2011-03-07, 01:12 PM
I highly doubt that Nexon will abandon its current system. It generates way too much money with its shop permits, mushies, and owls. Both legits and hackers alike need to purchase these items to make any form of income. When people say that MapleStory is a free to play game, it's only half true. Players need to pay at the start to get themselves going if they want any form of reliable income at all. Only later, it's up to them whether they continue charging their parents' credit cards or use MTS (which also requires people to purchase NX).
Seeing as how Nexon won't change to an MTS or Auction House GUI for Free Market, the things they need to do are:
1) Shop Grids. No more taking up multiple spaces for shops.
2) Automatically have NPC's at each grid spot when a shop is opened. There's no need to sit in FM all day just because you need to sell something.
3) A shop opening fee of maybe 5m. Meso sinks are nice. Only one shop may be opened per character.
4) All players have an initial 8 slots to sell items. To sell more items, they need to purchase NX, that way, Nexon will still generate money.
8 Slots - Free. Tax is equal to that of regular trading.
16 Slots - 5k NX for 7 days. Tax is equal to that of current shops.
24 Slots - 8k NX for 7 days. Tax is equal to that of current shops.
32 Slots - 11k NX for 7 days. Tax is equal to that of current shops.
5) All shops will have a 24 hour countdown before closing. This is already implemented.
6) Searching items in FM can be done at the FM entrance. 1m per search and scans only the current channel you're in and lists the prices of all the items. Once again, meso sinks are nice.
7) Upon searching the items, if results are found, an addition 1m to teleport to the said shop would needed to be paid. Once again, meso sinks are nice.
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That said, this will eliminate several problems:
1) No more D/C hacking human shops for hackers to claim spots.
2) With everything automatically NPC driven, no more Mushie locking is done.
3) With an NX-less item searching service, no more need to fight over spots in lower and more popular FM's.
4) With an NX-less item searching service, "super merchants" will no longer place items like Dex Crystals at 6m apiece.
5) Heavy meso sinks reduce the amount of hackers deliberately deflating the price of their goods.
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Sadly, none of this will happen though.
Seeing as how Nexon won't change to an MTS or Auction House GUI for Free Market, the things they need to do are:
1) Shop Grids. No more taking up multiple spaces for shops.
2) Automatically have NPC's at each grid spot when a shop is opened. There's no need to sit in FM all day just because you need to sell something.
3) A shop opening fee of maybe 5m. Meso sinks are nice. Only one shop may be opened per character.
4) All players have an initial 8 slots to sell items. To sell more items, they need to purchase NX, that way, Nexon will still generate money.
8 Slots - Free. Tax is equal to that of regular trading.
16 Slots - 5k NX for 7 days. Tax is equal to that of current shops.
24 Slots - 8k NX for 7 days. Tax is equal to that of current shops.
32 Slots - 11k NX for 7 days. Tax is equal to that of current shops.
5) All shops will have a 24 hour countdown before closing. This is already implemented.
6) Searching items in FM can be done at the FM entrance. 1m per search and scans only the current channel you're in and lists the prices of all the items. Once again, meso sinks are nice.
7) Upon searching the items, if results are found, an addition 1m to teleport to the said shop would needed to be paid. Once again, meso sinks are nice.
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That said, this will eliminate several problems:
1) No more D/C hacking human shops for hackers to claim spots.
2) With everything automatically NPC driven, no more Mushie locking is done.
3) With an NX-less item searching service, no more need to fight over spots in lower and more popular FM's.
4) With an NX-less item searching service, "super merchants" will no longer place items like Dex Crystals at 6m apiece.
5) Heavy meso sinks reduce the amount of hackers deliberately deflating the price of their goods.
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Sadly, none of this will happen though.