DevWolx

Ok I rode that rainmeter link, and you seem to have modified the system.cfg file or created a system.ovr... those files shouldn't be edited (it says in it "Attention: This file is generated by the system, do not modify! Editing is not recommended! "). I think you should either delete that line you added in it or just outright delete the file and restart the game so that it generate a new one (might wanna do a backup of it tho).

Did you use my way or minfilia's way ? Cause just creating the file yourself doesn't create any problems or changes in the game (you can also edit "SystemOptionGraphics.cfg" and add a line saying G_CHATLOG = "1" and the game will create it itself upon start up). Since you talked about a "french dps meter" I assumed you were talking about UltraKikiMeter which is the one I'm using (v1.26.2). I just created a Chat.log file in the game folder and it worked normally without issues. Also you can click on it and properties and make it read only when you are going PvP or sieges for less lag and revert the change when going in PvE instances.

Getting GP is one of the main reasons yes but not the only one. If you remove it a lot of people will indeed quit and you can't just outright remove it without putting it somewhere else, the higher rank you get the more GP you loose per day so... It's not the right solution. You also get medals, but another thing that the people going solo/duo/group for contributions only and not actually taking forts is that they will miss up on the instances in them that also grants medals daily (if their faction is winning without them anyways, guess that doesn't bother them. But it's another story when you are on the opposite side). Just make it that you get more GP into an alliance/league rather than solo/duo/group. If that doesn't seem possible they can try actually disabling GP gain if you are solo or in a group, and buffing GP gain for alliances. (Like maybe adding a condition or check in the system to disable gain as solo/group, and add a multiplier for the reward or something so the alliance gain matches the previous solo/group gain)

Elyos had it worse if you look at it from the beginning of the server, but both factions have been going on in a back and forth for when which faction is mostly winning. It's mostly the players fault and some people really give up easily once they stop winning. If the admins can actually change how GP system works to an extent to make it more beneficial to go as alliance/league rather than solo/duo/group so that it rewards more GP if you play for your faction rather than being selfish. I think that would help the situation of sieges.

Aggro is mainly dependent on DPS, the aggro skills and enmity + just supports it. The enmity - on the other classes is another factor that will help a bit (except when they do PvE in PvP gear...). So you don't have to worry about it at that level, get to 65, start gearing up and go DPS gear and stigma build (also work on your rotations and weaving). The only instance (PvE) you need to be in a defensive set and stigma build is DLR.

did you try /escape or /retreat (or you can just click on the ability it looks like return) ?

Looking by the screenshot you are still in the starting zone so you are too low level for it to activate. I think the buff starts working from level 15 or 20 iirc. Normally before those levels you won't be seeing it (if normal energy of repose). Since you are using the strong one it shows the icon but it's not actually active.

remove candy transformation if you are using it.

You just create a text file and name it Chat.log ( not Chat.txt ) in the euroaion folder where the launcher is. Then run the game and go hit a dummy or something it should start growing in size meaning it's registering logs and the dps meter should work when you will show it the file location.

https://aioncodex.com/4x/gathersource/400623/?sl=1 you need to select in language Aion 4.x English

I call it "soft" p2w. As a private server they have to make money someway, they can't just count on just cosmetics considering how many play it and how popular it is, it's not like for example League Of Legends. If you look at official server and even some other private servers they have way worse things in the shop and shop reliant events aka p2w events. If the server don't make money we won't be able to play it. Some of those items can be put on broker already (100% socketing etc..), one solution to those items that are untradeable would be to make them tradeable so f2p players could buy it from broker from people who bought from shop, like the good titles, lucky vinna II (which is basically an extra candy buff not really used for drop buff) and others. The other untradeable items that offer a bit of advantage can only be bought by f2p players through gifting which I think is not good since there need to be trust and it's open to getting scammed so my suggestion is to make them tradeable so the exchange can be safe or through broker.

The thing is people mainly look at the number and percentages in the website which shows the total number of players connected that means even low levels, alts, afk people etc... are into account and doesn't reflect the true nature of the balance. To see if really there is a huge imbalance we need data on how many people are active on average on sieges in each faction (also only looking at the situation of the forts only give an idea it's not precise because a faction can just be on a loosing streak even if numbers are balanced). So if there's a way to monitor that and be able to communicate it with the community I think it would make it more understandable than just the percentages on the website that scare people.

