Maple Story: More like Crowded Lag Fest Story
Feb 13th, 2009 by www8504
Hello Everyone. Maple Story is a free to play two dimensional side scrolling game in which players interact with other players while killing cute fuzzy animals in a virtual world. It also happens to be one of the more successful free MMO, quite possibly because it is the best game in the known universe.
I log into Maple Story on the Windia server Magus Emperor, my sin XD looks me up and I can not help but notice how crowded the game is now. You can step three feet without bumping into someone, and even when you have found an empty room with not any maple mesos, the game lags slightly due to the large player base and the amount of players online at one time. Now, you say Okay, so Windia lags, but what can we do about it.
Well, here is an idea. Right now, Windia is one of the more populated servers, while servers like Mardia stand empty. I think everyone joins Windia because it sounds cool. I think that nexon or wizet should influence new accounts towards joining mardia. It would be really easy too. The new accounts, ones without any character on any server, could be given some kind of maple story mesos for joining the emptier servers. Not only would this even out the server populations a bit, but friends of people who play maple story, who have decided to join the fun, could still join Windia if their friend is in Windia. They would just not get the reward they would have gotten if they had joined Mardia.
The economy of mesos cash in Maple Story is a delicate balance. Too many players bring items up to insane prices, while too little players brings items up to insane prices, while too little players bring prices to an all time low. In windia Steelies a throwing star used by thieves are currently being sold for 12-14 million cheap mesos. As a curious player, I decided to make a Mardian player to check out the prices there. And let me say this, Mardia is a ghosttown. I went to the free market, and people are selling them for such a low price because they are not in demand maplestory mesos there. There just are not enough people to want them. My idea of a sort of bribe to get people into Mardia would fix this as well. More people in Mardia mean more assassins in Mardia, meaning more people who want steelies. In this way, the price of steelies would go up.











