[Alert] [Complete] Unscheduled Maintenance - October 30, 2014

[Notify]

http://maplestory.nexon.net/news/mai...cements/00I7P/

We will be performing an unscheduled maintenance on October 30, 2014. It will last approximately 3 hours.

Thanks for your patience!

Time:Thursday, October 30, 2014
Pacific: 5 PM - 8 PM
Eastern: 8 PM - 11 PM


What will be unavailable:

• All MapleStory game servers.

Changes and Updates:

• A fix will be applied to the issue that has been causing server crashes.
• The hidden portals in the Old Maple map, “The Forest East of Henesys” can no longer be used, as these were causing the game client to crash.
• Subi Throwing Stars and Bullets are now being sold in most General Stores.

[Ninjaman43]

Better hope it fix my problem. Kept getting ''maplestory has stopped working'' -_-

[kimicatdemon]

I JUST REACHED THE PALE STUDENT TEACHER AND I HAVE WORK IN AN HOUR OH MY ZETSUBOU.

[FenixR]

Frigging nexon can't do this earlier when i was at work? God dammit i still need to find like 100k of candies for cubes that none its going to probably buy from me T.T. And its 3 hours to boot.

[byakugan]

Frigging nexon can't do this earlier when i was at work? God dammit i still need to find like 100k of candies for cubes that none its going to probably buy from me T.T. And its 3 hours to boot.

Doesn't it end tomorrow? How the heck can you get 100k candy in 24 hours without playing them all straight with no sleep or work?

I need 12k candies for the halloween damage skin and I know it will be hard.

[xlxlxlxl]

Doesn't it end tomorrow? How the heck can you get 100k candy in 24 hours without playing them all straight with no sleep or work?

I need 12k candies for the halloween damage skin and I know it will be hard.

I got 60k in 2 hours with Spider, Greed Pendant, and un-Kanna'd (slow spawn) evo. I'm sure one could 100k in like an hour at EVO provided you use spawn and drop gear.

[FenixR]

I can get around 20 to 25k in 30mins of Evo with 70-100% spawn and 20 to 30% drop rate. Also Using the 1.6 familiar spider.

I need like 9-11k on 3 mules, and 40 to 60k in 2 of my mains. Boom at least 18 craftmans that im trying to sell in bera (Without success).

[byakugan]

So I've been doing it all wrong this whole time? I got a mutant pig but I swear I didn't notice THAT BIG of a difference farming candy with him. I also didn't know the avarice pendant increases drop rate, IIRC it says something about increasing drop rate of rare items so I assumed it was just... items with potential

Now the dumb questtion, what is EVO? Evolution lab?

[FenixR]

Yep, link 3 with the flying mushrooms (I swear its not drugs!), bring a pet obviously or you are getting squat due to the huge amount of event crap (The quills, the dark totems items, the dark tokens, etc)

[huehuehue]

So I've been doing it all wrong this whole time? I got a mutant pig but I swear I didn't notice THAT BIG of a difference farming candy with him. I also didn't know the avarice pendant increases drop rate, IIRC it says something about increasing drop rate of rare items so I assumed it was just... items with potential

Now the dumb questtion, what is EVO? Evolution lab?

EVO is Evolution Lab and Map 3 is a great place to farm for event drops if you have good cores on (you can buy basic spawn increase and drop rate increase cores in the shop). He's also referring to the Greed Pendant that you get from the Rhino boss in Monster Park Extreme that increases drop rate, not the Avarice Pendant from regular Monster Park that only increases drop rate in Monster Park.

[SaptaZapta]

So I've been doing it all wrong this whole time? I got a mutant pig but I swear I didn't notice THAT BIG of a difference farming candy with him. I also didn't know the avarice pendant increases drop rate, IIRC it says something about increasing drop rate of rare items so I assumed it was just... items with potential

Now the dumb questtion, what is EVO? Evolution lab?

