Silkroad Zone. You probably know this name already.
We could talk for hours if it's worth it to reopen an already failed project.
One thing is for sure.
Our other project which is Zszc-Zone, has been succesful and online for a year.
It was the most succesful and best server for months, that's not something that everyone's server can achieve.
We have gained a lot of experience since the first project.
This server will be for those who liked Isro in 2010 when the Alexandria update came in.
If you have been wandering around for a while, don't forget to drop by, you are not going to regret it.
We hereby inform you that this 2 man team has decided to reopen Silkroad Zone.
Zszc & Silkroad Zone created in: Hungary
| Some pictures from the previous server [2014-2015 | |
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- What do we aim for?
Simple, just like before.- - Balanced gameplay
- - Least edit
- - Basic system
- - Player focus
- - IP limit (2)
- - Free silk on 110
- - No coin system, only the original one in Job temple
- - Low sox rates
One may rightfully ask: WHY is this server built? What audience do we aim?
Back in those days when silkroad servers were relatively stable, I was an active player myself, and it is my favorite game even until this day. And then came the day, when armies of private servers opened, and there were no options but to move from one to the other. They either got closed, or I got banned for some irrational reason, or I was hacked, or the GM was a corrupt bastard, or they just simply fucked up the server in time. I had enough of it. So I started my own server. That was 4 years ago, and I've had quite a few servers, which have let me gain enough experience to setup, maintain, debug and edit silkroad servers at an impressive speed.
It certainly feels that the era of overedited servers is somewhat going down, soon they are over. I realize the fact that people are still looking for decent (actually) Silkroad-ish server. Thus, we are starting this one again.
Back in those days when silkroad servers were relatively stable, I was an active player myself, and it is my favorite game even until this day. And then came the day, when armies of private servers opened, and there were no options but to move from one to the other. They either got closed, or I got banned for some irrational reason, or I was hacked, or the GM was a corrupt bastard, or they just simply fucked up the server in time. I had enough of it. So I started my own server. That was 4 years ago, and I've had quite a few servers, which have let me gain enough experience to setup, maintain, debug and edit silkroad servers at an impressive speed.
It certainly feels that the era of overedited servers is somewhat going down, soon they are over. I realize the fact that people are still looking for decent (actually) Silkroad-ish server. Thus, we are starting this one again.
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Exp rate: 90x
START PLAYING! Forget that f**king 500x rates. That's not an MMORPG. Group up with people on penons and have afternoon parties together. It was so much fun back then, wasn't it? If you want to be someone, you will have to play for it.
I can guarantee you that your efforts won't be unnecessary!
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Drop rate: 10x
...and maybe that's even more than it should be. But we leave it as it is, so y'all can be happy about something. One thing is for sure: you will not be running to town every 30 minutes, because your inventory is full. You DO know the feeling, right? =)
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Gold rate: 10x
You had better get accustomed to having 100m gold means hell of a lot of fortune. You all remember when you had your first million on iSRO, right? Catch that feeling... it's coming back.
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Alchemy rate: 1x
To the hell with +15-20 weapons, those servers are mainly pay to win. You will be super excited to try +7 on your weapon, and if it succeeds, you throw up a party. If you have glow on your weapon, that makes you unique. It is like that in 95% of other MMORPGs. And have not mentioned the lack of balance with such a high success rate.
*Advanced elixirs are disabled.
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Job rate: 15x
A result of a long and thorough testing. We had our principles which we followed, and we decided this will be the optimal setting. We want the prices to remain real as well as players shouldn't be stuffed with gold. And since trading will be the best source of money on the server, it will worth to have as many trades as possible (and not just pressing the start button of mbot occasionly).
- Starter items
- Stack limits
We have decided to lift up the potion, arrow/bolt limits, because you always asked for it. After all, it's a private server, and you are the players.
Vigor grain has been decreased to 15% from 25%, but we can put it back if you think it's too low.
Potion 200 Pills 50 Arrow/Bolt 1000 Tablet 50 Stone 1 Vigor 50
- Honor rank
Disabled, because players kept reporting each other for abusing the honor system. It wasn't about helping new players anymore. It was about getting honor buffs first by making more and more new characters.
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Magic Pop:
Disabled! We don't want a Pay2Win server!
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Fortress war
There must be a war among guilds and unions on the weekends. Do you remember the excitement when you were preparing for Fortress war? We don't want you to miss it.
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Forgotten world
Forgotten world with low rate.
- Job Temple
Selket & Neith (silver coins) : every day at 3 PM and 9 PM
Anubis & Isis (gold coins) : every day at 5 PM and 11 PM (except sunday because of fortress war)
Haroeris & Seth (nothing, ignore them) : 1 PM and 7 PM
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Title system
That is right, you can wear titles according to your nationality in front of your char name! Check the new, camp fire looking NPC in the middle of Hotan. If you buy this, you won't even have to worry about the zerk quests. Not to talk about the good looking. Read the NPC description for more information.
