AKradian

http://www.nexon.net/corporate/careers/all-jobs/

They have an opening right now for Maplestory Community Manager, who is the person responsible for the social media pages for the game.
It's a full-time job, however.

It's not corrupted.
You cannot understand their speech if you kill them without having done the questline leading up to killing them.

DarkPassenger wrote: »

So, my conclusion would be that, if Kishin would be removed, there would be no base spawn rate increase, or if it does, it wont be to the extent of Kishin, it would be like the base meso rate increase that happened some time ago, marginal increase. truthfully, that would be a solution to getting rid of bots. remove kishin and leave the spawn rate where it is. So there's no incentive for bots to bot. or make it difficult for them to.

There is always an incentive for bots to bot.
This game has had meso-farming bots since its inception. In fact, I daresay every game has gold-farming bots, to one extent or another.
The classes they use have changed over time, that's all.

DarkPassenger wrote: »

My hypothesis regarding this sudden outcry is that it's a group of players that play or played unofficial (illegal) versions of the client and want changes to be made to the official one to be more like those.

Please don't make baseless accusations.
The outcry is from players who
- are in Reboot and are sick and tired of meso-farming on Kanna instead of playing their main, and/or
- don't have a second computer to Kishin themselves (but have experienced training with Kishin through a friend's help, or even just heard from everybody how much better it is), and/or
- don't want to have to level/leech their Kishin mule Kanna to 225 (Arcana), 235 (Esfera), and now 255 and beyond, just so they can continue using it in high-level areas.

DarkPassenger wrote: »

Cause personally, the only difference in training I see using a kanna is when I'm training characters under 150.

You must be doing something wrong.
No matter what level and what map you use, Kishin makes it so there are more enemies within range of your attack skills. So unless you train using a single-target skill, you always gain exp faster in a Kishin'ed map.

This is a question we often get, along with a screenshot like this:


So I'd like to explain what we are seeing in this screenshot, and why the Launcher is, in fact, NOT reinstalling the whole game in this case.

What does "patching" or "updating" the game actually mean?

Imagine the game installation as a big fat book of 1200 pages.
The "patch" is a list of corrections or changes to the book. For example:
1. "on page 5, line 20, change the word 'good' to 'well'",
2. "on page 73, after the second paragraph, add the following text: 'blah blah blah'",
3. "on page 135, remove the 3rd paragraph, that starts with 'something something'".

The Launcher downloads the list of changes (in the case of the image above, that list is 435MB of data) and then starts to apply them.
The "install" number shows how far it has progressed in updating.

If we go back to our book example, then at first the launcher will show
Downloaded 3/3 (because we had 3 fixes to apply)
Installed 0/1200 (because it hadn't fixed anything yet)

After applying the first change (change "good" to "well") it will show
Downloaded 3/3
Installed 5/1200 (because we have fixed up to page 5)

After applying the second change, it will show
Downloaded 3/3
Installed 73/1200 (because we have fixed up to page 73)

After applying the last change, it will show
Downloaded 3/3
Installed 135/1200 (because we have fixed up to page 135)

And then it will think for a while because it does all sorts of checks, and then finally jump to "complete".
But really all it did was change those 3 places in the book. It didn't "reinstall" all 1200 pages.

The Launcher does the same thing with its list of updates to the game files. It changes a few bytes here, adds a bunch there, maybe deletes some things, all according to the patch data it downloaded. But the bulk of the 12GB does not get changed, even if it says in its progress display that it's "installing" 12GB.

I hope this makes things a little clearer.

YinYangX wrote: »

Freake

CrystalOra wrote: »

So many people used the exploit. According to the TOS everyone of them should be banned. They need to decide at what point the exp/mesos gain could be considered an abuse vs just playing the game. I wonder where they will draw the line? Can they roll back individual accounts, or with there be a mass banning? I am interested to see how this plays out.

The semi-funny/sad thing is that with Missions closing in -24hrs, some people could have been rushing the Enforcer mission without even realizing that they were "exploiting". =l

It was a hack, not an exploit. There was no way to unintentionally abuse it.