DeathWolf has given a plethora of misinformation, let me clarify:
The game is free to play, period. During peak hours, you MIGHT not be able to get onto a server if it is full unless you are a Patron or Gentry. The times when this happens is very rare, and as a matter of fact, we get almost no questions about it in the official forums. The game makes no profit and none of the developers or GMs get paid. All money received from donations pays for the server connection and maintenance and for new servers (Halberd was added a few months ago from donation money).
Patron accounts will bypass a full server and cost $5 a month. A pittance, less than dinner at McDonalds.
The $50 that DeathWolf was talking about was for a Gentry account, this will provide server bypass for one year plus 3 additional magic items and access to zones not available to anyone else for shopping and healing.
The rules on 2 of the 4 servers ARE different. Pegasus and Phoenix are considered open servers and the rules are very similar there to what other MMORPGs use. One Admin on one server probably did tell DeathWolf's "friend" that he could do something, then his buddy wandered onto Fire Opals and got in trouble for it. Then when the GM told him he was doing something wrong he copped an attitude and started to argue when in fact he should have just logged and read the rules for himself. I guess it is more satisfying to get in the GMs face and tell him off right? lmao Meh, now he knows the rules, the GM sent him to the page to read them, and life goes on, get over it.
Halberd is the PvP server, there is NO rule moderation there. Sounds like a good place for Wolf's friend.
Fire Opals is the Role Play server and it has very strict rules for Role Playing and channel use. The rules for this server are listed in the Rubies Official forums.
http://www.cyberwar.com/forums/ubbthreads.php If a player is being disruptive on this server by not following the rules they will be asked to move to another server.
The Terms of Service for the game (basically a fancy name for the rules) are listed here
http://www.cyberwar.com/manuals/roemanual.htm and all players who get into a scrape are directed here to help clarify any confusion.
So DeathWolfLegion, it seems that "THE" truth and YOUR truth are 2 different things, so let's keep that in mind before you start trying to make any official sounding announcements since you don't seem to have any idea what you are talking about
Oh yea, I am an employee so I think my info is legit.