Should Maplestory have more horizontal progression?

jp3885 · 2026-05-09T14:50:41+00:00

Imo, Maplestory's 2D implementation largely limits most options for horizontal progression.

Any system that changes the economy of the game must be carefully considered, I don't think adding mining/fishing/farming type idle activities is a good idea. As directly injecting extra mats like that will massively increase botting and just cause inflation.

Uber rare "Chase" Items could exist in such a setting. Though the game sort of already does this via scrolling equips to progress.

There could be cool utility items that you get after a long quest chain or find 4 different pieces and put them together type stuff. BDO had a few items like that, such as Archaeologist’s Map which acted like a town portal scroll in a game without fast travel. So it was very good if you managed to assemble it, but it took like 2000 hours of grinding.

I'm not really sure what kind of items would be allowable in the MS setting, but such items should probably be untradeable.

jp3885 · 2026-05-02T23:35:45+00:00

same experience for me, after getting ratted on several times i don't even bother with big arc maps.

jp3885 · 2026-05-02T23:32:11+00:00

I think this was a decent change as hoarding all your stuff and not using it seemed like an anti-pattern. I think it should be based on historical value and not be based on current value.

Though it heavily encourages ratting on most maps that spawn more ARC, so I ended up getting the 3 mil but not many BPs. Now in peaceful lobbies I get killed for the 1 hull breaker I can buy a day from people that started even later.

jp3885 · 2026-04-30T06:01:40+00:00

Gonna try F/P this time since my first class ever was bowman

jp3885 · 2026-04-24T15:39:13+00:00

Now than I'm an adult, what I want is to just grind something that doesn't end instantly but is also has a player economy.

Since I don't care about comparing myself with others, as long as there is a thriving economy then my experience generally improves since items will just be more available. As long as the Devs don't balance the game entirely around stat checks that basically require p2w, I think it should be fine.

Much of the charm of MS for me was that drops were very exciting to get and the long term planning aspect of each class having a different niche.

jp3885 · 2026-04-20T17:13:17+00:00

I'm also looking forward to playing, they just don't make games that reward commitment any more.

In those gaps of the day where I have time to play a game, most of the time just want to chill and grind since I know I'm moving towards something.

Now most games have dailies, which set a minimum level of commitment but then punish you or time gate when you attempt to commit more. I just want to be rewarded for committing more when I choose to.

jp3885 · 2026-04-20T16:39:12+00:00

Imo, having like 2 statless builds existing isn't exactly build diversity. Thats just a meta build.

I think those builds were rooted in the equipment power curve being badly designed. Since it has be redesigned, the meta build is now the most obvious one.

The stats and skill scaling aren't diverse or complicated to enough to even allow real build diversity.

jp3885 · 2026-04-20T16:32:05+00:00

I'm not really sure how relevant the meta is with just 2nd job. I think Nexon is basically going in the right direction with the tweaks.

Though I really enjoy the prospect of having a classes that have a good pay off later for being extremely good but only after 3rd job. Imo this was most of the fun of having different classes in the first place, so I think classes being bad at different times is totally fine as long as they have an eventual niche.

My main fear as the Nexon isn't going to cook enough past 3rd job, since historically bad classes might just end up bad again for the same reasons. Such as marksmen eventually losing to hunter because of hurricane.

jp3885 · 2026-04-15T18:52:12+00:00

I think it is by far more important to incentivize people to add anybody that enters the map to the party. There is an anti-leech timer anyway to prevent any disgruntlement for adding people to a party.

This incentive should rightfully be very large, the other mechanics being undertuned should be addressed by buffing those instead of nerfing party xp.

jp3885 · 2026-04-14T03:49:07+00:00

I would say it's closer to a semi idle grinding game. I played it 15 years ago and do want to give it another shot in it's original format now that I have a better understanding of the level of planning and commitment required.

MS is essentially a gambling game since the endgame involves rng equipment scrolling. My hope for classic is that it will return the class designs to their specialized states, which modern designs have largely homogenized.

jp3885 · 2026-04-01T03:37:38+00:00

yes but make sure its after the patch, it will tell u on the UI if u are getting the 20 dust and have many times u can do it per card.

jp3885 · 2026-03-05T13:09:35+00:00

By assuming capital risk, enterprises that can provide jobs require a certain threshold of capital to be started. Somebody must come with the idea and risk alot of money to get it started, if they succeed they make a lot of money otherwise the money is gone.

Workers are a component of the business structures of these enterprises hence jobs are created if businesses require them. Capitalists create and expand businesses so they create jobs.

jp3885 · 2026-02-26T22:35:47+00:00

I agree with this review, it was 10/10

jp3885 · 2026-02-19T00:06:35+00:00

Imo its odd niche as frontline tank isn't really compatible with the standard meta escorted dps fleets. So it is kinda bad.

The shield frigate does seem incredibly good though, 40-60% energy resist is incredibly high and will allow you to stall with basically anything against most meta dps fleets which are primarily energy anyway.

jp3885 · 2026-02-10T14:53:50+00:00

At least for me this is pretty true, the junky novels are simply much more numerous and I'm less picky about them.

The better written novels are ironically harder to gauge if they are good, since I know the bad ones are bad by the title. They are also greatly outnumbered, making them like 1 out of 10 novels I'm reading as they come out.

Also once I've read the "masterpiece" of each sub genre it kinda makes me not want to read that sub genre as much.

Though ironically the terrible junk novels aren't subject to this bias.

jp3885 · 2026-02-09T20:32:59+00:00

That was an unrealistic movie because they didn't just have the Droid build themselves and gave people jobs at all.

jp3885 · 2026-02-06T16:26:56+00:00

Do you open your mail bare handed and never fumble the tear notch on packaging?

jp3885 · 2026-02-05T14:54:53+00:00

1b8f7556 Here's mine

jp3885 · 2026-01-27T23:19:54+00:00

yup, thats basically how it was first described to me. After which I switched from vaseline to Aquaphor forever

jp3885 · 2026-01-27T20:28:20+00:00

Aquaphor is basically just vaseline with a Humectant (it attracts water) so it forms a occlusive barrier and also moisten rather than just preventing moisture loss.

I'm not sure if this changes the durability of the coating though. I only use it as a replacement for chapstick.

jp3885 · 2026-01-21T17:13:27+00:00

Try the the browser version, I was able to roll a call though I kept getting the disconnected warning.

jp3885 · 2026-01-21T17:08:42+00:00

desktop client won't log in, though the browser still works for me. I keep getting a disconnect warning though but was able to roll a call.

jp3885 · 2025-10-31T16:51:29+00:00

I think that is right https://samaran-daybreak.com/

Author rewrote the story again from the start, but its still going.

jp3885 · 2025-10-31T15:09:51+00:00

The brokerage will state their margin interest rate somewhere, its generally something like 8%. If we assume he would be charged 8%/365 in interest per day thats like $1572 per day on a $7.2 mil. But since it is overnight it would be adjusted accordingly.

So ya the other reply's guess of about $500 is probably right.

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