Like most online games, Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted has different servers to choose from — there are three, each with a different focus. When you first log in to create a character you will have to choose which server to join:
- Chaos – Normal Server
- Order – Role Play Server
- Blight - Test Server
While one is not better than the other, as a newcomer, you may want to start on the Chaos server. The Order server is really and truly a Role Play server, where you will find many people playing the game “In Character”… so you may wish to gain some experience and learn about the world’s lore before you attempt to create a character there. But if you’re a role player at heart, I won’t discourage you from jumping in head first and finding your game on Order!
Blight is the test server where developers test out new content before it goes on the live servers. There is a much smaller community there — but these folks are dedicated to providing feedback and helping developers stomp out bugs. From what I gather, you can copy a character from another server to the Blight server through the Character Administration website to use for testing.
If you’d like to find out more about the people, guilds and events on each server, I suggest that you visit the server-specific boards located on the Istaria forums.
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So… say theoretically that someone was thinking about trying a free account and wanted to create their character somewhere they’ll have people they know… hypothetically speaking, which server would that be?
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Come to Chaos. I play Kudako and Aywren there.
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It probably won’t be until I finish my current programming project. In fact, given that we’re starting another programming project that’s at least as big right afterward, it might not be until the end of the semester. But sometime…
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Just in case people other then Aywren care… I now have a character named Sithinelor on the Chaos server.
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Aywren – we share a similar history… I started playing Horizons when it first came out in 2004 and I loved it – until the great server consolidation and I lost my plots. After that, I lost my heart and wandered horizonless for a number of years. But I never forgot and early this year made inquiries and – yes! – Horizons/Istaria opened Blight as a Vista server. [Well, now it's more the "test" server...] There are fewer players (and I have spied you recently!) but all are welcomed and supported. We encourage new players to join the Old Blight chat channel for help and to meet other players – my Guild’s channel is open to all as well. Luckily, we have never had a rollback so it’s not as scary as it may seem! (And, unlike Chaos – plenty of plots to choose from!) Oh, and don’t forget the Unity server made up of mostly European players!
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