I quit Roar's most recent server(I appealed about fishing, not sure if he fixed the issue since I left), it had its fun side, but at the same time was a bit of a grind fest! I'd rather see Gary help with V2 if Mickey ever decides to fix it. Gary's server was the only playable server around for quite some time and it was more fun than a lot of others I've played...it was awesome and I can't even remember its name.
@Greatest - This entire game is a grind. You also asked me to make traders important so I did and now you whine about it, haha. You can still make weapons from 1 ore like in v1, v2 but need to grind capsules to power them up which is optional and filler grind for traders.
Fishing does not take 10-15 minutes to catch a single fish, i've tested this numerous times. If its taking you that long to catch a single fish you are fishing in the same overfished spots over and over again. I don't think fishing is hard at all compared to any of the other survival type games i've played.
Which one of Gary's sever?
Hollow Point - Mobs were all broken (I had 100k attack raises and 1m def raises), random items you needed for crafting were given by hidden NPC's you could never find, quest content lasted 1-2 weeks, had to search a 10x10 world to find a quest, eventually closed due to brokenness. Continuation of UT's V1 modern inis, didnt go far.
Rebirth - Open way too long, infinite spawn times in quests for afk training, no high level content besides dragons no one wanted to kill and drakes which was a infinite spawn of Crystal Drakes. No gear better then Damon even though they had all the items ready for it, no need to get any gear as everyone bumped a quest which gave +30 hessite armor free, admin abuse of quests making it so that you could mem warp inside to bring a mule and camp 24/7. Standard V2 inis, nothing really special I can remember about them besides some new content.
The last good server I played was Dementia which was maybe 4-5 yrs ago? Sure some of the Admins cheated on that server, but it never directly affected the players besides getting PKed once a month. Dementia was 2x the grind Future is as far as combat goes.