2012-05-08, 12:20 PM
Although I play JMS still, I have to say a few things I've noticed that applies to both versions:
1) Get rid of MTS. It's horrible. It used to be useful for trading high value items for actual NX/NP, but now it's just a second storage for people. Most people trade outside of MTS for NX or some other type of currency (In the case of JMS, it's WebMoney). Almost nothing is sold on MTS. As a result, people place EVERYTHING in MTS as a second storage. There's a severe lack of Mastery Books on less populated servers because everyone who has something, stuffs it into MTS to rot.
2) Speaking of Mastery Books, get rid of them, or make them 100% Guaranteed. If not removing them, make Mystery Mastery Books class based, instead of "LOL MASH EVERY MASTERY BOOK EVER INTO ONE RANDOM POT LUCK OF HELL!" Just add MH20/30 to every class's Mystery Master Books and problem solved. I don't care if it's just Warrior/Magician/Thief/Pirate/Archer MMBs, and that's how it's divided, but right now getting a MB you need is nearly impossible without buying it. This would also reduce the cost of MH significantly, because it would be much easier to get, and it would make the entire freaking system less aggravating. I stopped leveling my Evan because I couldn't find any MBs for him, so most of my skills were sitting at 10 because I have nothing to level. It's insane. That system needs a significant revamp.
3) New Real Content. STOP RELEASING CLASSES! Almost everyone in these forums was in agreement that Mikhail is not only the dumbest addition ever, but completely and utterly unnecessary. How can Nexon not see this? It's mind boggling. We need more 120+ Content (Probably closer to 140+). With it, they should add some real quest lines. Future Ereb did a good job, but it doesn't last long enough. It was really good in the EXP department though. They just need more areas with more compelling things to do instead of "Kill X" or "Collect Y." I know they can do it...they just need to try.
4) Real bosses. Akyrum and that new EllinForest Fairy boss (name escapes me) are both examples of what NOT to do with bosses. Having a boss kill you 24/7 with no penalty is stupid and unnecessary. It makes the boss boring and pointless. The new Fairy boss is just plain stupid. Every 10 seconds you're locked out of attacking for another 20-30. She has TWO locking skills. What the hell is that? How do they find that fun? *Attack -> Lock -> Buff -> Lock -> Attack x2 -> Lock -> Attack -> Lock -> Attack -> Lock -> Buff -> Lock -> Repeat* is not fun. At all. Nexon LOVES the locking skills, and they need to stop. That pomegranate is just absolutely unnecessary. It makes the bosses unappealing, boring, and just plain stupid. Leave that concept behind. Same goes with Akyrum, a boss who dying has no point, so why should you bother caring about what you do? Just attack until it happens to kill you. That's not fun either.
5) Stop flaunting Potential (Never gonna happen, but I can ask can't I?). JMS alone has like 7 different types of cubes now. STOP. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP. We get it, you like money. Try inventing some more interesting systems that aren't so absolutely game breaking, but provide some extra fun for people who pay. A cool idea JMS implemented is Premium Mini Dungeons. You can buy a ticket in the Cash Shop, and then go to any regular MD. There's an NPC that lets you activate the Premium mode. In it you get better drops, more exp, etc. It's not game-breaking, outside of the fact that it pomegranates Maple Weapons, but there's so many of those around that it doesn't really matter. It's a cool upgrade for people who pay, but doesn't really impact the economy that much, and doesn't have any long term effects. That's a decent use of the Cash Shop (Not the best, but it's WAY BETTER than Potential Cube spam). The only problem so far is that JMS likes to make it a time-limited event, and the tickets are only in the Cash Shop like once every three months. Make it a permanent system and you'll probably get some good income off of it.
6) Stop Copy-Pastaing events. Even in JMS this is an issue, but it's far larger in GMS. "EVOLUTION RING 1615019025491029540192501295 EVENT GO!" It's stupid. Do you guys really have that much of a lack of ideas and innovation that you cannot even come up with a new and compelling event, and have to rehash the same ones 100 times over?
7) Stop Copy-Pastaing code. The amount of times I've seen the same bugs and problems popup in JMS is ridiculous. It's absolutely mind boggling. I've seen 15-stat Zakum Helms drop about 10 times now since I started playing again back in 2010. JMS is supposed to drop a 4-stat Upgradeable Zakum Helm. How do you make that same exact mistake more than once or twice? Right now in JMS Quest items drop from quests that don't exist because they changed some in JMS. That's happened at least as many times as the Zakum helm thing. Cracks of Time sometimes are randomly unstackable. Takos suddenly give 8 atk instead of 20 all the time. Random items have Korean names at random times. All these things would be prevented if you actually paid attention to what you were copying in terms of code, instead of just smashing it into the JMS code and hoping it works. I've seen similar complaints in GMS, so it's not just JMS either.
8) As others have said, GM activity. Even in JMS it is non existent (to my knowledge). The only time either ShiKage or I have seen a GM is during JMST. I never saw one in the 6ish months I played KMS either. Hell, vaccers in JMS trade in plain sight. I'm not kidding. Twice I've witnessed hackers swarming to a single channel, and trading massive amounts of items via drop trading to a single character at Krus. Channel 1 both times. All the GMs need to do is sit there for a couple of hours and they'd see it happen, and they could ban the whole swarm of them at once. It's insane that they don't. It just feeds the belief that the GMs do not exist anymore. They used to(Way back in '05 I watched someone get banned in JMS, but that doesn't happen anymore), but they don't anymore.
