Earlier this week, I started to play Lineage II once again, but this time ona low-rate private server. Though this private server feels good, and seems to have a nice community (compared to other private servers and official servers that is ), I just don't seem to be able to get back into Lineage II anymore Personally I think this has to do with the fact that after playing Lineage II for about 4 years, where I've seen almost all the game has to offer, I'm bored with it at the moment. Even after making my lil' dwarf a Scavenger and starting to level up a buffer and a healer, Lineage II just doesn't give the thrill it once used to give me. It almost looks like the only server I probably could enjoy Lineage II once more are the official ones, where my other lil' dwarf (the Warsmith DemiGoth and her great wolf Tristania) will still give me a thrill. Too bad I gave that a try already a bit over a month back, where I found out that official servers are even lower populated than they used to be, and the ones that seem to be active are bots (as usual ). It's so sad to see a great game like this fall so deep. If only NCSoft was more strict about their EULA and banned all bots from day #1, instead of allowing them in fear of loosing popularity for their game. At least NCSoft has shown with Aion: the Tower of Eternity that banning bots from day #1 won't have a negative effect on the game...

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So my lil' dwarf reached level 18, I managed to get a pet wolf (which runs a lot slower than I could remember from official servers), and I went to Pippi to become a scavenger. After running errands for Mion for half an hour (okay, I over-exaggerate here, I only had 5 errands to run ), I finally was told where I could find Master Toma (good thing he's now stuck on one place instead of hopping around 3 places as he used to do). Master Toma wants me to hunt Honey Bears, get 5 of their pots of honey (I still wonder where those bears keep their pots of honey ), and here I start to hate this quest...  On official servers it takes you around 250% XP from level 18 to get the 5 pots of honey, and can continue to the next step. On this server (4x rates), it'll take me a lot longer (not 10 levels since I already get less XP for the bears I need to slay, but I'll end up around 25 I guess), and then I have to get some other (less rare) stuff for Master Toma. So far, I only have 2 pots of honey and I'm already halfway level 20...

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I know... I'm a Lineage II addict, and as long as TERA won't be released, Lineage II will be on my mind as the best MMO I've played. Not even Age of Conan can compete with Lineage II, though it's a good alternative for me... But as I said in the topic... I'm walking the roads of Aden once more. This time not on the botting official servers, neither on the old iDragon3D / Dragon Network servers, but I've found a new private server: RaidFight. RaidFight is using a legal server to emulate Lineage II, and it uses the latest release of Lineage II. best of all, the server is pretty low rate (4x) and there's an auto-botting detection to ban the bots when they're spotted. And it seems that multi-boxing is allowed, so I can make my main and healer/buffer at the same time. Of course, I will keep playing Age of Conan as well, since that's my main game for now...

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Okay, I subbed, looked at my chars, looked around on the servers and... ...Lineage II appears to be quite dead I knew Devianne was not that active (never was), but even Teon (one of the most active servers around) appears to be deserted. Both Aden and Giran show only 50 shops max each...

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After I blew up the Sword of Ipos, I thought I'd never return to Lineage II again. But after I quieted Aion today, I'm installing Lineage II again. Not only because I still like the Lineage II PvP system, but also because my old clan is regathering again as well. The only problem I now have is that my dwarf is still on Teon, and I need to transfer her to Devianne soon.

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