I've been here for about a year now and the mud does show that it is still in beta. There are only areas up to around level 170, and the mud supports levels up to 200, so they need more of those. Also, classes are somewhat unbalanced, but less and less so all of the time. Mages, who were the 'weak' ones a few months back often say now that they are on par with a fighter.

Now, I am used to player kill, and it is hard to do that here if you don't spend lots of hours playing on here. In the mud's defense, they claim to be heavy roleplay, low pk priority, so I can understand that.

All in all, I can't think of any reasons not to recommend kotl to play. The players are fun, the staff is helpful and always around, and its quite original. I'd simply state that it's worth playing, I just hope you have alot of spare time for it.