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Introducing the Maple Rewards system—now you can earn Reward Points through everyday gameplay and spend them on Cash items!

You can earn Reward Points through any of the following:

• Hunting bosses
• Completing party quests and theme dungeons
• Playing mini-games in Star Planet
• Leveling up
• Purchasing certain Cash items with NX

Here’s how it works:

1. Earn Reward Points through gameplay. You can earn up to 2,000 Reward Points daily (per world) through regular gameplay, and up to 1,000 Reward Points daily (per world) through Star Planet gameplay.

2. Enter the Cash Shop to “store” the Reward Points. Each account can earn Reward Points up to 10 times before entering the Cash Shop to store the Reward Points. However you must enter the Cash Shop to store the Reward Points within 7 days of receiving them, or they will be deleted.

3. You can also earn Reward Points from some Cash Shop purchases with NX. When you purchase a qualifying item, 5% of the purchase price will be received as Reward Points.

4. For Reward Points earned through regular and Star Planet gameplay, your account can store up to 3,000 Reward Points in the Cash Shop daily, and up to 30,000 Reward Points monthly. Including Reward Points earned from Cash Shop purchases, the total monthly Reward Points your account can store is 150,000.

5. Reward Points can be used until the end of the next month after they have been stored. If you have not used them in that time, they will be deleted at 11:59 PM (Pacific) on the last day of that month.

6. You can spend your Reward Points in a couple of ways. Visit the Maple Rewards Shop within the Cash Shop by clicking on the green button on the left side of the Cash Shop. You can also find the Maple Rewards Shop by navigating to the Special Promotions > Maple Rewards Shop category.

7. All of the items in the Maple Rewards Shop can only be purchased with Reward Points. Each item has a limit as to how many times your account can purchase it. The purchase count limits are reset on the first day of every month.

8. You can also spend your Reward Points on up to 30% of the purchase price of regular Cash items. When you select the item to purchase, you can check the box for Reward Points in addition to your regular currency.

9. Reward Points can only be used on full-price (not discounted) items. Some items cannot be purchased with Reward Points: Pet and Equipment Cover Packages, Royal Hair/Face Coupons, All Star Hair Coupons, Beauty Album Expansion Slots, 2X EXP/2X Drop Coupons, Quest Boosters, Nebulites and Nebulite Diffusers, Premium Fusion Ticket Exchange Coupons, Androids and any Android-related items such as Heart and Name Tag, Scissors of Karma/Platinum Scissors of Karma, Sharing Tag, Monster Life Gems, all Surprise Style Boxes and Surprises items, Philosopher's Book, Gachapon and Remote Gachapon Tickets, Nebula Conductor, Meso Sacks, premium dungeon entrance tickets, Premium Pet Food, Shadow Style, Return of Angel Wing, any Inventory and Storage Slots, or Marvel Machine spins.

Hot Times are rare (and fun!) events where you must simply be logged in during a specific time frame to receive a reward! To have the best experience during a Hot Time, we suggest the following guidelines.

In order to participate, you must:

• Be logged in to a character that is Lv. 33 or above to receive the gift box. To open the box, your character needs to be Lv. 33 or above.
  
  
• Have one space in each of your USE and EQUIP inventories to receive your prize.
  
  
• Be in the main map of a town or hunting map that is regularly accessible.
  
  
• Make sure your character is alive.
  
  
• Have space in your inventory to open the box and receive the rewards inside.
  
  
• Please note that after receiving the box you will have to wait 30 minutes before you can open it, at 3:00 PM Pacific (6:00 PM Eastern).

Please do not engage in any activity in the moments before, during, and after Hot Time. Simply relax in a town!

• Do not change channels.
  
  
• Do not engage in any quests.
  
  
• Do not enter the Cash Shop.
  
  
• Do not talk to any NPCs or use Gachapon.
  
  
• Do not use your inventory or storage.
  
  
• Do not manage your wedding wish list or be in the midst of a wedding.
  
  
• Do not enter a mini-dungeon.
  
  
• Do not use a ship or other timed method of transit between locations.
  
  
• Do not go into in Monster Life.
  
  
• Do not be in a cutscene.
  
  
• Do not perform skills or engage monsters.
  
  
• Do not trade with another player, have a mini-game open, or be engaged in a Free Market shop.
  
  
• Do not enter special areas that may have different functionality than other areas, such as jump quests, boss maps, Azwan, the Evolution System, Dimensional Invasion, Boss Arena, Cross World PQ, or Star Planet.

