Ship rides rolled around old school maple life, while waiting you made new friends, you played omok games, you played drop games, you fought balrogs, YOU HAD FUN ! Now most players are rich here, and they can afford to buy a fast travel ticket. My suggestion is to reduce the ship ride time, and delete the fast travel tickets. i think everyone agrees if the ship rides take like 5 minutes... also what about creating a new better and cooler looking ship? you can ask players to plan and suggest their own types of ships, the best voting wins ! also i suggest teleport rocks should be more expensive.. In the old days of maplestory, most players did actually have to pay for real money to buy NX, here we get free everyday... HIGHER PRICES ON TELE ROCKS !!!
How can you die in this server to balrogs? Seriously tell mr, because levelling is so easy here, 4x duh?
I totally agree that it'd be nice to bring back the true classic maple experience of everyone crowding around the ships. The ships were one of my favorite aspects of that era, but they're pretty empty in this server. But I also think that fumbling around with the ship timers in an attempt to restore that sense of lost nostalgia is counterintuitive. And designing new ships sounds completely unrealistic, and I doubt it would change the frequency of their use even if implemented. Raising the prices of the fast travel tickets or teleport rocks could be a viable option (would help with the "inflation" issue as well), but most of the community would most likely be very against that.
okay you're right, let's increase the fast travel tickets to 12-30 mil and 10-20k NX and teleport rocks to 10-20k NX, now we can see more players instead of seeing them tele instantly !
#FuckBoats most players actually don't want to ride them, which is why they're still mostly empty all the time. Won't change much with shorter rides and more expensive tickets.
All of the boats should be completely optional, but should also be in the game. If you enjoy the nostalgia of riding them, ride them. If you don't, get where you're going. I've ridden the boats a few times since they were reintroduced because even 3mil is unfeasable for one boat ride if I won't use it again for the day, and even on channel 1, the boats I rode were either empty or inhabited by one or two other AFK individuals. It doesn't influence me with any nostalgia, personally. Shortening the ship length doesn't fix the issue to me; I don't like having to spend the time on travel when it's just uninteractive travel. I avoid every ship possible, even if it means walking longer distances to do so. If the server direction is hell-bent on making mandatory boat rides standard, make the Fast Travel Ticket come from a quest, preferably one that any character can complete, to prevent issues like a poster above who's wife quit over the boats even as a new player. Complete it once, get your ticket, use it whenever you feel like using it, ride boats whenever you feel like riding boats. Push people to have to accomplish something in order to earn their convenience rather than imposing a cost that may be unreasonable to players who don't have the time to ride boats and don't have the time to constantly play enough to earn money to skip them. A one-off quest that takes a half hour to an hour seems like a pretty reasonable time tax per character in exchange for being done with the boats, and if you don't want to spend the hour, go ahead and just ride them. Maple even had this built into the game as a precedent - you could create a VIP Ticket to Florina Beach by completing a questline that would remove the meso fee permanently for travel to and from Florina. I don't see why this can't be extended to the rest of the game if having them in the game is unarguable.
