Viaje Wrote:Of course, it turns out that the aliens were actually people from the future (Visitors) sent back because their world was fucked up after the player stole all their fuel. Wanting to set things right, Future Bing sends the player back in time to stop the time machine from ever being created. This time, the player succeeds in stopping the time machine.

Justin Wrote:But my point still stands.

Justin Wrote:It was very horribly put together, there were very huge gaps in between what little information you were given, the quests which related to the black mage were very randomly thrown about and came in no particular order, and I doubt they were put there for the sole purpose of setting the stage for all of these legend characters and the big war against the "black mage".

The now-existing storyline aspects are nice, sure, but it's not a NECESSARY part of the maple world. I can guarantee you most players didn't play for the quests back then, nor do they now. pre-third job it was about grinding until your fingers bled, trying to outlevel guildies and friends, PQing, JQing, and having fun with other players. Now it's about rushing to 160+ and soloing bosses with your ridiculously overpowered potential equips.

Rayquaza2233 Wrote:...wasn't it an alternate future?

Viaje Wrote:Yeah, I was gonna say that it couldn't have been a stable loop since then our actions wouldn't have accomplished anything.

Basically, the plot was this (for anyone who may not know/remember):
Aliens have shown up and Bing luckily has created a suit to fight them, but the suit (absurdly, for the sake of the plot train) is designed to require a fuel that may theoretically exist in the future. So Bing gets the player to gather parts to create a time machine so we can go get this fuel. During this process, the player is impeded by the aliens, but succeeds in gathering all the parts, readying the time machine. Once the player goes to the future and gets the fuel, the suit is complete, and the player is sent off to fight the forces of the mother ship in the present. Of course, it turns out that the aliens were actually people from the future (Visitors) sent back because their world was fucked up after the player stole all their fuel. Wanting to set things right, Future Bing sends the player back in time to stop the time machine from ever being created. This time, the player succeeds in stopping the time machine.

So, basically, the end result of the event was a new timeline that exists as a paradox.
Originally, there was a nice, stable loop thanks to circular causality (Visitors create need for time machine which creates need for Visitors, ad nauseam) which, due to its nature, should have been impossible to change.

Rayquaza2233 Wrote:...wasn't it an alternate future?

Rayquaza2233 Wrote:Didn't it work out to "you were stopping yourself the whole time"

Raul Wrote:I think the timeloop was destroyed though, because Bing has his memory wiped.
Pretty sure the MST3K mantra should have been the motto of the whole event.

xManuz Wrote:I'm guessing either later today or tomorrow.

maplefreak26 Wrote:Their offices are usually quiet on Mondays.

No one works on Sundays.

Arrol Wrote:No Pre-patch?

kruimel0 Wrote:A pre-patcher can be made as soon as Nexon uploads the patch to their servers. They normally do that 1 day to a few hours before the actual patching starts. So no, no pre-patcher now.

If you mean Tespia, no, there appears to be no Tespia either.

Raul Wrote:I think the timeloop was destroyed though, because Bing has his memory wiped.
Pretty sure the MST3K mantra should have been the motto of the whole event.



Definitely a dream world.
Created by a Black Wings member.

ShinkuDragon Wrote:something interesting though, for all we know, the fake future was created by akyrum, who DOES have the ability to travel through time, according to the story posted on nexon's website. wouldn't be far-fetched to say he could make a fake or "distorted" future, or grab one of the branches in which the future may become.

but yea, seems to be a completely fabricated thing, which is why it kind of makes me sad, since nexon would probably have to pull something out of it's sleeve to expand it.

...inb4 that's the actual future, some places are now covered in poisonous shrouds due to evilness or whatever, and that's why the visitors had those equips, and went the first visitor event came, we went to that part of the future world map.

i'm just rambling here.

also, you guys sure that the future is poisonous? because if so how come our chars didn't have any trouble going there?
i can't remember they ever saying anything about poison, which is why i'm asking

Raul Wrote:There was a Maple Story about it, IIRC.
Akyrum was the leader of the person who did it.
Pretty sure it mentioned something about the Black Wings invading the Temple of Time and putting a dreamworld up to disguise it.
And we had to be in our Bing Suits, remember?

ShinkuDragon Wrote:it's what i'm trying to remember, i can't remember how the story progressed, afaik you needed the crystanol to be able to make the bing suit, you didn't have it before that

Raul Wrote:I think we needed it to upgrade to the nice shiny Visitor suits. Bing might have had a limited quantity and used it to make the Bing suits so he could tap the reserves of the future. I think that might be what the Diving and Mining missions were for.

ShinkuDragon Wrote:doesn't explain why the "spy" (the guy hiding in the bushes) wasn't wearing one though.

ugh, i should go dig nexon's site or my quests or something and see how this stuff went.

i remember it like this:

week one:
part 1: do quests at base to get coins for mount
part 2:, you do future quest, get bing suit afterwards, kill aliens with it and complete the "kill X aliens" quest, get coins for upgrades
part 3: crashed spaceship PQ
part 4: future bing "back in time" quests.

Raul Wrote:Because he was a figment of our imagination.
I don't even remember half that pomegranate. All just a blur now.
BRB, going over the SP threads.

Raul Wrote:I just realized that the Destroyer visitor was Aran and the Commander visitor was Evan.
Holy s'hit.