u know me, all my servers have been successful, and increasingly so. since no1 is giving info ill give my info as to what i think it should be like.
Leveling:
Lvl 1 - 15: easy, take about 2-3 hours.
lvl 16 - 25 Medium: Takes about 1 day
lvl 26 - 35 Med/hard: Takes about 3-5 days
lvl 35 - 40 hard: takes about a week or so
lvl 40+ : bit harder, max it will get
Items:
the max level will be around lvl 60 or so, but will increase once many players hit it. but im hoping no1 will get there for about 5 months or so. Weapons will be moderatley statted in general with the max planned stats for lvl 45 to be comparable to DC 5-50 for normal "semi rares"
Super-Rares will also be available every 5 levels or so, they will curse to ur hand making it very hard to pass them around. this way they will stay as rare as possible.
Drops:
Drops will be set up so that those who hunt, gain, although we all know theres some lucky twat who gets something first time, and so on. i cant help that. you will need to work for drops, a creature will only drop the "next level stage" items, so say the boss u fight @ lvl 35 will drop lvl 37 items only, this way rares can stay rare, and u are effectively hunting for your new kit.
Grouping:
to get "super rares" u need to group hunt, and this will be enforced as mucha s possible with very very hard mobs, it would be nice to implement a system so that everyone in a group can get a fair share, this would be nice but im not sure of the possibilites.
Databases:
Im gonna make sure all items are brand new, i have a very new database, which i would like to use, but i would need the team to look at it and say its ok first.
Staffing:
People will be selected from applications, im going to keep the team to as few people as possible, so everything counts! 1 staff member will get instant GM powers (and the host) more GM's will be added as the server expands, people who have contributed to the server creation get preferance. but not everyone is garunteed a place. PLEASE DONT APPLY IF UR ONLY IN IT FOR A GM SPOT!
Mobs:
Mobs will be almost undeafeatable if u more than 10 levels lower than them, very hard (for group) at about 10 levels, hard (solo) at about challenging at the same level and easy a few levels above.