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Recently it seems that there are major changes in some overseas MapleStory's services.
These changes are including world-merge processes to merge and combine multiple worlds into one unified world for all.

Here are some examples of overseas MapleStory's services which went/will be going through this progress:

MapleStory Thailand
Scania, Bera and Luna (SBL) worlds have been merged into unified world called Siam recently in January.
Number of channels have been increased to 40.
The full details can be found here:
https://th.nexon.com/maplestory/th/allnews/news.aspx?f=7&t=2975

MapleStory SEA
Delphinus, Eridanus, Izar, Fornax, Gemini, Hercules and Jynarvis (D2J) worlds will be merged into unified world called Draco in the upcoming April.
They named this process as "Unison of 7 Stars".
The full details can be found here:
http://www.maplesea.com/news/view/v185_draco/#JCQeo3pZvxIvK8iv.99
Due to this major change, there are going to be couple of events to assist players to be prepared due to the upcoming change: World Leap and Lady Blair's Dream Express (cash inventory transfer) events.
The full details about these events can be found here:
http://www.maplesea.com/events/view/184_d2j_premerge/
As of 04/04/2019 I found that the number of channels for the new unified world Draco have been increased to 35.

Here is a great fun fact about MapleStory:
Thursday, 17th January 2019, Global MapleStory is 5,000 days old!! *Clap Clap*



So what is so special about that day???
- Well, it's exactly 5,000 days since the Global MapleStory's service was launched officially (it was on 11th May 2005)!
- In Korea MapleStory (KMS), they greatly celebrated that ever existing of the game about 2 years ago.
- For that celebration, Nexon Korea invested in a special orchestra project of which is called MapleStory Symphony in Budapest.
This happened 2 years ago, too. Classic MapleStory music have been remade with an orchestra! I'm sure that some of you remember it!
One of the most known ones which was implemented into the game is the one called The Tune of The Azure Light featuring Arcana content released as part of the Arcane River region during Override (Beyond) days.

The Tune of The Azure Light (Orchestra Version)


Here's a track created using the theme of Masteria Through Time content:
An Eternal Breath


- If it's not enough, they invested in some special in-game events including some exclusive rewards including permanent decorative cash equipments such as Maple 5000 Days's Flag.
But I think that the most special reward among the others which is permanent and transferable within characters in the same world of account
is the Maple 5000 Days Cake Chair which is the only chair in game which greatly benefits with the fastest ever of HP and MP recovery - 5,000 HP and 5,000 MP every 10 seconds as the number the of days of celebration! To win that final reward, it required to collect candles from monsters for a 10th tier cake during the event period (up to 10 times).
It was impossible to get all of them in one day, and if a day or two were missed, it was possible to complete these (up to 3 times a day).
Rewards included a skill which is looking like this:


Rumbling Maple Skill (can be used until the end of the event)


Cake Chair (transferable within characters in the same world of account, permanent)

Even though I'm not sure why it was not mentioned officially...

Happy 5,000 days everyone!!

Today is Thursday, 17th January 2019, Global MapleStory is 5,000 days old!! *Clap Clap*


Original 5,000 days event in Korea MapleStory 2 years ago (4th January 2017)

Unfortunately, it was not mentioned officially but it's today!!!

Well, nobody knows what plans are going to be about an event for this special period of time of the game. All we can do is to wait and see.

Anyway, happy 5,000 days everyone!!

AKradian wrote: »

Western culture celebrates anniversaries in years, not thousands of days. So I doubt we're going to have a 5000-day event.

Then again, we keep getting all the moon bunny events from Korea...

We'll have to wait and see.

I hope we will get that amazing event which was designed exclusively to commemorate that period of time on other services including South Korea and Japan. Even it's an eastern culture - it's still special enough and it was an event in the game itself.
Also, the majority of the voters voted they want that event to be applied as it brings its unique joy and benefits.
Hopefully all these facts will be taken in consideration.

I would recommend that the monster spawn rate will be changed dynamically per map by the system and not just by using Kishin skill or Frenzy Totem equipment.
As I tried to play MapleSEA, THMS (and EMS before migration up to v.117) - the monster spawn rate is dynamically changed per map by the system.
I even don't know how to explain that but it seems the gameplay experience in MapleSEA is quite stable and they have Kanna with Kishin there. The gameplay experience in EMS up to v.117 was mostly the same to MapleSEA (including its content).

I think GMS should adopt the common features (including the dynamic change of monster spawn rate by the system) which are available in KMS and other regions and these will make the game more stable and balanced.