[Complete] Scheduled Server Maintenance - January 8, 2014

Hm. I didn't get any extra attendance stamps, but maybe it's because I didn't miss any.

No extra stamps when I missed the 1st on all my accs.

Someone post the new rates for SW, NOW! I already did my runs earlier this morning :O

*activates full-pessimism mode*
inb4 neb box rates

Pre-Nerf: no drops.
Post-Nerf: no drops.

Sounds about right...

A friend of mine got hellban after the sc... he bought soo many sw weapon before sc.

Anyway, glad blackchiper isn't going wild now

I didn't expect to be unhellbanned after the SC since no one was probably working on it during those hours. But, this is a good thing because that means they didn't just shrug and say, "Good enough," and unban everyone like they did last time. The bad thing is I have a Hired Merchant that will expire in a few hours and has been inaccessible during the ban. How ought I ask for compensation?

I didn't expect to be unhellbanned after the SC since no one was probably working on it during those hours. But, this is a good thing because that means they didn't just shrug and say, "Good enough," and unban everyone like they did last time. The bad thing is I have a Hired Merchant that will expire in a few hours and has been inaccessible during the ban. How ought I ask for compensation?

File a ticket or wait until the chat is open and complain to them directly.

Friend of mine got one weapon. Don't know if that means much though since he didn't get anything the rest of his runs.

Friend of mine got one weapon. Don't know if that means much though since he didn't get anything the rest of his runs.

Well, it means the drop rate hasn't been nerfed to non-existence.

I've gotten 1 weapon on my Aran, and 1 weapon on my AB both doing the runs to Rosa, so I believe the rate is pretty normal to me.

BlackCipher memory leak is gone :o (at least on my end)

And no sw for me on my zero on 2x, gonna try on my dark knight.

Oh, and as a bonus, I think they fixed killing the nurses at rlh using zero (at least the females )

Im still hell banned.... does anyone know how long a hellban can last ? and what is the longest hell ban that was release?

Im still hell banned.... does anyone know how long a hellban can last ? and what is the longest hell ban that was release?

Accounts are being released in waves, the least suspicious first and the 'highest risk' accounts last. Did you have a large amount of no boom AEEs/unique pots/good Nebulites? Those are the only items that were stated as being part of the hellban criteria on the Nexon forums. I assume 15 star Tyrants/Fafnir weapons would also be classed as 'high risk' too.

Oh, and as a bonus, I think they fixed killing the nurses at rlh using zero (at least the females )

I didn't know you could do that.. but you can always sit on the 'floating' mesodizer chairs to cruise through that stage. (Not quite enough time to make a nice cup of tea though)

I didn't know you could do that.. but you can always sit on the 'floating' mesodizer chairs to cruise through that stage. (Not quite enough time to make a nice cup of tea though)

You could kill them with time distortion... for the poor like me who don't have mesodizer chairs

i thought my character will be unlocked from this error 38 but nope

Did you try to Download the Maple Story again?

Redownloaded, tried to change link skills, character cards, giving it a part-time, and even changing cash shop stuff.

Not a chance it worked. Trust me, I've tried all. And so have been the rest of the people suffering this, because it's not only me.

i thought my character will be unlocked from this error 38 but nope

Like that guy.

You could kill them with time distortion... for the poor like me who don't have mesodizer chairs

Are you sure you didn't just set it up while standing on something? It's very particular about heights. If need be, you can use the invincibility skill to reset the cooldown and try again.

Oh, and as a bonus, I think they fixed killing the nurses at rlh using zero (at least the females )

You can still kill them using Time Distortion. You will have cast it too high like Kyuu said. If they are on the floor and you cast it while standing on the table it won't reach them.

You can still kill them using Time Distortion. You will have cast it too high like Kyuu said. If they are on the floor and you cast it while standing on the table it won't reach them.

Oh, I see. That's why I could kill the elder doctor, then =p

BlackCipher memory leak is gone :o (at least on my end)

I'm glad they fixed BlackCipher up.
My computer doesn't sound like "It's working hard" anymore.

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I wanted to jump in here to clarify issues with regards to the high-end Sweet Water item drop rate.

This set of high-end items was introduced in the V144 update on 12/18 and was intended to be an end game item for Maplers to collect. As part of their introduction into the game the developers decided to introduce an increased drop rate allowing players to get a head start on their Sweet Water set. This temporary drop rate was much too high for long-term availability for such high end items.

Before we jump on the conspiracy theory band wagon over this being a ploy to make you spend money let me give this some context. Currently we have a number of equips available which were intended to be part of the player progression up towards Sweet Water but are being skipped over because of the unnaturally high drop rate of Sweet Water in the current game. These include:
• Reverse
• Timeless
• Abyss
• Fearless
• Imperial
• Empress

To illustrate this point if you look at the Free Market right now you will see some Empress items selling for more than higher level Sweet Water variants simply because of the high availability of Sweet Water items.

At the previous rate players were getting up to 3-4 Sweet Water items a week. Sustaining this rate would have completely negated the achievement associated with earning high end equipment and gearing your character.

The new drop rate was only implemented today so it is much too early for anyone to know if it is too low yet. How about in about a month we revisit this and if players are still overwhelmingly in favor of a drop rate increase we can discuss that with the developer?

As an FYI NxA has also asked the developer not to include Sweet Water items in the Marvel Machine drops so hopefully that reduces any concerns you have there.

I know this doesn't make a lot of logical sense, but... you can say the same thing about Nexon at every aspect when it comes down to it. Fafnir/RA equipment gives a better potential boost than Sweetwater, so why not ask them to exclude those as well?