These are all things I think they should be doing, but don't. Sorry, kind of a wall of text.
1) Get rid of MTS. It's horrible. It used to be useful for trading high value items for actual NX/NP, but now it's just a second storage for people. Most people trade outside of MTS for NX or some other type of currency (In the case of JMS, it's WebMoney). Almost nothing is sold on MTS. As a result, people place EVERYTHING in MTS as a second storage. There's a severe lack of Mastery Books on less populated servers because everyone who has something, stuffs it into MTS to rot.
2) Speaking of Mastery Books, get rid of them, or make them 100% Guaranteed. If not removing them, make Mystery Mastery Books class based, instead of "LOL MASH EVERY MASTERY BOOK EVER INTO ONE RANDOM POT LUCK OF HELL!" Just add MH20/30 to every class's Mystery Master Books and problem solved. I don't care if it's just Warrior/Magician/Thief/Pirate/Archer MMBs, and that's how it's divided, but right now getting a MB you need is nearly impossible without buying it. This would also reduce the cost of MH significantly, because it would be much easier to get, and it would make the entire freaking system less aggravating. I stopped leveling my Evan because I couldn't find any MBs for him, so most of my skills were sitting at 10 because I have nothing to level. It's insane. That system needs a significant revamp.
3) New Real Content. STOP RELEASING CLASSES! Almost everyone in these forums was in agreement that Mikhail is not only the dumbest addition ever, but completely and utterly unnecessary. How can Nexon not see this? It's mind boggling. We need more 120+ Content (Probably closer to 140+). With it, they should add some real quest lines. Future Ereb did a good job, but it doesn't last long enough. It was really good in the EXP department though. They just need more areas with more compelling things to do instead of "Kill X" or "Collect Y." I know they can do it...they just need to try.
4) Real bosses. Akyrum and that new EllinForest Fairy boss (name escapes me) are both examples of what NOT to do with bosses. Having a boss kill you 24/7 with no penalty is stupid and unnecessary. It makes the boss boring and pointless. The new Fairy boss is just plain stupid. Every 10 seconds you're locked out of attacking for another 20-30. She has TWO locking skills. What the hell is that? How do they find that fun? *Attack -> Lock -> Buff -> Lock -> Attack x2 -> Lock -> Attack -> Lock -> Attack -> Lock -> Buff -> Lock -> Repeat* is not fun. At all. Nexon LOVES the locking skills, and they need to stop. That pomegranate is just absolutely unnecessary. It makes the bosses unappealing, boring, and just plain stupid. Leave that concept behind. Same goes with Akyrum, a boss who dying has no point, so why should you bother caring about what you do? Just attack until it happens to kill you. That's not fun either.
5) Stop flaunting Potential (Never gonna happen, but I can ask can't I?). JMS alone has like 7 different types of cubes now. STOP. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP. We get it, you like money. Try inventing some more interesting systems that aren't so absolutely game breaking, but provide some extra fun for people who pay. A cool idea JMS implemented is Premium Mini Dungeons. You can buy a ticket in the Cash Shop, and then go to any regular MD. There's an NPC that lets you activate the Premium mode. In it you get better drops, more exp, etc. It's not game-breaking, outside of the fact that it pomegranates Maple Weapons, but there's so many of those around that it doesn't really matter. It's a cool upgrade for people who pay, but doesn't really impact the economy that much, and doesn't have any long term effects. That's a decent use of the Cash Shop (Not the best, but it's WAY BETTER than Potential Cube spam). The only problem so far is that JMS likes to make it a time-limited event, and the tickets are only in the Cash Shop like once every three months. Make it a permanent system and you'll probably get some good income off of it.
6) Stop Copy-Pastaing events. Even in JMS this is an issue, but it's far larger in GMS. "EVOLUTION RING 1615019025491029540192501295 EVENT GO!" It's stupid. Do you guys really have that much of a lack of ideas and innovation that you cannot even come up with a new and compelling event, and have to rehash the same ones 100 times over?
7) Stop Copy-Pastaing code. The amount of times I've seen the same bugs and problems popup in JMS is ridiculous. It's absolutely mind boggling. I've seen 15-stat Zakum Helms drop about 10 times now since I started playing again back in 2010. JMS is supposed to drop a 4-stat Upgradeable Zakum Helm. How do you make that same exact mistake more than once or twice? Right now in JMS Quest items drop from quests that don't exist because they changed some in JMS. That's happened at least as many times as the Zakum helm thing. Cracks of Time sometimes are randomly unstackable. Takos suddenly give 8 atk instead of 20 all the time. Random items have Korean names at random times. All these things would be prevented if you actually paid attention to what you were copying in terms of code, instead of just smashing it into the JMS code and hoping it works. I've seen similar complaints in GMS, so it's not just JMS either.
8) As others have said, GM activity. Even in JMS it is non existent (to my knowledge). The only time either ShiKage or I have seen a GM is during JMST. I never saw one in the 6ish months I played KMS either. Hell, vaccers in JMS trade in plain sight. I'm not kidding. Twice I've witnessed hackers swarming to a single channel, and trading massive amounts of items via drop trading to a single character at Krus. Channel 1 both times. All the GMs need to do is sit there for a couple of hours and they'd see it happen, and they could ban the whole swarm of them at once. It's insane that they don't. It just feeds the belief that the GMs do not exist anymore. They used to(Way back in '05 I watched someone get banned in JMS, but that doesn't happen anymore), but they don't anymore.
These are all things I think they should be doing, but don't. Sorry, kind of a wall of text.