2009-02-02, 05:36 PM
Icedfire Wrote:NLC was a bit of a wierd thing for us though. it's initial effect was that it fixed out wildly out of control economy cause by the hacker era when they moved the servers from the east coast to the west coast. it decreased the prices on ilbis and glove attacks massively within the first week.
conversely, with 4th job out, NLC slowly raised the prices due to ultimate abuse - however, they've been pretty stable since then. 10 atk wg's were what, 35m last january? they're 55m now?
as noted in the quote, GMS cares about our economy - the GM's are VERY aware of how the actual gameplay is, mostly because North Americans are VERY vocal when they find something wrong or able to go wrong quickly. it's more on a related note that this is why we have a hacking problem - gm's are more occupied with keeping our servers stable, keeping the economy in check, as well as providing new content. most of the new content and events is either due to their screw ups (they acknowledge them pretty fast and deal with them appropriately, and imo, pretty fairly), while new GMS exclusive content keeps us unique and DOESN'T repeat the mistakes of the other versions.
we get stuff slower and have a hacker problem (cause north americans are also pretty lazy...). i'd take that over a screwed up economy any day.
I didn't evenwant to touch on gloves and illbis. Everyone knew we needed that really badly. Illbis were what like 3x millionish? You forgot the desperate mage and warrior community though. Warriors were relying on cheeses and mages were using plixers and those things were 8kish each at the time. Those pots basically fixed those problems but they didn't see the 4th job implications at the time. Seeing as 4th job came out like 8 months later though i can't really blame them, lol.
They were changing the prices for NLC pots long before 4th job came out. :/ I think they settled on the current prices long before the mansion came out.
I never really thought about it that way. o_o Though, is "keeping the economy in check" really an excuse? Not that hacking is a negative impact on my maple life, but to nexon america, keeping the economy in check as of right now just means checking their code and what they plan to implement with new content so it doesn't go awry. And dupers too, but any of the stuff i just said isn't really a long term worry. I think it's mostly just the new content that keeps them busy. They must have a lot on their plate with CWK2 coming. x_x
Yup. I wouldn't say we get stuff slower though. o_o It's just that SEA and GMS are the two versions hardest at work trying to get their exclusive stuff out asap. In terms of KMS/JMS/etc we get stuff slow i guess, but yeah. I like our content pace. By the end of the year we should have most of the stuff we want right now, including KMST updates.