Played this server for about 2 months now. It was good, albeit abit slow at times in regards to levelling and upgrading gear, though this is to be expected in a low rate server and this aspect has improved in the later updates.
However... In the last month, two players have come out of nowhere with very good gear, gear that previously was obtained by 1 or 2 players in the top guilds, or even nobody at all. Nobody had seen these players or their guilds at any bosses or hunting so while possible, it did immediately seem suspicious that they are levelled and geared on a low rate server out of nowhere. These players in question also seem to have upgraded their rare gear risking it in new refine systems recently released that is completely different from any other servers refine system and has no guide or information released to players. further have also gemmed their gear with DC+ and Speed+ and then DC+ again on items that there are only 1 or 2 in the game total. (of course this is all very possible stuff, just giving a background)
On-to the real problem with these players. BLATANT cheats. mainly two players in question who cheat so blatantly that the whole server instantly shouted cheats and cried out to the GMs to bann them. No action taken by the GMs, vague excuses given to try to explain the countless video evidence provided by many players of the cheats. Previously enemy guilds now band together when these players and their new formed guild turn up (though its usually just the two players in question that are the issue) to fight them together. At this point countless complaints of blatant cheats have been raised to the GMs on the server discord, and the vague excuses given to explain away the evidence has at this point turned into no response at all and just closing the post, with occasional mockery of the people reporting the cheaters and providing evidence. Trying to give video analysis of provided evidence has resulted in players being silenced from the discord and their posts closed.
Through recent player effort, some bugs were discovered and the method of their execution discovered (bugs that occur specifically through unnatural player-input to cause the player to not be forced to walk after being flinched for example) Bugs that were of course one of the many things the cheaters in question abused in addition to their insane speeds and character animation speeding up. (all of which documented in many different peoples clips and evidence to show they had been abusing these bugs intentionally) Server rules stated that intentional exploiting was bannable, so posts were made to ask the GMs if they would be banned and if not, what action if any would be taken against the proveably intentional exploiting. This post was instantly locked, mocked and blocked, with me then being silenced from the discord.
What originally started as a joke was that these two cheaters were actually Mamp and Valk(the GMs) A joke borne from a light-hearted way of explaining why it was taking so long to bann the obvious cheaters, is no longer as funny as it was, as the admins seem to at every turn close any reports of the players cheating, ignore any evidence provided, or explain away blatant cheats and excessively dodgy occasions as bugs caused by spells that are then announced as fixed. Naturally the accusations dont stop, nor does the video evidence cease to be posted in the discord despite the "bugs" being fixed the dwindling playerbase still calls out that these two are obviously cheating, only now posts accusing them of cheating are closed and ignored on site, with occassional mockery first.
The takeaway here, if you want a fun low-rate server this is the option.... so long as you dont want to get involved in pvp and dont mind obvious signs of corruption by the GM team. And dont mind spending your time on a server that will likely be empty soon as the cheaters drive more and more players away from the already dwindling playerbase.