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I have several questions about this that I consider to be important, and answers would be much appreciated.

1 - What about AO and flames for EMS players? We (GMS) have been told that we are not getting flames and AO. That's fine, whatever I'm not trying to argue for them. But the memo didn't state that they were being removed for EMS players? Will flames and AO be removed for EMS players or no? If yes, will they also be compensated? If not, will GMS players be allowed to make a character on Luna and use flames/AO on that server? I ask because I didn't see flames/AO in the maple memo.

2 - Will the EMS staff be working for GMS now or will they be put on other projects? More specifically, will we be getting the EMS GMs? More GMs is always nice to have, and I'm sure it makes your workloads better since it can be slightly more spread out. Hopefully if they do start working for GMS this means that we could have more frequent GM events (ideally we would get to a point where they could be semi random. A GM with some free time would just pop in game unnanounced and start summoning bosses in Henesys/Leafre or something I guess).

3 - New forums were mentioned. Was that these forums or will we be moving to new forums again?

4 - You mentioned that after internal discussions you found it better to merge Demetheos and KradiaEMS into Luna instead of just migrating them over. Does that mean that GMS may be receiving some world mergers in the near future? Or is this option at least on the table? I know that it has come up on the forums pretty often for a while now but to my knowledge NexonNA never said anything on the subject.

5 - Bug fixes. Kind of out of place I know, but I imagine that rather a lot of work was put in at Nexon to prepare for this merger. Does that mean that after it goes through and settles that Nexon will have more manpower to put towards fixing bugs/implementing oft requested features into Maplestory?

I'll answer to the best of my knowledge, because I doubt anyone from Nexon will revisit this thread and respond. (I'll be happy to be proven wrong about this)

1 - As far as I know, EMS already lost their flames, when they got GMS v173 a few months back.
Their items that had AO kept those stats, but new items that drop don't have AO, and with no flames there is no way to add AO or reroll them.

2 - Since the whole purpose of the migration was to cut operating costs in the West, I seriously doubt NexonNA will somehow end up with more resources to put into GMS. If anything, they'll be spread thinner.

3 - I think he's talking about these forums. Would have been nice if he'd included a link to them in the notice (at least its Euro version).

4 - I'm curious as well. But if server merges "have to" involve guild and bl dissolution, I don't want them.

5 - I wish. As I see it, they'll be fixing bugs and putting out fires in Europe for months to come, still.

Having said that, we know there may be some unforeseen issues that arise as a result of these changes. A large project like this will always have a few kinks even after launch. But we are committed to making sure your experience is as smooth as possible, so we will work hard to resolve issues as fast as we can.

"As fast as we can" ... you know, like all the bugs introduced in v177 and the subsequent maintenance that they haven't even commented on, much less tried to fix, yet.

I hope that the guild and BL wipes were related to merging systems, and not to merging two servers together, as I would like to see server merges in GMS but I also do not want my guild and/or BL wiped. And yes I expect fires to come for a while, but hopefully after they are all put out it will free up a lot of resources at NexonNA to work on bug fixes and implement often requested content

I think you would have more luck with Nexon if you asked to price it at around 20k NX since that it how much they charge for perm pet packages (even though the packages come with so much more), but I support this. I don't see why we don't have it in the game.

So that's just fancy effects on the background layer. I'm almost 100% certain its based off of the new 2d skeleton system that KMS introduced with Ursus that allowed them to create the animated backgrounds in revamped KFT. We will probably be seeing more of it, but not extremely widespread.

But I am super hyped about a new maple kombat. I can't believe he is making a new one

I have several questions about this that I consider to be important, and answers would be much appreciated.

1 - What about AO and flames for EMS players? We (GMS) have been told that we are not getting flames and AO. That's fine, whatever I'm not trying to argue for them. But the memo didn't state that they were being removed for EMS players? Will flames and AO be removed for EMS players or no? If yes, will they also be compensated? If not, will GMS players be allowed to make a character on Luna and use flames/AO on that server? I ask because I didn't see flames/AO in the maple memo.

2 - Will the EMS staff be working for GMS now or will they be put on other projects? More specifically, will we be getting the EMS GMs? More GMs is always nice to have, and I'm sure it makes your workloads better since it can be slightly more spread out. Hopefully if they do start working for GMS this means that we could have more frequent GM events (ideally we would get to a point where they could be semi random. A GM with some free time would just pop in game unnanounced and start summoning bosses in Henesys/Leafre or something I guess).

3 - New forums were mentioned. Was that these forums or will we be moving to new forums again?

4 - You mentioned that after internal discussions you found it better to merge Demetheos and KradiaEMS into Luna instead of just migrating them over. Does that mean that GMS may be receiving some world mergers in the near future? Or is this option at least on the table? I know that it has come up on the forums pretty often for a while now but to my knowledge NexonNA never said anything on the subject.

5 - Bug fixes. Kind of out of place I know, but I imagine that rather a lot of work was put in at Nexon to prepare for this merger. Does that mean that after it goes through and settles that Nexon will have more manpower to put towards fixing bugs/implementing oft requested features into Maplestory?

Hacking and exploiting game flaws are 2 different things. I don't see the latter as 'cheating' in the full sense of the word but that's my opinion.

if you're exploiting a flaw with the game to gain an advantage you're cheating.

In the same way as literally bypassing the game security and manipulating code? I don't think so tim.

Cheating is cheating, it doesn't really matter how you go about it. And FYI, none of the botters or dupers are manipulating code either, they all use programs that they don't understand because a third party wrote them.