Well, here my view on most admin mistake
Im a player (Mostly pay2win) and a Admin for a very very long time since season 1 and now season 15. Its a piece of cake to setup an MU server, 3-6hours max?
-Hosting
Bad Hosting, you might wanna get something that is centralize or something that is closer to the group of people you ads to.
If its Global, Canada or USA is good
-A good website
Need some Unique design else it just be another server you click and we donate have high standards what we see of the admin effort to support. On admin view, i think it really nice to see a cool Unique Design for Website/Template/Loading Screen/Custom sets
-Advertising
Make it big, yeah been there and done that. Vote bot, expensive yeah but you wanna make it big you gotta to spend big. Your return earnings are not promising, go smart, 2 server , 3 server , 4 server, player love a new server who is top 5 in xtremetop100 Ranks They will always come. Most admins just want to start a server and after spending tons of time, the dont get that traffic they wanted vs their hard work just cause of this reason, I find this most important.
-Game Master Team
Active in-game staff needs to be there, server will just die, hacker will just escape everything under the sun and bugs will never get solve. Dont forget the market/trading in-game is important you will need to secretly adjust and low stuff if it drops too much or reward too much.
-Ragezone Community (NEVER ADS HERE)
MuOnline use to be great during season 6 times, with DarkAv and Bet0x, Jordan, 4Funner, Wizzy , Drakelv those are the legend that put a fun and enjoy community here in Ragezone for MuOnline section, and be real people come here is hardly finding a never server, they mostly look for server files, and help for their server, Adverts here just is a waste of time and you consider cause the HATE is real here.
I throwing this out there, Moderators here are not even trusted, i have a few report of mod scamming newbies and im a victim myself before. So just beware. Ragezone isnt the same as before, the only reason im here to just to prevent newbie who is asking help on the help section to be scammed by other moderators or users.
-Custom & Unqiue
What make a server unique? Example for me i was competing for Ranks with Vote bots and ADs for a very long time, i can say 5years been on top 5 Ranks always. But what make you win rank 1? In actually fact, play with computer nowdays doesnt have just 1 client sitting around in their computer, they surely try all top ranks server, well, you can say that Custom Events to feed player daily and hourly, Correct timing of events and comfortable for everyone.
Custom Set, Custom Boss, Giftcodes, GM event, Custom Maps all their will surely make a good mark on your server.