MapleRoyals 2020 Census Results

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    Hello Everyone,

    I am ecstatic to finally release the result of the MapleRoyals 2020 Census. I initially planned to release the results somewhere around the Halloween Patch 2020 Patch, due to a series of unforeseeable events, I wasn’t able to commit to this project.

    Since I do not want to let down the players who taken their time to answer the census and I can't find any respite in my situation anytime soon, I have decided to release the results chuck by chuck, so it will much more manageable for me. For that, I offer my most sincere apologies for the long delay to both the community and staff members who has place their trust on me.

    Now for the results. Over 300 of our community members has kindly spare me some of their time to complete this census, I have even received messages from community leaders and players who either send the census to their personal group channels or use Google Translate to fill up the census as it was not available in their native language. For that, you have my deepest gratitude.

    I hope this census will provided some tangible insights that both the community and staff members can use to make in their judgement and learn a little more about server. Thank you!

    Update:
    11 April 2021 oof < Question 1 - 5 released!>
    17 April 2021 <Question 6 - 11 released!>
    6 May 2021 <Question 12 - 16 released!>
    10 more questions to go... what the hell did 2020 ilyssia was thinking?

    (337 respondents, 337 votes)
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    • Night Lords are most pick mains on this server, with about 20.8% ~ respondents picking it as their main. No other classes comes in close, this broadly aligns with what the community seems to think on what is the most common main on server.

    • On the the opposite end of the spectrum, Fire/Poison Archmage (0.59%) barely a blip in the radar, followed by Marksman (2.97%) and Ice/Lightning Archmage (4.51%) gather the least amount of votes for a mainstream class. This is a sharp decline for Fire/Poison Archmage, when it was the eighth most popular class, making it more popular than choices like Corsair, Marksman, Buccaneer and Paladin.

    • While, both Islanders and Beginner gain (0.59%) of the votes.

    (337 respondents, 879 votes)
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    Within expectation, Bishops and Night Lords continue to have a stronghold as being the most popular class in 2020. With more than half of participants (56.4%) pick to play Bishop on a regular basis, followed by Night Lords (34.1%)

    I’m surprised to learn after getting past the obvious choices, Dark Knights are the third most played class, with about a quarter of participants (24.6%) said that play them on a regular basis, followed by Bowmasters (22.2%) and Heroes (21.4%).

    (115 respondents, 115 votes)

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    Most of the respondents who answered this census have reach endgame status. However, is likely to be bias and skewed towards active players/forum users to use the forum frequently and also engaged with the server for longer, while newer players are less likely to frequent the forum.

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    (338 respondents, 338 votes)

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    • This is in line with the results from 2017, that a majority of players prefer to play in the game in windows mode.

    (338 respondents, 338 votes)

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    • With over 7/10 of players mainly playing on the higher resolution. It seems the introduction of a larger resolution client is overwhelmingly positive as 70% of participants use it as their main client. It will be interesting to hear from players why so!

    (335 respondents, 335 votes)
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    1. Used to be ~30 hours, got a job now its <1Hour
    2. on and off throughout the years, but when on, more than 40
    3. ummm i logged on like 3 times since i made my acc ike 2 years ago? LOL IM SO SORRY
    4. idk exactly tbh
    5. Used to spend over 40 hours, currently less due to going back to work.
    6. on and off depending on the month. Mostly around xmas time
    7. When active 2-3 hours. When on break I just vote.
    8. depends on my schedule/motivation. can range from everyday 12 hrs to no hours for months
    9. Stopped playing recently due to work and bored of MS/friends stopped playing
    10. currently hour or less, because im returning to the game so maybe in a few months 1-3 hours a day ;)
    11. Depends, sometimes I can go 10-16 hours a day, and then do nothing for another few days kek

    (337 respondents, 337 votes)
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    • While I expected Channel 1 to be the top choices for players, I didn't know how big the lead is.

    • It will be interesting to ask in the future do players have a preference for luck based activities such as using the gachapon or scrolling.

