First and foremost, welcome to the guide. I hope this will help ease your mind about questions that you might have about the server.
The currency in the game is not Silk - it's Rubins.
The language on their official website is in Bulgarian originally, but can be translated to English at a click of a button.
The main leveling strategy of any legit player has always been Questing, so quest my friends and to make it simpler there are things that you should be aware of!
ANYONE under Lv40 can do both Chinese & European 'Bonus Reward Quests' aka BRQ up to Lv40.
Each of these Bonus Reward Quests has pre-requisites which consist of quests you're going to do on your journey anyways. Those quests can be found under the following: Press H > Quest > City Name 'Jangan' / 'Constantipole' > Scroll to the bottom of the City's list and you'll see the quest and the requirements.
Note: When I mention SP (Skill Points) bewlow I mean exactly that not SXP (Skill Experience Points). If you don't know the difference --> 400 SXP = 1 SP.
Note: If you Abandon any of the Pre-requisite Quests for those Bonus Reward Quests you won't be able to complete it or get that quest back.
In Hotan and after Lv60, the BRQs become more frequent - every 5 levels.
With everything there listed, I'm sure you'll see that there is an ease to the server. As for SP farming and having to go to Gap 9 - You never have to do that! Some people do that temporarily for a week or so for quick SP and then close it if they are short on SP. At one point or another you will be short on SP; so my suggestion and what most of us do is keep a Gap of 1, 2 or 3. Helps with faster leveling and boosts your SP returns a bit more than a 0 gap. BUT, the choice is yours!
As part of the server as well; you can buy a Grey Wolf for 1,000,000 Gold as it was before. Most of the time higher level players have gold and they do share it or even right off the bat give you a Lv1 Wolf. Some Academy Gaurdians do that as well - it's not a reward after graduation from their academies.
A lot of you might be wondering about the Ability Pets or Pick-Pets. There is a quest at Lv8 which will allow you to get a pick pet for the duration of 7 days. The pets are account-bound and players who do not want to donate to the server normally remake characters and grinding until they can do that quest to farm Pick Pets.
At times the moderators & administrators will enable Monster Scrolls to drop from those Jewel Box exchanges. Monster Scrolls, if you forgot, will spawn a number of Elite monsters at the Level of the person using the scroll - the number of monsters that spawn depends on the number of people in the party - 3 people 3 Elites.
The Job System - Traders and Hunters alike can use the old and beautiful job system to get Job Points. Job Points can then be used to Purchase: Pandora Boxes! Each Pandora Box is worth 1,900 Job Points (JP). You could buy other items like the STR/INT Flag using job points and a bunch of SOX items with repair limits.
Pandora Box Parties are very common among the players of the server; we all share them!
use the Elephant and buy 5 Stars worth of Items. Jangan > Constantinople or vice versa should take 55 minutes (without hiccups or disconnects). Depending on your Merchant/Hunter Level you could make anywhere from 1,000 JP to 5,000 JP - as well as a lot of gold of course.
P.S. I'm not an admin or moderator on their server - just another SRF member who joined & enjoys the server!
O.O I never knew we can do the bonus reward quests of the other race too.
Doing what the gms shoulda done a while ago. Having everything in one place like that should help out the newcomers.
Oh well, now it's up! Hopefully we'll see new faces!
New thing I discovered to also help with Skill Points!
At Lv73 if you go to the Aircraft Ticket Seller (South-east of Roc Mt.) He'll have a series of Quests called Skills Improvement. The first quest is to 'Hunt 100 Feather Masks' which is a piece of cake if you're at Lv73.
Reward? 5,000 SP. It also gives Gold 240,000 & EXP 3,400,000.
With Each quest I'll update this guide with a post until I finish all of them and then I'll edit the main post!
Skills Improvement 2/6 is found at Towner Salrihan (South-east of Tail Peak in Shepherd Town). This is a Lv76 Quest for SP.
Which guild are you in? IGN?
Skills Improvement 3/6 is found at Village Chief Bukhra (Wind Town). This is a Lv78 Quest for SP.
If you did Both Chinese & Euro SP Quests for Lv1-40 = 52,000 SP! That's still very helpful!