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GM Tristan of Level Up Games announced in his blog new servers for Perfect World and Rising Force Online. It seems that, while other games like Khan Online says goodbye, Perfect World and RF Online continue to grow their player base thus additional servers are needed to meet the increasing demand.

Perfect World’s new server will be launched on March 31, 2008 and it will be named Serpent while Rising Force Online’s new server will be called Calix and it will be launched 2 weeks later which is on April 14, 2008.

New Servers, Fresh Start

The real benefit of a new server is that it gives new players a competitive advantage in the game because everyone starts at level 0. You see, in games like these having a head start is a huge advantage over other players that is why when new servers are added to an online game, old and new players alike are guaranteed to make a jump for it. The competition to be the server’s strongest character starts a new.

New servers also give old players an opportunity for a fresh start. It allows them to try on new builds, create new characters and correct any past mistakes which they might have done in the old servers. It can be compared to having a Second Life or having a second chance.

For the publisher, by adding new servers they’ll be able to accomodate the increasing number of players joining or playing their games and more players playing their games means more income for them and the more money they make means more servers will come or more new games or titles will be added.

New Or Old, It’s The Same Actually

For me, new servers or old servers, they’re really just the same. Same content, same grinding, same players, same scammers, same illegal traders, same publisher, same lousy GM Team, same drama and same everything. Yeah, you’ll see many new players but you’ll also see many old players with new characters and names doing the same ugly shit all over again.

What’s really important is content and regular updates. Look at Khan Online, they had a total of 7 servers during its peak but due to the lack of updates and the publisher’s failure to protect the game’s integrity, it went from 7 servers to no server.

Enjoy It While It’s New

Anyway, new servers are always a welcome treat for many players and it’s always fun playing on a new server because you’ll have hundreds of other players that are at your level to party and level-up with. The sudden influx of new players will surely keep you busy chatting and fighting about trivial things, that is if you are into that sort of thing.

Of course, this state of nirvana can only last for a while because, sooner or later, the competitive nature of each and everyone will take over and when that happens, fun will change to chore as they level-grind their way to the top.

Note: This was written on March 30, 2008 but was only posted today due to lack of internet access.

Last month I received 200 linden dollars (L$) from Indyra Originals for adding its location to my Profile Picks. This month, I went back to Indyra Originals and, again, I was paid 200 linden dollars. In fact, as long as the program is offered, I’ll be paid 200 linden dollars by Indyra Originals every month only if I keep its location added to my Profile Picks.

I believe that Indyra Originals‘ Profile Picks Camping is the highest paying Profile Picks Camping in all of Second Life. The others that I’ve seen like Earn2Life’s Profile Picks Camping only pays 30 linden dollars in the first 24 hours and then 30 linden dollars every month you keep it added. Indyra Originals Profile Picks Camping pays 200 linden dollars for the initial 24 hours and then 200 linden dollars every month but, again, you must keep it added to your Profile Picks. Removing it from your Profile Picks will disqualify you from the program.

200 linden dollars? Wow! That’s a lot of money, right? Unfortunately, not everyone can join Indyra Originals‘ Profile Picks Camping because in order to qualify accounts must have a transaction filed with Linden Labs or in other words accounts that have “No Payment Info On File” are disqualified and will not be able to join. This is there way of protecting themselves from residents who might abuse the program by creating a lot of alternate accounts.

This is an easy 200 linden dollars from Indyra Originals for anyone who has an account with payment info filed with Linden Labs. I would like to thank Indyra Originals for this great and very easy way of earning linden dollars.

Earn2Life just added a new way for everyone to earn Linden Dollars and that is by simply adding Earn2Life’s Office to your Profile Picks. Adding locations to Profile Picks and getting paid for it is a new (well not so new) way to earn linden dollars. It is popularly known as Profile Picks Camping and it started when Linden Labs changed Second Life’s in-world search feature. You see the new search takes into consideration the number of residents that added a certain location to their Profile Picks. If you have a place in Second Life then the more people that add your place to their Profile Picks the better your placement will be in the search results. That is why many locations in Second Life are starting to join the Profile Picks Camping bandwagon. (more…)

This week, I received a few group notices about SeaLife Aquariums and since I haven’t seen many aquariums in Second Life I decided to drop by and take a quick look at what an aquarium in Second Life would look like. Well, the place was not exactly how I pictured it because I thought the place would be like a virtual park with different aquariums on display, like a virtual version or even a virtual copy of Sea World but it was not like that all. What I found was a store that literally sells virtual aquariums. (more…)