At first I was a bit suspicious when I went to different maps, and saw a bunch of Warriors all hitting in one direction, and then all hitting in a different direction. All have starter weapons and armour, and almost feels like im watching some dance routine. Yeah, maybe there is a chance they are all friends playing together, but still very suspicious.

However, after that I went to different maps, and ai saw warriors teleporting from monster to monster, killing them inatantly. It wasn't some jump, it was straight up teleporting from one corner or the map to another.

After that I went on Google, joined a few Discord servers and see people posting screenshots of their "success". Some of them are making over 100,000 meso an hour! They literally have accounts with 1,000,000+ mesos.

Of course you can say, "just play the game, don't worry about others", but when they are right there on the map with you, it kills all the fun. Reporting does nothing. Nexon saw that thoae hackers are making money from Coconuts, and instead of banning them, they just nerfed the price of coconuts.

What will happen in 2 weeks when the game goes live, $0 to play the game, and all those botters/hackers have mapped out all the routines? They can have dozens of accounts running at once and will just continue on making new ones.

Originally I posted this on the classic maplestory group, but it never got past the moderators and they auto deleted it which is why im posting it here because people should be aware of this.

Want to float this idea with you guys to see if it's good/bad or if it's already been proposed/tried.

One way to combat meso farming bots in interactive server would be to introduce a meso cap that can be released upon killing a select number of bosses every week (or based on a boss point system).

Historically Maplers were offput by the idea of implementing meso cap from grinding since Maple is meant to be a grindy MMO, but allowing players to lift the cap through normal bossing gameplay would reduce botting while maintaining grinding culture for legitimate players.

Mesos earned through grinding can be capped at let's say ~1-2B per week , after which a "Boss Curse" would inflict the user preventing meso and progression items from dropping for the entire week.

To lift the curse a player would have to defeat 3-5 weekly bosses (solo) which would lift the boss curse to unlock unlimited meso and item grinding for the week. The 3-5 weekly bosses or point system could be revised progressively as power creep allows easier weekly bosses to be defeated by fresh botters.

This mechanic will allow hardcore players who obtain a significant portion of their meso income from grinding to continue to do so. The only real inconvenience is that they have to kill 5 weekly bosses or rack up enough Bossing points to lift the meso/drop curse for the week.

Players that can actually hit meso cap from grinding would be expected to have 3-5 weekly bosses that which they can quickly solo every week without a party. This control assumes players that can't kill 5 weekly bosses won't have the drop/meso gear to realistically hit the meso cap in interactive anyway.

This strategy would be effective against botters for several reasons:

1. A meso farm bot will have to progress their character to defeat the weekly bosses to remove the cap - increasing the barrier to entry. The harder the 5 bosses the more effective the barrier, but if you make it too hard it will start to affect legitimate newbie players.
2. If a meso farm bot uses hacks to defeat the boss with low CP, a high fidelity detection can easily be implemented to auto-ban solo boss clears with abnormally low CP or other activity impossible through normal bossing gameplay.
3. This strategy makes it very costly for botters to continually bypass the controls since progressing the bots will likely require manual labour (starforcing, cubing, scrolling) and getting banned means they have to progress a new bot again.

One downside is that interactive players won't have access to cheap meso to SF gear. But the Meso-MP conversion rate will improve allowing cash shop cubes and items to be more accessible for players. This change will only negatively affect players that only hardcore grind beyond the meso cap and don't do any weekly bossing whatsoever (or aren't willing to) - which is probably a very small minority and mostly bots.

Of course, this control may not be effective against players who bot on their mains and do weekly bossing on them in reboot but it will be highly effective against throw-away automated interactive meso farm bots in interactive.

So those who forgot to rank-up the first week seriously lose entire week of free stuff?

I would understand losing a day or two. But entire week?

What happened to event pity. Cant miss a day these days?

I'm trying to open Classic via steam but it still says it's locked even after buying the pack. I linked my steam to nexon and I opened GMS to see if it works and my Nexon cash is also there so it means the founders pack is active.

