(also added to the original post) After speaking with people and reading comments and feedbacks on this post it seems like a better solution than adding back the bees exhange would be to add the mesos to another form of content which will promote more team-oriented gameplay rather than solo content. The suggestion I wanna raise is to incorporate an ETC that can be sold for mesos as gurantee drop from every box in the VL bonus stage. It will serve a few purposes: 1. Reduce the deflation of the server as was the original point of the post. 2. Promote a team-oriented gameplay and a good alternative to mage farming. 3. Refresh the VL bonus that was recently hurt with the declining price of clean boots and provide a more stable income to bonus runners in VL regardless of hitting chase items such as cs/ws/boots. This option will be easily adjustable to the staff to control the economy better as they can adjust the NPC value of the item. Would love to hear the community's feedback to that idea. Happy mapling.
Wouldnt that also hurt new VL runners? People would probably try to push 12man runs as much as they can, save characters for those runs thus making less 18man runs happen. Not saying 100% will happen with all VL groups but it immediately popped in my head
That is a good point but the current structure of VL boss already has that going. The suggestion is suppose to make VL a more attractive boss and combat the inflation and mage farming meta that is ongoing, not to promote higher amount of people per run. Current runs are already being optimized to provide runners with the best bonus capable for the team. Adding mesos should not impact the party size directly at all (if a team is running 10 man after the change, they would probably run 10 man before etc.). Personally, I hope that such a change will revive the boss and attract new players to try it, making 18 man runs even more common than they are right now.
make the Etc one-of-a-kind then however what if ppl do 12 man and others join and stay on corner (right side) then loot during bonus also a VL run is usually around 50mins so the Etc value must not be above other money making methods to avoid ppl using others' mules to loot the etc, or just grant the etc like Snowman/Cake boss based on participation
Yeah i had the same idea with one of a kind etc but it fell because it will promote leaving mules inside the VL room and ressing them during the run. And as for monetary value of the etc, I left it out to be at the discretion of the staff. Each bonus room has 30 boxes and that obviously has to be taken into account when adjusting the value. Thank you for the feedback!
