Kradia and Yellonde Form a Server Alliance

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Greeting Maplers,

As previously mentioned in the latest dev blog, Make Room, Make Room!, were introducing a new server alliance initiative whereby players from two servers will share one world to play in together. But before you pull out the pitchforks and torches, please know that weve given an incredible amount of consideration to ensure players from both Kradia and Yellonde have as comfortable an experience as possible. Read the details:

You will still log into both Kradia and Yellonde from the server select screen. Neither
server is going away.

Once you log in, you will interact with players from both servers so that there will be
more people to party up with.

Server channels are being expanded to 20 on each server to accommodate
the expansion, so theres plenty of room to train by yourself as well.

Players on the new server alliance will have double the character slots (can create
characters on both Kradia and Yellonde).


We strongly hope that these changes will allow players to participate in bigger community activities, but at the same time, allow plenty of room for those who wish to play the game by themselves. We know players have lots of questions, so below are some responses that we wrote based on comments to the dev blog. Well also continue to read your insights and try to answer as many as we can here.

Server Alliance FAQ
Q: Why are you doing this server alliance?
A: Weve got some servers with too many people, and some with not enough. This is the first step in our efforts to balance the populations so players on all servers can enjoy MapleStory as a massively multiplayer online game!

Q: How did you choose Kradia and Yellonde to form the first server alliance?
A: We chose Kradia and Yellonde because they have similar populations and economies, and so the impact should be minimal for the players involved.

Q: Im on Kradia/Yellonde. Whats going to happen to me in an alliance?
A: Not much. As a player on the alliance worlds, you will do everything you typically do to play. Your server remains the same, but what changes is youll be seeing a lot more new faces in the game.

Q: When will the alliance happen?
A: The alliance will happen during a server maintenance and it will be announced during the server maintenance notice.


If you have any additional questions regarding the Kradia-Yellonde server alliance we will be happy to answer them on the Nexon forums.

About freakin' time.

WHAT.

THEY GET CH 20?!
I am in despair.

I'm scared of what they'll do to Scania..

Ch 20-

It has returned-
!

Ch 20-

It has returned-
!

>El Nido and Zenith.


Anywho, that's the only merge? Meh...

Almost expected/10. But this is pretty nice for the players in both servers. =D

>El Nido and Zenith.


Anywho, that's the only merge? Meh...

It's possible that more servers will be merged in the future. Not saying it'll happen, but it could.

Mardia and Demethos?

If this is possible, why not double the amount of space in Scania

I find it interesting that they're merging the East Coast server.

Well... "merging"...

Frankly, they should just mash the last 5 worlds together.

If this is possible, why not double the amount of space in Scania

Because the entire point is that there are too many on Scania and not enough in other worlds?

I'm scared of what they'll do to Scania..

Why? They said nothing about increasing population there, only decreasing.

There are people in those servers?

lol, I kid!

Because the entire point is that there are too many on Scania and not enough in other worlds?

Well, that is true but I think many would choose to remain in Scania even if there was an option for a server transfer. It can be very difficult to find maps and I think if it were possible to have more channels, that would be wonderful.

Why? They said nothing about increasing population there, only decreasing.

My point exactly.
Scania is nice because it is big. It has a unique community because of it. Sure a lot of people dislike it and it leads to many problems, but it's really nice to almost always have people online. I would hate it to log on and there would be no one on, even though I know a lot of people like that.

>El Nido and Zenith.


Anywho, that's the only merge? Meh...

I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt it. You can't just pull off a merge like this for a bunch of servers like one time. Okay you can but then you could cause more trouble than its worth..this is probably a test, see how it goes and stable it, then move on.

Kind of surprised they're not merging Demethos with Yellonde. I was looking forward to the increase in people.

>> ch 20
>> double the amount of character slots

I'm sad now

Damn it. They're merging worlds with similar economies? ._.

Well, I guess Zenith is merging with Arcania. I doubt El Nido will merge with anything, since they're the only East Coast server, but if they do, it'll probably be a three-way merge between Zenith, El Nido and Arcania.


I have a feeling, however, that merging those three worlds would still result in a smaller population than even Tsubaki, JMS.