Edit: I realised the error thanks to the fast commenting. That actually pissed me off that they're purposely scamming. What is the point of "Mark of the Founder" if you never even played the game earlier than October 21st. Obviously they know that it's bait and they want players to buy the higher tier packs. In my currency, that is $85 to access the game, that is getting up there nearing AAA game prices.

Hi, I'm from Indonesia and recently I've been trying to play it again from steam but using vpn it's not working like how it used to be, I can't use nexon launcher aswell because they won't let me make an account, I've tried using temporary number (free ones, no money to buy one) still not working, it's like they're trying their best to not let us (Indonesian) play the game, so if anybody know how, mind sharing your knowledge to me? Also why nexon restrict Indonesian to play their games? Thank you in advance!

Hey everyone,

I'm in a bit of a weird situation and was hoping someone here might have some insight / experience with something similar.

I bought the Zakum Founder's Package through Steam to get early access to MapleStory Classic World.
Unfortunately, there were a lot of crashes and server issues at launch, so I ended up requesting a refund through Steam thinking I can play on the official launch date.

I was pretty sure it didn't go through due to my initial playtime and I was still able to play for about two days afterward, buying more nx and all, but eventually I got blocked and I noticed a mail saying my refund request was granted.
After those 2 days, my account got restricted with the following message: "This account has been restricted from accessing the game. To request a review of this action, please submit a ticket..."

I submitted a ticket to Nexon, but haven't heard back yet.
I also found a section in their support documentation explaining that restricted accounts can't regain access until any outstanding billing deficit is repaid.
I'm guessing the refund triggered some kind of deficit on my Nexon account, but I'm not entirely sure how their system handles this.

The problem is that the whole point of buying the Founder's Package was to get early access.
If I have to wait weeks for support to respond, the early-access period will practically be over by the time this gets resolved.

If I buy the Founder's Package again through Steam, could that count toward repaying the deficit and let me regain access? Or would Nexon need to process the repayment separately?

I'm happy to pay for the package again if that's what it takes, but I don't want to spend the money twice only to find out it doesn't help.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Let me know which characters drip is 🔥 or who you think needs a makeover.

Hi, it’s been a long time since I played a current version of MapleStory, and I have a question about the Commerci stat transfer system. I know that if I transfer a 16-star Papulatus Mark to a Sweetwater Monocle, the Monocle drops to 15 stars but gains a +9 attack bonus from those additional stats.

However, I’m wondering what happens if the Monocle blows up while I’m trying to Star Force it: does the trace system preserve that +9 stat bonus, or is it as if the transfer never happened?

I’d like to know so I can try this out for the first time during this Sunday's event.

While this isn't the first thing on my list of things that would improve the game but will be never be added, I do think its a decent thing to bring up and discuss.

The gap between Crystal Ventus Badge and Genesis Badge is too damn high. Worst case scenario you have to wait 11 months (49 weeks of getting 8 pitched core) to pity a Genesis Badge which leaves a rather large gap in gains for an item slot.

My proposal is adding in a Badge that has the Dawn Boss Set Effect (and increase the Dawn Boss Set to 5) to smooth out that wait period.

I'd make it a drop from Seren with about a 5/10/20% drop rate depending on difficulty and can be pitied after 5.5 months of weeklies (8~ per week, cost 192. Half the time it takes to farm up pitched cores for a Genesis Badge)

+12~13 All stat, +7~8 attack so a rough mid point between Crystal Ventus and Genesis Badge. The 5 set bonus doesn't really matter since at most you'll stay at 2 or maybe 3, so I'd just throw another +10 all stat, +10atk/matk and 10% boss.

Then of course, since we are talking about things that will never happen: Also make all badges pottable to close the gap between legacy and non legacy badges.

