The GM team is very friendly and has a lot of understanding about RO mechanics. For example: many players have shops up specially for new players that offer good items at low prices. Overall the community is very friendly though and will gladly help new players out on the server. There are some elitist pvp bastards, but hey, which server does not have those Along with everything else, this will make TalonRO a great unique server. We've been promised Custom Quests and an advanced new Control Panel. Apart from the current features and those that are coming shortly, there will be a great deal of new features available. They're all do-able, as long as you have a team that knows how to work together rather than to work alone.Īnyway. The MVP's are a LOT tougher than they were before and it is necessary that you have a good party to kill them. Also important is that the GM team supports party play. Or the GTB card, which previously blocked 100% magic damage, now only blocks 60%. For example the Doppelganger card, which normally gives a 33% aspd boost, now only gives a 22% boost. What does happen though is a great deal of balancing on this part. But the community does not want this, so it does not happen. Even though everything was converted to eAthena, some of the GM's would more than gladly have wiped the entire server, mainly because of the incredible amount of donation items available. This might scare off new players for a bit, but do know that these items are widely available to anyone. The server split up from a server where donation items were widely available, so of course TalonRO is a donation server as well. GM Faith is mainly working on this with feedback of the community. Not only are there more features, also there's a great deal of game balancing going on. The new features (Endless Tower, WoE 2.0, PvP Battlegrounds) will be implemented soon, which will give a great load of fun to the server. With the other GM's having more control over the server, the future of the server looks bright. Player amounts have already gone up to about 100 at normal times and lots of old players are planning to return. The server is totally stable so far and with the dedication of the GM's I'm sure it will stay like this. They are not implemented just yet as there are still some bugs to be worked out, but I tested some of them and they work great. GM Boreas has been scripting on new features like Endless Tower, WoE 2.0 and PvP Battlegrounds. Together with the amazing transfer to eAthena, the GM's have also been busy on some other projects. Boreas as the main scripter and Faith as the game balance GM. Characters, storages, carts, guilds, homunculi and even family trees were converted from an Aegis 10.2 (with 10.4 features) server to a brand new eAthena 12.1 server.īT is of course still the owner of the server, but the server is now mostly administrated by GM Boreas and GM Faith. As said before, basically everything was transfered. After a short beta test, the new server is finally up. Several months after this project started, this finally succeeded. In secret, GM Boreas has been scripting on a script to convert EVERYTHING from the Aegis server to an eAthena server. Also probably one of the most amazing things in an RO server ever happened. BT finally loosened up a bit and gave the other GM's more space. Many people have been shouting for a long time that the server needs a change. But, with all the broken promises about updates (and the bans from the xmas event), this dropped to around 60 with around 150 at WoE times. Many people had great fun in this event, but the ending was unfortunately very bitter as there was a bug exploit in the rewards NPC which quite some people abused.Īnyway, the server started off with about 300 players on. He did almost have it running, but this project was cancelled because of a huge change to the server, which I will tell about in a sec.Įven though there were no updates to the game itself, we did have some epic events and mainly the XMas Event 2007 was probably the most advanced RO event done in an Aegis server ever. The main reason for this is that the owner, Black Talon (to be called BT from now on), is simply too busy IRL and thus doesn't have a lot of time for coding on the server. We've waited and waited, but in the end this never happened. TalonRO started late March 2007 as an Aegis server and the players were promised many updates, like Aegis Episode 11.2. Let's stick to a little history of the server itself. It's the past so let's keep it like that. This is not what I want to talk about now though. No silly eAthena customs (like nightmode, wings, tons of only !whosell, !main and !autotradeĪs most people who play on this server know, this server split up from the old AnimaRO. Over a year has passed since TalonRO's start and after a tough period, the server can now finally show its full potential.
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