It is also strongly recommend that you spread out to prevent the chances of slowing down your connection. Some recommended ways of doing this:

• Log in well before 2:30 PM.
  
  
• Be in a town that isn't heavily frequented by other Maplers.
  
  
• Be in a channel that is less populated than others.
  
  
• Avoid being clustered in large groups.
  
  
• Avoid performing graphically intensive skills. Remaining still is best.
  
  
• Avoid Maplers or monsters that might be performing graphically intensive skills.

If you're logged in during Hot Time, make sure to accept the Hot Time quest from the event quest notifier. You have until midnight (12:00 AM Pacific / 3:00 AM Eastern) to open the gift box.

Please be aware that although the servers are set to Pacific time, there can sometimes be variations in the exact server time between worlds. It is strongly recommended that you log in well before the event is scheduled and remain logged in even if you do not receive the quest at exactly 2:30 PM Pacific.

Scam 7: Trade Switching

A person will be selling an item you desire for a very cheap price. Usually a scroll or attack work glove. They will trade you once, tell you to hurry up and then will close the trade. They will say they are sorry and to please hurry. Now they have replaced the item you were going to get in the first place, for something that looks identical on quick inspection, but is not worth nearly what you are paying. Usually a clean work glove or cheap scroll.

Prevention - Examine all items closely before accepting a trade. Double-check them again, then you are free to trade.

Scam 8: Quitting Sale/ Massive Sale

A person will Super Megaphone saying that they are quitting and are selling some rare item at a very cheap price. (Ex: 1 meso Ilbis) They will then have their fm store open and will be telling you to keep clicking and hitting enter to get in. This will cause you to buy whatever they have in their top slot, which usually is worth noting for whatever price they choose.

Prevention - Anything that seems to good to be true, usually is. Never click + hit enter going into a store.

Scam 9 - Account Selling

Users in the Free Market can be seen selling or trading their accounts. This is against the games Terms of Service first of all, and can result in you being scammed out of your account or your money as well as banned. They usually ask for your information or money first, and simply run off.??

Prevention - Don't buy/sell/trade accounts.

Scam 10: Youtube GM/NX Phishing Links(submitted by Ryuujin131)

These kinds are posted in videos and are mostly found on YouTube as well as other video sharing sites. The user states that he has found a glitch through a GM approval system or a NX Cash maker. He then asks you to compose an email to a fake NEXON email (Ex: NexonGameMasterApp@randomemail.com or Nexon@email.com) with a supposed code which includes putting in your account ID, password, and PIN in the code. They then show supposed proof that this works, (Ex: they show a video of supposed GM in there, but it's really from a client-sided hack.) If you fall for this and send it to the supposed email, the user simply logs into the fake NEXON email, and gets the information through the supposed code to hack into your account.

Prevention - NEXON doesn't use free email programs like Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo!, Email.com, etc. They have their own email accounts, which look like, *email@nexon.net. There are no such glitches when charging NX or ways to become a GM. Game Masters are hired employees of Nexon as it is a real job.

Scam 11: NX Reward Scams(submitted by mzfuzzybunny)

A person will*offer an NX prize for winning*match cards,*or various other games. They may*let you win, getting 1 or 2 matches to reduce*suspicion. They then ask you for your login details.*

Prevention - Never give out your account info to anyone. Not even to Nexon Game Masters as they will NEVER ask for this information.

Scam 12: Website Scams(Submitted by*SINJoseph)

A user*tells you that if you want free mesos/NX/items/etc you should go on a website that makes you put in your ID, Pass, and PIN. As soon as this information is added, your account is now gone.

Prevention - Never give out your account info to anyone. Not even to Nexon Game Masters as they will NEVER ask for this information.

Scam13: Shop Comment Keyloggers(submitted by Skorbo)

This is a somewhat common practice lately, and it's not as hard to fall for as one might think. While in your shop over a period of time, a player will come in and tell you that they've used pictures of you in a video they have online. They also give you a link, saying to watch it and let them know if you want your pictures removed. If you follow the link, it will inform you your Flash Player is out of date and request to update. This update is where the keylogger comes in.*

Prevention - Be wary of any links you visit that are advertised in game through any means. If you aren't familiar with a website, google about it first.*

Scam 14: Phishing websites

It's becoming more and more common to see Smegas, messages, forum posts, or youtube comments from so people pretending to be GM's informing you of an event going on where you can get FREE BAN!!, NX items, mesos, etc. When you visit the website, it asks for your personal account information. When you enter it, you get nothing though you've just given them everything they need to steal your account.