    (336 respondents, 336 votes)
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    • Unsurprisingly due to the worldwide disruptions and lockdowns brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, I have expected the year 2020 to bring in a large influx of new players. Now we have the data to back it up, we can observed almost a quarter of participants (23.8%) said they joined in 2020. That is more than the players who joined in 2018 and 2019 combined!

    • While this is a similar experience by other private servers, it is expected we will also lose a portion of this influx. As the vaccines began to roll out, countries around the world will gradually jumpstart their economy. It will be interesting to how much of the new player base we can continue to retain.

    • On the side note, it is nice to know that the server has continued to engage a significant number of players from 2013/2014, making 11.8% of the respondents.

    (338 respondents, 338 votes)
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    • Within expectations, a large swaths of players are within the 21 to 27 years old age bracelet, representing about 58% of the server.

    • Using this, we could attempt to guesstimate as what age did the respondents first experience MapleStory.
    Korea and Japan 2003 (18 years ago), 3 to 9 years old
    North America 2005 (16 years ago), 5 to 11 years old
    SEA region 2005 (16 years ago), 5 to 11 years old
    EU region 2007 (14 years ago), 7 to 13 years old

    (336 respondents, 336 votes)
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    • While it is not unexpected to know the majority of players (79.8%) in 2020 identified as males as seen in the 2017 census. Is still good to know the server has a significant number of players who identify as females (17.3%)

    • In 2017, the ratio of female to male is 1: 4.7, and in 2020 the ratio is 1: 4.68.

    (338 respondents, 338 votes)
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    • In 2017, the majority of the playerbase hailed from Asia (41.3%), with North America (33%) being a close second. In 2020, players from North America have dwarfed Asia with a ratio of 17:9.

    • Is nice to know the share of players from the Middle East, Europe and South America has occupied a significant portion of the community. Which in line with what has Matt posted before.

    • The Oceania region has 4 votes (1.2%), while Africa has 3 votes (0.9%). #represent

    (328 respondents, 328 votes)
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    (338 respondents, 338 votes)
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    • This was one of the more interesting questions I wanted to know answer to. It is surprisingly to me to learn that it is almost a split between players who had experience with MapleStory (MS) private servers and players who said MapleRoyals is their first MS private server.

    • A little of more than half of respondents (57.4%) said that MapleRoyals is not their first MapleStory private server they had played. It will be interesting to learn what are the factors that drawn them in staying with MapleRoyals instead of other servers. Maybe can we learn to improve the current server's strengths and learn the mistakes of others.

    (337 respondents, 337 votes)
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    • Almost 2/3 of respondents of said they stay in MapleRoyals after playing it. If we take it at face value, it does show the current server has a good retention rate for players, as they decided this server is right for them.

    • However, I suspect the chart is much more bias towards No response, as we have seen there are significant number of new players joining in 2020 and yet to tried other servers.

    15. What other MapleStory private servers have you tried, why did you choose MapleRoyals in the end?
    (156 respondents)


    The 5 most common private servers that players migrate from.
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    It was mind boggling to me learn there are that many private servers (over 40 servers!) dedicated to MapleStory.

    MapleLegends - 37 votes
    Croosade - 15 votes
    Extalia - 14 votes
    MapleSaga - 10 votes
    Aries - 9 votes
    Kastia - 5 votes
    OdinMS - 4 votes
    OSM (Original MapleStory) - 4 votes
    StoryMS - 3 votes
    MapleGlobal - 3 votes
    Classic MapleStory (CMS) - 3 votes
    MapleDestiny - 3 votes
    KhainiMS - 2 votes
    LeafMS - 2 votes
    Phoenix - 2 votes
    CakeStory - 2 votes
    Maple MS - 2 votes
    MapleToday - 1 vote
    Slimetales - 1 vote
    RydahMS - 1 vote
    Flowsion - 1 vote
    XplicitMS - 1 vote
    Bankai Story - 1 vote
    SydneyMS - 1 vote
    FarmerStory - 1 vote
    DunStory - 1 vote
    LucidMS - 1 vote
    Dragonstory - 1 vote
    DreamMS - 1 vote
    Eunoia - 1 vote
    Bucket - 1 vote
    Mapletoast - 1 vote
    ChickenMS - 1 vote
    Rien - 1 vote
    Maple Home - 1 vote
    NanoMS - 1 vote
    ElliniaMS - 1 vote
    OssyriaMS - 1 vote
    ZakumMS - 1 vote
    Maple Origin - 1 vote
    LatinMS - 1 vote
    Start - 1 vote
    Do note for this chart I just count the number of keywords based on a theme using on my interpretation their comments, so they might not paint an accurate picture of players' feelings!
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    Do note for this chart I just count the number of keywords based on a theme using on my interpretation their comments, so they might not paint an accurate picture of players' feelings!
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    Explanation
    • Server stability - A player's connectivity with the server (Client, connection, lag etc)
    • Safest bet - A player's perception of the longevity and lowest risk of the server being closed down.
    • Established foothold - It means the player already has established resources here to help them to progress the game.