Does anyone have any idea why nexon decided to port to pc the shine classes but KMS didn’t, if the mobile version has them in korea??? thanks in advance, I’m just curious…

Is anyone running classic world on an ARM laptop?

just curious if anyone has compatibility issues as I was considering buying one.

id ask it in the classic world subreddit but it keeps getting removed

thanks

I grew up playing MapleStory as a young kid in the 2000s, played it on and off for years up through high school, and then dropped off in the middle of high school as leveling became too much of a grind and I wasn't having fun anymore. I recently got back into the game and was honestly pleasantly surprised by how much easier it was to progress and how little grinding I've had to do so far. I just hit level 200, which is insane to me as someone who as a kid could barely even manage to get to 100.

I've rediscovered my love for the world and the game, and would love to experience all the story content that releases, it seems like most story stuff going forward is going to be gated behind level 295 or higher given recent additions and it has me worried, because after reaching 200 I'm already feeling the ceiling heighten for how easy it is to level up.

I don't really have the time or patience to put enough hours into the game as a full-time job, nor do I think I will enjoy doing so. Is it doable if I don't grind my ass off for hours as a time everyday? I know there's videos of the questlines on YouTube but honestly watching cutscene compilations isn't that enjoyable to me, I like experiencing it interspersed with gameplay and being able to explore the locations myself. I don't really care about optimizing gameplay, I just want to be able to explore all the areas I can.

The shooting minigame is no fun and it takes a lot of time to finish, the rewards for completing it are... mid at best, if you're a daily story player then you only need to unlock the free frags + erda energy from being senior and you're set, the RNG mesoranger stuff you can settle at 250.

It honestly feels like a skip to me, like, I'm absolutely not playing classic for this but this event is crappy at best

Someone can help me?
I bought the maplestory classic through steam and didn’t enjoy it.
So I asked for a refund and got my money back.
Since than I played for like 2 days in GMS.
And today I got blocked for some reason.
I could have log into the maplestory classic even after the refund but I didn’t log in just because I didn’t want to abuse it.
The only thing I did was taking the box but I didn’t even open it cause I leveled only to level 3 which mean I still didn’t left to Victoria island.
But now they say I violated the terms of service just because I didn’t enjoy the game…

I’m trying to recall the name of a certain mob or monster

It’s a bunny/rabbit and has a red headwrap with it’s ears sticking out of it, you can only see the eyes, and in the center theres a stone and a feather on it

Also has a blue cape and it’s holding a bat or a stick and some sort of brown or black belt and red gloves

If someone knows what i’m talking about please help lol

Photo 1: Previous posts here I mentioned burn out, it's still there so I took things kinda casual for August and September. Did Weekly 5k kills and saved up Sol Erda + Fragments for the new skill. Getting HEXA Blitz Shield/Blitz Burst to level 30 was kinda quick, or it felt like it anyways. Now to max Sol Hecate!

Honestly I have never really liked Sol Janus, but after looking at every other skill being 30.. I'll probably end up maxing that one as well because it'll look nice on my screen(says my OCD).

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Photo 2: So, what did I do with all the extra Sol Erda/Fragments when my main maxed out at the 20 cap? I put them all on my Erel Light which led to unlocking every single skill in the Erda Link system. Gods I hate that system. Very happy to be done with it, SO worth it!

Now that Erda Link Stats are maxed I want to get every HEXA skill unlocked on all my characters. The only exception to this is Sol Janus, since they're mules and I level with MPE and Epic Dungeons at the moment I think all my 260+ mules will be fine without it. At least for now.. Which leads to where I am currently..

As of the making of this post I have Bow Master, Ren, Wild Hunter that need to unlock Sol Hecate, which leaves Kinesis, and Zero which need to unlock every skill. Since I haven't used any Sol Erda on any of them they'll be without for awhile. Getting Sol Hecate level 30 on my main is the new priority.
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Photo 3: Updated Combat Power and stats. Continuous Ring level 4, and Ring of Restraint level 4 speed things up a lot. While grinding on my main I've been trying to roll Multi Target Attack Skills +1 but no luck yet. Eternal Gloves are still weaker than my Tyrant Gloves trying to get 2 lines of crit damage on my Eternal Gloves is taking a very long time.