- Unique rank
Do you remember when you told your buddies that you were going to a Tiger Girl spot before you started learning, editing a video, eating your dinner, anything? Waiting on the spot for the unique to show up, maybe setting a sound in the bot to let you know that the waiting is over, have always been very exciting, we hope this feeling is still in you. You see the notice, you look around, it's not on your spot, damn, let's go and find it. Remember? That's right, we have combined the old feeling of going to the unique spawn points with your modern expectations.
The removal of auto points in reverse scroll will just make it more exciting. You will get points for unique kills. The first 3 players who kill the most uniques and collect the most points, will get silk rewards every week. Be careful, botting will not be allowed on the spots, you can get blocked for it.
Tiger girl 1 point Cerberus 1 point Captain Ivy 1 point White Knight: 1 point Uruchi 2 points Isyutaru 3 points Lord Yarkan 4 points Demon Shaitan 5 points
- Delays
We decided to put some delays to avoid for example the pay2play style at Fortress war or global spamming.
30 seconds on global chatting, 5 minutes on ressurection scroll.
Global chatting can only be used from lvl 50.
- Free silks
-Yes, we will add free silk content, based on online uptime.
We believe that this is not the server where you should be bathing in silks.
Worse thing for the economy. So you will get free silk, under one temporary and one long-lasting condition:
! Be level 105.!
Okay, you raged out. Why do we want this? For the second: the reason is obvious, I hope I don't have to explain it.
As for the first, we have a solid reason: we don't want to unbalance the players' wallet - we have run into this error before, when the starters were stuffed with gold, while the not-even-so-late joiners were poor as hell. Also, we want you to advertise our server and call your friends to play with.
- Monster spawns rebalanced
Some areas full of mobs, others empty - we worked on this one to ensure you less annoyance when you are grinding!
IMPORTANT! We had to remove some monsters to balance their number on the server.
1 gameserver [40.000 monsters] which will be upgraded as soon as we can afford it.
- Consignment enabled
Putting 11D items in the NPCs would take away the joy that stalling gives you.
Prices will go up, according to the item's rarity in the beginning. Isn't it exciting?
- Launcher & Login screen
- Glows
The glows won't be oldschool this time, which means that +6 will be gold, +7 will be blue and so on.
- Exchange Delay
On one hand, exchange delay is to prevent the annoying requests or pvp bug.
- Stall Delay
On the other hand, stall delay is to avoid bugs connected to the stall system.
- Database backup every hour
We have automatic database backup every hour in case something occurs, so we can restore everything fast. Not every server can do this.
General Information about Rules
As other servers, we also have rules. However, we expect our community to be grown-up, not to act childish and behave like adults. Do not whine over 'small' things. Life is never fair, nor will it ever be! If you have reports, submit them to us on facebook or in the game. Make sure to include screenshots so we can work better on each case.
IMPORTANT! If you once bought silk by donating, don't forget, that you agreed with the following rule. If you get caught with scamming or you don't feel like playing anymore or you don't like a new update for example, it doesn't authorize you to reverse the donation, because you had spent it already.
Account + Item Sharing & Trading | Allowed
Be very careful, never give your character first to anyone, but if you scam anyone with it, expect a big punishment.
Selling/Trading Items for $(etc.) | Allowed
You can do it, you can sell anything except gold, BUT if you get scammed, we don't take responsibility for it, you will probably never see your items again (in case of paypal scam).
Job Cheating
Job Cheating | Forbidden
Job Cheating is also known as "Contribution Cheating" and is usually done by thieves. It also includes spawning a pet in town as thief as well as other exploits. Using these bugs/exploits might get you permanently banned.
Advertising other Servers | Forbidden | Permanent ban
No continuous insulting!
We have been thinking a lot about it. If we banned everyone who said a bad word about anyone, we could ban 95% of the server. Besides, we are not in the kindergarten. Ignore if you get insulted or insult back, don't run to us crying.
1-1 words are okay, who hasn't done that? But if you keep insulting someone, don't wonder if you get blocked for some days.
We will not tolerate racism and blasphemy at all, so be aware of what you say, people might take it seriously and report you.
Exploiting
The use of any kind of exploit to abuse the system will get you permanently banned.
Don't cry for events!
Nothing is more annoying than the idiots who is nothing else but "EVENT PLEZ GM" in global for hours. It is more powerfully annoying for the GMs. Why? Because events aren't part of the game envorinment. It's just some occasional candy from the staff to the players. If you want to play here because there will be event every hour, don't even think about joining! Crying people will get a DC if they are annoying most of the people or the GM.
Don't insult the staff!
We are people who do A F**K*NG LOT OF WORK to maintain the server and entertain you. Is this the honor that you wanna f**k our mothers or worse? Temporary ban will be provided, be cautious.
Exchange bug | Forbidden
You will be warned first by the admin, then blocked for 5, then 7 days every time you use it.
In case you get hacked/scammed.
It's not our responsibility to give you anything when you get scammed. We usually help you with in-game scams if we can. But we don't always record logs. If you report a scam days later, don't wonder if we can't help. Don't enter fake websites that say you can get sos and silk for free. Don't believe kids with fake characters who say they are a GM and ask for your account. How can you even be fooled by this? Don't give your ID and PW to anyone. We have at least 2 people every week that cry for their chars scammed by his friend. You can't force us to change the password on your char.
