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I use to play SRO casually back in the day. Back when the lvl cap was 60 or so. I never really got the hang of it back then, just really played it for when I was bored with other games. Well now I redownloaded the client, and there have been quite a few changes to the game. Which brings me to the questions.

1. Has there been something major that went on with the storage between then, and now? I only ask cuz I had quite a bit of coinage, and 2-3 pages worth of stuff (mostly low lvl garments), and now my storage is empty. I don't beleave my account was tampered with seeing as all my characters still have all of their items in their inventory. Not gonna list what they had, but to be blunt they had stuff that was way better than what was in storage.

2. What is the lvl cap now for both players, and pets? And what is the best way to SP farm? I use to just use an 8 lvl gap. Must I change that to a 9 lvl gap now?

3. Is there any changes with alchemy? I didn't have that much experience with it before, but I still wanna know of any changes.

4. Since there is a European side to the story now does that side have it's own triangular job system? If yes what are they?

5. In the inventory screen there is a page that says "avatar slot". What is that for? Job specific items, or sometihng else entirely?

6. There is now a transparent quick slot type of thing floating in my screen. Can that be used for anything like quick switching armor, and weapons? Or is it strictly for spells? Also how do I activate what I put in there?

7. I hate to ask this one, but! I just logged into SRO at 9:30 AM EST. Everyone of the servers said crowded. Which is amazing considering how many servers they added since last I played. Again I hate to ask this but are bots, power-levelers, gold farmers, and kill steelers still running rampant in this game? I mean I really haven't gone any further than right outside the begining European city so I haven't really had a chance to notice them first hand. Last time I played there were always bots running around Jangan like a swarm of bees.

Sorry for all the questions, but the SRO site doesn't list or go into detail about any of these things. Hell it bearly goes into description of things that were there from the start.

1. Bots, ccf'ers, goldbuyers, goldbots and more of that scum increased with 1000000000000000000000000000%. Europe got added, Fortress got added too, some new features, mainly Item Mall stuff.
2. Level 80. Best way to SP farm is with 9 gap. With 9 gap you get the max sp possible.
3. Alchemy, alchemy items, stones, tabs, elements. I dunno it always fails for me.
4. Still have the Thief, Trader, Hunter thing. Euro Thieves can attack Chinese transports and so on. No difference exept for the Euro suits that are just butt ugly compared to the Chinese ones. They did update it, popping isn't possible like it was anymore, people under lvl 40 with 1 star can't be attacked.
5. Avatar slots are for the suits you can buy, like the Angel Wings, Devil Wings and the Wizard suits. Currently only the Devil Wings are available for a limited time.
6. It's just an excention for your skill bar, throw everything on it.
7. The game is drowning in all the scum.

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3) there is a different rank name on euro and chinese chars for all 3 jobs