I've been playing Royals a lot since February now and consider myself an active member of this society, and as such, after meeting people, seeing the quirks in Royals over the past year I'd like to come with a list of suggestions to make the game stand out even more. I know here we emphasize a lot on the Nostalgia, but most of my suggestions will be purely cosmetic and I hope some of you nostalgics out there would see my suggestions in a positive light too. I am also playing for the Nostalgia but I personally would love one or all of these implementations. #1 Hair/Eye colors To those of us that play MapleRoyals, seeing custom quests around and such, it's clear the staff here has the ability to code the game. Currently MapleRoyals (or MapleStory) in general does not have Yellow eyes or Pink hair color. I want to suggest adding a bright pink hair color and stark yellow eye options to Royals, or go even further and add a color code chart for hair and eyes, like this in an upcoming patch: #2 Guild Emblems MapleStory has, since way back yonder and still to this day had the same generic guild emblems, I'd like to suggest Royals setting itself further apart from other private servers here and implement an upload feature. MapleStory2 had this, and I was an avid player as well as a Reddit & Discord mod there so I was very much involved and know how popular that new feature was to MapleStory in general. This also would not affect the actual gameplay of Royals, but would give guild leaders a more unique way of expressing their guilds and what they stand for! The file sizes could be set as low as 20kb and the resolution to like idk 20x20, and whenever a guild leader uploads a new icon, the old one gets automatically deleted from the server, preventing it from racking up more space than necessary. #3 Romeo and Juliet Jump Quest Currently Royals has the oldest version of the Romeo and Juliet PQ, and I feel that could be a big hit. It gives a lot of XP, and for someone like me who struggles to level up as a non-leeching Beginner, its a sanctuary! I would like to suggest revamping the jump quest stage (portal one) so that only one person needs to clear the stage for everyone to clear. Like when one person clears it, everyone gets teleported out. I'd also like to come with a polite argument here if you feel that's not nostalgic enough, I played the original Maple since I was a wee teen back in 2006 and even the original maple brought about that update pretty quickly! #4 Last but not least... Let's talk about the Eye of Horus (Romeo and Juliet PQ pendant). I've been collecting marbles from both Romeo and Juliet, but the prequest from (Keeely) or something can't be started past level 85. I'd like to request that this please be changed to 200 so that everyone has a chance of getting this pendant! Thank you for reading, and I am looking for feedback. Sincerely, bong! (ps: I work as a professional web designer, and would not mind helping a bit with writing some code for this if need be). Please voice support! And as always, Have a great day everyone!
I don't like the idea of a color wheel for eye color, hair color, etc. I like the way the system is currently with the amount of colors we have for the current styles as well as how some hairstyles have exclusive colors (i.e. green Evan hairstyle is actually white). I think there is such a thing as too much customization in video games with things like color wheels or a scale to change the size of an avatar's nose/chin/etc. That opinion also goes for your idea about custom guild emblems. I think it's simply too much customization and a burden on the GM's to have to siphon through guild emblems to see whether they represent inappropriate images or not. I do agree with your suggestion about the R&J pendant though because I don't like things have level caps such as PQ's, zones, or quests. I believe it to be limiting to players playing the way they want to.
Appreciate your feedback. I personally would love to see a Pink hair color and Yellow hair color added though. I appreciate also the support for the changes to the party quest. It's a great PQ, and the eye of horus is a convenient pendant to have! Also would like to add a circumvention/potential workaround to your scepticism about the guild emblem. Regular emblems could and should still stay in the game, and the upload feature can only be allowed to accounts with a character above level 100, or x amount of days old (say, 2 months). It could also be set that regular emblems can be updated whenever, but custom uploads limited to once or twice every 30 days. It's not foolproof but people are less likely to risk their main accounts just to upload a dumb picture.
There's no way we can put in a custom colour wheel like that, I'm sorry. You'd have to go into the client code itself and build a whole separate window, and then implement it at every NPC and make sure nothing breaks. This client can't even handle that, that's something too custom, and beyond the capacity of a 2004-2008 client of MapleStory. Also, the custom things we added in, such as the new HP Quest were added in by using the tools within the current client. There's no physical way a custom colour wheel could get added in. To add onto the hair colours: the images and IDs are loaded from their own original files. Each hair has individual images for each colour as well as a corresponding Colour ID. If we were to add every type of colour, we would need thousands of images of each individual hairstyle that is already added into the game, as well as other styles we would add in the future. Images can vary from: wearing a cap, lying down, on a ladder, Class skills, etc. A single hair for a single colour could have 5-6 images. Times that by however many hairstyles we currently have, and colours you want added, and we've got to manually add all of that in. That's a LOT of work in my opinion for our Devs. Same thing with the Guild Emblem idea. The emblem choices are loaded from your client-sided wz files so we can't allow players to upload emblems whenever they want, because that would require everyone to patch constantly to be able to see the customized emblems. So if you change an emblem, everyone would have to re-download the game to see that emblem, or else they could crash the entire map wherever they go, or crash the guild members inside of the guild who didn't update their client to be able to view the new emblem. We'd like to keep R&JPQ the same as it was back in GMS. The jump part is hard, but honestly that's the only thing that's hard about the PQ and what's stopping it from being rushed in under 5 minutes. Plus it puts the "Party" in "Party Quest!" There's an Orbis quest as well, that we need to fix! And we plan on doing so SoonTM so both of those should be fixed pretty soon! Your suggestions are pretty unique and I really do like them, however the downside here is our client limitations.
I would just like to add that I believe the updated jump quest was also part of pre-BB GMS and EMS. And whilst yes the first version of the PQ is the "og", I've been doing it loads and the vast majority don't want to do it much because of that part. But if the client itself cannot handle it, that complicates things. My offer of helping to write some code if you at some point do decide to try update anything would still stand. If there was anything I could feasibly do to help. I'm more into Laravel and such but I'm capable in most frameworks. I will be honest and say the only reason I offer to help is because I'd love to see it implemented at one point or another, if at all feasible. Thanks for your input and looking forward to the Eye of Horus pendant! I'm still interested in getting feedback though, on how the people would have voted, and about the PQ!
I think for the guild emblem idea, we could instead host a community event where people can submit custom emblems, and the most popular ones could be hand-picked by staff and added in the next patch.
