Fix for @mapowner

Feel like this is exactly like what GMS did with the boss issue with not enough to go around, they put in Mirrors for people to go into and kill their own personal boss.

-1 for me :c

 

If you don't want to deal with how over crowded it is train somewhere else. It's just the price that you have to pay for a good map. With time there will be other viable maps until then people need to stop complaining lol.

-1 for me.

 

This is why mini dungeons were added. I think it's a good idea.

 

I would rather you try to buy the map off another player than add the instanced map purchase option, this solves the issue of determining the correct price for one.

 

I agree, but I think it should be decently expensive (so that, approximately speaking the limited time you have in your own instance can only make you ~50% of the original cost to enter the map). Additionally I don't think this should exist for bosses as it devalues bossing and boss drops.

The problem with selling/buying maps from other players is that it creates a monopoly where certain groups intentionally hog the map to maximize profit. They essentially take ownership because they have the power to do so, it's just another method of abuse. This kind of abuse was rampant in GMS back in the good ol' days, remember the Vegeance guild in scania?

 

Yeah map-selling has its downsides.


Still I feel that allow people to purchase instances is similar to opening more channels in some ways, except that you pay a price and you can restrict it to exclude boss maps and others.

I think competition for maps does bring some good in that more people will explore alternative methods of training (such as quests or PQ), or simply find other maps to train at, which I personally think is important given the lesser diversity of training spots chosen by players since the more OP spots were introduced. Back in the days players were happy to try a variety of spots, but here in v62 there's a relatively more standard path. The alternative spots may not be as good as the best maps, but there might be some that are fairly close (do you always have to have to best?), or there might be maps that compensate slower exp for better drops. Not that allowing instance purchasing entirely wipes out the use of alternative maps or methods, but I believe it will still affect it somewhat because some (could be half, or more or less depending on price) people are willing to pay the amount.

The mapowner command has worked fine in other servers, I don't see a pressing need for it to be changed. Even with 20 channels in GMS at some point in time you still couldn't find a spot in the more popular maps, so this is in some sense re-creating that situation here.

 

You're exaggerating here. Using gs 2 as an example, GS 5, GS 1 and MP 3 are decent alternatives that takes about roughly 20% longer to level?

Different people may feel differently about KS-ing. Some do it and suck it up when they themselves get KS-ed, other people want to avoid it altogether. Potential large scale KS wars may result if mapowner is removed, so it's better to play it safe and make everyone play nice.