Hp washing, gear lending system

1) GMs probably have better things to do lol not really *COUGH* GM BUFFSWHEN!?

2) Doubt

Also decent int gear is absurdly expensive i doubt new players would even have the money to afford to "rent" these items

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Your idea sux

 

scam,do not lend a shit online unless you know the person irl

 

While MapleLegends relies on screenshots as evidence, for some reason, they are extremely easy to fake. All it takes is 5 minutes in any editing software.. say Photoshop.. by someone with even a little bit of experience to create a pixel perfect fake. So now I can fake a screenshot and submit it and get free gear?

Or the GMs also check trade history paired with a screenshot? This gets out of hand fast.

It was ruled years ago that you lend out gear at your own peril, if they scam you they get banned but you do not get your gear back.

 

While I like the idea of this, Hito has pretty much hit the nail on the head with regards to its impracticality. Whilst we do have ways to verify the contents of a screenshot (ie. server logs), this isn't a quick or trivial process.

As for implementing an in-game system for it, this would take a LOT of development work. Right now, at the very least, this isn't going to be enough of a priority to warrant the amount of work it would take.

 

I would need some int gears if you don't mind lending MapleRoly

 

I mean...how do you expect gear lending to be carried out without trading? The item's got to get to the borrower somehow. Even if the lender does not intend to give the gear away, it's not really up to them whether they get it back or not, is it?

The reality is it's impossible to do this in a way that is guaranteed to be "safe" with the server's resources. By all means, lend your gear if you wish, but do so at your own risk and know that you must rely on an honour system

I'd argue it's kind of against the spirit of an old school server like this to find a way to guarantee the safety of gear trading anyway. Aside from the obvious "this isn't how GMS worked", this server has taken measures to make sure that, though HP washing is technically optional, those who wash will still benefit. Hypothetically, if such a system was in place to guarantee the safety of int gear trading, it wouldn't be fair to those who had to work so hard for their int gear imo

Such a change would also dramatically affect the economy of the server. Why not just share a few sets of int gear across the entire server? Why even bother making int gear anymore unless it's for a mage? Why bother scrolling that 75wa claw when you can just borrow or even rent someone's? This list could go on forever

I commend your looking out for the new players on the server. Again, you are free to lend out gear if you want to. Just know that if someone decides to keep it, you will have no recourse

 

In addition to the concerns about practicality and photo-editing brought up by staff members (which are more prominent anyway), I wonder how many people would even be comfortable lending out their INT gears for money to random people to start. I know from experience that many people are often reluctant to lend out INT gears even to those they've known for a long time haha. As you said in your original post, if GMs could help with retrieving lost gear due to scamming that would negate this issue, but as it currently stands I'm pretty sure you could get someone banned for scamming you of your gears and you still wouldn't get them back. For lenders it's a lot of risks in exchange for a relatively small reward. And a lot of time consumed by the staff for sure

That being said I wish this were practical, would be huge for newer players

 

Your idea is very cute and I commend your bravery in putting it out there, many other players have thought of it as well...
But the best solution is just to get to know good people, and to share goodness all around <3

Personally I have 98% worked for my level up int, 2% gotten help from guildmates/ friends, in the form of int equips and Maple Warrior!
And I'm not very active, so it's already quite remarkable.

 

troublesome for gm
not fair to old players like me
pepefrog disagrees

 

This system will lead us to the bald ending

 

So many scam possibilities. Find people who don't speak perfect english, but knows maplestory. Sell them an equip below market price. Let them think they got a good deal. One week later they'll report their equips gone missing and you got some sweet free mesos.

 

I think this is honestly a best case scenario for INT washing in this game, the standard that has been set by the community overwhelmingly pressures new players and veterans alike to HP wash to stay even remotely on top of their game when it comes to endgame content. I personally can attest to feeling abject defeat once I reached level 50 on a character only to realize that my achievement had essentially been a failure in the eyes of the community due to me not putting my points up to then into my base INT stat, leaving myself extraordinarily crippled down the road.

Having a system where users can donate their gear for a community effort that can access them at any time sounds great, and I would personally love to see something like this implemented. I understand the largest hurdle would be trust, but thinking logically for a moment.

Lets say someone steals a bathrobe that has been scrolled to its highest tier for HP washing potential, what have they gained that they wouldn't have if they had just given it back in the end? almost *all* of the highest priced items on the market are for HP washing in the first place (See all those 300m bathrobes scrolled for INT) so most of what they would be getting out of it would be the same thing they would have had in the first place. The only benefit to cheating the system is ruining everyone elses fun, and at that point I don't see many people buying the item off you in the first place if they hear what you did.

That's just my two sense, however, i'd love to hear what everyone else thinks.

 

For starters, they could keep the INT equipment for themselves, using it on their mage or for future characters they wish to wash. If they plan to sell it, and know that they are actively being boycotted or witch-hunted (which is against ToS btw), what is to keep them from just making another new character, transferring the item to the new character, and then proceed to sell it? It's not like they can distinguish they difference between it from other items of the same stats (unless it's item-tagged).

 

gear lending is already allowed and scamming is bannable so what is the point of this suggestion sir

 

Mage or not give every class extra 500 base int at lvl 1, mages could bossing and eveyone is happy la (dont mind me Im cray cray)

 

Perhaps do what Royals did (or some other private server who did it).

Make an item that drops from bosses like zak and horntail etc. The item perma increases your hp.

Problem solved.