With MapleRoyals going on for 11 years and counting, we yet again reflect on the past year of adventures, updates, changes, milestones and even betrayals. There's never a dull year on the nostalgic mushroom game and we owe it all to you, the community for your continued support. Cheers to yet another year of MapleRoyals! New Features and Content Early on in 2024 we reached the 90th update milestone. Community members with keen eyes may notice that for smaller updates we often use decimals so in reality there have been even more updates, however for larger changes we maintain a new number standard. Von Leon balancing With update 90 we upped the HP of the Mini Castle Golems as well as fixed and 'nerfed' some of Von Leon's attacks. Other than that new bonus items and an option to craft a 100% Chaos scroll for the fabled Von Leon belts were added while the regular Von Leon belt scrolls received a buff. Later in the year we were able to fix some issues with disappearing spawned mobs in his map too. Tokens of Teamwork A new Party Quest Gift Box was added to Cody's Token of Teamwork exchange for those not interested in the available rewards. Or perhaps these PQ enthusiasts already collected all the available rewards! Chair position fixing Throughout the year various patches included the fixing of positions in our available chairs to truly relax in style. We intend to keep continuing with this process for other chairs that may still suffer from a 'default' seating position that's not the same as how they were originally released, a lot of them have been processed and put into the game already. Item stat color thresholds To better distinguish how valuable and strong a piece of equipment is, the game balancers took in all feedback on this topic and wrote a new system for the color coded glow on equipment giving a lot more weight to weapon and magic attack over other stats like defense for example to truly display the demand for equipment. Rose Garden This popular content had its rewards tweaked to no longer provide pure mesos for catching the bees as our data showed it brought in more mesos than we anticipated. We wrote a different reward pool for this content making it still a worthwhile activity, but you gain value in items or HP/MP instead. Fair Endeavors of Voting for NX To bring even more awareness to the dangers of accidentally breaking the game rules by vote abusing we developed a new custom quest that's short and fun to do and gets the message across regarding voting rules. With this we introduced the 'Scuffed Gachapon' that made some unique lower level equipment available. Quality of life changes This year has brought us various QOL changes like the removal of the 'quantity' prompt for recharable arrows in trades, shops and storage as we assume you want to do 'all' of them. We also adjusted the inventory 'sort' feature to order the projectiles as we assume you want them to be in order of highest attack first. Pirates were made able to equip bosshunter equipment as that was previously only possible for the original adventurer jobs. Players are also able to hide all character medals in case their screens get too cluttered. Some bosses were given additional rewards to fit in with similar bosses that were more popular as daily activities. Castellan has more ninja toad headbands, a sky ski and additional NX on it's drop table for example as well as the more popular elemental wands. 'The Boss' got additional NX and a higher chance of Brown Work gloves as a drop. We increased the max stack size of Unripe Onyx Apple from 10 to 100 and Vial of Potent Health/Mana from 100 to 1000. Bug fixes In August 2023 we implemented a new drop system calculation which had been giving a slightly too high rate up until we were able to trace it down and fix it in April 2024 with update 91. In that same update we also made it so auto HP/MP alert value now gets saved per character instead of in the game client for all your accounts and characters. In addition to that we were able to mostly fixed a bug where pets would 'forget' the equipped HP/MP pot causing you to scramble and reset it as you're taking incoming damage. Additional anti cheat and DDOS measures Just like previous year we were able to add and adjust more of our anti cheat efforts. We made some sizable discoveries behind the scenes that prevented a lot of further abuse as well as put a stop to rule breaking that was ongoing for a while. At some point this year we were being attacked for ransom however we were able to protect ourselves with various changes to our connections to stop multi level attacks from this party. Staff Changes 2024 was a turbulent year for staff changes. On one hand we had the departure of long time and trusted staff member Kenny due to him breaking the game rules and participating in real world trade, and on the other end we have the additions of the new GM Interns Foxy, Heidi as well as Tommy that took over a Game Balancer spot from Zancks who went on to pursue his irl dreams! The community has shown and received a lot of support for the new GM Interns already even though their additions weren't that long ago. With these changes also came more limitations for all levels of GMs to ensure scenarios like GM abuse the way they have happened before can't happen again. MapleRoyals Statistics Back by popular demand we pulled up some statistics for you for 2024: 25815 accounts were banned, most of them didn't make it far! 96716 characters were created There are over 1 million characters in total 972 characters reached the maximum level of 200 157 of those were created in this year too with the fastest player(s) going from 1 to 200 in less than two months Of the characters created in 2024, most of them chose to become a Bishop (1707), followed by Night Lord (733) and F/P Mage (670) which throws other popular jobs like Shadower off the top 3 podium! Only 139 Players were brave enough to become a Corsair While there may have been 9355 guilds created over the years, only 4679 of them are currently still in game as the others have been disbanded contrary to what we reported on 2023 The player with the highest amount of NX on one account has just surpassed 35 million, there are two others that have breached the 30 million milestone! 2711769 transactions took place as items traded owners by hired merchant This years Chair Gachapon machine has consumed a little over 2,279,350,000,000 mesos at a little over 45587 uses in total The highest level character still on Maple Island reached level 111 The most frequent visited daily boss is Chao For every kill of 'The Boss' there are 19 zakum, 7 auf haven and 6 horntail being slain statistically More than 5.2 million quests have been completed this year The Future While some may not believe in a future for MapleRoyals, we still very much do. There were some goals on our wish list for 2024 that we didn't manage to implement this year due to other complications popping up and taking priority, but we're still working on the aforementioned Class Skill Balance with new balancer insights. In addition to that we have hinted with other pieces of content like the Scuffed Gachapon reward that 2025 should be the year of Pink Bean! Before that we do have other content we'd like to release too so you will just have to sit tight on your new chair positions and keep playing the Royals that you love. Lastly we'd like to thank the community for their continued support and interest in the game we've been maintaining for over 11 years now. Here's to a fabulous 2025 with nostalgic and interesting new content! - The MapleRoyals Staff
Happy new year! Thanks for all of your hard work to make a happy place of nostalgia and entertainment for us kidults!
Thanks a lot for all the efforts made by the team. It is a blast having such a thriving and active server with nice people in it. However, Honestly I believe the Christmas winter dash event ban hammer was a bit of a let down to the players effected. I don't know how many people were actually abusing multiple characters in the event, but I know me and others were just caught up in this, with 0 intent to get any advantage. Hopefully the team sees that the most of the player base is not actively and intentionally trying to break the game's terms but just trying to have fun and nostalgia.
I can’t wait to see the adjusted rewards for all these contents! UwU also class adjustments sooner please. (Thanks balancer and staff team)
