The lounge is a spot accessible from the majority of locations in the Maple World. Currently other than AFKing or GM events there isn't much use to the Lounge otherwise. Adding a few additions NPCs to increase the accessibility of them I believe would be a great addition. 1) Friend list expansion NPC: Now it's not super out of the way by any means to go to Lith or Ludi, but it seems like a hassle to do so and not to mention new players now having the knowledge of said NPC. This would make it easier to access for new players as well as old players not having to take their alternate characters the extra journey to also have expanded friend slots. 2) Guild/Guild Emblem NPCs: If you've ever created a guild you'd know the hassle of trying to round up 5 extra people to Orbis to create a guild. Making this a Lounge accessible NPC would make creating guilds easier to create, manage and update. ̶3̶)̶ ̶O̶m̶o̶k̶/̶M̶a̶t̶c̶h̶ ̶C̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶C̶r̶e̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶N̶P̶C̶:̶ ̶I̶s̶l̶a̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶i̶t̶e̶m̶ ̶n̶e̶c̶e̶s̶s̶a̶r̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶r̶e̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶O̶m̶o̶k̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶e̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶s̶o̶.̶ ̶I̶s̶l̶a̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶l̶r̶e̶a̶d̶y̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶ ̶o̶m̶o̶k̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶m̶a̶i̶n̶l̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶v̶i̶a̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶L̶o̶u̶n̶g̶e̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶.̶ ̶A̶d̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶e̶a̶s̶i̶e̶r̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶I̶s̶l̶a̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶ ̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶I̶s̶l̶a̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶v̶i̶a̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶a̶i̶n̶l̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶x̶y̶.̶ 4) Event NPCs: Event NPCs are at times scattered throughout the maple world or in the free market. Adding the Event NPCs to the easily accessible Lounge would decrease clutter. When there is an event where the FM is in it's normal state, like the Moneybags event, Maplers have to space adequately when trying to sell items via all chat. These NPCs often overlap character chats from their spam nature. These are some additions I have been thinking about the last couple days and they wouldn't change the meta in any way or give a benefit to those stashing characters in lounge. These quality of life additions would make party oriented gameplay easier to get to and not a hassle. The Lounge is something that everybody can access at any time and takes your character back to the location it was last at. You wouldn't need to go away from your training location to get to a central town to participate in events. You would be able to make guilds/guild modifications on the fly. Game with your friends with less limitations. Now I am sure there are some other ideas that other have about the Lounge so feel free to comment below with any ideas or even criticisms towards what I have suggested. Thanks, Lowly
I like everything except the guild npcs. There's something iconic in making a guild in the guild building in orbis. Its a map you normally don't go to, and its the most elaborate building in all of orbis, making it really stand out. Also, this place holds many of my memories of making guilds in gms. For the sake of nostalgia, i don't mind going out of my way to orbis.
Make the Lounge Great Again, seriously having all these npcs in one place would be helpful for everyone. Good suggestion.
The guild NPC's can still exist in their headquarters so you can still get said nostalgia. For those making mule guilds / Islanders who want their islander to be the leader of the guild (which isn't possible currently) this cuts back a hassle of rounding up extra characters to make a guild. I will say some of the times it's like minded people coming together to create something, but in a lot of cases it's a person or two who have the idea and fully plan on expanding the guild once created, but don't have the ability to get 5 extra people to come together at one time usually making it a mess of getting a bunch of mules or other characters to Orbis. Once guild creation is done, guild management would be nice to be easily accessed there to expand or change emblems in the guilds also. So you can have duplicates of NPCs so that you get your nostalgia and others can still get easy access!
This seems counter-productive to a nostalgic experience, I don't remember there being any of those NPC's outside of their respected maps, so other than for ease of access reasons this seems completely off-track to the current experience that Royals tries to offer for us nostalgic players.
Yes, that's why it's a quality of life change as in it makes it easier to access. While royals is indeed a nostalgia server it is extremely far from the old maplestory experience in many ways. If we stuck solely to the "as original as possible" idea then we wouldn't have modified skills, updated drop tables, or modified experience, drop or meso rates. All these changes make a more central hub for easy changes for something that is non-gameplay effected. No meta changes just easier access to manage buddy, guild, games and clean up excess event NPC's from littering towns. I can't really say having to use a return scroll for events from your training spot and then having to walk back to said training spot would be considered fun gameplay.
Good reasoning, I can see your point(s) now. Sometimes I get worried the server will drastically change if lots of QOL changes happen, Royals does a good job at keeping an authentic experience running.
Here's the thing. As you said, to make a guild you must find 5 players first. That means if i'll ever want to experience the making of a guild from orbis i'd basically have to force the hands of 4 other people to do the less convenient way of making a guild. The response i'll get would just be "ehh? Why not just do it in lounge?". Its kinda similar to unused pqs, sure, they are there, and if ill really want to do a run, i could force it to happen, but because its not popular its no longer a natural experience of just getting a party and going in. Btw, didnt they recently add the ability to transfer leadership of guilds? Cant islanders use that feature?
Adding Event NPC's to the Lounge will definitely improve the lives of Islanders! Would very much like to see more accessibility for us in coming Events!
One good thing to add, would be to cancel buffs except Magic Guard At the moment for mages, anyone that goes to Lounge and comes back out is sometimes a death-wish.
We need this. IMO implementing an omok NPC for islanders beneficial to everyone in this server, allow me to explain. Islanders are an inseparable part of Maple. They're the first impression of the server when creating a new char on this server. Seeing an Islander excites new players because it shows the game is active. Furthermore Islanders often answer newbies questions, help quest and influence on the newcomers gameplay. These small acts of kindness are the reasons most of us have gotten where we are today. Having the ability to Omok with each other will give us more reason to stay online longer, and thus it's a win-win to everyone!
Would like to add another suggestion of the possibility of also basic wedding npc. Weddings aren't a special thing anymore like they were back in the day. Their sole use is almost only for apq and the more active apqers marry their mules with no crowd etc. Now for those who want to have the higher tier weddings those should stay and solely be accessible through amoria. Thought I might throw this into the mix
That's why it's feedback! I just hope some of this can be added as they see fit. With multi client and the group aspect being fairly modified, because of that, the meta going to be very different. I'd be curious to see how many weddings actually have guests compared to solo weddings but doubt such statistic is acquirable
Number 3 was recently added in one of the recent patches and I'm very thankful for that! I love the progress. Would love to see some event npcs make their way into the lounge still! Grandma Benson and her demand for pies this Thanksgiving and mom and dad with their Christmas dinner needs made/still makes a trip needed to henesys quite often. Christmas npc being in the fm isn't the end of the world with the Christmas layout but come lunar new year/Easter with the flat layout (assuming they keep it consistent with last year) will protrude over the chalkboards/spammers trying to sell items. Would love to hear anybody else's input.
It's not finding the npc's that is what is being questioned here. It's the overlapping of the npcs chats over players trying to sell things and the fact that you have to go to a central town with FM or several boat trips to designated town where only version of NPC exists. (usually henesys)
