Storage on Maple Island

Without writing another essay. Some of the biggest reasons why I'm against adding bosses/other mobs is that it would ruin the current flexibility there is with the various different stat builds, not worth the time it would take to make, anything added to it will most likely become obsolete very quickly unless it is constantly managed.

 

How about bosses like snowman, where all the attacks will be regulated to 1 or 10 damage?

if its created as a form of a quest, u may force participants to only attack using a particular weapon (just like the snowman), which will help even the entire playing field, no matter what build u are using.

I'm just throwing suggestions though, so just take them as a grain of salt hahah

 

My view of storage on the island is similar as Kimmy's

Kimmy is doing the removal of 'illegal' or 'smuggled' items cause the islanders wish to stay 'pure'

I would vote Yes for this idea cause the items doesn't really affect me playing an islander
Note: However, I do not think all islanders can agree that off-island items should be obtainable for islanders and I respect their views of being a pure islander. More feedback from fellow islanders should be taken into consideration before proceeding with this idea as it is quite game-changing, especially when speed items or damage output (scrolled weapons) are concerned.

 

Why can't we just have unrestricted events and keep things the way they are?

 

Because it's a stupid idea that would extremely pad low level grinding, just for some shiny new toys for the high levels.

 

You aren't wrong but what about mainland people who can breeze through the first part with speed equips? That's what rubs me the wrong way.

 

You're concerned about the 20 minutes of content on Maple Island being made marginally faster with speed equips?

 

it's more than 20 minutes I'm concerned about obviously

 

I have a personal bias view point of a boss on the island being the most non islanding thing ever, so sorry if I come off strong.

If you add an instance boss, then it becomes a daily (which I dislike but I don't know how other people feel being forced to do something daily). If you add an area boss then there becomes the issue with timers, camping, KSing, who gets loot if its done with a party.

Then theres the issue of what it drops. If it drops something amazing then it could become a best slot item and make other items irrelevant and lose its purpose to do over time (Continues to feed into the issue of the way events currently are being done). If it drops scrolls the boss will have a longer useful lifespan, but will also make the daily aspect of an instance boss worss IMO. Adding more scrolls to the island will also just give another thing people can smuggle in excess for the appearance of godly gear.

Personally I love the killing type quest as a method to add more items onto the island. The quest gives meaning to a lot of places on the island that would be irrelevant otherwise, & gives incentive to grind in big parties as it becomes beneficial to do so. If we talking about adding a bunch of items to the island, of course I would prefer it to be done through this method as it rewards you for your time but a storage becomes easier for staff to add & gets rid of the smuggling issue without having to tediously track down where a shit load of items came from. There are also a lot of items that probably can't be put into an event/islander quest because they exist as a quest reward, item drop, or gachapon item off island that might have some sort of value.

 

Seeing the points being in the rewards leading to certain play-frequency/behavior makes it clearer on why it might be a problem.
All here for discussion, so don't worry about it

 

Thanks for spoiling the method .

On a more serious note though, I really like the idea of adding the storage guy to Maple Island. It won't really have an effect to me, since I personally write down which important items I have on each character, but I'm fairly certain that it will benefit basically 99% of the Islander community. As for the addition of more speed items, it wouldn't really make a difference to me.

Thank you for reading Kimberly

 

I've been walking around for a week now with items that aren't obtainable on Maple Island trying to invoke some type of official action/stance as so many people don't even know if its allowed or not and figured I'll take one for the team.

Nothing has happened yet, when I thought I've made it extremely easy to be noticed / provided more than enough evidence for an easy report.

Is it really this hard for anything to get reported / if I was reported for something to happen? If I hid all my items behind nx would it take even longer for me to get caught? If I simply scrolled white gomushins and jeans with speed, would I ever get caught?

Spoiler: Made a post calling myself a smuggler

Spoiler: SSs of me with items not obtainable on forums

Spoiler: Provided my whole inventory to a discord of Legends Islanders

Spoiler: Been walking around with a chalkboard saying "SMUGGLE ISLAND"

Spoiler: People don't know if Staff even cares about it

I don't personally report anything, as I don't like the confrontation aspect of it and the drama it might cause, especially in a small community of islanders. So I wonder if you saw someone with smuggled item, would you report them?

 

The responses/suggestions that everyone has typed up so far have been very informative, and I hope that my wall of text can be of use as well. As someone who, over the years, has collected countless pieces of event gear to redistribute to islanders in need, and also as someone who has 30+ Maple Island mules for the sole purpose of storage: I believe that adding a Storage NPC to Maple Island would both solve the issue with smuggling as well as reinvigorate the island we all know and love!

Why is having a Storage NPC on Maple Island a positive change? The short answer is that we can obtain more inventory space, per character/account. For me personally, that would increase the storage on TEN of my Maple Island accounts. Storage isn't the only positive reason; being able to legitimately move items to/from Maple Island through storage would allow Maple Island to be transformed into what it would have looked like back in the day on GMS with Remote Gachapon and the Maple Trading System. (Basically, it's canon)

Now, I absolutely understand the concerns that other islanders have. Having a Storage NPC would detract a bit from how islanding is supposed to be, as a hardcore, fend-for-yourself progression adventure. I believe that it is important to keep that in mind at all times. At the end of the day, regardless of what gear you have, you are an islander who has chosen to restrict themselves to Maple Island. That core component of islanding will never change, even if a Storage NPC were to be added. However, it's also important to keep in mind the issues that Islanding currently has in 2021: smuggling seems to be the current hot topic, and while it is technically against the rules I can understand why players would choose to do so. As an islander, our greatest source of gear improvement has always been events. However, there are certain untradeable event items that will never be obtainable again that were considered to be best-in-slot for us (3rd Birthday Cake Hat 9-11 speed 4-6 jump) and that really bums me out as a veteran. Smuggling a bathrobe in that gives 10 speed and can be potentially scrolled for DEX is too enticing to ignore. Adding in a Storage NPC mitigates this issue significantly by giving islanders more legitimate, early-game options to increase mobility. On top of this, if storage were to be added and Islanders could fully participate in events again, there would still be exclusive, untradeable rewards that could be obtained that would not be affected by said Storage NPC. While everyone would have tradeable items, it would still be the untradeable items that would reign supreme and stand as the trophy items we seek.

(One more thing I forgot to mention: Islanders buying new gear/scrolls offland to transfer to Maple Island may reinvigorate the economy of certain items!)

I know there are other concerns on top of this, and they are all valid! I wanted to address the most common concerns as we continue this discussion. At the end of the day, everyone plays MapleStory differently. If you are not interested in a Storage NPC, you can always play the game however you want instead!

 

love you

 

Kitsuny you were given smuggled items on Royals and wore them no issue. What's the change in heart now?

 

Make Roger's Apple give +20 speed for 30 minutes.