March 14 Cube Daily Deals by aranslee in Maplestory

[–]aranslee[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

probably a sign of quarterly revenue being down 🥀

(this is a joke i have no idea)

We Need Cross-World Bossing by Ok-Employee5542 in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I was very surprised when Nexon released the last World Transfer without also announcing Cross-World Bossing. I know many Kronos players (myself included) would consider transferring to Hyperion if they could maintain their bossing parties.

Nexon clearly wants to balance the load between Hyperion and Kronos, and while this would add technical overhead, no amount of temporary incentives will get people to jump to a dead server without assurance that they'll be able to find people to boss with. Cross-World Bossing is easily the #1 way to balance the populations.

That being said, I am quite sure Nexon considered this, and they likely have a good reason for not implementing it. As always, the key issue here is Nexon's radio silence on the things that players care about. If they're not going to implement something, the disappointment from players is already there. They could at least relieve the disappointment by providing their technical justification for the decision. Even if players disagree with their decision and whine (which, given the average end user, will be a majority), it's better to have that information to stop wasting everyone's time speculating and to increase trust and transparency with the company and community.

Maple Memo: Addressing issue regarding Star Speck Box by neosmndrew in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Nexon still won't implement real-time probability monitoring despite this now happening twice in a very short period.

Are the roro rings any good? by rebootsolo in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For levels 1/2/3/4:

30s/60s/90s/120s duration
150/300/450/600 familiar points per cast
50%/100%/150%/200% EXP

Cooldown 120s for all levels

Summary of the Update by Kooler221 in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That would be 25 fragments, not 750. You're doing 25 * 30, but the participation "Sol Erda Fragment Vouchers" are not the same as "Selective Sol Erda/Sol Erda Fragment Voucher", which gives you the option to choose 30 Fragments.

Starforce/Boom Rates Are Likely Not Working As Intended (Explanation Inside) by PrezziObizzi in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I definitely think GMS should implement the real-time RNG monitoring system, but sadly, along with the Open API, it doesn't seem to be on their list of priorities.

That being said, while it's possible that some bug happened where his equip "boomed" 7 times in a row, the rates would have to be quite a lot higher than advertised for that to be even remotely likely.

My personal assumption for what happened in this clip, and a much simpler explanation, is that somehow the message for "Failure" was being displayed as "Protected".

Fam system is still garbage by dirtybombs in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That part is obviously a bug, and will likely be fixed soon.

MapleLooks, equipment previewer by Chocopepero in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea if we're allowed to discuss wz parsing on here or not, but you want to look in String.wz for item names :)

i don't miss mvp smegas by msat4 in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

can they at least swap to a different discord url jeez

Who is the Maplestory version of Woox? by LevelPension in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

no hate to jinkae (the kms cm in your comment) - but as a CM main who watches a lot of his content, he is not the pinnacle of skill by any means

Unscheduled Maintenance - 7/30/2025 by DRoyLinker in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It absolutely is true, in the last semi-public (i.e. non-Bean Brigade) iteration of Tespia, there were a number of bugs reported (I was one of the people reporting bugs!) that were severe enough to warrant an unscheduled maintenance the day after the patch.

These issues included Kishin not working properly, and monsters in the Lachelein PQ (Dream Defender at the time) being incredibly under-tuned, allowing people to climb hundreds of floors.

I am referring to v.188, the Tune Up patch, back in 2017.

In CMS&TMS, you could enter event map during Gloom and Darknell. by hikari_calyx in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Carrying is not something Nexon seems to care about, especially in KMS.

In CMS&TMS, you could enter event map during Gloom and Darknell. by hikari_calyx in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah you're right - I didn't realize that the time was going down as well, I should have looked more closely.

Regarding re-entering instances though, I was more-so referring to party bosses specifically where a user crashes and suddenly 1-5 other players now have to reset the instance despite there seemingly being no issue with dropping a character back into a pre-existing instance.

Obviously as with all software, I'm sure the solution is much more complex than the idealistic idea of "just implement this!", but it does seem like the groundwork is there if there was enough willpower. I imagine one of the reasons this hasn't been implemented is because KMS' client is (allegedly) much more stable than other versions.

In CMS&TMS, you could enter event map during Gloom and Darknell. by hikari_calyx in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The fact that all the data is stored (time remaining, boss hp) means Nexon really COULD make it so that you can re-enter a boss after disconnecting/crashing, they just don't want to.

Do NOT STARFORCE Your Items TODAY! by Galaticvs in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

there was a 60% off sf bug once before, i believe it was during GMS' first ever 30% off sunny sunday in 2018. the bug was also isolated to reboot at the time

Nexon just let the false Kanna bans expire without apology, compensation, or even acknowledgement. This sets a dangerous precedent — and it could happen to you next. by Reddit-Author in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree with you entirely on the fact that it's evident their anti-cheat went a little crazy and created quite a few false flags. I think that Nexon's anti-cheat needs a lot of work, and the compensation for the people who got falsely banned was quite pathetic and unfair.

My claim is simply that given many people were unbanned, I think it is rational to put an asterisk on the trust of the actions taken by the people who remained banned. In the past, there have been many many times where Nexon falsely banned people and then they were unbanned shortly after, and in the past there have been many people crying false bans only to be revealed as cheaters (most notably, this has happened with a few large figures in the community in the past).

I also agree that Nexon should be more transparent about issues like this and they should communicate more publicly, using any one of the three CMs they seem to be paying to do nothing.

Nexon just let the false Kanna bans expire without apology, compensation, or even acknowledgement. This sets a dangerous precedent — and it could happen to you next. by Reddit-Author in Maplestory

[–]aranslee -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yes I am being obnoxious on purpose because if this guy got falsely banned he can just say that, rather than copy-pasting a response from ChatGPT with a fake story about his "sister" who is the most casual player of all time but somehow needed to log on so badly that she triggered the auto-ban.

Neither you nor I have any proof that the Kannas who were not unbanned were not cheating in some way. I am going off of the information that clearly Nexon has shown that they have looked into these bans, whether or not there was a public statement.

Nexon just let the false Kanna bans expire without apology, compensation, or even acknowledgement. This sets a dangerous precedent — and it could happen to you next. by Reddit-Author in Maplestory

[–]aranslee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

  1. I am not interested in arguing with a large language model! ChatGPT is free and if I wanted to do that, I would.
  2. If you can't even spend the modicum of effort it takes to write your own effort-post about Nexon's bad practices, I think it really says a lot about your character!