    As we can see from the chart above, about 14.1% of respondents commented that MapleRoyals's large population is an important factor for them to come and stay here. Followed by the server's community (10.3%), Nostalgic/Old School vibe (9.6%) and Rates (7.7%).

    We can make the connection that MapleRoyals's position of being the top MapleStory private server generate a continuous positive feedback loop of attracting and retaining players. If we lose the lead, we might get a weaker loop and tougher competitions with younger private servers in maintaining and attracting new players.

    Bear in mind a good community is also related to the population of a server, a high population count also contribute to an active and more variety of groups. Saying that, is also good to know we as a community also have a significant part to play in retaining new players here.
    1. Legends, OSM, MapleGlobal, countless others. Royals has the new source and feels like the safest bet in the long term.
    2. legends. Royals community too good
    3. Classic MapleStory (CMS). It shut down, and the owner was unprofessional anyway.
    4. Tried:
      1. MapleLegends
      2. Kastia
      3. Aries
      4. Start

      Was once plan to move to MapleLegend cause they are low rate (Which I like), but their population are lesser, and still have the same thing I don't like:
      1. Multiclient
      2. Leeching
      3. Mule
      4. HP wash
      5. Buggy event (only a little though)
      So I didn't stay long there.

      Back to Royals because already playing here for a year. Staying because:
      1. I have almost every basic set builded up
      2. More achievement can be pursue
      3. Better & active community/forum
      4. A good balancing in game system (jobs, market, HP wash alternative)
    5. no comment
    6. None
    7. MapleSaga,StoryMS,OriginMS. and much more.
    8. Latinms maplelege ds
    9. MapleSaga, MapleLegends. I choose this because the stable client, friendly exp/meso rate.
    10. I spend most of my time here already
    11. Croosade. Population
    12. Extalia
    13. KhainiMS, ElliniaMS, OssyriaMS, ZakumMS, ExtaliaMS - All closed down + experienced frequent wipes
    14. Extalia, MapleLegends. Chose Royals because Extalia doesn't exist anymore and the exp rate of the server is more fun than Legends's
    15. croosade, maplelegends, picked mapleroyals due to population and community
    16. ariesms, extaliams, mapleleaf. mapleroyals has its problems, but proves to be stable, and is also easy to pick up because i've played since the beginning. i don't want to invest time into other servers to have them shut down in the end like extalia did.
    17. MapleLegends. Royals has a bigger community <3
    18. Legends and saga, royals has best rates, not to slow not to fast but still challeging
    19. None
    20. maple legend
    21. I tried croosade before , quit because the population
    22. Only maple royals because friend introduce
    23. Can't remember the old P.Servers I play previously. But for now because I have friends to play and enjoy together.
    24. number of active players
    25. Me gustó, la nostalgia del juego, sentí como haber regresado a cuando maplestory era la versión 55 o 62, me gustó que tiene pocos rates de experiencia,mesos, me encantó más porque fue bonito entrenar mi principal, me costó mucho llegar en ese entonces, jugando y entrenando, conocí amigos nuevo.
    26. never do other
    27. Can't remember all of them, I was young as hell. But mainly extaliams. I chose mapleroyals because it is the most popular one, also I like the nostalgic feel.
    28. NA
    29. Croosade, they had aran and duel blade. But it just wasnt populated enough
    30. bcuz this server has the most people
    31. soooo much people than korean private server
    32. KMS p-server but it got shut down by Nexon. I heard royals ran for 3 years by the time I joined so security was the top priority.
    33. Old maple
    34. ClassicMS, MapleGlobal, Old School Maple , ExtaliaMS, all closed down in the end (R.I.P) and Royals have been the only consistent server through the years, and I'm very glad for that.
