[POLL] Compensation for Holiday Connectivity Issues
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Originally Posted by CM_Artasi
Compensation for Holiday Connectivity Issues
Hey Maplers,
As many of you are aware, over the holiday break, we experienced interruptions to the service across a number of our games. These issues, as we have stated, were related to an ongoing Distributed Denial-of-Service attack on our services.
Though we are constantly working to make strives to ensure that these attacks can be dealt with more quickly in the future, we wanted to reach out a hand of appreciation for those of you who have been affected by these attacks (hint: everyone) and show our support for your patience and understanding while we have been dealing with these issues.
Here, you can find a poll for voting on a number of different compensation packages that we have created in order to provide options to you guys, the community, so you can vote and have your say in what kind of compensation you would like.
In the following list, you will find the differences in the various poll options.
Which Compensation Package Do You Prefer to Receive?
Option 1: (1-Day 2x EXP Special Coupon, 7 Day Granny's Food Stand, 7 Day Store Remote Controller, 30 Day Maple Teleport Rock, 30 Day Traveling Merchant, 30 Day Portable Storage)
Option 2: (1-Day 2x EXP Special Coupon, 1-Day 2x Drop Special Coupon, 90 Day Duration Water of Life, 30 Day Maple Teleport Rock, 30 Day Traveling Merchant, 30 Day Portable Storage)
Option 3: (EXP Booster - 11 Pack (4 Hours), 30 Day Safety Gem, 30 Day Respawn Pass, 30 Day Maple Teleport Rock, 30 Day Traveling Merchant, 30 Day Portable Storage)
Please vote and let us know your thoughts, below.
So here are the choices, in tabular form
Item | 1 | 2 | 3 |
1-Day 2x Exp | + | + | |
1-Day 2x Drop | | + | |
7-day shop + remote control | + | | |
Water of Life | | + | |
4hr 1.5x exp x 11 | | | + |
30 day safety gem | | | + |
30 day respawn pass | | | + |
30-day traveling merchant | + | + | + |
30-day portable storage | + | + | + |
30-day Maple Tele Rock | + | + | + |
Maple Teleport Rock is, per Artasi, "Similar to a Hyper Teleport Rock, except it has a 10 minute cooldown and only moves you between cities/towns. "
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Oh god. I remember the last time they gave out Hired Merchants, please no. Option Three please.
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None of them are particularly spectacular.
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I am leaning towards option 2. Water of life and a 2x drop coupon will sure come in handy. I would also adore it if they allow different characters to receive certain items from packages.
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Everyone have different priorities, if only they make it so we can choose any option in game instead of having to vote for 1 for everyone. But any free stuff is welcome i guess.
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I had to double check myself when I saw the word Poll in the title. It would be nice to see them running polls more often, even for things of lesser value.
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Only thing I'd use for #1 is the mushie.
Wouldn't use anything from #2.
I'd get a bit more use out of #3 with the Safety Gem and Respawn Pass, so I guess I'd vote for that.
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y no maple points nexon. hired merchants just rekt the fm though they are gud
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Originally Posted by
TidusLoveYuna
y no maple points nexon. hired merchants just rekt the fm though they are gud
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Originally Posted by CM_Artasi
We have come up with these packages which contain items which players could have lost value on if used during the times where we were having troubles. Items like the ones you said, and others such as PSOKs or Fusion Anvils aren't really good for this, as the downtime and stability didn't affect those items.
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I assume Maple teleport rock =/= hyper teleport rock? These packages seem to actually have only 3 items instead of 6 cuz the rest are useless.
Might someone remind me why its a bad idea to get the hired merchant? Because I need one but I don't want to make playing maple even more troublesome than the NGS and channel switching DC make it.
Edit: never go into southperry right after waking up
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Originally Posted by
byakugan
I assume Maple teleport rock =/= hyper teleport rock? These packages seem actually have only 3 items instead of 6 cuz the rest are useless.
Might someone remind me why its a bad idea to get the hired merchant? Because I need one but I don't want to maple playing maple even more troublesome than the NGS and channel switching DC make it.
Maple Tele Rocks can only teleport you to towns and there's a 10 minutes cool down between teleports.
I agree with you about the whole merchant thing. Even though the FM will be flooded with stores (which isn't a bad thing at all, IMO), owls and other means can make it very simple to find what you're looking for.
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Having hired merchants everywhere for 1-2 days is good; gives those a chance to sell stuff that otherwise wouldn't.
Good deals pop up.
I don't care which package we get.
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No use for literally anything but the merchant personally. There's a couple of things I would like to buy too, and if everyone has a store, there's gonna be plenty of goods to buy.
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Erm... these Exp booster packs and coupons are absolutely useless for lv 200+ if these are the same ones in CS.
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So long as I can pick things on different characters I'm fine with whatever.
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Originally Posted by
Liable
Erm... these Exp booster packs and coupons are absolutely useless for lv 200+ if these are the same ones in CS.
Not if they're given via hot day-ish box. 1.5x/2x exp cards DO work on 201+ characters, they just aren't able to take them out of the CS.
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I find it kinda funny how people with 0 posts are popping up telling people that they should all pick #1 because "it's good for the economy!"
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Originally Posted by
RayGun
don't think i have anything to sell so merchants are kinda useless. but it is winning
water of life appears to be out of the race right now
Option ONE
485 50.26%
Option TWO
24 2.49%
Option THREE
456 47.25%
probably 3 is more useful than 1 for me. safety and respawns.
probably most of voters are merchants who either want a shop or don't want the fm to be flooded with shops
actually i am quite baffled as to why they offered the 3 choices. i think people would have been quite happy with just receiving whatever they had decided, if they hadn't offered a choice.
now people will be disappointed if they didn't get what they wanted. and the poll will be easily manipulated by fanatics with many accounts mainly because most people would not vote.
why couldn't they have just given everything? they all expire very soon anyway
Water of Life is easy enough to get, in the Rewards Shop.
The race is close but there are apparently a lot of mults. We won't know the real results until Nexon clean those out (hopefully they're not too lazy to).
I don't actually have immediate use for any of the options, but the 1.5x exp coupons in #3 don't expire, so might as well take those for if I ever decide to train.
I do have stuff to sell, but doubt I'd bother to try (which involves getting stuff from mules and storage to put it all on one char) when FM is full of granny stands.
They probably offered the poll to look like they're listening to the public. However, it seems to be backfiring somewhat, both because it looks like half the population will be disappointed by whatever's picked, and because people are asking for other items (mostly soul enchanters, apparently :f6:) and Artasi is adamant that those would be a "reward" and not a "compensation".
Someone did just suggest giving out all of the items, we'll see what comes of that.
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option 3 please ;_; its so close i am curious if we can get them as seperate hot times would be coool