To those for the Aliens/Jesters/LHC Nerf

My main question in making this thread was why people were for the nerf. In other words, why they think it was necessary. Their opinion. Nothing to do with right and wrong.

Ahh, I couldn't figure out what your first post was about, but now I see what you are looking for. I think the game contains imbalance in several areas including maps. Not all maps have the same spawn, not all monsters give the same experience, not all maps contain the same format (flat, platforms, hills, etc). So when people say a map is "good for leveling" they usually mean that the spawn is high, the monsters are easily accessible to be killed in mass based on the map format, and the experience gain per monster biased on the monsters level is high.

A simple solution would to make every map contain the same spawn and base experience of the monster solely on the level (so all level 50 monsters give the same experience). However, that makes the game boring (just like making all the classes the same makes it boring).

The optimal solution is to balance the experience given with the level of the monster, the spawn rate, and the map format (easy formats should not generate the same experience as a difficult format). I think this solution is really difficult because of all the variables - especially if the map format variable is included. Done perfectly the character should be able to gain the same experience per hour on each map of monsters the same level, but the style of training would have to vary for different maps. I think Nexon tries to do this because of the variations in spawn and experience, but there is so much room for error that often they introduce an unbalanced map. Aliens aren't the first monster GMS created that were a little unbalanced compared to the rest of the game (remember Sharka Cellrons?) And it's certainly not the first correction that has been made.

As far as I can see this is the same thing as implementing an over powered (OP) class that everyone flocks to and then nerfing it 6 months later. (Except that it's hard to see how an OP map generates more nx sales than a regular one, so it's less likely that maps are purposefully done OP and then nerfed.)