2013-10-02, 08:03 PM
xparasite9 Wrote:Hm, maybe I ought to make a thread on the issue.
I would guess it goes in Maple Discussion so long as a lot of it is about the current state of MS.
The rare-random-drops model has some ups and downs. One of the big downsides is if someone can bot 24 hours a day then they just get more of everything. On the other hand, it's difficult in a way that NX doesn't replace - only reduces a bit. Someone grinding all day for free gets fewer rare drops than someone on a 2x card, but they don't end up with nothing at all, like they do in the "challenging end-game boss" or the "nx-only gachapon" systems.
Botting is a problem both because of the incentives and because Nexon barely catches people at it. The cost of botted mesos is pretty much proportional to how easy they are to obtain - when they're easy to obtain you get billions for almost nothing, cause someone's putting a few minutes of work into those billions and doesn't value them much. The best way to change that is to start banning anyone who does it. Next best is to install meso sinks at the top tier - ways to get the best equips that permanently remove mesos from the economy without giving them to hackers/botters. Not just RLH totems - sell cubes for mesos at an NPC, give them as rewards for things legit players do.