When creating a character, let players decide what mode they’d like to choose. Depending on the level of difficulty, it will reflect different criteria (EXP, Meso, Drop Rate, Quest EXP, Party Leech, Trade). Easiest way to picture it is OSRS (Old School RuneScape) with it’s difficulty modes.
You already have a choice between several difficulty levels and gameplay features. Those are Royals, Legends, MapleSaga, DreamMS, and Phoenix, among many others.
How would I know what difficulty mode people have chosen in my party? Will i get lesser mw20s and gen30s because they decided they wanted to handicap themselves? what about people who sell leech to them? Do they have to be questioned on their leech services because these people seem to get lesser exp?
Yeah, but the problem is they are segregated into different servers and hinders voting . Why not have one place where you can decide how the NX can be used depending on the character instead of being able to vote for one server and not the others? Phoenix has a decent difficulty system in place, but pretty niche because it consists of only hardcore players. Sure it’s a well-nit community, but it’s very small.
I don’t know how it’s going to work right now, but I suppose allowing only players of the same difficulty to interact with party leech and trades for now. As for how you tell, their job would indicate the difficulty mode. For example, “Bandit [Hard Mode]”.
I think theres a thread on a higher difficulty mode "iron man mode" where players are unable to trade with other players and every equipment you get has to be unlocked yourself aka getting it from monster drops. Might wanna check that out too if you are interested
Appreciate the thought. That’s only one aspect of difficulty mode, though. I’m think of the grander scheme of things. Iron Man bars interaction from everyone and wouldn’t be much different than Reboot with the current MS. What I’m suggesting is interaction among those with the same difficulty mode.
Oh okay. Might be hard to push for that considering this is a private server who advertises bonus exp/drop rates. I think there are already established servers who provide those specific rates as well as @Baconfry mentioned above
There are servers out there that offer different experiences, but the problem is NX voting. You can't vote for each one of the servers you play in, and would be annoying to alternate back and forth when voting. I wouldn't want to start in a new server and not be allowed to vote for it if Royals is the main server I put all my votes towards. Each server has their own quirks. For example, Legends doesn't allow tradable NX, limiting your AP Washing progress to about the speed at which you can vote for the most part. Only Cash Shop items bought with NX acquired from events are tradable, if I'm not mistaken. Phoenix doesn't have White Scrolls, making scrolling for end-game equips near impossible. Royals has the right balance among the top servers when it comes to including features, but isn't as difficult as other servers when it comes to rates like Legends (2x), and Phoenix (1x*). Difficulty is subjective depending on the player you ask, but I think expanding to encompass other players would be a good thing. *Phoenix default rates are 1/1/1 and can be as low as 0.5x for EXP.
