Maplestory should have a "Pro" server

Requirements to enter are to have at least 1 character at level 150.

It takes 2x the total EXP to level up.
Mobs have 4x the HP and damage
Mobs give 4x the EXP when killed

What's the point of having 4x EXP and 2x requirements? Mind as well just make the monsters give 2x EXP.

It makes the EXP Reqs sound far worse than they do.

And the 4x HP/Damage thing along with the level requirement is basically Supreme.

Various cubes drop from all monsters at about the same rate as scrolls pre Big bang.

So...never? Scroll drops pre-BB were so rare it wasn't funny at all. This just promotes botting, honestly.

I don't disagree that cubes should drop in some way, but having them that rare is just a bad joke.

I played MS from GMS Beta until a year or so ago, and while I had a rather large (3-4 year) hiatus in the middle, the simple truth is that even though I got multiple classes to ~100, I never got more than 10-20 scrolls in my entire career of Pre-BB MS. And considering you need hundreds upon hundreds of Cubes to get anything useful, it's a waste of time. Above that, I'd say 75-90% of those scrolls were worthless, which equals regular old purple cubes in cube tiering.

All jobs must pass through Maple island before reaching the normal Maple world.
Storage is not accessible until clearing Maple island.
In order to leave the island, all characters must defeat a weakened octopus boss (reskin from Commerci) on the boat ride.

If a player fails to defeat the boat boss within 3 deaths, then that character dies permanently.

I assume the "No Storage" thing is so that you don't delete anything you might want when you fail to kill the boss? But what's the point of the boss, really? Especially directly after Maple Island, when no one has any abilities at all. It doesn't make any sense, honestly.

The "3 Deaths or char is deleted" thing doesn't make much sense either. Either the boss needs to be super easy, or no one will play, because you don't have anything to fight the boss. You have no gear, no items, no skills, nothing at all. It makes no sense. Especially when mobs do 4x damage. Have you played Supreme? Having to redo the first ten levels because the boss got remotely close to you three times is just not fun.

I don't mean to sound like an ass, but this whole thing sounds like a more restrictive (for no reason at all) Supreme server.

Also: To everyone responding about the deletion thing quoting Hardcore characters in Diablo and such games, that is not what is defined here. The character deletion specifically applies to the boss to leave Maple Island only, which makes it a pointless concept.

Above that, in ARPGs you don't get ohko'd unless you're playing the wrong Difficulty, and there's no Difficulty select here. MS already has too many character classes that (especially later on) can get 1-2 hit KO'd. Having the monsters do 4x damage means you will instantly die from any attack unless you are REALLY lucky because Maple's balancing doesn't exist.