User blog comment:The Black Easterling/Joining and Creating/@comment-27723099-20150415133346

I played on 3 different servers: TOR, hARDA, and the official.

TOR was good but had partially terrible admins. Manley, an admin, once ruled over a kingdom he called Gondlin. Unlike the real Gondolin, he was, behind the coverage of an elven lord, absolutely evil. He forced every elf to join his faction and declared war against those who didn't. In the end the whole server stood united against Gondolin. But that's long ago. I also dislike the massive usage of plugins since they often disable vanilla features. When I had op on TOR for a while, I noticed that many powerful vanilla commands were overwritten by the less powerful though more user-friendly plugin commands. This is a good server for dwarven players as multiple admins are dwarves and the server has Mazar-Dum, the biggest dwarven city I know of.

hARDA is a good server and I still play on it rarely but it has not enough players to make as much fun as the other servers. It's a good server if you want it a bit calmer. But pay attention to get enough food as hunger is increased here.

The official is my favorite server. It has nice admins, a good community and no plugins (and therefore offers the pure mod experience). Some things are not as easy here due to the missing plugins, such as transportation and trading, but since Mevans sometimes plays here it means that these problems will get to his attention and he will try to fix them.