    35. None
    36. Other server had rebirth system to other jobs and it was interesting but I wanted old grind.
    37. MapleDestiny, LeafMS. Chose Royals because of the community.
    38. Played some during middle school. Idr the names.
    39. i dont remember, it was a long time ago. I like this version of maplestory.
    40. Legends and Croosade, I choose royals because of it's stability
    41. MapleLegends, MapleSaga and Croosade.
      I’m actually currently undecided between Royals and Legends
    42. High rates, QOL changes, ingenius staff, and high population
    43. Yes
    44. Mapleroyals has kept the original things best together and wiped oud rwt, pay to win, etc
    45. the nostalgia
    46. maplelegends, that arian server. but mapleroyals had the largest number of players so i stayed
    47. I trust that Mapleroyals will remain open/available in the long run. The other PS's I've tried (Kastia, MapleMS, NanoMS) are fun for a couple days but are ultimately a high risk to be shut down so I don't feel good investing my time and energy into them.
    48. elegi mapleroylas por que es divertido aun tiene eso que se perdio hace mucho en aquel serbidor anterior mantiene la escensia del juego no cambien eso
      I chose mapleroylas because it's fun, it still has that which was lost a long time ago in that previous serbidor, it keeps the scene of the game, don't change that
    49. last one played prior to Royals was Phoenix (though i have played oh so many in the past), i like Royals due to the non-crazy exp rate, large and active player base, non-p2w donor points and easily accessible Nx
    50. I tried MapleLegends, but some friends play in MapleRoyals, so I decided for this private server.
    51. Some that got closed already and I think I tried legends once?
      Also tried the low version ones like Phoenix but quit cause it was too dead there and boring to level
    52. MapleLegends
    53. Nostalgic. Lasted longer than any private server. Highest number of active players.
    54. I tried StoryMS before, in the end I came back to MapleRoyals because our community is huge and friendly.
    55. Mostly stay on Royals because of prior progress, and no other server is appealing enough to overcome that momentum
    56. ExtaliaMS, Maplelegends. stuck with royals because i quit the other two and wanted a fresh start
    57. I have played many Private Servers over the last 10 years. Royals is special to me due to its community and after trying anything from 1-9999x exp I prefer the slower servers. Also for a Private Server to have an Islander Community is fairly rare. Here we even sometimes see a GM on the Island and we can participate in most Events.
    58. DreamMS (was shutdown)
    59. do not remember it was years ago
    60. idk it was way back
    61. Population
    62. Croosade
    63. AriesMS, MapleLegends. Royals has a more "refined finish" as a game, something I didn't see in the other private servers.
    64. osm. i chose royals because i love leeching! 420 blaze bru hahaha
    65. AriesMS, wanted to try old maple and hey, got hooked.
    66. Number one server on gtop
    67. OSM, it had spyware so I left it.
    68. eunoia, but i didnt play eunoia or royals that much in the end, the last private server i truly took time on and actively played was like mapletoast bc it was here after maple bucket shut down. that was like 2017 mapletoast? and bucket was 2015 ish.
    69. Random choice really, probably the popularity of it
    70. None
    71. Tried several in the past, chose Royals during COVID-19
    72. tried some servers that has rebirth system (high exp) and it bored me really quickly.
    73. MapleLegends, haven't returned to them because my PC security keeps deleting it no matter how many times I mark it as an exception. Only been playing MapleRoyals for two weeks.
    74. came with friends, stayed for the peoples
    75. was a long time ago, can't even remember the name
    76. I play multiple servers on and off. Royals is one of them.
    77. Maple Legends , I passed to mapleroyals because I had a corsair in legends and it was a tricky job for me to boss with , so I stopped to play it and decided to make a fresh beginning in Royals instead.
