It is a pretty good game that is destroyed by neglecting customer service.
There are currently three cities in the International version of Silkroad Online: Jangan, Donwhang and Hotan. They are separated by four sections: China, Western China, Oasis Kingdom, and Taklamakan Desert. Each different section has a different level ranges of monsters. Joymax plans to add more areas in the future, such as The Hermit's world and High Heaven.
Europe has been released in the Korean version of Silkroad Online, featuring different buildings, weapons, and characters from China. The middle East, Europe and West Asia have been released on some of the other editions apart from the International version.
Gameplay There are many skills the player can choose from. There are various weapon skills for the sword, spear and bow. Then there are 4 magic skills which are ice, fire, electric, and force ( heal ). There are many quests in silkroad but most of them are tedious. The majority of the quest have you fight a certain number of monsters which turns into a huge grind fest having the player trying to level up for hours. The other quests are lame usually having the player deliver something from npc to npc. Players can pick a job at level 20 in the game: a trader, a hunter or a thief. Traders buy goods for normal price in a city and attempt to bring them to another city, where they can be sold for higher prices, thus making profits. Thieves attempt to rob the trader and steal the goods so that they can sell it to the black market. Traders may hire player hunters to protect themselves from thieves. Traders get job exp from successfully completing trade runs, hunters get exp from killing thiefs, either NPC thieves or player thieves, and thieves get exp from successfully stealing goods or killing traders/hunters. Characters can switch freely between jobs and are not locked into any role, however, switching between opposite jobs will result in a loss of some job experience, as you kill your opponents.
If a thief kills a trader or steals goods he will lose trader exp according to the thief exp he gained. Likewise if a trader successfully sells goods he will lose thief exp according to the trader exp he gained. As for hunters, their exp is not greatly affected from switching from one job or the other. If they kill a player thief they do lose some thief exp but this will be small compared to the exp a thief gets from stealing goods and vice versa for when a thief kills a hunter so it is possible to be a trader/hunter or a thief/hunter without worrying about losing a major amount of exp in each job.
Stars represent the value of the goods a merchant carries, with one star being the lowest value and five stars being the highest. NPC thieves are generated to attack all merchants; the higher the value of the goods, the more thieves that are generated. When a merchant's transport is killed, the player thief can take the goods the transport dropped, and then take it to the thieves' village.
At one star level of trading, traders cannot be attacked or killed by player thieves. NPC thieves will however attack them. One star level trading is generally considered safe but does not produce much profit.
Customer Service At the moment, there are so many botters and cheaters around. To make it worse there is a certain number limit to people in each server. Once it gets to the limit no one else can enter. Practically the people who are true players and dont cheat or bot cannot get in most of the time. Thus the majority in the game are either afk open stall people or botters. I find that the perfect time to get in is from 5:00 pm Eastern Time to Late at night. I tried login in at the morning but it was impossible. Pros
- the skill system has a lot of depth and is very interesting.
-The trading system between thief, hunter, and a trader is very cool.
-Character selection and armor make it so that there arent many players that look alike. Which is rare in a f2p game.
Cons
- endless grinding from start to the end.
- too many cheaters
- needs way more servers - LAG!
- Quests are horrible.