The Reality of our "Content"

Is it about having choice or the illusion of choice? I can guarantee you even if there were no "to the left" (in reference to your images) or MP3, there would still be places that would be the #1 place and everyone would flock there like the left monsters. You can argue that people would have more choices since there are more monsters that give the same amount of EXP, but how many people would train in those places? How many people would go to Big Spiders at 70 instead of Sand Rats? The spawn for Big Spiders is less and the map is bigger compared to Sand Rats. There's not a single class that would benefit more from going to Big Spiders instead of Sand Rats. Aqua Road would be crossed off virtually every training list anyways since water physics in Maple aren't very conducive to moving around easily.

I see your point, but it's too unrealistic. You're looking at Maple (as well as every other game, since virtually every game does this) too ideally when you need to look at it realistically.

Well, by only getting rid of them would be a great start. I challenge you to name a mob that comes close to Aliens.

A great change for the better would be something like:

-Have more quests but more interesting and more rewarding.
-Changing the spawns of certain maps.
-Adjusting the exp on mobs with a plentiful but weaker spawn.
-Adjusting the exp on mobs with a fewer but stronger spawn.
-More high level areas.

The choice of going to Big Spiders instead of Sand Rats is not as detrimental as choosing anything in Ludibrium compared to Aliens. That is the sad reality.

After some extreme thought, I have realized one single mob that caused almost as much trouble as Aliens: pre-nerf Gallopera. This was after BB and Galloperas were still giving their pre-BB exp meaning it was the best thing to train at until like lvl130. The result is the masses all going to that single map, regardless of they were getting ks'd or not because that was the best exp. Needless to say, this was rebalanced.

I see your point, but it's too unrealistic. You're looking at Maple (as well as every other game, since virtually every game does this) too ideally when you need to look at it realistically.

Realistically, like I've said, all I have shown is the path of least resistance. No one can really deny that it exists because it has existed in Maple History. However, we're at a time where the best path is 2x/3x better than the next best thing compared to a minuscule difference.

I don't really believe you see my point if you think it's unrealistic because the very nature of my post is detailing what is actually happening right now at this moment and, more importantly, at what scale.

When you argue the contrary, think about your own position: if Nexon created a mob that was 3x more exp than every other mob in that level range + it can be 1shot by players at that level range, would you think it's unrealistic that this mob might cause an abnormal amount of traffic? Wouldn't you think this one mob might cause the game to be centered around that one mob? Wouldn't you think it might create a little too much slanting if it was 3x better compared to if it was only 1.5x better?

I suppose your logic would say that it's a-okay because people will always flock to the best mob experience and things wouldn't be different. Nevermind that it's the only mob that does this and nothing in the game comes close to it.