Dunno about L2live, but midway was a joke! Customized balance (nefred skills/classes), huge lag spikes and freezes, fake online (counter was perma at 900+ when the true online was 200-300), inactive gms, no trade zone (Giran was a mess, sometimes you couldn't move from one shop to another). With so many buff slots, mages were useless in pvp; only good for farming. It was impossible to take a castle! This project has almost the same features (except the xp rate) and I bet it has the same files too!
PS
The raid map is a bad idea for small groups and cps!
Zergs will farm raids 24/7...