This server doesn't want players to have access to free owls. That's fine. However, I believe it would be healthy for all players to get at least some free FM searches, allowing even poor players to participate in the economy to some extent. This could be a repeatable quest from Maple Administrator with a random task like "kill 200 monsters", "collect 3 tokens of teamwork", or "spend 1 million mesos in the Free Market", rewarding 1 Owl of Minerva. The cooldown on the quest can be adjusted to whatever it needs to be, but I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be daily.
someone else already explained why the price guide, an unofficial community resource maintained purely through altruism, does not solve everything this statement is extremely vague, and I am going to request that you elaborate how a daily quest that requires actual gameplay is more abusable than the 3m owl that is sold at the FM entrance
someone else already made the same post you are asking and people have already explained why its not a good idea. https://royals.ms/forum/threads/re-suggestion-lower-the-price-of-owls.244587/#post-1529302 please also look at the older post he made which was about making owls free.
But I'm not asking to make owls free. Requiring a quest means that this will have a time/effort cost associated with it. Same reason why Reuel isn't considered "free HP" and the time cost is compared to the meso cost of the equivalent number of APRs.
I understand and I think that some of the options you mentioned are not really quests that people have to go out of the way for. Killing 200 monsters or spending 1m mesos in the fm are already things that people will be doing anyway. just based off these two quests I could be getting 10-12 owls for free daily. As a merchant this would allow me to undercut my competitors more often than I already am. This would be too unfair for my competitors. Im sure more sweaty merchants (if there are any and im sure there are) would exploit this for their 50-60 characters. Partying up and spamming mage ultimates in hhg1 for 1-2mins can get them 6 owls.
In that case, I would change the quest so it requires all 3 of the things I mentioned, instead of just one of them randomly. Would this be acceptable?
