What do you think of the current Classic worlds?

[Mykel]

Atlantis: It's German. I know very little about it, but it should be kept for that reason alone.

Classic: It has a consistant and loyal playerbase. I haven't played the server much, but I know that people who do care about it a lot and are very dedicated.

Delteria: It should be removed. People don't play it, and Delteria is currently under heavy construction with their new server. I see no reason for it to be on the classic list.

Era: To-date still the most successful modern server, although it has dropped in playerbase a bit with the addition of Zodiac. Nice alternative for the players to turn to, if they like that kind of thing.

Maloria: Talk about dying quick. I don't really know what to say. It wont compete unless it makes it's roleplaying better than Val or level-up system better than Zodiac's. Good luck.

N-Pulse: The typical "classic" server. It still gets a consistant playerbase and seems to be live and active.

Unholy Nation: The huge community only helps make itself larger. A nice events system and active guilds help keep this server bangin'.

Valikorlia: Role playing. That about sums it up.

Zodiac: It utilizes the player's desire to become powerful better than any other classic playerworld, and that is why it is so successful.

[Lord Sephiroth]

Grades are rated on importance/keepability:
1-Should be removed
5-Needs to be kept

Atlantis: I see very little people on it at any time, and i'm a Night Owl. In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw -anyone- on it. - 2

Classic: The playerbase is loyal, as Mykel said, but the playerbase is too small and the level quality, although classic and old school, isn't adaptive to todays average Graal Player. - 3

Delteria: Needs to be taken off the Classic list untill new Updates are completed. Maybe given the same options that Babylon has? Either way, it shouldn't be on the classic list in the state that it's in. - 1

Era: Still Active, still going strong, so to speak. Appeals to the player that feels like escaping real life into...uh...a real life simulator--with more guns. - 5

Maloria: Maloria has been knocked off it's high-horse by Zodiac hard. From this standpoint Maloria really needs to make some Staff-Changes and get things moving if they ever want to take back their server terrotory from Zodiac, but by the amounts of Updates Yen seems to spend his life doing, that doesn't look like it's going to happen. - 1

N-Pulse: N-Pulse needs a lot of work, as well as Management and Administration Changes. The N-Pulse community has a terrible staff team that never seems to get things done. They've been working on these new OW updates for how long now? People are tired of waiting, and at this point they'd be lucky if they get anyone to even notice Overworld changes when they do it.
Events are poor quality, everything is generally poor quality. - 3

Unholy Nation: Active Guilds Community, Active Playerbase, still the top server of the age, even if no-one really knows why. Very attractive to the newer players, a vital part (as sad as it is) of the current Graal Generation. 5

Valikorlia: Although Clash sucks something fierce, (I'm not sure if he even works there anymore, I just hate clash because he's a terrible Manager of anything), the newer Val, although not measuring up to the old school Val that we all knew and loved, still maintains a high 60+ Player count per day, and appeals largely to the Role-Play playerbase, even if the levels suck ass and the Role-Play system could be made better and glitches fixed. - 4

Zodiac: Yen successfully kills his social life by spending all his time updating Zodiac, there's no telling how long that's going to last, a lot of things could be improved, and I mean a lot of things.
A LOT of things, but Zodiac is appealing to Malorias crowd as well as newer players, as much as I hate to say it, vital to the community as of right now. 5

[bgumeny]

We don't necessarily need a large amount of servers as much as a few servers with high playercounts and good quality. Many online games have only a few servers but very high playercounts, and this provides for much more player interaction (which is what makes Graal what it is). All of the most successful servers (such as UN, Era, and Zodiac) have extremely high playercounts, which make things like guilds, nations, PKing, party systems, and businesses fun.

When you go to a server with a much smaller playercount such as NPulse or Maloria, it is a much more tightknit group of players who all know each other and it can be somewhat intimidating for a new player.

While it is a tricky subject because it is only fair to give every player a shot at running their own online world, I think the server list and Graal in general could do with a little shake-up.

Gold and Classic playerworlds should only be those few servers which are fully up and running with plenty of content and an active staff team, and should all be closely watched and overseen by the Graal staff themselves. Because Gold and Classic playerworlds are the ones seen and played on by the majority of players, especially new ones, it only makes sense to make sure they are of the highest quality.

The Hosted tab should be used almost like the classic tab is now, for the newer playerworlds run entirely by players that have a decent amount of content but are not quite finished yet. These playerworlds can still be seen on the main list, which makes them easily accessed, but are generally not a part of the first impression a new Graal players gets.

The website should also provide more information to players about Hosted playerworlds and playerworlds that are Under Construction so that they know what is out there and what they can try. As of right now the only way I know of for a player to find out about an Under Construction server is to hear about it on the forums or to see it on the RC list (which many new players won't have a clue how to do) and type it into the box.

In conclusion, and for those who didn't feel like reading everything, I think a server-list with a few high-quality Gold and Classic servers with large playercounts, and then a Hosted tab for those servers who are completely re-doing everything (like Delteria, Maloria, and N-Pulse) would look much more attractive to new players and would help deal with the "empty" feeling that the serverlist has now. Seeing a few servers with playercounts of 100+ looks better than seven or eight with 60 or 70, or as little as 10 or even 0.