The current state of affairs

My main priority has been events. I really liked the Christmas event, and I wish I could've built on that to make something happen for Valentine's day, or better Holiday events. I've started to add new code for events (making it easier to host events), 3 weeks ago, but that's still unfinished...

• My time is very limited (projects, exams, life)
• Your group has caused a lot of de-motivation (and time waste) on my end

Not being all to motivated, and having loads to do. Easy to see my priorities lay elsewhere at the moment. So there's that, in all honesty.

Just wanted to clarify this:

This in particular is wrong. Option A2 clearly states to make items also available through gameplay. Where option A3 is to remove tickets from voting and make items only available through gameplay. The test phase obviously distinguished two types of tickets: voting and farming.

 

sigh , there's no hope ;-;

 

hello staff and everyone else i wish you and others good luck me and everyone want this server become more better and awesome i know make server closest to gms is a lot work i still have hope for this server people need understand to be patient you guys are the only server that's fixed all quest that's the reason why i come here! i miss doing classic maplestory quests is a lot of fun mostly jump quests so i know you guys will do your bast to coding some parts of gms that not added to the server yet keep be awesome staff!

 

calm down its not the end of the world the staff need to rest and take some break once a while

 

youd be suprised with the amount of patience of this server...

 

I think many people are at the limit of their patience and as dom said, the number of players is decreasing quite drastically if i do say so myself.

I love the staff and understand how busy they are. Maybe focusing on one project at a time might be better in this case. (Ex: instead of working on many things partially, working on one and getting it done). But i have no idea how game development works so maybe that wouldnt help idk.

 

i mean for the past maybe month + or so (barring anniversary events) average online count is always less than 100 when it used to be 150~

 

i know but soon or later people going to move to other server for the same reason i been waiting pokemon rom hack "pokemon prism" to be finish but taking forever because the owner is busy in real life and now he going to move the map. script. etc. from gold to crystal so people need to wait even more longer are some moments that people don't have no choice to be patient

 

Thats exactly what dom is worried about. he DOESNT want people moving to another server. which HAS been happening

 

...... oh my look like the staff need to make a idea before community go down even more! but i still have hope for this server no matter what some company have its up and down but the end will get better somehow

 

This server is the best ive seen, sure the updates might have been slow but the staff just doesnt want to make mistakes so they use extra cautious. I tried playing other servers but from what i saw, this server is the least buggy of all by a large amount and the staff actually cares.
I take alot of breaks, and I suggest other people to do it to if they feel unmotivated. I feel like this server will not break, it will keep on going, so go do other stuff until you feel motivated again. The stuff are doing their best for the server while still having their own life.
People come and go, the community will stay strong as new people will arrive, 75% of the people playing I have no idea who they are, it just shows that the community will not die.
Even if it takes another year to make everything work correctlly its still better then rushing stuff, because 1 mistake can do a huge harm for the server.
Sorry for my English its late, just me mumbling my opinions.
I dont disagree on a casuall reminder now and then to show that the community cares for the server.

 

your english look fine and you are right people should take a break and do something in real life or play other games than maplestory you can't play the same game forever or you will get tired and quit playing maplestory

 

To me the problem is quite clearly that the staff have lost interest in their own server. Blaming it on real life can only carry you so far and buy so much sympathy. At some point you have to acknowledge the fact that you simply don't have the time, the mental capacity after coding full-time for a corporation, or even the fucks to give when you get home in the evening, and you've got to either pass the torch or get more help to accomplish your goals.

But the staff here haven't been doing that. They're what I'd call a "philarchy" or a rule by friends or rule by clique. This both makes them extremely picky when it comes to hiring the help they need, and it also utterly cripples any of their decision making ability, because they will discuss issues for months on end before deciding to do (or not do) something. Good heavens, Gi even threatened to quit after donor points were actually made useful.

 

....... i don't know what to say here but i hope the staff sort thing out i don't want this server to end

 

Well I'm not trying to say it's doom and gloom and the server's going to end... A declining playerbase is inevitable after the hype is all gone and people get tired of grinding.

The only thing you can really do is keep players preoccupied so they don't succumb to boredom so much (implementing cool events and content) and also what's important is keeping the economy balanced, so that one way or another there's less people quitting over the fact that they can't compete with other players.

We also need to retain new players like you Jean , and while I'm sorry you are reading all these complaints, I hope you do realize the server is still by far the best or one of the best simply by virtue of the fact that it's least buggy and not ridiculously easy. The problem is we as players are spoiled and always want to see more and more improvements, regardless of how good a position we're in.

 

i not that worry and i know this server is the best i like this community i meet kind people so far and everyone can understand my bad grammar (i think) and don't worry i been spoiled myself on games that's i didn't play like undertale are some games that i will never play mostly because i too lazy to buy it

 

This server is still really great even though though players are decreasing but majority of the reason why people are leaving is because of the lack of updates, yes I understand that it takes time to code shit and make it perfect and that all the GM's have a life and work to do but the one big problem is that their multi tasking so hard for example they could be trying to work on 3 diff things. All I could say is that the GM's should work on 1 thing at a time to get it finished much more faster. Right now I know by fact once this Amoria PQ/ Wedding update happens there will be a spark of happiness and excitement in the MapleLegends community rather than just boring and quiet. All I can suggest is to work on 1 thing at a time, not 2 or 3. Also to get this done and now MapleLegends competitors right now is definitely OpenMaple knowing a lot of people from ML has left to go there.