lol.
i'm a mod on silkroad's biggest fan forum,
Silkroad Online Forums • Index page
if you need any info, feel free to ask.
but to summarize it, the game was great back in '05 and '06. but since
the start they've had a bot problem. not really problem, but the company
owning it, joymax, isn't banning any bots really, because these bots pay
money for the loot pets, xp boosts, etc. not just talking about player bots
here, also goldbots and bots for character sales.
it's called free to play, but even with paying for easier login, you will need
about 5-15 tries to get into any server. most of em are permanently filled
with bots.
there's a couple of servers that have a large legit community, biggest one
is the venus server. so if you plan on starting silkroad, login there.
there's also csro (chinese), jsro (japan), ksro (korea), tsro (thai). the
chinese is quite empty, but bots there as well and high lvls pking all the
low levels doing their jobs trading goods on the silkroad. jsro is empty,
ksro you need kssn and they ip ban (iirc), tsro not many people i know
play this.
on my forum we have language packs and pk2 editing to get english
texts for csro and ksro.
if you need any more info, post here, visit the forum i mod or send
me a pm.