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2x Exp + Drop

TransformingThunderTransformingThunder
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edited July 2017 in General Chat
I remember the when 2x on weekends were all day so why are they only at certain times now (during the weekend?)
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  • DarkPassengerDarkPassenger
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    edited July 2017
    Because 2x now goes a longer way than back then, 2x drop and exp gains more advantage in progression than it did in the pre evolution of maplestory. If 2x drop and exp was all day now, it'd get out of hand.
  • TransformingThunderTransformingThunder
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    edited July 2017
    DarkPassenger wrote: »
    Because 2x now goes a longer way than back then, 2x drop and exp gains more advantage in progression than it did in the pre evolution of maplestory. If 2x drop and exp was all day now, it'd get out of hand.

    I see that's fair, thanks
  • AKradianAKradian
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    edited July 2017
    TransformingThunder wrote: »
    I remember the when 2x on weekends were all day so why are they only at certain times now (during the weekend?)

    Your memory is misleading you.
    I've been playing since 2008 and I don't remember having regular all-day 2x. Only for very special occasions, like Anniversary, Christmas, or compensation for really bad foul-ups.
    For many years, the "normal" 2x sessions were only 2 hours in the afternoon (Califronia time), and were either EXP or DROP but not both.
    At some point they became 4 hours to match the 4 hour cards in Cash Shop.
    (I don't remember when 2x sessions became both drop and exp every time).
    Much later, another session was added in the Australian afternoon, which is midnight in California.
    And recently, with the migration of European MapleStory into GMS, they redid 2x to be 3 sessions of 3 hours each, to suit the three major regions served by GMS: America, Europe, and Australia.

    So now we have a total of 18 hours of 2x per weekend, which is the most we have ever had for a "regular 2x". However, we have had periods of time when 2x happened every single weekend, and we don't anymore. Also, we no longer get all-day 2x for special occasions.