Also, don't forget to wear the Masked Gentleman's overall and cape.

[Notify]

[Update] The maintenance has been extended 1 hour until 9 PM Pacific.

We will be performing an unscheduled maintenance on October 30, 2014. It will last approximately 3 hours.

Thanks for your patience!

Time:Thursday, October 30, 2014
Pacific: 5 PM - 8 PM
Eastern: 8 PM - 11 PM


What will be unavailable:

• All MapleStory game servers.

Changes and Updates:

• A fix will be applied to the issue that has been causing server crashes.
• The hidden portals in the Old Maple map, “The Forest East of Henesys” can no longer be used, as these were causing the game client to crash.
• Subi Throwing Stars and Bullets are now being sold in most General Stores.
• An exploit involving receiving multiple FriendStory rewards has been fixed, and excess items have been removed.

[FenixR]

Man this stupid maintenance is making me lose mesos. Nexon do your job better plz.

[Ninjaman43]

Why am I not surprise?

[SaptaZapta]

An exploit involving receiving multiple FriendStory rewards has been fixed, and excess items have been removed.

Excess items have been removed?
How do they remove ill-gotten inventory slots?

[FenixR]

Excess items have been removed?
How do they remove ill-gotten inventory slots?

I think only Pin heads where being exploited.

[SaptaZapta]

I think only Pin heads where being exploited.

I know Equip inventory slots were.

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[Complete] The maintenance is complete as of 9:00 PM Pacific. Cash items in your inventory have been extended to cover the amount of time the game was unavailable.

[Update] The maintenance has been extended 1 hour until 9 PM Pacific.

We will be performing an unscheduled maintenance on October 30, 2014. It will last approximately 3 hours.

Thanks for your patience!

Time:Thursday, October 30, 2014
Pacific: 5 PM - 8 PM
Eastern: 8 PM - 11 PM


What will be unavailable:

• All MapleStory game servers.

Changes and Updates:

• A fix will be applied to the issue that has been causing server crashes.
• The hidden portals in the Old Maple map, “The Forest East of Henesys” can no longer be used, as these were causing the game client to crash.
• Subi Throwing Stars and Bullets are now being sold in most General Stores.
• An exploit involving receiving multiple FriendStory rewards has been fixed, and excess items have been removed.

[FenixR]

With that much time you think they could at least try to fix other stuff like Leviathyn Invulnerable frames while doing the water torrent attacks or the stupid spawn glitch in evo world, but no.

I sometimes wonder what the fudge they do during a maintanance that they take so long to fix 2 or 3 things :/.

[SaptaZapta]

With that much time you think they could at least try to fix other stuff like Leviathyn Invulnerable frames while doing the water torrent attacks or the stupid spawn glitch in evo world, but no.

I sometimes wonder what the fudge they do during a maintanance that they take so long to fix 2 or 3 things :/.

Here's a little explanation of how changing/fixing online software works:

1) Someone In Charge decides what needs to be done
2) Programmers write or change the code accordingly, and testers test it, on a development computer or network. This can take minutes or years, depending on the size and difficulty of the change. During this time, the "live servers" (a.k.a "production") are unchanged.
3) The live servers are brought down, and all data is backed up.
4) The updated software is installed on the servers. This means copied from the development system.
5) If there are changes to the client, the new client is copied to the public download server.
6) If there are changes to the database (such as "deleting excess items"), they are enacted.
7) The new software is cursorily tested to make sure nothing broke on the way from development to production.
8) Servers are brought back up, and customers can use them.

Only stages 3-8 happen during the maintenance.
All programming is done before the maintenance.
Therefore complaints along the lines of "why is the game down so long if they're only fixing a couple things" are meaningless. They don't program the fixes while the game is down. What takes long is the testing, and the going over the database.

The bugs you're talking about aren't even on their Known Issues list. And both have been around for years, so to expect them to be fixed in an emergency maintenance is a bit unrealistic.