    78. Biggest Player Base
    79. nostalgic and challenging.
    80. I don't remember the name, it was many years ago.
    81. MapleLegends. Got banned RIP.
    82. Don't remember the names, tbh. Royals for life now, though.
    83. I have tried playing on MapleLegends, MapleSaga and Croosade.
      Of all the private servers I have played so far, Royals has the biggest, most active and friendliest people I have. Oh, an active and huge free market too.
    84. I have tried playing on MapleLegends, MapleSaga and Croosade.
    85. So many
    86. I did not choose
    87. I haven’t played a private server in over 6 years, forgot the last ones back in 2013 chickenms and more, started maple royals in 2020 cause of covid
    88. I’ve tried every pserver, playing royals because of its player count and old school vibes
    89. MapleRoyals is the only private server I have continued to play for more than a month or two. I really enjoy the community, how populated it is, the content, and just the fun times I have playing. I've endured tough times in my life lately, and I've found the friends I've made here to be my best support system. I don't really do much "playing" of Royals, as in I don't really boss or train, but just socializing with the people here is how I spend my time after work, and I enjoy the conversations and people.
    90. Croosade + more | My guilds and friends brought me back to royals
    91. Rien
    92. Old School Maple, Maple Home, AriesMS
    93. Sweet spot for exp multiplier (not too rough on those who have commitments irl)
    94. MapleLegends
    95. Kastia, MapleLegend
    96. I played plenty over the years. I stuck with mapleroyals because its the closest thing to the old maple
    97. MapleRoyals has the best community
    98. AriesMS, did not enjoy post bb
    99. I have not tried other private servers, however I came to MapleRoyals out of nostalgia and I think I was the most popular private server, at least back then and that's how I got here.
    100. ExtaliaMS, closed down
    101. OdinMS, ExtaliaMS
    102. All went down.
    103. ClassicMS - joined Royals after they closed. Quit Royals for a few years, joined again this year.
    104. I forgot. It was a long time ago. MapleRoyals for the large player base.
    105. MapleSaga, CakeStory, MapleLegends
    106. ExtaliaMS and a few others over the years. MapleRoyals has had my heart because of the nostalgia and old school feeling.
    107. Tried crossade, wasn't playing long enough to get to interact with the community which were all in the endgame, got bored and quitted
    108. server closed
    109. OdinMS, MapleLegends, some others not that long after the og ones
      came back to Royals after 7+ years because of the playerbase and I prefer 3.2x exp over 2x
    110. KastiaMS
    111. Don’t remember, most of the other servers have had too high of a rare to be enjoyed as long as I’ve enjoyed royals for the last half year.
    112. Post big bang maplestory private servers but i always prefer pre big bang
    113. I was into PS since the OdinMS times to the SydneyMS, FarmerStory, etc times with the 1000x exp, I'm here because that era is completely gone and royals is the nostalgic version of the Maplestory i love.
    114. A ton of them. Mostly play on my personal server. Mapleroyals has good economy
    115. Game design and people I met there
    116. dont remember
    117. MapleLegends, have a more helpful community
    118. no
    119. Maple Legends. Royals has a cool community.
    120. Played Croosade, but population decayed fast. Chose MR cuz of a friend
    121. DunStory
    122. They were some random servers. Mapleroyals had a stable growing community and economy and kept me hooked because of these factors.
    123. MapleDestiny, OdenMS. The experience rate was way too high. Maxed level, rebirthered and then maxed level again within 30 minutes.
    124. Croosade progressive. Because there's no lag in Royals and it feels rewarding to lvl up, and also, there's a lot of ppl to talk to.
    125. extalia, lucid ms, because royals has been my favorite out all the servers i have played
