Notice Boss Rewarp Policy Clarification

A notice to all players requesting rewarps into boss fights that you may have disconnected from.

Game Masters will only be warping players into boss fights under the following circumstances:

• A serverwide freeze or emergency server shutdown has occured; your party will be given a warp after we have resolved the issue.
• The server undergoes significant lag spikes, including but not limited to lag caused by server events and the player merchant reset at 24hrs uptime.
• An incorrect disconnection by the server automated cheat detection system for fast-attack, or an invalid pointer disconnect due to improper breaking of a reactor (Krexel).
• Failure by the NPC to bring all members of the expedition into the fight (in the case of Zakum) or alternatively entering a boss map where another party is preparing to start the fight (in the case of Krexel).

Game Masters will not be warping players into boss fights for any other reasons, such as graphics errors causing disconnection or player internet failure. Please be aware of the server uptime when you consider beginning a boss fight; it saves everyone time and effort if you notice that an event boss may be spawned soon and you schedule your run for afterwards.

Finally, please understand that we do check into which players have and have not signed up for a particular boss, and if you are found to be cheating the system, including saying that you were on a run that you initially were not, or dying and asking for a warp under the guise of a supposed lagspike, you will be caught and subject to punishment.

Thank you.

 

What's the penalty given to those that cheat the system? 3 day ban? O:

 

Their equips get deleted

 

GG server crash.

• A serverwide freeze or emergency server shutdown has occured; your party will be given a warp after we have resolved the issue.

What's the solution when zak had about 10% hp left?

 

The policy on rewarps of half-killed bosses is the same at the moment; if we lower the HP of the boss for you, it'll have give less experience. Your choices are accept the lower experience or restart the body part in question (so in the case you mention, your choice would be an 11m HP Zakum 3rd body that will give little exp, or a 110m HP Zakum 3rd body that will take a while to rekill). There's only so much we can do in situations like this, unfortunately.

Fortunately, bosses remain on the map even if everyone leaves with the exception of Horntail; unless the server resets completely, your boss will still be there.

 

What about Invalid Pointer? I have had times where my entire party have gotten disconnected due to invalid pointer.

 

So my party of 6 just dc from APQ everyone received the invalid pointer error, (at bonus stage) I love your "new policy" this one is useless. So was the old one, well this is the old one..

 

This "new policy" is meant to cut down on Staff interference in the game, since first and foremost, that's not supposed to be a part of MapleStory. When you disconnected from a fight on GMS, there was no Game Master saying "lol it okei" and pulling you back into the fight. You fumed for a few minutes and signed up for the run tomorrow, and tried to figure out why you disconnected. We are still warping for every issue that we cannot control; server lag and known, unavoidable glitches in our source.

You can thank the people that have been harassing us, flaming us and generally been abusive of something we didn't have to do for any of you in the first place for the reversion to the old policy on boss warps.

 

People who abuse the rules is a problem, but saying "we don't have to" it's true but i'm very certain I would have quit a long time ago if it wasn't for how friendly and helpful staff and admins are here.
Saying some people are not very nice so f**** everyone, I understand abusing rules but being unfriendly towards staff that's your problem, I would much rather see you punish the people who does that then saying we don't want to help anyone now.


Well "not being a part of Maplestory" even though it's true and shouldn't be needed, I'm playing on this server for a reason and not in the official one, cause their way of Maplestory is not my way. I find it abstract and not valid because a lot of things here follow a different route than what other servers does.

Well if you find Gm's shouldn't have a big part in game then that's your opinion.

I'm not going to take this too far but if you were to stop being in game stopped helping and make the "nexon way" quit all events cause some people don't stop dropping mesos or using chalk boards or whatever they do when they don't give a f**** what you are saying, punish everyone cause of a, few that's kinda a reason to start doing something else with my time. (Just pointing it out, not that it has actually happened)

I still don't like the old boss warping policy

 

No need to be salty..
The warping policy covers the currently known issues with bosses that are out of a player's control, which is all it has to do.
Plenty of players have tried to abuse it and got salty when they got denied the warp.

 

Except invalid pointers and other random client crashes.

 

Those are both client sided examples, where one of them is added as an exception when it's in the case of Krexel.

 

I still dc from half of my zak runs despite gfxing religiously.

 

Which is not the server's fault.

 

Random client crashes are graphics related, choosing to run on VMware or Parallels/bootcamp solves that issue. If you chose not to run on those options and you dc, that's not the server's fault.
Invalid pointer errors are 90% of the time caused by not having updated files- which is, again, not the server's fault. If you get invalid pointer from two people hitting a reactor, that qualifies for the rewarp as stated above.
I think it's pretty straight forward, and it's not changed at all actually. We've never rewarped for client sided issues, unless someone was lying about it and we weren't aware.
We've had people die and whisper it to their friends that they can get a rewarp by claiming it was a lag spike. These days, we don't lag outside of events or shop reset- both of which are the server's fault, hence why they qualify for the rewarp.