[tempandrew]

People need to actually start developing interesting servers with unique ideas, like the old days. Stuff that's developed now is just pure garbage. The few quality things that are produced on this heap of **** game are handled completely incorrectly, because you're all so desperate to keep people attracted, and you don't look at the big picture. You release one big project after the next, and people remain interested for a short period of time but it has a bandaid effect on a dam full of holes. Eventually the pressure will build up elsewhere and a new hole will spring, you'll need another bandaid to fix that one.

People need to start developing and releasing in an organized matter. It prolongs the interest and gets people involved in what the server has to offer. Don't make random ass quests that follow no story line. Put personality into your characters. You're developing for a game, remember that, this might be a poor quality 2D game, but follow the same rules any other game would follow. Story lines. Characters with personalities. When I play a game, there's always at least one character I just fall in love with, and I actually care what happened to that character. Say the character dies somewhere in the story, I'm like 'NOOOOOOOOOO', and I want to keep playing the game to seek revenge and kill the **** out of the bastard who took him out.

I'm rambling, but the point is, organize your servers better, everybody. You'll see a gigantic improvement in overall server quality and interest. I still agree advertising will help Graal as a whole even in it's current state, but I think Graal does need to start moving in a new direction as far as server development goes. Unholy Nation is the biggest mess of a server I've seen. It is probably the biggest compilation of tossed together ideas in Graal history, surpassing the disorganization of even examples like late Babylon/Delteria. And this is why servers do not last forever, and need to be started anew after so many years.