Prevention - Practice safe browsing. Always keep your personal information safe, and always verify websites you visit are indeed real. Any "event" websites that do not end in .nexon.net are almost certainly phishing for your information as any official event would be on Nexons servers. Be especially wary for .tk domains. And remember, Nexon's website will never need your pin or birthdate for an event. If you do fall victim and realize before you are hacked, change your information ASAP.

Scam 15: Powerball Casino (submitte Khongi)

This game is often announced via Super Megaphone, often calling it 'the most equitable powerball casino, try your luck on ch... fm ...".
It's basically a scam disguised as a 'fair' gambling game. The players are encouraged to place bets of a couple millions of mesos, usually on numbers 1 through 6. You 'win' through a preset ratio (ie: you win the amount you bet multiplied by a number). The way this scam works is that the scammers target usually high-ranked, well known players and let them win alot, and have them perform word-of-mouth advertisement of this 'sure-thing' gamble drawing in more potential victims. The odds increase and players start to place in higher bets because they keep 'winning', once a player has placed a bet of a lot of mesos (more than 100 million) the scammer takes the money and the scam ends. The victim ends up losing a lot of mesos.

Prevention - Don't ever participate in this PowerBall Casino, as you'll end up getting scammed. Should you ever encounter this scam or an equivalent scam, the best way to go is to report the players using the in-game report feature.

Hey everyone,

I want to make sure you, your account, and all your items are safe!
Here is a list of common scams, and how to avoid them.

Scam 1: Drop Game

The idea of this is someone tells you to go somewhere of their choosing, and tells you to drop your best items while they drop some of theirs. They usually go through a few rounds, rewarding you for playing. Once they see something they want, they will either vac (Use hacks) your drops to them or have someone come out of hiding and swipe your precious items before you can pick them up again. This usually occurs at the Henesys hair salon.

Prevention - NEVER drop anything you are not willing to lose. In fact, just don't drop anything, that's why trades exist.

Scam 2: Duplicating Items

A person will tell you to put your best items up for cloning. There are various ways they do this so I will not explain each. They will then tell you to click trade but do not click accept. Once that comes up, they will tell you to type "Copy." Now the "y" in copy causes it to act as a yes and they have just received all of your items in trade. Many users will also offer to clone or duplicate an item for you, they tellyou to put it up in a trade box with them, and hit tab+tab+space+enter. This will make you complete a trade with them.

Prevention - Knowledge is power! No really, it is. Now that you know, you can spot these kind of scams the moment they happen. Simply report the users and inform others around of their doings. As well, never hit tab+tab+space+enter.

Scam 3: Buying/Selling

This usually occurs in the Free Market entrance. Someone will say "B> itemX 10mil" while another person is shouting "S>itemX 6m" The problem is, itemX is only worth 2m and once you buy it from the person selling for 10mil, usually both the seller and the one who is buying for alot both log off after having scammed you of your mesos.

Prevention - Be weary, there is not really any fast cash from this method. If someone is B> and S> the same items in the FM, they would have traded each other already.

Scam 4: I'll Give you NX/ I want to try your character

Many players will pretend to be your friends in order to gain access to your account. They will either tell you they are going to charge NX for you, or wish to play on your character to try it out. NEVER let them. Most likely you will never see it back.

Prevention - NEVER give out your account information to anyone.

Scam 5: Pay to join a guild

Most guilds are free to join, those requesting mesos to join are an iffy situation. Not all are scams, some may need the money for expanding. Though in many cases, they will invite you, have you pay your "membership" fees and boot you from the guild almost immediately after.?

Prevention - Try to join a guild of a friend or ask to pay at a later date, after you are established in the guild.

Scam 6: Fake GM's

Usually someone will chat request you with an IGN that sounds like it has a relation to Nexon. They will tell you that your account has been reported for hacking and they need to scan your account. They will then ask for your login information. They will then log off, and as soon as you log off, they will have your account. Alternatively they may ask you for your email or attempt to send you a file. These are usually keylogged.

Prevention - Just ignore these people. Unless they are carrying an actual Wizet briefcase, or hat. A GM will never ask for your user information.

Original Author:

Hey Maplers!

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