Graal Forums - Review: Tiajera

First off I'd like to apologize for the delay on this review (about 2-3 weeks) because of my work and other things. When I reviewed this playerworld I didn't judge it on standards that were set in recent events (ie, I didn't take into account the "quality inflation" that usually happens on Graal servers submitted.) So let's start

Tiajera claims that it is planning to be a PK server, much like graal 3000 was if any of you have played it. I don't exactly know how to judge a "PK server", so I decided to try and review it on the basis that it's a classic type server. No biggie, it doesn't really mean much. The server has lots of towns and places to go, and I think I even detected a hint of role-playing. They also have playerhouses and events and warps, so really a mix of everything, even classes to start off with. The problem I find with this is that it doesn't really establish itself in one area so significantly that it impresses me or could impress anyone.

Creativity - 3.5/10 - I really didn't find anything unique, except the starting NPC's for the classes, but even those are still basically just modifications of exsisting weapons like joltbomb, nukeshot, superbows etc. Much of the other items are all the items from classic. You guys need to make some more interesting and unique items, such as the jobs which weren't that bad. Your chat system needed some work (I imagine because you want it to work with the NPC server) but it was alright too. For gameplay, well, you guys wanted a PK server, I'm sure it'd fit that role.

Storyline - 4/10 - You guys wanted a PK server but you have kingdoms which most certainly will not work. You can't have PK'ers and role-players together, they are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Also, I took into account that classes had little/nothing to do with the storyline because you had stated this was going to be a PK server.

Levels - 3.5/10 - You stated in your documentation you were planning to do some major fixing up of the levels once it went on private mode, well, it would be advisable to do it now. These are where you neede the critical points to pass. Some of the levels, like onlinestartlocal, were really nice, same with the surrounding town, but I saw a lot of tile errors especially in tree patterns. Playermade or playerhouses also need quite a bit of work, they just seem somewhat plain in a lot of areas. I also had some problems with the mechanics of some levels. In one quest I'd be jumping on different ledges when I'd just totally dissapear off of the level, or there would be a level completed then nothing would happen and I'd end up trapped. Perhaps there are msising graphics that you need to add back in there in order for them to work.

NPC's - 3/10 - Nothing really new and innovate except for the chat system and some quests NPC's. The weapons all came from classic graal such as mace, joltbombs, superbow and the modified weapons were quite the same except with different explosion tecchniques.

Quests 4/10 - You had 8 quests, and some were difficuly, but a lot were also buggy. Gardenquest didn't work well for me at all, especially when it came to jumping the ledges. When I fell in a "trap", there was no way out except by unsticking (I think there was a missing graphic). The rest of the quests were all slash the baddies. Baddies in this room, kill 'em, door opens. Rinse and repeat. Get a key. Rinse and repeat. Get a heart or a standard weapon. You need to make things a bit more interesting something like gardenquest and your original quests combined.

Overall score - 18.5/50

Tiajera's status: Fail

I'll recommend for you to do things like Novalario did. Get your priorities straight. This is a PK server, but you cannot sacrifice quality and gameplay for it. You can't expect people to just come online and start PK'ing for fun on your server, they can do that on Graal '98 or one of the already established ones. Take out the role-playing if you want a PK server, make the quests more interesting and exciting, and fix up some of those levels, especially the playerhouses. It might take some time, but it's not impossible. You cannot expect to fix it all up magically when your server is in private mode. Good luck to you.