Just adding my thoughts.
I was going to quit with Silkroad after Salvation closed. But this amazing old school server named Shiva made me start playing SRO again.
The gameplay reminds of iSro's best times (2006). The
gearing up system makes botting senseless and encourages the players to a high job activity. D8 sos gear (Som/SoSun removed for better balance) can be bought with gold and
Sky Coins, which are gained by jobbing and
uniques. We have all chinese uniques + many uniques in the Dw Cave. In addition to Sky Coins, they also drop Item Mall items, alchemy stones & other nice stuff (very rare Gold Dragon Flags and more). The
Alchemy rates are originally 1x iSro. No advanced elixirs crap! If you got a +7 weapon, you have something very special here. We got the very origin iSro shines (+3 white, +5 red, +7 golden, +9 blue).
Lvl up works nice and fast, you are lvl 70 after 3 hours of grinding or 1h in trader party. Free D 1-5 SoSun, D6 Som, D7 Sos items in town. This is a legit server, botting leads to a ban (permanent).
I recommend Skyroad Shiva to all people who have played back in the good old times and enjoyed it, and/or to all players who want a highly balanced, job based server without euros.
Website:
Skyroad OnlineQuote:
No lag and 24/7 support
Race: CH
Lv Cap: 70
Item Cap: 8D
Mastery: 300
Gameplay: Jobbing
EXP Rate: 10x
Party EXP Rate: 10x
Job EXP Rate: 30x
Drop Rate: 1x
Gold Rate: 2x
Job Gold Rate: 40x
Alchemy Rate: 1x
Adv. elixirs: removed
Botting: Not allowed(Result: Instant Ban)
Job/Guild penalties: removed
Items from mall are droppable and tradeable
PS: The server is still young, it was opened some weeks ago. Logging in, complaining about the lack of players and leaving again won't be helpful at all. Grab your friends, play here for some days and you will support making the server attractive for new players. Give it some days, and the server activity will be growing enormously.