Gaia, as it was, was shut down several months ago due to various reasons. Almost instantly after that a group of 5 people got together and started planning a new, better server. I copied this text from what I wrote on Pandaemonium forums, to show up some customs on the server.
Gaia Revolution (2/2/2). Now with 100% more epic.
Gaia Revolution is now around 7-8 weeks old and I've figured out lots of things of the customs and stuff
The whole 'no GM' deal:
Instead of GMs there's an institute called Player Council. There are 2 branches, legislative (which I was elected into) and judiriacy ones. There's also the 3rd branch, executives, but that's just people running and testing the server.
Legislatives can bring up new ideas and things for the server and 'pretty much forge executives add anything to ingame' is what one of them said. Of course trying to keep things in balance and stuff.
Judges can order things deleted from the server, and they're the ones handling player relations and punishments, i.e banning. As the server admin says, 'player council is holding real power'.
WoE modifications:
There's total of 4 castles open, one castle of each castle ground. During each WoE only 2 castles are open and there's a script behind it that decides which castles are open on the very moment WoE starts, so no one knows which castles are open.
One guild can hold 3 castles at max. Amount of treasure is decreased some, but as a new thing there are 'castle shops', such as weapon/armor/item dealers. Investing in castle gives better items to the shops that are only open to the guild members who own the representative castle. Castles still drop decent amount of treasure though.
Party modifications:
If you have a sharing party of, let's say, 3 people, the exp you get is counted by how many of those 3 hit the monster. For example, if only one hits, everyone gets 1/3 of the exp the monster gives when you're alone killing it. If 2 hits it, everyone gets 2/3 of the exp plus a small bonus for having more than one people hitting. When everyone in the party hits the monster, everyone gets full exp + small exp bonus per each person hitting.
Items are shareable as normal.
Some skill changes:
Discount/overcharge gives job exp with such decent rate that most merchants change into their second classes at base lvl 13. Mammonite/Cart termination zeny cost is reduced. Potion pitcher only works with Pitching potions, not normal ones.
Soul linker's Es-skills work against other players ('it's like multi-element JT')
Priest's ME works against every element except holy. Skill Mace Mastery is changed into Divine Inspiration which has the same effect plus each lvl adds 12,5% damage to Holy light.
Skill cool downs are on only for WoE.
Normal/epic mode:
All towns and dungeons are normal mode but when going to fields trought towns, you can choose normal or epic mode. In epic mode, monsters have 2x hp, 2x stats and 2x drops. All monsters are aggressive and those who couldn't move normally, can in epic mode. They can also see trough hide/cloak. There's also epic MVPs in their representive fields.
Custom NPCs:
Kafra: (yeah, like Kafra would be our custom <.<') Kafra is the way to get in the other towns. Most Kafras can warp you to 3-4 different towns. No dungeon warps, so bad server for lazy people.
Card trader: Buy and sell cards using card points. Buy for twice of selling price. Sells mini-boss cards too (i.e angeling/deviling/ghostring: 100 card points, poring: 2 card points)
Donator shop: Sells potions and normal items for slightly lower price. Accessible in any donor level
Donation point shop: Sells things you can't get from anywhere else. Card points, donation point tokens (for selling/trading donation points ingame), bubblegums/field manuals, scrolls (with script !mobsearch MVP)
Slotter: For slotting things that ain't ridiculous
There's also NPCs for quests like Elven ears and Sunglasses[1] and some other nice stuff.
Rebirth:
Rebirth quest goes along the server storyline. Defeat rebirth bosses to get back your piece of soul (Comic: The Curse of Braxis (available when I get it done))
Server information:
Rates: 2/2/2 (epic mode: 4/4/4)
Website:
http://gaia.madsites.net/
Forums:
http://gaia.madsites.net/Forums/index.php
Wiki:
http://gaia.madsites.net/Wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Donations info:
http://gaia.madsites.net/Wiki/index.php?title=Donations
Gaia comics:
http://gaia.madsites.net/index.php?open=Comic
Why to join GaiaR? Because then you have a good change to get into a lawl comics /gg
Might update this a bit later, maybe.