FM shop space...

I don't see a problem in having a blooming economy. I'm extremely happy that the server is growing and with more players, comes more supplies. If you really are bothered that you can't go through FM in a timely manner (lol) then just buy an owl. Buy 2 if you have to. I love foraging through fm and seeing what I can find. This is great.

 

Maybe add a feature to owls that let you warp to shops in other channels? If we ever get to the point where shops are spilling over to ch2, I think people are probs gonna just spam @@@@@ messages in the fm entrance.

Personally I like browsing shops without looking for an item in particular, but yeah its starting to take almost half an hour to get through all the shops

 

It tells you where the shop is though, so you can just go there

 

I'm assuming this is a post to gather suggestions and opinions since there was no solution presented other than changing it somehow.

Talking about the time it takes to search the FM to gather prices or find items and saying it takes too much time and that nobody has time for that seems a bit odd to me. This game is literally a time sink. You grind for fourth job until the end, whether that's 200 or you quitting, and you grind bosses for gear. Mights as well "grind" the FM while you're at it. Prices don't change so often that you need to refresh your price list once a week. If even once a month. So browsing the market for an hour to two hour a day, once a month, for the benefit of your selling capabilities and wallet which is technically an option, not a necessity, doesn't sound so bad. To me at least.

As you might be able to tell, I'm against changing how it is. However, I do seem to recall somebody mentioning the WoW style of bazaar where you can see all the items in one big menu and search for what you need and bid on it or auto purchase it. I don't really think the devs would spend time doing that as this is mainly a nostalgia server despite there being content that isn't v 0.62 already implemented.

Maybe the devs could just fix owl to change your channel for you? That would solve a big problem. What I've always done when using an owl is writing down the name and location of the shops on a piece of paper or on a doc and just referring back to it. More effort, yes, but effective.

I don't have a solution to satisfy you but I hope you can find one in your thread. These are my thoughts.

 

I haven't had any encounters with "hordes of people all shouting at the same time" trying to sell things and I haven't had a problem buying and selling equips that I'm looking for. I'm sure whatever you're looking to buy is out in the market right now. Spend some time looking for it. That is all.

 

Your concerns are silly imo. Maplestory has always had a crazy filled market. I'm sure you're an old ML player and are used to fm only going to 1-6 and maybe 7-8, but with a growing player base this is bound to happen, especially if we get free nx everyday.

 

Can always start with stores closing when their items are sold out (sometimes people have 3 or 4 scrolls, sell them all yet dont "organize" their stores so it stays ope ed without any actual available items)

 

I don't see how this is a problem at all Gameplay for each player is different, and to be honest, I think there are too little shops in the FM now! To some, you may have a hard time finding a certain item, but that's not really the case - there is just more items in general.

If you are a player like me, I honestly spend 1/2 my time in FM instead of training and bossing. I love to just go through each shop to see what deals I can nab and sell I don't think this is a problem at all and owls solve the problem of those who don't want to look through FM.
(Random side note: The reason why some further FMs [10 - 12] have more shops then say FM 8 or 9 is because around 1 day ago, the server reset which means that around that same time 1 day later, the people that haven't reset their shops will all be closed.)

 

Firstly, 'Tedious' is subjective. If you can sit through and grind to get to 146 doing such roto tasks over and over again, I don't see how walking through FM once is tedious. If you look as carefully as I do, you will about an 40 mins to finish FM once. I do my FM rounds on an average of 3-4 times a day. Well, you might argue that I'm a merch but you don't see others complaining. Moreover, the FM 15 vs FM 1 point you have brought across is what makes getting an FM 1 spot that much more lucrative and desirable. Honestly, I don't see any wrong with current FM system as it is and as Kim pointed out, it was 20 channels of 22 FMs to run through back in the day without the luxury of Owls because they cost real money. Lastly, if it kills your will to play just because you are lazy to run through FM even when you have tele, then that's your choice.

 

when we were around 150 player base we had 1-4 full all the time 7-8 full 13 and 18 full...
so you got now 5 6 9 10 11 14 15 19 20 that almost all the time full... lets say we doubled it i guess.
i really dont see the probs, you either scout half of free market like we used to do and hope to get "lucky" or you go full merch and scout it all...

tbh i didnt scout free market for days now and i still sell my gach scrolls and farming, simple either i use the price i know and at the worst case get 500k less, (if the price rise) or the scroll doesnt sell, for days (so you lower the price)
there is another choice of... just ask your friends?
every1 has the one full fm hoe friend (Dulce ) who doesnt leave and know all prices... so you ask him what this scroll worth.

i really really do not see a problem now fm isnt really full, you can always find spot in the less wanted rooms.

 

what I really hope to say on this topic is, just move ur lazyass...... or just give it up (like me).

i do know keeping price knowledge of many stuffs and shop spot in fm1 requires pretty hard effort (which i can't do). why every ppls including both deligent and lazy should be treated as "same" and be fair for everythings? sorry, i can't understand.

yes. my playstyle is less than 1% of my playtime in FM (usually, for me, FM is place to xfer pot/gears or meet someone instantly, instead of market place) , so i never scan FM nor set shop to sell stuffs. if I have something to buy so need to scan FM? no, i don't like it. so I just ask help to other ppls who scan fm (really appreciated! <3) , while scanning, check stuffs which i want, or just owl. I think it's fair. I didn't spend time for merching. so it's sure thing that I'm lack of info related with market.

 

I used to use basilmarket instead of going through the fm which worked great for me. Fm was either overpriced or sold out unless you either spend alot of time or get really lucky.

Maybe something similar would be possible?

 

Throwback to last summer when only FMs 1-4, 7, 13, and 18 were even partially occupied