Update General Patch Notes: Summer 2025

Will never be not silly when people with the most annoying attitude are the ones being in fear of us scaring people away, when little do they know they contribute to the worst of that. Never changes year after year.

I get nobody fully agree on all changes that happen. But if you want anyone to take you serious, stop with the sarcasm and stupid meme posts, because I have also said this since the very first year of this server's existence, and you can ask people like Hiyo that have been here for a REALLY long time, if you start to shitpost or be straight up disrespectful to point you get me all of all people annoyed, I really do not care about your feelings. And no, that doesn't mean you should agree with every change or every post, but the more you start get sarcastic, rude, disrespectful, or shitpost, the less I will care about yours.

 

"So much to do, so little time" Best to explain everything that is unresolved to this day on this very well crafted game version from Neckson.

 

I have heard this very same thing back in 2016. I am going to say this for the millionth time or so in total, but all the staff here are doing everything on their free time and unpaid. And believe it or not, but want the best for the server they are playing on, and more importantly the longevity of this game. As another reminder, this game version is now lasting double the age of GMS did (2005~2010 when Big bang happened) + another year added to it, and is still surviving. I am pretty confidence that if it wasn't for the balance changes we made through the years and if the game was still like how it was in 2015 minus the QOL (I assume we at least all agree QOL is good), than this server would have been completely done for in one way or another.

But the thing that personally bothers me is that we have already said multiple things many times before, such as balance changes happen and getting reverted is simply because it didn't reach the goal we wanted, which is still the case. It's very easy to say do this or that, and then ask yourself as user why it doesn't get "properly tested", which it does by the way, but we can't simulate fake ping, 1,000+ players playing at once, and retroactive see what x or y change affects the economy or balance, so sometimes changes happen where we need to see actually on a live database (you guys!) how it plays out, and sometimes it just leads to side effects, less than ideal results, or other unpleasant results.

But I am going say it yet another time, that shitposting is not the way. Sure, you get your one reply and result, but the realistic response you get is a team that slowly gets demotivated on even wanting to do anything at all, which leads to updates slowing down, which leads to the problem you are facing to only become worse. Why, WHY would they want to help the server when the playerbase is only bickering over all the changes that happen? Would you?

Again, I am not saying "go kneel and be happy with all the changes that happen", I am saying that even if you happen to get response out of your shitposting strategy, the long term results is that you slowly tear the staff team down on wanting to do anything at all.

Pre-bb Maplestory is just really bad, the game admittedly is already for years on bendaid fixes. The realistic thing is that this game, and especially this game version wasn't made to last 11 years, which is why Big Bang happened to begin with. Neckson knew that this game NEEDED a refresh, and Big Bang did exactly that. Also, any kind of client modification and complete overhaul of any skill or system takes a long time, because as an unofficial server we do not have access to the game's source code, only a compiled binary (the v0.62 client), and thus any kind of very specific overhaul of a job takes a lot and a lot of time, and its only a miracle Davi/Pasta became as good with client modifications as he did over time, because a lot of these things such as complete skill overhauls and adding things like buff timers to the v0.62 client are completely unheard of, and its only thanks to his improving and improved skills on client binary modifications that it can happen at all.

Then lastly, some modifications are just not realistic on a very old database. I am going to say this again, but I hate leeching, I hate HS, I hate washing as much as everyone else. If I ever restarted a server, it would be a no brainer to not have any of that, because they ARE a bad game design. But, HP washing is NOT logged, so again, removing HP washing now for example is just not possible. HP challenges became the alternative to it, but again its not perfect, but the best we can do on an already established server. And this problem of this server being 11 years old are in different territories as well, so we have to decrease the power of these problems, because removing it completely is just not realistic, and probably never will be.