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  1. Adena is low because they want a massive rift between players. To further encourage purchases. Gear Inc to cash shop very soon with these rates. By design. Has nothing to do with hardcore or "classic" gameplay. Only dollars matter.
  2. Current client limit is 3, outside of additional PC/VMware clients. The later of which is bannable. Autohotkey and hardware macros were commonplace especially pre-gameguard and expensive shots era. The main assist was manually targeting, and everyone else was relatively afk on right-clicking loops. I know, I know. "Third party programs are not allowed" since when did that stop anyone on NCwest? On a good day maybe a small fraction of scripters were banned much less than hardware macro users. Leaving the average player in the dust and at the mercy of those who would.
  3. Macros aren't a new thing to old L2. Most hardcore parties ran ahk/keyboard macros since C1. The truly degenerate ran scripts and the like until the mass purge 2 years back. This game has always been about killing literally hundreds of thousands of mobs for meaningful character progression. Right clicking until your mouse breaks isn't engaging gameplay. Neither is sitting in an AoE/pole party while they carry you towards relevance. Macros give the common player the ability to keep up with the inevitable account sharers, farmers, and bots. Yes this function can be abused, but it is not without risk. Macro parties are easily killed, and in classic exp/rez is not cheap. Don't like it? Go kill them. Better yet, advocate for item drop on death. As it will deter both in and out of game automation.
  4. 1. West Coast Murica. 2. Yul Sagitarrius/ISS 3. Sieghardt then Erica due to ridiculous Shot lag in the first year. 4. 96/101.10 Total buffbot now that I work too much to play. 5. 4 I think? BDO and archeage got close. But every MMO just keeps watering down player interaction. Even now I'm little more than Siege/Raid support.
  5. The only reliable non-NCstore revenue stream I found as a returning player is Lvl3 and Lvl4 mats. Someone with ridiculous funds is always buying them up to make/upgrade dragon weapons.
  6. Old time player here. I've been L2 through beta. The chronicles. Interlude. Kamael. GoD and beyond. L2 has always been a harsh mistress on both time and wallet. But I have never seen L2 be this petty and uncharitable in my decade+ experience. Everything cost real life money. The ability to progress even partially without a credit card does not exist. Freebies given to other regions have been stripped out of ours. Mechanics used as quality life improvements have been stripped out of ours. Ingame obtainable adena and spoils have been reduced to almost nothing outside of the top 2 hunting zones. PvP has always been heavy handed in L2, but never before has it be battle of the Credit Scores as it is now. The fact cloaks and gems are still L2store exclusives is obscene. These items are gamebreaking in a void. No different than if you sold dragon weapons once a year and disabled raids. All of this done to make L2 little better than a slot machine or a Free mobile game. Tell your bosses to get ready for gambling regulations, because behavior like this is only hastening to approach of government intervention. Edit: The perfect example is the Winter Support Pack. Just 3 months ago you gave away the same thing for FREE for Halloween. Did someone screw up on that? Get yelled at by the higher ups on not wringing out the last dime out of the player base?
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