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gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin?
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Allow me to describe my experience in the 3rd round of Tespia when Ariant Colloseum+Ariant+Level 200 mounts came out. The first few days were marked by some kind of double-encrypted monstrosity creating by mushing the data used in the Korean version and Maple Global; and because of some stuff involving unicode and all sorts of technical aspects I didn't quite comprehend, the game would repeatedly crash and rollback upon logging into the game. I believe it started on a Thursday; finally came online around a Monday when they fixed this mess. Around this time, I logged on; and to my suprise, there was some sort of crazy dup hack going on where people dropped perfect weapons, and they were dropped everywhere by people. In the guild somebody asked me to join in: one guy was all the way in NEWTIES. Wait, what? If I'm not mistaken, there was even a few Zakum run attempts going on. HUH? Okay, so on to actual content testing. I went to Ariant Colloseum PQ mostly for what I tested- there were some idiots who had no idea what they were doing and repeatedly spammed Genesis and Blizzard across the map. I actually had to explain in the middle of the game what was going on a few times. And some just seemed firmly intent on living off their characters like some sort of private server.

Suprisingly, I was only able to find 3-6 glitches at the time, a few in Ariant Colloseum, and a few Cash Shop; like the wrong sprites used for the Tiki Torch when used- it used the graphics for that old lady shop one instead. Fortunately, that was fixed at least.

But the point remains: most people treated Tespia as some sort of private server, and some people used the glitch report system as a communication system to the GMs to ask stupid questions or fail attempts to strike conversation with GMs, as seen in NXProse's thread about why Tespia was taken down; the GMs don't need to know junk like:

NXProse Wrote:Well, here's the deal with Tespia. When we opened it, our original thinking was that we'd be able to catch a lot more with the community involved and reporting things. So, typically, we'd get a few thousand reports. However, when we actually went through them individually, we got stuff like:

"OMG. I got selected."
"How do I become GM?"
"fix it"
"My ticket didn't get answered."

If Tespia made a comeback like the Open Letter (which sadly hasn't met its promise yet) said, I hope they change around the system from being a random lottery to an actual application like that of the MapleWatch Leaf Brigade; but that could take ages.

Also: as for the theory of Tespia being done to combat private servers, I doubt so. I think it's sheer coincidence; or, Nexon happened to be more active with their business around that time.
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gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Skull - 2009-11-12, 01:11 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Greg - 2009-11-12, 01:15 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Dual - 2009-11-12, 01:16 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Hazzy - 2009-11-12, 01:16 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Greg - 2009-11-12, 01:19 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by DeanNim - 2009-11-12, 01:20 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Greg - 2009-11-12, 01:30 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Tay - 2009-11-12, 01:31 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Bacon - 2009-11-12, 01:43 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by JoeTang - 2009-11-12, 01:46 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Anzamyu - 2009-11-12, 01:48 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Kevo - 2009-11-12, 02:16 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Lerk - 2009-11-12, 02:39 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Hazzy - 2009-11-12, 02:40 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Lerk - 2009-11-12, 02:50 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Ryanide - 2009-11-12, 07:21 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Nikkey - 2009-11-12, 09:39 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by chrome - 2009-11-12, 10:06 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Loose - 2009-11-12, 10:31 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Fumni - 2009-11-12, 10:47 AM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Corn - 2009-11-12, 05:56 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Smooth Criminal - 2009-11-12, 07:32 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Greg - 2009-11-12, 07:55 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Greg - 2009-11-12, 08:25 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Typhoon - 2009-11-13, 12:42 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Greg - 2009-11-13, 03:22 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Greg - 2009-11-13, 04:00 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Mark - 2009-11-13, 04:03 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Mark - 2009-11-13, 04:40 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Greg - 2009-11-13, 04:53 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Cynic - 2009-11-13, 05:15 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Greg - 2009-11-13, 05:35 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Stereo - 2009-11-13, 07:31 PM
gMS Tespia Was a challenge to Odin? - by Veneni - 2009-11-14, 06:01 AM

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