    126. I used to play on Croosade, but the version split really killed it. I considered Maplesaga, StoryMS, and Maplelegends. Maplesaga and StoryMS are too high rate for me, while HP washing seems a little bit more necessary on Legends than Royals. All the other servers have too few players to bother with for me. Royals honestly isn't really my ideal server, and just kind of won by default.
    127. Crossed, it implement DB, and more class after that. It was perfect if it stopped at Aran and Evan
    128. I played Dragonstory back in the day but they closed their server. Royals has been the only other server I've enjoyed because the rates are not high. I enjoy the grind.
    129. Kastia & MapleMs. I chose royals because of the friends I play with.
    130. Legends, because New Source sucked less afterwards
    131. MapleToday, MapleSaga
      Royals has more support and and it’s very stable.
    132. This one is much more like maple in its glory days without being too challenging. Others were too easy/shallow
    133. its big
    134. Khaini and Slimetales, stuck with Royals since it's bigger and comfy
    135. Maple Destiny - Different Styled Gameplay
    136. Aries, rydah, chose bc of population
    137. Best community and ideal EXP curve
    138. I have played Legends for a bit in the past and recently got back into it due to the release of Pink Bean and lack of willingness to introduce harder content on Royals
    139. Croosade v92, progressive, old low-rate no p2w gms servers back in like 2010-2013ish. I actually quit royals to play Croosade, mainly because of a promise to get rid of HP Washing (which they did). They had a lot of good things like the hp washing change, however, making money relied heavily on farming items, instead of leech or selling equips to an npc which I didn't like. They also allow account sharing, which means that guilds often will share their bishops, mules, etc. My brother who still actively plays has 11k clean range just from him using his friends' equips. No balance changes either, except for blatantly nerfing only Aran because they were whiting everyone except for NLs and Sairs w/ psb. I think Royals keeps me playing because theres a large playerbase, which makes me feel like my achievements actually mean something. I have people to sell things to, people to buy from, people to interact w/. Progressive was fun because I legitimately enjoyed post-bb, but the server is mostly dead now and you just farm ulu 2 on a luminous and hope for the best.
    140. MapleLegends. Constant DC issues made me leave.
    141. I don't remember this was years ago, I played Royals due to sisters/friends playing
    142. They all got lawsuited by Nexon but Royals is still alive after many years
    143. Flowsion
    144. Dont remember
    145. They all died and I forgot their names (AriesMS?)
    146. I mainly played private servers in 2008, Cakestory and XplicitMS. In some year between 2009 and 2012 I joined some very random server that kind of sucked, didnt stay long. In 2015 I got the urge to play again and joined MapleRoyals- it was the first time I had ever seen an old-school oriented private server, and it seemed awesome.
    147. Maple Legends, nostalgia factor
    148. Extalia, But Matt made this one and I knew him
    149. I've played lots and for a while Royals was my top one but I've sort of left once I realized the huge importance the players put on HP washing. It's not fun and makes it so new players are often times excluded, I have since switched to a non HP wash server for the most part but royals still holds a special place in my heart
    150. maplelegends. more exp rate than legends
    151. Well MapleRoyals is the only server still around. The other ones I played on are gone. Also I played a lot of private servers.
    152. I tried MapleGlobal server before ir was down for a 1/1/1 and v1 experience. I still prefer royals, though.
    153. Most played
    154. I played bankai Story a loooong time ago but only played for a month and After a few years i found royals
    155. ExtaliaMS
    156. Maplelegends. Mapleroyals is more popular for singaporeans like me.