If you or your bot sells something to the NPC.
Adding anything in the game is against our policy. We won't be able to help with that. Sorry.
Trading in the game
If you want to trade something with someone in the game, make sure you always pick a reliable middleman. If the buyer/seller is lvl 1, be very suspicious. Always go to an open place where you can see the characters around, always pay attention who you give something to. There are lots of scams with fake name characters.
Fake name characters
There have always been kids who think it's easier to steal than work for something. They create characters named similar to your friend's characters. If he exchanges you from nowhere, don't accept it. Make sure it's your friend, sometimes small L and big i can't be noticed, that's why check his char look too. But you had better not trust anyone, not even your friend.
Stall "scam"
If you put something for a low price and someone else buys it, it's your fault, we can't force anyone to give it back. Be careful next time.
Write us only if you speak proper english, german, hungarian, french.
We offer support in these languages. If you don't speak any of them, don't even write us, because we don't have time to guess what you want. Happens at least twice every week. These letters won't be answered. The user will be blocked in case of spam. Normally you get an answer within 12 hours.
-Gold selling is forbidden.
Permanent ban
NOTE: If you have no idea what to do when there are no events, I will list all the activities that make your MMORPG playing worthwhile.
Try to remember what you did back then!
- Level up (you will have time to level up)
- Trade (gold is something you will always need)
- Alchemy (obvious part of the game, fun)
- Stall, trade (all the WTS/WTB, everyone likes business.)
- Quests (to have titles and blue zerk)
- PVP (Good old fights at Donwhang, remember?)
- Fight in Job temple
- Forgotten world
- Now, few words about the properties of the server:
Firstly, the parameters:- - vSRO server files 188
- - Usual bugs are fixed
- - Stable
- - Exploits are prevented (for example no exchange bug in pvp)
- - Anti-DDoS system (Hyperfilter)
- - No lag (decent server machine)
- - Auto database backup in every hours
One can easily say, that the content is really minimal, compared to other servers. This isn't much, but it is deliberately like this!
Don't expect huge, gameplay changer edits on this server, neither fancy, never seen things at your arrival.
We don't want you to get overwhelmed or base your playtime upon ultraspecial features of our own invention. Less extra features, less bugs! And the less is sometimes more.
Don't expect huge, gameplay changer edits on this server, neither fancy, never seen things at your arrival.
We don't want you to get overwhelmed or base your playtime upon ultraspecial features of our own invention. Less extra features, less bugs! And the less is sometimes more.
1. How do I know if the GM is corrupt or not?
- Our team consists of 2 guys. We both want the server to be succesful, neither of us wants to ruin it.
We are from the same country, but it doesn't mean we treat anyone in a different way. Every player is equal in our eyes. Even if you donate 100$ or not. Don't let yourself be fooled by the numbers, we are a professional team. (Everyone can say that, right?) We aren't kids either to promote all of our friends to GMs. No, it's not GM road. We are perfectly enough for it. Our goal isn't ripping off our players then close the server like others do it. Anyway, don't believe me, believe your eyes.
2. What does the GM spend the donations on?
- Protecting the server costs a lot nowadays because of the continuous attacks. Also, the server needs to be advertised. These 2 things are expensive.
3. How do I know if the server will not close in a month?
- You cannot know. We all cannot know. It is all up to you people, if you fill it up, it will be long living! We are not the type of server owners who get some money from the server and close instantly. We have been working on this for weeks. We will do everything to keep it open. One word: quality!
4. Pay2win, right?
- Sure! Oh f**k, I mean, no, no. There's nothing in the server you can't get without donating.
5. 63412 zerk titles buyable for silk?
- No, only nationality titles.
5. Balanced?
- Everything is in the original state as developed by Joymax.
6. Active GMs?
- Yes, in the background. We are constantly processing the feedback about the server and developing the parts of the game where we feel it necessary.
7. So there will be no event GMs?
- Yup! No people whose daily job is to entertain people. People can entertain themselves and eachother perfectly well like in every other normal game. So don't ask for events! There will be occasional events by the admin, but not by people who have nothing else to do. We take this very seriously, so don't bother crying.
8. Can I have your contact, GM?
- No, sorry. You can write us on facebook, on our official page. That's what we use for support. You will get an answer within 12 hours unless you spam or insult us.
9. Won't it be late for me to start after months?
- No, because that's the most beautiful in these kinds of servers, being weeks or months late means never a disadvantage. Since the alchemy rates aren't high, you won't meet +10 and +20 weapons at your arrival that seem impossible to achieve.
The team has quite a few years of experience in creating silkorad servers. We are protected and we are supported. Special thanks to our contributors and the protection services!
Criticism - Admin Answers
C - Full bot server, nobody is active.
C - I am bored and no free silk.
C - No active gm and I can't even see one.
C - Full bot server, nobody is active.
C - I am bored and no free silk.
C - No active gm and I can't even see one.
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