What are your thoughts in Privates servers?

Fair. P-servers lets me open my opportunities to explore classes a bit more without the tedious 24/7 grinding 'mindset' of most Maplers (may be an exaggeration). However, I prefer the actual gMS, because all my friends plays it. If a p-server slightly boosted gMS's EXP rate without OVERDOING it, it can be a great p-server. If the p-server hands out everything like money falling off a tree, it's no fun then. It's like getting to lv 200 in less than 3 hours, why would you bother? No sense of accomplishment.

So it really depends, but I don't view p-servers as OMGTERRIBLE.

Lol more like 1-250 in a minute. At least, that was my private server experience. Though, with rebirthing and the ability to cap AP stats at 30k, it took a good few hours invested over several days to meet that.

But I still don't think they're boring. I mean, I agree with everyone saying you shouldn't quit a real server for a private server, since you'll quickly find yourself out of options, but they're nice for real server downtime, testing other classes, and having fun scrolling/killing stuff. In other words, I believe a private server should be just that: a private place to mess around with aspects of the game you normally wouldn't get to test without investing hours and dollars, NOT a place to find accomplishment.

I basically use them for damage testing and scroll testing. I would never give up playing gMS for a PS..... yet

This lol. I think moving to a private server would be legit if you're hacked in GMS.

Good for test drives. Instead of asking your friend for their account info of their 18x hero, you can just fire up a pserver in 5 minutes and you got your 18x hero to test drive. If you like what you see, go and make on on the real thing.

I personally prefer pservers because everything stressful of gMS is eliminated or significantly reduced.

• Hate raging every time you miss a boat or ship ride by literally one second?
  
• Hate raging every time you missed an FM spot by a slight lag?
  
• Hate making a new character and after all the money spent on leeching you find out you actually don't like playing a paladin?
  
• Hate not being able to even walk around at level 16x without a safety charm?
  
• Hate srs business?

COMPLTELY AGREE with Ken's post. @fmnpc warping you to any boss map in the game, bosses spawning in FMs, every scroll available for 100 meso and the ability to get max meso in a matter of seconds? It's nice. Hell, private servers are therapeutic. Bomb your 80 att Craven? Go scroll a 95 att one in a minute. Waste $50 USD on Gachapon to get a bunch of crap gear? Go buy an Elemental Wand from the command NPC and wreak havoc. If you're serious about a real MapleStory server, you should seriously consider finding a worthwhile private server to vent.