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    Free Market - 5 votes
    Henesys - 3 votes
    Leafre - 2 votes
    None - 2 votes
    Lushan Town - 2 votes
    Showa - 2 votes
    Korean Folk Town - 1 vote
    Elin Forest - 1 vote
    Ludibrium - 1 votes
    Amherst - 1 vote
    Ulu - 1 vote
    Elnath - 1 vote
    Victoria -- 1 vote

    Give us Pink Bean
    i love CPQ 1 and 2 and LMPQ
    NA
    Love the 2020 Christmas town and Xmas henesys.
    Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest, Haven't been to any of these, but I am excited to try the CWKPQ, the bonus stage seems really enticing.
    I like ToT (not that new, but still a nice addition!)
    I like them all
    Haven't gotten to try any of those yet
    Honestly, none of them aside from CWKPQ since it's nostalgic. Dojo seems cool in theory but it's unlike gMS entirely - we had better belts available from annual events
    never been in them no idea ;w;
    All of maple World
    I CANT PICK THIS

    • Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest is an overwhelming favourite choice here, with a little more than half voted for it. With a distance second and third places goes to Neo Tokyo and Lushan (Shaolin Temple) respectively.

    • Interesting, there a noticeable outliers of players who write ‘Free Market” as their other choices. This can be alluded to that the numerous makeovers that the Free Market has during seasonal events such as the one for the 7th anniversary, was very much welcomed.

    (187 respondents, 466 votes)
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    (128 respondents, 328 votes)
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    1. I don't really play anymore
    2. none
    3. none on a regular basis, the occasional Zakum and Papulatus
    4. Cwk bosses
    5. Dont really play the game anymore so no bossing being done for a long time
    6. Not able to boss quite yet
    7. King Slime probably :D
    8. Haven't gotten the opportunity to boss very much
    9. Mano
    10. nil
    11. The snail guy cause I'm weak
    12. anego and bigfoot
    13. LPQ
    14. Unknown
    15. None too busy grinding a bishop to fund other characters
    Beyond some changes Here we can observed according to the respondents,

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    Sharing similar sentiments, a significant number of respondents voted Targa and Scarlion their top candidates that needs an adjustment.

    1. more exp [Picked Targa and Scarlion]
    2. Zakums exp Sucks. I‘d like him to be for Lv.120+ To fit the exp. Lv 120-135 Suck in General too
    3. Maybe the EXP to make it more interesting, because majority of people only go for it to get targa/scar hats.
    4. better drops [Picked Zakum]
    5. Making it more worthwhile [Picked Pianus, Paulatus, Targa and Scarlion]
    6. Na
    7. i dont know
    8. zakum needs to either stop being farmed as casually as it is and change to make scar/targa more viable
    9. Shorter spawn cooldown [Picked Pianus]
    10. More exp [Picked Zakum]
    11. Reward buff - helm drop rates and exp. There is not enough incentive to do scar/targ given the tight time constraint too.
    12. not disconnecting [Picked Horntail]
    13. Pianus' low spawn rate
    14. They are so not worth it because you get no exp , one helmet and it's a pain in the ass. Next to impossible to get a helmet by being an attacker because it'll always be sold. [Picked Targa and Scarlion]
    15. EXP + difficulty (krexel) and Damage reduction (the rest!) [Picked Krexel, Wulin Yaoseng, Auf Haven, Bodyguard A/B, The Boss/Grandpa Boss]
    16. Pink Bean.
    17. Increase EXP rate of these bosses. [Picked Zakum, Targa and Scarlion]
    18. Maybe a bit more accessible somehow in terms of base HP requirement. [Picked Castallan Toad]
    19. Increase Spawning [Picked Pianus]
    20. lower hp requierment [Picked Horntail]
    21. more of those snail shells that let you transform into snails [Picked Mano]
    22. krex is the most boring meat wall boss ever. idc if this is how original maple was, there is 0 skill and 0 interactions to be made. bowmasters literally afk first eye cause it's so shit.
    23. Better rewards from the bosses that I picked. Skillbooks , Chaos scroll or some rare stuff that it may drop at low rates. [Picked Pianus, Papulatus, Castallan Toad and Nameless Magic Monster]
    24. More EXP, and drops [Picked Targa, Scarlion and The Boss/Grandpa Boss]
    25. Better drops for Auf Haven
    26. Is not very rewarding to run Scar/Targa, is hard for me to form a party because it drops only 2 helms per, and is only slightly better than Zakum. Potential an extra helm dropped, so 3 helms per run. Or even better hp stats on it.

    Nibergen, Vergamot and Nameless Magic Monster feels like are just damage sponge at the moment, they offer nothing rewarding or challenging to speak. Maybe they can drop Chaos Scrolls /White Scrolls, so at least these bosses are worth revisiting or something.

