New Invasion

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For a while now, I've wanted to make Ragnarok harder. One of the largest challenges is adding difficulty without simply one-shot killing everyone or relying on pure chance of whether a certain ability kills a shielder or if it just hits one of the DPS. I believe there is a fine line between giving people a good challenge and making a mode so tedious and painful the nobody wants to play it. There needs to be a strategy that players can follow and work together toward. Once something has been worked out to give people a good, fun challenge, I'd be happy to make Ragnarok harder.

I'm not convinced we need a new difficulty between Hard and Ragnarok, though. We are already suffering from a shortage of model variety as it is with certain body armours being used on several different bots on different waves. While removing one or two servers from the existing modes on EU and NA should be possible, it might very well be a problem in AU. I am also hesitant to fragment the players we have over yet another difficulty to choose from. I'm not going to say there will never be room for another difficulty in between but I'm not ready to agree to one just yet.

Not to derail the thread but since AU donations were raised, I would like to mention that the servers we have are not being supported as it is. I personally covered part of last month's bill and with the next bill due tomorrow, will need to cover more than half of this months bill if they are to continue. The five servers are currently hosted on one box which costs 21 EUR / 33 AUD per month. So far this month, I have received 10 EUR / 15.90 AUD of support and there was nothing at all last month.