Timeline of Restart:
1. high amount of players , stable servers
2. Bots are comming up, since a lot of people seem to started to gor for rmt zeny, the amount of bots increased constantly in a short period of time
3. The bots started to infest more and more regions, alienating new still incomming players
4. The issue gets more and more out of hand, while initially low prices of every equip (and the spam of items from bots), helped out the demand the overflood becomes a very fast issue
5. People start to notice that Woe Potions are actually an issue, the voice for botting concern gets louder and louder, mvp scenes raises issues over certain things aswell
6. despite promises neither of these issues are dealt with for a long time, alienating more players
7. Woe gets introduced, the system in place ,that was a concern already for a lot of players made sure the knight and monk meta plus extrem difference in numbers between guilds alienating more and more players
8. More and More people starting to vanish from maps when they hit lv 99 , reducing the amount of the former popular kill parties, leaving new players with bots to compete and lonely leveling, alienating more players
9. Woe meta shifts with every new class a little bit to keep things interesseting, ultimatly it doesnt shift any power sights , woe gets more and more empty castles, alienating older woe focused players
10. most players realize the market is already broken beyond repair and the duping issue starts to rise.
10. Porcellio and bio2 gets introduced, with hos ... , big puller parties are now a thing from 1-99 with ease , leaving new players out of the equation even more
11. jupe gets introduced and is overzealot with exp, kill parties are a thing for a time later shifting again to knight leech
12. jupe gets nerfed ,despite heavy concerns
13. alde 3 and odin doesnt introduce anything new to the table, all that there is are bios hunting valks for the first new valueable equip in months, since HWB are an issue aswell now.
Overall i oversimplefy a lot but anyway you get the idea :
- a part of the player base that goes full ego
- mismanagement
- bots
- rmt sellers and buyers (that are the reason for the majority of bots)
- duping
- unchangeable server settings comming from the first re:start despite the vastly different core audience
- ever declining players
Overall the decline of players didnt start yesterday, it started when the server was not even a month old, the only difference was back then the amount of players than were incomming was higher than the player that left.
*attention sarcasm*. Of course the general statment "Yes go... we dont care... ." for every leaving player at the start,from the player base, that raised concerns was a reaaal good choice ... *attention sarcasm*.
Edit:
Oh on a sidenote, of course there are less bots now, however ... the only reason the decline as well is ,thats its not profitable anymore to have huge amount of bots. If mass bots were banned before , the same day the double amount of bots got back, thats why people demanded a bot shield... not banns. However right now... why would and rmt seller bother anymore to use calc power of his pc, if he can bot other servers that are more profitable?
Edited by RealGarion, 23 April 2018 - 09:05 PM.
! This server would be so much more enjoyable if it had a bigger player base, less bots, and more to do then just focus on WoE.. 
noone seems to notice the mass bot bans 
before deploying 'em, i.e REALLY ABSURD exp table (because that's the exp table they got from Gravity, they reason out), and REALLY limited/viable leveling spots. 
