Suspend Mapowner While Area Bosses are Spawned

KS wars sound super nontoxic to me! They've never led to defame wars or verbal abuse or anything of the sort!!!

 

I feel like 10 years worth of oldschool maplestory would argue very differently lmao

 

Doesn't make it any less shit to be a victim of :^)

 

Current situation is pretty toxic too, don't think this is the solution though.

 

I was quite literally criticising your suggestion. Removing mapowner would lead to ksing, which is also not exactly ideal.
You can say it's moreso a flaw of toxic behavior from players, but rules are in place to prevent toxic behavior from players.

That said, I agree the current system is far from perfect. This is not the solution though, in my opinion.

 

I already told you it would still be ksing, what are you on about lmao? Are you implying ksing didn't exist in the original game? They didn't have mapowner, but ksing was rampant.

 

I am more for removing multi-client in general or at least at bosses. I feel like a lot of the issues stem from that. You’re suggestion in my opinion does not help the situation, even if you redefined kill stealing; the bad feeling’s and toxic behavior it will foster will still be there.

 

Bro with every post you make in this thread you are convincing me more and more that you're a toxic player. There's no reason to assume you're proposing this change and discussing the replies in good faith. The current system isn't perfect, but your solution ignores many aspects that are solved with the current approach of mapowner. You have only shared your own personal view without solid backing and all you do is ignore critique and/or parry it in the most blunt unconstructive way.

GL with the suggestion

 

Why make a GMs job more difficult when a quick Mapowner command and showing that the abuser is clearly breaking a rule whereas someone could ks anyway get a 3+ day(s) ban and loot the drops of the boss.

There wouldn't be any differences except a ban, more GM staff work to enforce toxic chat and kill/loot theft.

I remember a time where I had mapowner and some dude was afk on a rope the area boss was there, I killed it 100% right of way they tell me "Nice KS, no ethics." I found this quite hilarious because they genuinely thought that they were in the right of way, then the next channel the same thing happened yet I only attacked the regular monsters there and them being a level 163 at that time still never checked mapowner. They were farming scrolls all I needed were cards, if they asked me if they could take the scrolls regardless of its price I'd be alright with it since they weren't being a jerk or anything but in this case they were.

So mentioning when an area boss spawns and mapowner timer resets so that another player can attempt to grab it would just enforce more work from staff for an innocent player towards someone with cynical behavior, what I'm seeing is someone targeting someone in regards to purposefully snipe someone intentionally by waiting out a timer and snagging a map because mapowner resets the second an area boss spawns, some players might have terrible internet (myself) and get sniped by such a redundant change to mapowner that people might not find it enjoyable and leave the server which I'm sure no one really wants.

Spoiler: related, but somewhat off-topic

Another thing to note is there was a bug with mapowner towards attacking an area boss somewhat around a year ago? That if you only attacked the area boss and not have killed a monster in that map you wouldn't have mapowner, when this happened someone came into the map that I was in killed a regular monster and grabbed ownership while I was chipping the area bosses's hp.. nowadays its fixed to even if you hit an area boss, it would give you ownership of the map regardless of killing something or not.