[Notice/GM Blog]We are Family!

How is this different from paying meso for leeching? Family 2x only lasts 30 mins and is only once a day useable, so?

I don't want them paying mesos or family points for leech. But at least when it's mesos, only a relatively small amount of the community is leeching. When it's family points, EVERYONE can do it, and knowing GMSers' greed, they will.

No one takes the term family in this thing literal. Do you really think the leader of a 500+ people family knows literally everyone? Btw I know the lvl200 leader of my family lol.

The person who I was replying to was trying to tout Family system as a social experience and I was saying that isn't really the case. It's just a way to get the points for the bonuses. That's it. Besides that, you're drastically overestimating the GMS community if you think there aren't going to be people who take this "family" literally. Just go to Maya's house if you want to see the people who will.

Your juniors can get juniors themselves, it's not like a family is limited to a certain amount of space. Not getting points just motivates you to find a Junior.

In short, the family system is all about getting encouraged to grind, gather points for 2x Exp OR drop and share them with your friends - there's nothing wrong with that, it beats everything the Monster Book System can offer.

But someone has to be on the bottom. and they're getting nothing. and the people on top get everything, and that's horribly stupid in my opinion. As you say, it's just encouragement to grind, and it adds NOTHING to the game besides more grinding. From Nexon's perspective, that's great, they want people to grind, but from a player perspective, this isn't adding anything substantial. Monster Book is adding to the world, it's got a drop list, it's got a full list of where you can find the monster, it's got elemental attributes... It's something to do.

I got like 15 cards only btw and I'm lvl131. I wouldn't ever waste my time on hunting a single card.

Why level past 130? For one, at lvl130 you'll only have 1 4th job skill maxed, there wait more of them for you and also to get as high leveled as possible before Maplestory stops being profitable for Nexon one day.

Well that's the casual playing type who the book is good for. LVL125+ people spend their time grinding at 4 kinds of monsters or hunting bosses. It's really not like Monsterbook effects them in a omg-awesome way, while the family system and it's grinding encouragement do.

and I wouldn't waste my time trying to wrangle up "junior" slaves to do my bidding and earn me family points. Guess that's just you and me.