Hi, as you all know this game has been a memorable game for many of us through the years. But the contents are mostly beneficial when you do it alone. As example, solo bossing, grinding and even doing Maple events. Here are my suggestions for a better Maplestory:
1) GUILD SYSTEM - We can add a guild store into the system with 3 categories of stuff to purchase in it. With Bronze, Silver and Gold coins for each category.
As example Bronze you can buy MVP buffs, exp buffs, master/Meister cubes, meso bags and other decent stuff for low funded players. Silver coins might have things like black cubes, equality cubes (with limits of course), Bonus potential cubes. Gold coins you can buy things like end game gear for Androids and pets where you can only acquire through this guild store.
You can acquire these types of coins through boxes. There are many boxes with different grading and colours. Which they give out different amount of guild coins and types of coins. As example you can get low grading ones through Guild events, guild quests or daily quests. You can also get certain boxes by logging in to maple every 4 hours and 1 days to obtain boxes. Killing bosses, doing party quests, tower of oz, jump quests, etc.
Other examples can be doing daily quests. Where you need to kill 999 monsters with at least 3 guild members in the same party (which each member MUST kill max of 333 on this quest to avoid leeching.)
We also need a guild storage. Maybe a special storage with 200-500 slots and can hold up to 100bil meso. I know some members have over few thousands unused perm NX and only use a small portion of them. Those members are usually happy to donate to the guild for a good cause. Assigned leaders can access to the storage and manage the goods. This is a great opportunity for guild leaders to host guild events with the guild. We can have an alliance storage as well to make the alliance more interactive.
2) GUILD RANKING SYSTEMS- I was hoping we can revamp achievements/rankings system where it’s catered to guild focus. We should have a “box opening guild ranking event” where we compete with other guilds. The event last for 5-7 days and it happens every 10-14 days. Like other games does.
Each grading boxes gives different points so guild members can save them just to log in to open during this event. While this event is occurring, they should an individual guild contribution rank. So people can get excited to compete in maple and contribute to the guild every week.
The top 10% guild with most points gets some untradable chairs or attack buffs or cubes etc. and top 11-30% get “slightly” less rewards etc. Or other guild ranking events.
We should guild ranking events regarding to Flag race and Guild party quest. These events are rewarded separately.
We need more different types of guild party quest. Even daily ones that are fun for the guild to do together.
3) NOBLESSE SKILLS- Also, we need to revamp the noblesse skill to have a fairer distribution. So, the bottom 80% of the guilds won’t missed out 30 points of noblesse skills just because they suck at flag race and can’t get a lot of Guild party quest points. Maybe flag race, guild contribution and Guild party quest are rewarded and rank separately.
Flag race is unfair to people who lives in Australia because they don’t occur during those times. A lot of active players are joining bigger guilds due to noblesse skills issues. Because of this issue, a lot of hard-working Guild leaders struggle to make their guild grow and recruiting active players who are willing to interact. This could lead to people quitting and unable to make the community grow.
4) ALLIANCE SYSTEM- We need some alliance store and system to reward people to boss or do dailies together. Alliance is useless now other than just a bigger group for people to do trades and services together. They are usually unwilling to get to know each other at a more personal level as they use their time to participate in solo contents in order to progress in this game.
5)NEW PLAYERS- We need a better system to attract new players to progress in game and feel welcome when they join a new guild. As example, dailies where the guild must work as a team to complete daily individual quest or guild quest. Once its completed, each member get 50mil each as part of guild quest/achievements or they can use those boxes to get items from guild store.
We need a lot MORE content to cater new or returning players in order to make the game grow. I recruited over 1500 members over 8.5 years as a guild leader myself. In my opinion, people who joined the guild 99.1% are returning players and Only 0.9% are truly new Maplers. While saying that most of the new players quit in just 2 weeks. Because they told me there are better progressive games out there and contents that requires multiple players to complete together.
6) BOSS SYSTEM- We need to set a cap damage for bosses. As example, Chaos vellum cap at 5bil lines or where it takes more than 1 minute to kill. Hard Will will be like 10- 12 bil lines Cap. And black mage 50 - 70bil lines. If all the bosses can be killed by 150bil lines. A lot of funded players will just solo them and ignore the rest of the community as the drops are greatly beneficial when you solo them. Most bosses can be killed by very funded players in less than 5 minutes. I do not think this is consider great gaming experience if all weekly activities can be completed in under 1hour. What I am trying to say is for future bosses. So we don't make dramatic changes to the contents we have.
7) AUCTION HOUSE- We need sellers names listed on the items that they are selling in the auction house. Where if I want to buy an arcane gear, it will tell me who is the seller is. I can click the name of the seller in auction house, then it will show me a list of items that he/she is selling. This will help us to sell collection items, perm nx, chairs and many other items that no one ever checks. This also helps buyers to communicate with the seller to negotiate on a better price.
8) EVENTS- MAKE Maple events that involves more players to play together and more fair rewards to everyone then solo grind.
9) CONSISTENCY- We do not like dramatic changes. As example sudden new end game gear set that replace old expensive end game gear or massive nerf on certain classes. Or insane system revamp on certain items. As you know, a few of my friends quit maple due to tyrant gear became redundant when Arcane gear was introduced, or Hayato/Zero got nerfed or massive exp reduction on leveling. I suggest we can add new set equips for Andriods, Pets or Cash shop equips instead of replacing our currently end game gear. Having balance update when revamping our classes and less exp reduction for training. So dedicated trainers don’t feel like their effort are made redundant.
This helps build players trust in investing their time and resources into the game.
10) ISSUES- Currently issues we are experiencing now are. People solo grind since post big bang.
Barely anyone wants to boss together. As meso farming and solo bossing generates better income. Barely anyone logs in to social anymore. They do dailies then they go away from their keyboard at tranquillity falls event place for EXP.
There are meso farmers who Macros and take over popular training maps 24/7 which stop some Legit players wanting to progress and train in the game. There are barely alliance/guild activities and interactions like Maplestory 2006 was.
Most players who return to maple will likely quit after a few weeks and lack of new people coming into the game. We already merged many worlds together already. The game is declining in population. We need to make dramatic changes to cater the needs to ALL players, since majority of players wants to play this game to socialise with others if they get rewarded for it.
I really hope you guys consider my feedback. And who ever is reading this, please comment below to show your support on innovating the game. Thank you.
Comments
Yes as the starter and the originator of “Make MapleStory Great Again” I too believe there is a lot of work to be done and yes I hope nexon takes the time to listen to the community more then they have listen to me