    I have little incentives to visit Pianus, maybe it has a drops gacha tickets?
    27. Mainly exp changes [Picked Krexel, Pianus, Papulatus, Targa and Scarlion]
    28. Maybe a bit harder to require 3-4 party members, with rewards adjusted to reflect the enhanced difficulty. [Picked Papulatus]
    29. not one thing i can say about it but the bosses are boring and the rewards arent that good especially exp wise [Picked Krexel, Zakum, Pianus, Horntail, Targa, Scarlion, Castallan Toad, Wulin Yaoseng, Vergamot, Dunas, Dunas V2, Nibergen, Nameless Magic Monster, Auf Haven, Bodyguard A/B, The Boss/ Grandpa Boss]
    30. I would like a huge buff on EXP and drop rewards from scar/targa, they are just not worth the time/att pots spent on them! [Picked Targa, Scarlion, Castallan Toad, All Neo Tokyo bosses]
    31. Review droptables and requirments for the prequests. Current content is niche and worth it for the 0.1% of top players [Picked Vergamot, Dunas, Dunas V2, Nibergen, Nameless Magic Monster and Auf Haven]
    32. Bga and grandpa are amazing bosses. However, considering the effort of assembling huge parties with a lot of bishops, it feels quite unrewarding to me. It is incredibly hard to R> or form parties, which is really sad. I think it is really cool, that they require such great party effort, however it does not pay off for most players, which is sad to me ...
    33. Nibergen wpn cancel reworked
    34. I chose it basically because I have 2 Drk level 200 and back then it was impossible to do [Picked Auf Haven]
    35. Bosses to be harder [Picked Krexel, Zakum, Horntail, Targa, Scarlion and Wulin Yaoseng]
    36. More experience gained from Scarlion/Targa at least on part with Zakum.
    37. add more rate for drop monster card and items. [Picked Krexel, Zakum, Pianus, Horntail and Papulatus]
    38. Hard to find one [Picked Pianus]
    39. Make neo tokyo as a whole more worthwhile in the rewards the bosses give, be it exp or items [Picked Vergamot, Dunas, Nibergen, Nameless Magic Monster]
    40. castellan toad, experiences is too less for a 175lvl boss, which required high hp, good in JQ and high level, not mention time to complete 1toad with apple is equal with 2krexel with energizer or stopper.
    41. few rewards for lv.200 . so cant help newbies [Picked Zakum, Vergamot and Dunas V2]
    42. run 2x daily [Picked Wulin Yaoseng]
    43. More HP to Scarga hats
    44. More experience from fantasy theme park bosses
    45. Spawn rate increased [Picked Pianus]
    46. Less hp requirements [Picked Papulatus, Vergamot, Dunas, Dunas V2, Nibergen, Nameless Magic Monster and Auf Haven]
    47. better drop and diffentiation from the zakum helmet [Picked Targa and Scarlion]
    48. More EXP and weapons drop rate [Picked Pianus and The Boss/ Grandpa Boss]
    49. Targa/scarlion exp/drop buff to have incentives to do them daily
    50. more EXP [Picked Targa and Scarlion]
    51.

    TBA

    (187 respondents, 335 votes)
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    See past years census
    MapleRoyals 2014 Census Results (Done by Galactic)
    MapleRoyals 2015 Census Results (Done by Stan)
    MapleRoyals 2017 Census Results (Done by Stan)
     
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    Drk is a surprise. I thought it would be buccs or archers. Maybe that’ll be for the 2021 census
     
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    Update for questions 6 to 11 ^_^'
     
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    For question 11, it's felt like many Asian got banned due to Major Vote Abuse + RWT...I m Asian myself but I think it's major problem that ppl willing to RWT to save the time on this game and then got perma banned...But I think majority of Asian community is willing to take care of new player and explain the rules & regulation of the server..Still felt shock when the ratio of Asian player drop so hard....
     
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    don't forget that you are dealing with a forum user bias here (higher lvl players are more likely to use the forums) and you also only have 100 votes on this question. You cannot reach to any definitive conclusion with this specific data sadly
     
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    You are right. I was not being very partial when I was writing this. Thanks for informing me and I will strive to do better moving forward.
     
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