Another period I crash a lot is five minutes after entering the game. I enter my PIC, get into the game, then do something on another window for a bit. Then a few minutes later I get "MapleStory has stopped working"...
After logging onto a character it's recommended to jump around for a bit. It generally reduces the crashing but I'm not sure why that's the case as opposed to being idle right after login. It just happens.
@bumbertyr - I sincerely want to know what you know about that, with the why and how the "starting up" is the root of the 2x lag issue. I was always under the impression that it was due to too much player activity at once overloading their server capability.
ask @Its2sharp4u he experienced it too. the moment 2x "turned on" the lag would practically double.
It's hard to prove it when 2x EXP/DROP hasn't happen anymore for the past 2 weekends and the fact everyone may not experience the same issues. But from memory when I was in the middle of killing mobs and the transitions from before 2x to after 2x gave me the results of "the moment 2x "turned on" the lag would practically double".
Spell Traces are a safer quick way to get started.
With Chaos Scrolls there will be an bigger loss trying to aim for such stats due to being RNG dependent. If you're planning to use Return Scrolls the cost would skyrocket.
I don't know the math for when it's actually worth but it's probably not a fixed value and dependent on your current stats according to this, if it's up-to-date: