Cool ideas for MapleRoyals + Competitions.

Ugh im not in a creative mood and i am hella bored.

First about i wanna say that this server is already awesome and we dont wanna change it since 2005-2009 were the best years. But to make this server better and more unique, that does not mean that we should make new maps and classes. This server is based on nostalgic experience, this server is growing and growing time by time. But first, i wanna talk about travelling in maple world. The biggest nostalgic experience was based on travelling, who remembers the boat trips from ellinia to orbis and vice versa. Those were the times where friendships were made. Now i know you are gonna probably gonna say that there is an option where you can choose to ride fast or just take a boat, but that doesnt make sense, since every player will probably know that if you take a boat, it will be empty. And what happened to ludi boat and kerning city metro to new leaf city? I basically enjoyed the metro ride. So this leads to my other idea, more awesome events. Who remembers the event i made last halloween? heres the link: https://royals.ms/forum/threads/top-10-halloween-costume-idea-competition-closed.40669/

The first thing that came to my mind guild wars and different competitions.

First, if you think about guilds, guilds are awesome, guilds can make you more known, you can make friends there and more famous , etc.. But instead of raiding Guild Party Quest and showing who is the best guild with most points, but instead, you could join a Guild Wars. The Guild Wars is basically a battle against other guilds, but not in a PVP way. GW contains a list, that shows which guild has the most bossing kills (each boss). It also contains a boss battle against other guilds, for example: Guild Boss Race. The Guild Boss Race is a race, where you can choose between 1vs1/2vs2/3vs3/4vs4/5vs5/6vs6, it also has different stages. Each stage has a level limit, for example: Stage 1 is easier and meant for guilds, that are not so strong or high level enough. Each race has a timer, and when the time is up, there will be a ranking list, what says how long it took, how many bosses you killed, how many points you got and which guild is the winner. The prizes could be example onyx apples. There would be also big prizes like chairs, but to obtain that, you would need to have certain amount of points. To get into GBR, guild masters need to register to a bulletin board, and guild masters can challenge any guild they want.

Now my second idea is about competitions. Every competition has their top 10 winners ( or top 3 or top 5) and there will be prizes. For example best costume competitions, best mapleroyals teaser video, funniest mapleroyals video, best mapleroyals art ( example drawing), different competition events, for example, matchboard matches? There should be an event about match cards and the best winner. Or what do you think about making a ranking about Matchcards and players with the most points?

This leads to my other ideas as well. What do you think about Orbis Party Quest and Henesys Party Quest? in my opinion, orbis party quest should be 50-200 just like Ludibrium Party Quest, and Henesys Party Quest should be fixeeed

This leads to my other idea, in my experience, i have always enjoyed using a summoning bag on kerning city newbies. So what do you think about GM invasions? Time by time, there will pop a random messengers to the whole maple world, that each city is being attacked. Like there would be a day where a random city (example omega sector) would be filled with bosses and monsters like Pianus,

I really admire mini games! More please.

And i dont wanna be rude here, but i think the eastern egg quest is not so good, i mean the drop rates are bad and it is boring to farm them. So what do you think about making events, where gamemasters hide something, that you need to find, for example: those golden eggs or what ever they are called. For example: Find all the 10 eggs that are hidden somewhere in the maple world, and talk to NPC and get a prize. It would be awesome, where players really get into parties and get to know eachothers, the maps would be filled with running maple players and awesome Maple Socializing! There would be rules that it is illegal to tell the secret about where each egg is. Or if that rule is impossible, change the map of each egg once every 1-2 hours? Something like that.


And again, WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THIS?!

Maplestory Training Camp was my first maplestory experience and it was pure awesomeness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3<3<3

And i am terrible sorry to tell you all this, but dont you really think that this server is way too easy?

I mean, think about it, there is no experience when you can level from 50-70 in 1-2 days... i understand that most players are probably adults by now, and most of the players are old school veterans just like me. But it doesnt mean that maplestory is just another game where you make friends and do bossing, party quests and chill with your friends and talk about everything. Because it really is! But this all is missing 1 thing.. The pure nostalgic feeling of MapleStory, you cant get the feeling back, but we can still enjoy this game, and this game misses this: Adventure. What kind of adventure is it where you level fast? It was never about levelling and doing bossing and getting alot of mesos. It was about friendships . Friendships, where you explore the amazing Maple World together. Ahh i remember being a noob, and Henesys Dungeon Entrace golems were the shet back then! I made there good friends and we always died together, until some higher level came and rescued us! Hehe~

If you want to hear more ideas, reply and give your own ideas as well

Ps. I am gonna probably create another Top 10 Halloween Costume Competition with better prizes this time, without ( and probably more winners, how about top 20) lol. Mummysets and santasets anyone ? And this time, i am gonna give the prizes by myself, since i dont know if Lyrium gave the prizes to the winners.

And for you GMs, please do not close this

 

I think this would have been a lot better as separate threads as this post just seems like a random stream of thoughts and not actual ideas that have been thought out. Could you maybe edit the post to make it more readable? Or have this thread closed and make separate threads only if they haven't been suggested before?

For example, your first idea about boats has already been discussed quite a bit. Try searching on our forums and read some of the old threads.

 

Those are actually ideas as i wrote them down from my thoughs and experience and ok lemme search about some boats.

 

I don't remember the boat rides because I always went afk when I went on them. There's already a thread about this where there was a lot of support against mandatory boat rides. But that doesn't matter, they're coming anyways.


As for the guild thing. I'm not sure if this is possible. But one thing that I would like to see is for gpq to become useful. What I was thinking was a possible "hard mode" for gpq where the stages would be more challenging and the boss would actually be hard to kill. This would of course give better rewards. Again, don't know if this is possible. Doubt it's even going to be considered anyways because of "nostalgia".

 

Boat rides were always nostalgic. And yeah your idea is good

 

"Nostalgia" is subjective. Personally, I don't find boat rides nostalgic, some people do. That's why the way things should be done, in my opinion, is by making changes based off the opinion of the majority. The majority's opinion on mandatory boat rides was that it shouldn't be implemented. Just over 75% of the people who voted on that thread were in favor of non mandatory boat rides, yet mandatory boat rides are still being implemented.

 

The debate on whether or not boat rides are nostalgic aren't quite the point. People are far more likely to vote against them due to it making their lives easier. IMO, its not about QOF being added but something that is quite unnecessary and that people should be able to plan their activities with travelling times in mind, or use a teleport rock. The only reason that instant boat rides are currently in the game for most of the trips is because the current source is devils spawn and were mostly non-functional. Its more of a bug-fix than us trying to make life more difficult for you or even for nostalgia.

 

So the boats are going to be mandatory at some point? I am all for it, we are kinda spoiled by the instant rides..

 

http://royals.ms/forum/threads/boat-rides.38241/ @Slap

 

There is not even training camp when creating a character.

+ Why didnt the Nexon do the same thing for the boat rides as MapleRoyals? Because boat rides are part of the game and it is very nostalgic. I started MS 2005 and ive seen so many people who actually enjoyed the boat rides.

And Stan that vote sucks..this server has 1000+ players so 82 votes is nothing...

Boat rides should be mandatory in the next source, if some players would rather use teleport rock, go ahead, because many players would rather spend NX cash on something else than just tele rocks everytime they want to travel.

And maplestory golden age was when there were no 4th jobs JUST SAYING!

 

Will come with the new source.

 

yay <3

 

And please, check this out.. http://s220.photobucket.com/user/hockeyguy399/media/Maple0000.jpg.html



Ship rides are just awesome...

The sad thing is, nobody goes anywhere by boat anymore because of those teleports but being on a boat with tons of other maplers had something fun to it. You made friends on boats and now that's all over

Go inside, rogs may spawn!
Me: What the heck is a rog??
*Crimson barlogs appear*
PRESS OK TO BE REVIVED Ah memories...

MapleStory players in this generation might be wondering: Who the hell needs this useless shit when we can teleport all over the world!? R.I.P good old days of MapleStory 2005-2009 Born by Nexon, Destroyed by Nexon.

Now MapleRoyals you can save the by doing more nostalgic >_<

 

It's already been decided that ships will be mandatory in the new source.

 

Love how only Matt and John like this (as of this comment). Wouldn't be the only time a majority was ignored in favor what so few wanted. I even remeber one time Matt insisted on over 80% in a vote, because that's totally realistic... Also, it WILL make life more dificult, regardless of whether that's the intent.

Anyways, nostalgia is entirely subjective therefore making an argument based on that is flawed. Nostalgic to someone who started Maple in 2010 is completely different than for someone who played before; and even people who played at the same time have different experiences that affect nostalgia in different ways. In GMS I HATED the boat rides. They were a royal waste of time and 90% of the people AFKed on them. In the time it took to get from Elinia to Ludi you could do 20-30 LMPQs. That is A LOT of efficiency lost. And if you needed to repot in NLC you lost almost an hour. How is that enjoyable in any way? There were only a few things worse than boat rides, one of which was the climb up Eos Tower.

I'll concede that boat ride will be nostalgic at first, but they, like everything else, will wear out their welcome. Unless boat rides are made shorter this will be a large step back for the server.

 

But I almost feel like that's the point of them? They are a limitation that is built into the game. The places you named are supposed to be far away from each other, and travelling between them takes time and not just like moving between adjacent maps.

I'll also concede that they may wear out their welcome and be unpopular (I for one will find them annoying) but that furthers my point. Not everything implemented is to make things easier.
I have in the past and still do like the idea of potentially shortened trips (as some of the boat rides are extortionately long IMO) or increased fare ride prices at somewhere between the normal fare and that of a TP rock as to not overvalue TP rocks.

This discussion doesn't really belong here anyway, and is somewhat offtopic to the OP's post, which is in part my fault. If we want to continue this topic we should move back to the original feedback post or potentially start a new one if there are any new angles on the situation.

 

Speaking of subjective, there was no training camp when I first started GMS. Hell a really nostalgic server wouldn't even have 4th job for me.

Also, the training camp was in the Beta if I remember correctly.

 

I would thing it should be easy distinguishing between mandatory boat rides and G coins but maybe not. One can destroy the economy and the other won't. Not to mention that keeping boats optional isn't "server threatening" either but w/e. The situations are completely different.

@Stan This isn't an easier or harder change either, it won't make a difference in that way. The difference is QOL. Boats are a useless pain in the ass that serve literally no point, and the use of tele rocks further makes the rides absolutely useless.

My final thought, when I joined the server boat rides didn't work at all, not even the Elinia-Orbis ride. Because people wanted to get the Chief Stan hat Matt got it working, and for about a week everyone rode the boat, fought balrogs, and D/Ced each other by hitting the box at the same time. It was all good and fun, for about a week. After that no one ride the boat, it had worn out its welcome and served its only useful purpose. The same thing will happen here if boat rides are inplemented. To the OPs point, it won't be like GMS where you can chill with people, there won't be anybody there, and if there are most will be afk (like in GMS). Definitely not a community building oportunity.