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Check out the v.256 - The Dark Ride: Limbo Patch Notes
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Server Bandwidth Boost, Reduce KMS Content Gap
Server Upgrade, Merging Servers
50% of GMS is playing on reboot, but the server just can't handle it.
Many issues can be solved with a better server because as it stands maplestory has a physical population cap gated by the prehistoric servers that can barely serve a population of less than 10k
The population is pretty dead, but that's not to say it's dying. It actually seems to be improving over time but with max Reboot capacity lag and 4 premium non-reboot empty as fk servers..
There's a high chance that these servers will be the end of GMS and not the playerbase
Why better servers? To implement two fixes
1> Erase lag, boost server stability, increase player capacity
- The servers host a low amount of players, but it can't even handle less than 10k players with 5k on Reboot, not to mention Reboot crashes everytime there's a massive event like DMT. The server is reaching the limits to it's computation and needs to be fixed to let in more people. I believe maplestory is far from over.
2> Implement Non-Reboot Server Merge (All servers into 1)
-Take all normal servers and merge... hold on read below
- THERE IS ONLY ONE REASON WHY PEOPLE OPPOSE A SERVER MERGE: LAG AND TAKEN MAPS
Anytime a server approaches more than 15% GMS server pop on that server the server lags
If we fix the server there's nothing to complain about.
-There only leaves full maps.
Honestly this point is a bit annoying, but it's not a reason to oppose a higher population given that the higher population is a mere couple thousand.
Just hit a different map, the game is suffering in pop and it will continue to do so if the servers aren't seen as full.
4 Servers all empty as fk is not a good look for a new player.
We have to centralize Reboot and Non-Reboot Worlds to each have their own World and this is possible with a Server Upgrade
Abridging the KMS Content Gap
There was one reason why people gave up GMS for KMS, and if we want GMS to thrive we must take back the old foreign KMS players who were taken out by the NAVER apocalypse (December 2020, foreigners could play on KMS through NAVER which was a Korean Google, but they suspended the service)
By becoming the #2 server we will also get players from other servers as well as the atrocious p2w CMS server and the ??? JMS server
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF A POPULATION BOOST THIS IS
We are talking 2x-3x our pop(initially) if this server succeeds to become the #2 Maplestory Server almost indistinguishable to KMS
Then the server boost price and maintenance is justified.
As it stands we are probably the Last Ranking Maplestory Server because we don't have enough good points to offset our low as fk population
It takes 6 months for KMS content to be localized to GMS? What? I know localization takes time but half a year is unforgivable. That is way too much time for a mere translation.
Slowly cut the content gap between KMS and GMS until the two become indistinguishable. KMS is good for a reason so GMS should take notes from it.
The reason why so many people left from GMS to KMS was
1> Content 6 Months in Advance
2> Good Game Systems
3> Higher pop
However now it is impossible to play in KMS without a Korean Friend or without you being physically in South Korea.
So you have Massive amounts of people who wanted to play KMS, but cannot
Make GMS practically KMS -> easily healed population
In fact now we would actually be Global MS.
If we make GMS overwhelmingly impressive compared to KMS instead of not allocating resources and watching it die
It is entirely possible this region can be saved and be comparable to KMS or CMS.
Maplestory is not dead but slowly growing, however if there is no improvement to GMS it will slowly die
Please take a moment to consider a great investment for the future of this game
Discussion below is greatly appreciated
Comments
I agree with the merging of non-reboot worlds tho.
I believe the gap is 6 months because of merging content from every server and they want it at intervals
But content gap between GMS and KMS wasn't always this massive
It was 2 months at best (At the time of Big Bang), then lengthened to 6 months over time
So now there's precedent
And it shouldn't be illegal to have similar content. Although they are considered different companies, they are still working together presumably under contracts and the law. I don't think a 6 month content gap would be a fix to legality issues anyway.
I believe it's all about choosing what gets to be in GMS from all the servers, which is pretty terrible development-wise imo
You have all this random stuff that the origin server (KMS) does not have
And it's unnecessary to overcomplicate the development cycle for GMS to the the point where we are so slow we get content half a year apart
I hope with this in the future something changes
May be wishful thinking, but if we don't believe then a future can't exist for this region
population is not dead lol, why people say this? Cuz they want to lie to themselves? Games population is quite fine atm, just check how full are the servers. The game has a lot of issues but population isnt going anywhere near death
You say, erase lag, do you think is that easy ? Dont you think theyve already tried doing it? CVome on dude, how old are you fr, its a freaking company working for a game , do you think they do nothing all day everyday? Come on dude