Sorry Reboot but you killed Maplestory

And I'm telling you that the game is currently set up to allow for 40 characters per account per server.
Whether or not I like mules is immaterial. Personally I'd rather focus on my main. But Nexon has been going in the direction of enticing-to-the-point-of-forcing the players to create one of each class, at least. And with the upcoming Union, you're pretty much required to have all 40 slots filled with level 200 characters, if you want maximum benefits for your one "main" character.
This process cannot be reversed, any more than potential can be removed. (I can just imagine you going "now that you mention it - ").

The number of mules doesn't affect what GMs do. I don't need to be a GM to know that. They either look at how a character is behaving online (and if it needs banning, the whole account gets banned with one key, there is no need to ban each mule on it separately), or they datamine through logs, which should be identified by account ID (if they're not, then that's what needs fixing; not limiting the number of characters on an account).

What degrades server performance is not number of defined characters, but rather the number of online characters. And by crowding all the remaining active players into one server, you're going to kill it worse than Reboot last summer during 2x.
But what am I talking about? You have no idea what it was like on Reboot last summer during 2x. You don't play MapleStory.
So let me put it this way: Yes, it would be easier for GMs to police the game if it only had 10 maps, each with 3 channels. But it would also be impossible for anyone to enjoy the game.

Yes, Nexon has been incompetent in dealing with hackers and botters. Changes need to be made. But the changes you're suggesting are not in the right direction at all.

(And I don't even want to get into the idea of Nexon running 4 concurrent versions of the game)

I should thank you for trying to make personal attacks, it makes it easier to tell which parts of your message are trolling and what I can actually talk about. When I refer to a server full of mules and the max number of slots, I am talking about the max number of slots on the server, not within each account. It was not a technical question but one of preference. For example, would your preference be for a server that has 1k players + 4k mules or would your preference be for a server with 5k players? (these are made up numbers and they are not exact) Assuming the server can hold a maximum of 5k characters.

I'm asking if you want a server that has fewer people but they each have multiple characters or would you want a server that has as many people on it as possible?

The idea with GM's is to make it so that when a botter is reported, it would not be long until they are banned. I don't know what it would take to make this happen but that is why its only a suggestion.

Look carefully and you will see that at no point did I suggest merging everything into a single server. Nexon could merge as much as is necessary, that is the idea.

I may not always catch all the important details from update notes but I sometimes still want to try and help too. Not all the time but sometimes.

When I make a thread, I am usually not doing it just to get pineapples or pomegranates, though I cant completely lay blame on others for being skeptical. I like both Reboot and Non Reboot servers and I would prefer it if none of them died. But because of that I am also aware that it might not be best to have them both at the same time. By all means, correct me if I am wrong.

Unless you have not noticed, Maplestory has got problems and if I was someone who was serious about doing something, I would not be turning anybody or their ideas away. Could Nexon handle 4 versions of the game at once? Its not impossible if they had enough extra workers available, which is the same thing that was said in the quote this sentence is referencing.

Even though I can be hard on Nexon I still have some confidence in Nexon, can you say the same thing?