blitzkrieg Wrote:I don't see how the family system is a bad thing though, especially since you guys already have 2x cards in the cash shop. all it does is encourages people to earn the 2x exp instead of just buying it.. you can get everyone in your guild in a family and save $20 each month by just sharing the party 2x with eachother. it also encourages people to not choose friends based solely on levels since your family can benefit a lot from having lower leveled members getting fast EXP & family points.
not to mention, on all maple forums, people are constantly complaining about how maple is basically a pay-to-play game because of the 2x exp cards. this is a complaint that has been around long before maker skill, monster book & etc were ever introduced, so it's about time they addressed it, don't you think? o_O
also I forgot to mention, the monster book is a vanity update. it hardly affects the average player's gameplay at all, while stuff like the family system helps out everyone. as for the maker skill.. well, kMS didn't get that update until a fairly long time after magatia was out, and since you guys just recently got the town, it kinda makes sense that you don't have the skill yet.
I concur. I can also see this as a bit of balance for the lower levels. Even poor people could get some leech if they just offer the leecher some shared 2x. Only way this'll bomb is if the points are hard to obtain.
I agree that often Nexon gets it's priorities mixed up on what to put out, but I think this was a good update. It gets people talking to each other more often. How often do you have friends that won't talk to you? Now we'll be a family and tease each other non-stop.
I think the problem everyone is having is what that they didn't get what they WANT, instead of what the game needs, and possibly because we'll always find something to complain about. We got into that habit a long time ago, and now we can't get out of it. I think this was a better move. Hell, I didn't even consider the family system.
However, I must disagree on a couple things. The monster book IS useful. It allows us to get temporary double drop and exp/damage boosts from the monsters, as well as a very easy to access database. Though I'll still use hidden-street every now and then, I'll probably use it less for non-urgent things.
Also, I personally dislike this habit of judging when we get something based on how long it's been out and when it came out on another version. Time and time again, this method of predicting things hasn't worked. They'll release things when they decide to release them.
Personally, I think the only reason they haven't released alchemy skill, is because of two reasons. One is that they're probably adding custom content, possibly even masteria items and scg's/fs because the iTCG is dying. Second would be that it would cause a lot of people to have even more attack and stats, and they probably want to get out skill buffs first. I just wish they'd do a skill NERF for once.
2 cents gets you a lot, doesn't it?
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K!yO Wrote:As i see it, family system is just there for all the people that hang out in heney all day so they can have something else to bish about. Monster book would be better for this time around really for people that actaully boss or grind to lvl so they have a little extra questing to do. I really don'y spend much time with people in my guild/alliance or friends much at that, so I don't see much point in constantly partying them for half hour 2x of shared exp that doesn't stack rather 2x/4x exp that does for four hours, regardless that I would have to spend nx e.e
This is what I was talking about. Most people prefer NOT to grind for hundreds of hours like a brainless bandwa- er, machine. We prefer talking to people, and not having to forgo our social life to level and enjoy the game. Then again, I guess some people prefer to think of it as some sort of E-penor.