Never heard of it, Block set is generally done either full block or coupled with crit but I don't know everything you might wanna ask some experienced main Templars. Your choices in defensive gears are either to go full on the defensive stats or try a hybrid with a bit of damage in terms of socketing manastones, that all depends on what you want, and if you have very low ping so you can switch gears on the fly while in combat with the macros. here's a thread where I responded about Templar stats if you are interested also don't forget to use the gear calculator to plan ahead and see what stats you can reach.

But can you be logged in both at the same time ? Some people already do it openly and that opens to abuse and griefing. Ely and Asmo should not be alllowed to cooperate (people that have friends in opposite faction and don't help their faction against them) let alone same person logged in opposite faction to kill people that come to HIS farming spot. I don't think this should be allowed.

Stigma shards in themselves are a stupid mechanic. They don't have to add them to the shop I don't think they belong there (also there is more "p2w" stuff in the shop right now than stigma shards). They can either increase their drop count and rate or add them to some dailies or weeklies so you should work for them. I think this is the best solution overall.

For PvE you will mainly be in DPS majority of the instances don't require you to be in a specific defensive build, also aggro is mostly based on DPS and you aggro skills only support that if you have a very heavy DPS in your group he might take aggro from you sometimes if you are doing no damage. Keep in mind DPS doesn't mean greatsword only as you said you need to play with both gs and s&s and switch accordingly (as example you have an aoe taunt that makes you block one attack 100% so when you know a big physical attack coming you do it and then you can also use a skill that gives you a big buff = courageous shield and go back to gs and repeat to refresh it). Your first PvE gear will probably be also your first PvP gear that is BM gear (which is also gonna be your main PvP Block set later) then you can either try getting in groups for easier late game instances to get some pieces or farm ancient coins. Ancient coin gs fused with BM gs will be your friend for a long time as a good starting weapon for everything. I go for the armor as well since it's easy to max that gear at +5 and gives very good stats but gonna take a while to complete. For s&s you can keep your BM ones but try to replace them for PvE with drops from instances you don't have to farm ancient coin ones. For pure DPS I go with this : http://aion.aspirine.su/stigma/#dCnagacfmdiaBcaBeabgsgfahgBddBfe you can replace Siegebreaker with Bodyguard for your party members or one of the taunt skills if you want an extra insurance. Only special cases instances is DLR if you find a premade to run it for the extend you will need a magic resist set, either the kahrun or rune shield tower might be good and ofc you will need the tank branch in your stigma tree but you shouldn't bother with this that early. For PvP for Templar to be optimal you will need multiple sets later like cleric and chanter. Your first PvP gear that is BM gear will be your Block set against physical classes, against magical classes you have 2 options, either Magic Resist or Magic Suppression. For Magic Resist the best is to go hybrid on damage and MR with the abyssal gear (star 2) some prefer to make it full dps and go ham on damage vs all classes so that's your choice on that. Magic Suppression your best bet to be also doing a bit of damage is the Ancient Coin leather gear coupled with a sword and shield with the most ancient manastone slots possible like rune shield tower (cause you need to slot magic suppression stones). So when farming ancient coins you can go for this instead of plate armor for PvE if you'd like, you will also need a hat with the highest suppression possible like the crafted ones or sunayaka (also good for magic resist). If you want you can have a hybrid magic resist and suppression set (if you are planning to make your abyssal full dps) but only used as a defensive set then maybe the cloth ancient coin is better. Use the gear builder to plan ahead and look for the stats you need : http://aion.aspirine.su/ *you will also need to make macros for gear switching. As for stigmas for PvP here where you have some choices, Divine and Empyrean Fury are a must so there goes 6 slots. You need your pulls so there goes 2 more. Unwavering Devotion is a must. You are left with 3 slots to either get more damage skills, Inquisitor's Blow is useful as it's a ranged skill that you can also use to remove dodges so you can pull them after or get lucky and get a KD from a crit, your other DPS skills are Punishing Trust your biggest burst skill and Punishment that have some randomness to it so meh. Stubborn Spirit is really nice stance (either when you are chasing or escaping or to reduce damage from magic nukes) and is a must to complete your magic suppression set but still useful without it for what it gives, Aether Armor for a big MR buff vs magical classes or to couple it with your magic resist set or even without it if you want. Barricade of Steel is in a weird spot where it's very good vs assassin and gives lots of block, the reflect damage is bigger than your Holy Shield but it's debatable if it's useful overall to take up a slot, generally you will want a "static" do it all build in open PvP that gonna be useful against the majority and especially magical classes that are annoying for you (and you won't be back and forth switching all your stigmas). Last is Bodyguard if you are doing group pvp or with a duo friend.

