MapleLegends' future economy solution

increase tax rates on everything!!!!!!

 

Nice suggestions, I thought this was a potential issue too when gobys were initially touched and nerfed for the better of the server. There seems to be a tremendous increase in the number of mesos that exist from when I initially played. This probably has to do with the fact that the active player base has doubled since I started and total player base by at least triple. Feelsbadman, fishy beat me to it x.x.

 

Can't say I like many of the suggestions as I don't think they'd fit in legends (meso for AP reset), but megaphones for meso seems pretty innocuous to me

 

hmmm so if you follow a concept of supply and demand. There used to be a over supply of mesos and a high demand for end game items like PAC/PGC/WS/CS so they basically all effectively doubled in price. But the supply for legendary items couldn't match it because those items are all strictly from gacha, but with the recent adjustment to make legendary drops more common, they have been more attainable but they still wont be able to match demand of players as some people can make enough mesos to fund those legendary items in 1-2 days. As the player base approaches the endgame other items essentially become obsolete such as 60% scrolls. Essentially due to more mesos being in the game, a lot of things have become much more accessible then they used to be and old standards are completely gone. For example WGs at 8-10 watt used to be pretty standard and 12 was "good", but now you want like 12-14 watt wgs as a standard and anything above that is considered "good".

There are also a lot of players who just hold a lot of mesos on hand or in bank, I for one at some point had 750m in pure mesos and I didn't really do much to get them o-o...

 

I personally feel like, the RNG and buff of legendary items, like Willy said are ruining the economy. literally 5mins ago the same dude just pulled our 2 chaos scrolls back to back, and then a different person just pulled a chaos scroll. As "Legendary" and "rare" these items are. alot of them are being out. when in reality, a grinding game like Maplestory, should take quite some time to achieve such items/end game. i know alot of people want to reach end game quickly, but i feel like everyone is leveling alot faster and obtaining items/equips faster.

 

I think the problem Dan is trying to say is that eventually (concerning a world with no sufficient meso sinks to combat the rising meso generation) mesos will lose their purchasing power and thus the prices of end-game items will become increasingly high. As mesos lose their worth, players will eventually begin to only trade items for other items as they will not feel that mesos will have an equivalent value.

 

Yo. I'm Nub and I matter. Nub lives matter! NLM!!! NLM!!!!

 

Once upon a time, JMS and MSEA had a 500,000,000 crafting meso sink in Neo Tokyo but that was an extreme case of combating the hyper-inflation brought upon by hackers.

Using mesos for specific nx stuff like Megaphones or untradeable AP resets does sound good imo but whether it fits into game balance is another topic on its own i guess.

 

As for my personal suggestions to meso sinks (without regarding the feasibility of implementing such suggestions):

• Increasing NLC potion costs - looking at the potions that existed before NLC, all their MP/Meso ratios were relatively the same at around 0.5 MP/meso . In comparison, the Sorcerer Elixir has a ratio of 1 (1500 mp for 1500 mesos), and the Mana Bull and Ginger Ale have even better ratios depending on your total MP. Not only this, but Sorcerer Elixirs and Mana Bulls are also more efficient in terms of inventory slot usage as they can both hold 150 potions per slot while every other potion can only hold 100. Despite their higher MP/meso ratio they also have a higher potions/slot ratio. While this is not really a fault of Legends, it seems like something that could be balanced considering that this scheme effectively costs lower levels more mesos/mp than higher levels even though lower levels have a much lower meso generation rate than higher levels.
  
  
• Death Penalty - currently, death does not represent much of a big deal aside from a loss in XP (which can be canceled out with the use of Safety Charms). Apart from situations in boss runs, death is a fairly forgiving mechanic and is somewhat hard to accomplish given the availability of pet auto-hp/mp and %HP/MP potions. Thus, I would suggest an additional penalty to death which is to lose a certain amount of mesos (based on some variable). This would then encourage players to be more vigilant in riskier situations (which may encourage the usage of more potions which would cost mesos) and or risk losing mesos.
  
  
• NX for Mesos - as mentioned in the OP and other threads, the option of allowing certain NX items (still untradeable) to be bought with mesos has been considered. While I'm still on the fence on the ability to buy items such as Megaphones, AP Resets and owls, I do think that the ability to buy certain cosmetic options might be a good method to make a meso sink. As mentioned above, some sort of lottery-type item that contained a random cosmetic NX item may be a nice way for players to spend mesos given that players are still faced with a choice to spend mesos on a NX item that they may never use or to use their NX for a guarantee to get an item of their liking. Having rare or otherwise unobtainable NX items may also prompt players closer to the end-game to also spend mesos on such a sink given the inability to get these items through other means. This is probably (?) the most controversial idea, and I'm also unsure how much I would like it to be implemented though I do believe it would be an effective sink.
  
  
• Higher Costs for Services - to this point I would like to propose the idea that players have the choice to either save mesos or save time through various services in Maple. One example is the taxi system, which allows players in Victoria to quickly travel between towns without having to walk there. However, many players find no qualms about needing to take the taxi given its incredibly low cost. Particularly as players get higher and higher and can generate mesos more effectively than lower players, it may make sense to increase the costs of these services by some proportional amount (which would probably still be too low to really make players care, but would still be more effective at removing mesos from the game). Other options may be to incorporate some sort of "fast-travel" to skip boats in exchange for an appropriate sum of mesos or add potions that would provide temporary buffs (like Agent O's Encouragements but perhaps a lower time duration)
  
  
• More Collectibles? - in the same sense as the Eraser quests (which I cannot remember if they have a meso cost to completing the quest but that might also be a way to introduce another meso sink), it may be a good idea to introduce more quests that featured some sort of collectibles that would need to be turned in along with some amount of mesos to receive a random reward such as new chairs.
  
  
• Meso Costs for Instanced Bosses - this seems somewhat self-explanatory, but for those individuals who can run instanced bosses, I believe that they are more representative of the higher end of wealth. And in particular, given the high profits earned from potential boss drops being sold, it seems that a small "tax" to these boss runs may help provide a sink. This may also help create an (albeit small) artificial value to which certain boss drops would be forced to stay above and help stabilize prices.

A lot of these ideas are probably somewhat controversial given that they all deviate from what we know as "nostalgic" and represent changes that, to my knowledge, did not exist in GMS. And while I personally think that the current state of the economy is/has been fine, I do think that players have a right to be concerned, especially given that most virtual economies move towards inflation and even Royals has been experiencing some severe inflation (though for a different reason).