the Rare Accessory I want in no time. 

 

Another Rare Accessory:

Manage to get another Rare Accessory at 6th Kill, drop rate is still good consider at this rate. What surprise me more is that it is the Crest of Rainbow which I had always wanted too. I can farm Skill Point while level up my Pet into Mount, that is triple benefits with the hunting of Rare Accessory included.

My tactic is to charge up my Ignition Gauge by killing Level 30 Elder Drake, it will take about 10 to 15 minutes and the Raid Boss will spawn by then. If the Raid Boss never appear after I had charge up my Ignition Gauge, I will switch to another server and try for another 10 to 15 minutes.

With 5 server excluding the 4th one which I encounter some issue with Pet activation due to Castle Siege, I am able to increase my efficiency to killing about 10 to 15 Raid Boss per day. I am using Level 6 Minerals I got from Moonstone and Lucky Scroll from Raid Boss drop, manage to get a lot of Tool Aid from the drop too.

I had try a few times without Minerals or Potions but failed, so Minerals and Potion is still require to kill it faster before it can use it attack on me. I think I will be able to open shop and sell some stuffs in a month time after I got all the Rare Accessory I need for my various characters and level up my Pet into Mount.

The only decision I need to make after that is whether to continue level up to Level 50 to complete the Guardian and Apprentice System and hunt Grand Red Dragon at Merac or continue to stay at this level to keep hunting Grand Balrog.

 Changing Server:

As my friend is playing at the other server, I decided to cross over to join him. Manage to get my Royal Knight Apollo Mars to Level 33 in just a day. Now in the progress of leveling up my Templar Knight Alpha Light and getting the First Knight Guild to Level 6 for Experience Lock.

The Templar Knight is currently at Level 25 and the Guild is presently at Level 4. As I encounter some shortage of gold for leveling up my Guild, I decided to open shop in Merchant Mode and sell some stuffs to raise 3 Millions Gold for the leveling of my Guild.

 

Recommended Server:

Although there is not much player at the Recommended Server, the drop rate are definitely much better. I manage to get 40 over Heaven Stone, 20 over Skill Point Booster from Gods Hands. Also manage to get 400 over Tool Aid and Lucky Scroll from Raid Boss and Level 6 Minerals from Moonstone.

If I manage to sell them off, I might become a billionaire. I did organize event before with total prize value of 5.5 billions. I also organize another event with all the ten type of Rare Accessory, the total value of the prize is about 1.5 billions.

The Billionaire event require the players to hunt for ten each of ten type of rare production material. It would require them to create low level toon in order to do that, it is also able to benefit new players as they got more advantage over high level players.

The Rare Accessory Event also require the players to hunt for ten each of ten type of Transformation Scroll, this is slightly easier and require both low level and mid level toon as some of the scroll are only available in Dratan and Merac instead of just Juno as per the previous event.