https://aioncodex.com/4x/gathersource/409222/?sl=1

Try to delete the system.cfg and SystemGraphicsOptions.cfg (or better just rename them as OLD or something or move them elsewhere as backup) if they do not exist in the game folder the game will basically create new fresh ones to reset settings and see what happens. If it doesn't fix your settings you will need to modify the SystemGraphicsOptions.cfg manually and put it on read only so that the settings stay fixed. The settings there mirror the ones in the graphic settings, if something is a checkmark it's either 0 or 1, the sliders go from 0 to 5 I believe. There is also a thread about adding other lines to smooth the gameplay a bit and gain more fps if you are interested.

I used to get black screen sometimes when alt tabbing if I play on "fullscreen" so I only play on "windowed" or "windowed full screen". I you can't change the graphics setting make sure "Fixed FPS" is unchecked. Try also playing in "Default" graphics engine not "High Quality".

It's somewhere in Katalam iirc.

Inventory slots you have the shugos in sanctum near the broker that will upgrade it to a certain limit. Then you can upgrade to another row from a shugo in a house in The Upper Abyss at the hidden from the map floating island of Tigraki (at the top left of the map). Then at level 30 you will get a free upgrade as a dark blue quest from an npc near the elevator at the north of sanctum if you're elyos ("A Lucky Day" from NPC "Demodocos"). If you're asmo i don't know the location but the quest name is "Unexpected Reward" from NPC "Talon". Next row you can get it from a really long quest named "The Legend of Vindachinerk" for ely and "Winning Vindachinerk’s Favor" for asmo. I suggest you look up on how to do this quest. You can also expand your warehouse at the warehouse npc.

Ok.

Maybe you are doing it wrong. You can't get wiped as duo since most classes can clean mobs solo (with the gear you get gifted), you just need someone to clear the 3 bosses that blocks the way NOT IN MENTOR cause the exp in the instance gets ruined (first one, the statue one and horsey) so you get to clean all instance and make sure you are in normal mode with all exp buffs. You can try after that Rentus with the same concept, there's some high grade enemies that give a lot of exp just gotta look for them the normal ones doesn't give a lot and also if you can kill the first and second boss so you get more mobs. Also be careful of when they enter rage mode. If not you can do quests, mithril repeatable in ingi or if you can't do same thing over and over, do normal quests there that give 5m xp each.

The rewards you get from surveys depending on level are not for the first character you create but are a one per account thing (the pink quests rewards are tied to characters not your account cause it's in game quests), means if any character you have reach a certain level with a reward he can take it but only once per account if another character reach that level he won't have it. Keep in mind rewards have a level range so if you don't take it and go past the required level it's basically lost and only another character that will reach that level range can take it I guess. Happened to me with the mount, I wanted to leave it for end game to help me a bit for my first character until I farm the kahrun one but when I leveled past it's level range I lost it.

Shop is mostly cosmetics, there is also boosts (exp, ap, drop etc...), mounts, pets, instance rollback scrolls and titles. The only thing you can maybe call soft pay to win is the 100% socketing things for manastones (tradeable so you can buy it from people with kinah if you need them and dont wanna spend $$$) but that's hardly a big bad thing comparing it to official server and some private servers that sell temperings/serums and other game breaking stuff directly and also doing direct pay to win events, none of that here for now. So I say it is really worth if you like this version, population recently had a big increase so that's a good thing.