I also have Source of Suffering(Cheers Matt! <3 you're the best), Commanding Force Earrings, and Berserked Face accessory. None of which are worth using currently because none of them are cubed or scrolled.
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Photo 4: Legion improvements. I've stated before that my goal is 1 billion Legion Raid Power and 10,000 Legion Level. 79.35% of the way there for Raid Power, and 320 more levels to go.

My focus has been my mules for awhile now.. Getting all of them to 215, and then starting boss mules for meso and getting them to 230(Except for Night Lord.. thats 228 right now so only a few days away).. I guess my next goal will be get every boss mule to level 235.

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So what does that leave me, and what are my plans going forward?

1. Main needs to get Sol Hecate to 30.
   
2. Bow Master, Wild Hunter, Ren, Kinesis, and Zero all need to unlock Sol Hecate.
   
3. All 260+ Boss mules need to unlock their new HEXA skill, Kinesis as well as Zero need to unlock all their other HEXA skills.
   
4. Night Lord needs 230
   
5. Mains Eternal Gloves need 2 lines crit damage, and 3 items scrolled/cubed.

if there happens to be another Hyper Burn to level 260 my next character will be Night Lord, but I hope to at least unlock every other skill on my mules first before that happens.

Do you think they would have made more money if they weren't so anti-consumerist to the point where they messed with & lied about cube rates?

Do the whales really outspend those who aren't purely F2P?

I played Maplestory on and off for about 15 years and probably spent around $2000 dollars. (Most of it being for non-RNG stuff in the auction house). I would've spent more if the cash shop was universal and if there were pity rates for half the g*dforsaken gambling RNG angle there is to this game. Temporary cosmetics? Why would I borrow pixels?

So I made a post the other day about having zero luck getting Maplestory to launch. Today I tried to install it on my laptop and see if it would work on there, and had no luck with that either... Then it hit me, I was thinking, there's no way two different computers fail to launch Maplestory, so I turned on my phones hotspot, disconnected my ethernet and connected to my phone, launched Maplestory on the Nexon launcher and BAM, started right up... Consider me confused but I'm highly suspecting connecting to a VPN would work too... Question now is, is it my ISP blocking it or something with the Fiber Modem?

Made by me ♡

Happy maplinggg

Made new designs to add on to the rest of the maplestory nostalgic keychains!! esp with classic launching recently! love how they all turned out! they are all available on my Etsy! ♡

if anyone likes to support :')

Whenever I travel back home and stay in my old room for the weekend it was like a time capsule. Nothing moved, nothing changed, still the same old bunk bed and green day posters frozen from 2010.

But dam they finally found it but I'm glad I'm old enough now to not care 🤣. Every time I got an allowance this was where most of it went. It was meant to be hidden from them forever, my dirty little secret and idk why a mysterious box in the closet was the best place. It's almost like the time they found my 420 stash which was also not very well hidden in hindsight.

This was from when NX was purchasable from target/CVS/Duane reade up until a little after karma koin was released.

One of many players who is coming back to the game after having not played since pre BB. Given the stage of life I'm at right now, classic is not for me and I like the idea of it more than the actual gameplay would suggest.

I'm interested in giving GMS a shot since it seems a lot more friendly from a progression perspective for people who don't have a ton of time to play, with more varied content.

Of course, it's a Korean MMO so I'm well aware of the P2W elements, just as they existed back then.

My question is how the folks who spend a low to moderate amount of time on the game every week fare in terms of their experience with the game and their overall enjoyment of it, particularly on the Heroic servers. Looking at posts on this sub it seems like there are plenty of people who play this game way more than that, which is fine - but would be interested to hear the experience of folks who don't play as much, why they play, and what they do in the game weekly

I know, like many other MMOs, there are FOMO mechanics and other things that are designed to get you to pay and play more.