01-30-2008, 01:20 PM
Hello Toker, mature players are always welcome 
As people have said the pvp is geared toward more tourney balancing. Sphere had a hard pvp system to balance and maka did a great job with what he had. I can't say I've pvped much but the dedication of many of the players here to the pvp speaks for its hidden depth.
Yes it might be hard to survive a mage gank but if 5 people are FSing you I'm pretty sure you'd be dead wherever you play. Perhaps I'm wrong its been a while since I played a true sphere server and same goes for a vanilla runuo server.
As for the monsters your complaints about clumps of monsters is a byproduct of the runuo spawner system. A spawner gem is a very powerful tool, but it isn't perfect. It spawns in a area surrounding the gem and in many places the settings on spawners aren't ideal.
Most of the world spawns were done using a default spawner file that comes with runuo. The staff who were developing had their hands full rescripting runuo to mimic sphere, trust me it was a daunting task and I'm glad I joined after most of that had been done. There simply wasn't time or resources to assign staff to respawn stuff that was already spawned and fix clumping issues.
More attention was paid to dungeons and if you visit some of the custom dungeons you'll find spawns to be more varied and overall better. Just avoid deceit until you're strong and have some friends to hunt with.
As people have said the pvp is geared toward more tourney balancing. Sphere had a hard pvp system to balance and maka did a great job with what he had. I can't say I've pvped much but the dedication of many of the players here to the pvp speaks for its hidden depth.
Yes it might be hard to survive a mage gank but if 5 people are FSing you I'm pretty sure you'd be dead wherever you play. Perhaps I'm wrong its been a while since I played a true sphere server and same goes for a vanilla runuo server.
As for the monsters your complaints about clumps of monsters is a byproduct of the runuo spawner system. A spawner gem is a very powerful tool, but it isn't perfect. It spawns in a area surrounding the gem and in many places the settings on spawners aren't ideal.
Most of the world spawns were done using a default spawner file that comes with runuo. The staff who were developing had their hands full rescripting runuo to mimic sphere, trust me it was a daunting task and I'm glad I joined after most of that had been done. There simply wasn't time or resources to assign staff to respawn stuff that was already spawned and fix clumping issues.
More attention was paid to dungeons and if you visit some of the custom dungeons you'll find spawns to be more varied and overall better. Just avoid deceit until you're strong and have some friends to hunt with.