2011-01-17, 01:14 AM
I want to talk about how flawed our current FM system is right now. There are 3 major ways to sell an item: Advertisement(Ch1 Entrance), Permits (shops), and MTS (nx).
The 1st way requires a lot of time in order to sell an item for it's value. There is so much spam in ch1 and even ch2 that many people DC from just entering the map. Even then, the competition requires one to spam @@@@ to be even seen. Then there's the use of forums to help sell items, which is evident of what's wrong with our current system.
Permits themselves are extremely flawed. Maple is advertised as free to play but in order to use the free market "correctly" you must pay to sell items. Regular permits requires the player to waste game time to sell items instead of enjoying the game. If players want to being able to sell and play they must use hired merchants, which are an extreme huge waste of NX. Server maintenance/patches should also extend the length of these items for however long the game is offline to compensate players, in fact all NX items too while we are at it. A 6 hour maintenance will take out 1/4 of the 1 day merchant's life.
MTS is one of the better things we have in maple, but I can see improvements. First off, we have an extremely outdated MTS system: potential/enhanced items many not be sold in the MTS. It's been 6 months+ since the introduction of the new item system but nothing has been done about it. If i remember correctly, hammered items were fixed within 1 month. Second, MTS is not constantly updated with the new items coming out each patch. This limits the true potential of MTS. 3rd, the search function needs to be improved. Trying to search work will give you work gloves, blue work gloves, brown work gloves, etc. They need to add search by filters or include a list of suggestions like on google. My last point will be about the ridiculous tax. 1.07x + 500 nx is a horrible rate. This inflates the price of most items to at minimum ~10 mil with current NX rates.
Overall, our current system is too reliant on NX. Gameplay would be improved if players could have a MTS like system for all items but server specific. It should have a free "search" option-you shouldn't have to pay for owls to search for items, but maybe keep them as an option to have items organize cheapest to lowest. I am not saying to remove the NX MTS system, but introducing another one to replace the meso Free market system. My proposal will fix lag problems, eliminate people DCing each other for spots, and make it fair for everyone to enjoy the market system-not just the wealthy.
Any thoughts/suggestions?
The 1st way requires a lot of time in order to sell an item for it's value. There is so much spam in ch1 and even ch2 that many people DC from just entering the map. Even then, the competition requires one to spam @@@@ to be even seen. Then there's the use of forums to help sell items, which is evident of what's wrong with our current system.
Permits themselves are extremely flawed. Maple is advertised as free to play but in order to use the free market "correctly" you must pay to sell items. Regular permits requires the player to waste game time to sell items instead of enjoying the game. If players want to being able to sell and play they must use hired merchants, which are an extreme huge waste of NX. Server maintenance/patches should also extend the length of these items for however long the game is offline to compensate players, in fact all NX items too while we are at it. A 6 hour maintenance will take out 1/4 of the 1 day merchant's life.
MTS is one of the better things we have in maple, but I can see improvements. First off, we have an extremely outdated MTS system: potential/enhanced items many not be sold in the MTS. It's been 6 months+ since the introduction of the new item system but nothing has been done about it. If i remember correctly, hammered items were fixed within 1 month. Second, MTS is not constantly updated with the new items coming out each patch. This limits the true potential of MTS. 3rd, the search function needs to be improved. Trying to search work will give you work gloves, blue work gloves, brown work gloves, etc. They need to add search by filters or include a list of suggestions like on google. My last point will be about the ridiculous tax. 1.07x + 500 nx is a horrible rate. This inflates the price of most items to at minimum ~10 mil with current NX rates.
Overall, our current system is too reliant on NX. Gameplay would be improved if players could have a MTS like system for all items but server specific. It should have a free "search" option-you shouldn't have to pay for owls to search for items, but maybe keep them as an option to have items organize cheapest to lowest. I am not saying to remove the NX MTS system, but introducing another one to replace the meso Free market system. My proposal will fix lag problems, eliminate people DCing each other for spots, and make it fair for everyone to enjoy the market system-not just the wealthy.
Any thoughts/suggestions?