Thoughts about new players' well-being

the server can probably sustain a rule like that but it'll effectively crystallize wealth on the server which in turn is bad for new players

 

Pretty big loss for people who like pushing limits in bossing tbh. While you can argue that people shouldn’t be doing things like running duo HT, solo Zak, and duo CWK, I find pushing the limits of mechanical play and doing activities like this pretty interesting and one of the main draws for me personally is being able to pull off dumb shit like that. The effort, set up, and mechanics required for things like that set a much higher bar than multimaging and it’d be pretty disappointing to see it go as I view endgame multi bossing as one of the few activities in the game that actually require a modicum of player skill.

 

I've always been in a mentality of straight up stablishing a rule against event-abuse.
Might take a bit of work at first.

But i don't think it's bad
Keep a healthy min level, let's say 50-60 which is when people leave PQs and need meso for grinding
Track who scores big in event raffles.
Oh look EventMule4 won, they're naked, mule IGN that they can't change unless it pays 20k, login record, only logs during events, is not a geared up buffing mule, doesn't seem to be used for anything but events

EVENTMULE1 2 3 4 + MAIN Has been banned for Event Abuse.

Someone tries to be sneaky and trade asap? well trade record, gave winnings to Bishlover69 for no meso, boom banned
Same with mages, it's not difficult to pinpoint the farming hotspots, just ban anyone who's multiclienting to break market, buff mules are fine , as people use them.
Eventually people will be more and more discouraged, they will be afraid of winning big in raffles as getting announced will get them frozen and banned on their main that they spent hours

Game will heal over time.

Extra Solution, make gacha tickets have a weekly meso handout
Have blue gachas give out 500k and Silver gachas 1mill on use, but cap them at 20m ish per account per week.

Multiboxers wont abuse as the raw meso gain will be too minimal too bother carefully splitting gachas, 20m extra per week won't make them go crazy, be it multimages where 20m is hardly an increase for their greed, and for mule abusers it's too small of a rawr reward, most mule abusers wont farm 40ish gachas a week on each character of a measly 20m per week
New Players get extra meso if RNG doesn't bless them, it takes 40 blue gachas/ 20 silver gachas, but will help them buy potions/save for something
If the current playerbase ACTIVELY were to cap mesos with the gacha (it wont) it'd increase the market's meso by like what... 4bill a week(assuming 200 players cap gacha), but considering the people who would actively cap every week i'd say is way less, so i'd say 1b or less a week from the whole playerbase

And this wont discourage old players from rolling gacha, once they cap they will STILL prefer to get gacha since the gains from a big-win is more than the lame meso, while newer players MAY want to save their gacha for next week but they also could roll that week for more

Buff PQs
I still am on the idea that PQs should be more encouraged and give out a reward comparable to gachapon tickets (all but LMPQ, HPQ) in order to encourage players to do them more, once again, if there's an abuser , just announce names when someone wins big

CandyMan4 has won a Coin Pouch 5 from The Ludibium party quest , oh is it a group or 3-4 afk and 2 active carries, boom ban.

 

sounds great, i happen to be holding a couple thousand gach

 

Well like i said you're only gettin 20m a week even if you use the thousands of gacha. So...
there's only 50 weeks a year, that's like what 1b if you commit to capping religiously, you're getting more out of using them at that point.

 

who said they're on the same account

 

Doesn’t this just encourage people to make more accounts to farm? Go farm your weekly 20 gachas or whatever on Mage1, log off, do it again on Mage2, etc

 

an aside but TIL ST originally dropped from nintos

 

Again is about 20m, could be more could be less
If someone can genuinely just make multiple accounts, somehow farm 35ish gachapon tickets (assuming it's 30 blue and 5 silver) to get only 20m , and then move to another account.
Or get into a mage mule, pausing your farming to let your 2nd account to loot the gachas slowly until you get 35.

And repeat all of this for measly 20m per account PER week, like...kudos to you , i wonder how long will it last sounds like a big chore for diminishing returns.

Well simple, just code it so it' gacha tickets earned since the update.

 

it also creates market friction by raising the value of current gach since you're getting paid not to use them.

 

lets code maplelegends to work on a newer engine, with new graphics and interactive npc

 

Oh yeah because making an identical gacha ticket item with a different ID requires a newer engine.
Use your brain before you reply bozo

 

thanks

that means the gach npc needs to accept older gach too, which requires another line or two

 

How is it diminishing returns? It scales linearly with time spent. Alternatively you can farm on one client and sweep on multiple mules, same potential for abuse.

 

it's increasing returns since less gach in system makes for higher prices

 

MapleLegends police state era

 

Agreed wholeheartedly. Establishing rules and enforcement against unwanted behavior is addressing the symptom and not the cause. If incentives are designed correctly there shouldn’t be a need.

 

Whatever rules you might apply, people will simply find a new strategy that causes distinction from the haves and have nots/does and does nots. It's part of the game, and thankfully nobody's going hungry or becoming unhoused because of it.