Bringing back Carnival PQ as a Guild-team exclusive with an objective of having a classic/casual and competitive mode, requiring a certain rank and points to purchase a ring better than anyone out there. That's rather interesting.
I absolutely love the tower defense idea. It's basically calling a revival of Azwan.
In terms of the game remembering if you have quest helper, reward points, boss soul, and Maple Guide open or not is needed. It's absolutely ridiculous that it clutters the screen when you don't want it to.
Brief bug summary: The Storm Growth Potion from the Known Instability Issues - 2/1/2017 Compensation cannot be used on characters Level 200 or above, dropped, sold, put into storage, or removed from using Maple Administrator's NoDrop Remove.
I'd highly suggest you find another forum to ask since much of this post is against the Code of Conduct, Terms of Use, Permissible Use, End User License Agreement, etc.
In terms of botting it's considered unfair because it's a use of third party tools which automates functions without being there. It becomes bad when you're running a farm of them because that means more connections from not real players. If people had access to that they wouldn't really be playing it for the content, but just to see how much they got and what they can do with the items. This game just simply doesn't allow you to skip the grind.
Private Servers are bad because it doesn't credit the developers. It's similar to torrent or watching on illegal streaming sites. Okay sure many of us hate the service that Nexon America has provided us within the recent decade, but without money continuing to flow it will result in a halt of creation altogether which is bad for someone who loves the game. I mean the developers (Korea) need to get paid for their job.
But you're literally only complaining about the Ghost Ship Badge? That kind of sounds low. There's a better badge coming out in the next few weeks Sengoku High.
In terms of the community, you just need to look at the other side of the river. Some players have become the monsters we hate the most.
Since the start of V Patch until now it showcases the quality of the game to many returning and new players. It's garbage, I'll give you that.
The client itself can't even maintain without somehow crashing in the process of logging in or even staying on for the first few minutes.
Latency has become worse having simple operations such as looting, killing, etc. taking abnormal times to a whole new level. 2x EXP & Drop Event by itself somehow makes it many times worse.
Events such as Daily/Weekly Haste, Moon Bunny Rice Cakes caused a ton of issues with client stability causing temporary freezes from updating counters.
If you can't even keep your current player-base, even the V Patch wouldn't bring in new players for it to be beneficial in the long run when they can't even play the game. I know it's a decade old game and that things get outdated and messy, but stability should never be excused. Why would a majority use it if it doesn't even preform it's functions properly or have an outrageous delay?
It's pathetic how a majority of other games this old are still running at decent or above par conditions and MapleStory isn't one of them. Good updates won't benefit in the long run and the V Patch has proved that to a massively huge extent. And that comes even before we mention bugs, hacking, and exploitation.
It's laughably sad. It should be shameful to have the game in such a condition. It would be nice if my game wouldn't randomly close, having a pop-up that "MapleStory has Stopped working", game closes with "You cannot access the game for the following...", or with the Maple Administrator "You have been blocked by Police GMMapleStory for the HACK reason".
and 1 other. 