2011-04-15, 08:48 PM
In regards to the guild question:
-Hime- Wrote:The guild who used the name first will return the guild name and the guild who used the name second will have their guild name changed. We will first change the second guild with the name to our preferences but we will take tickets to change the name to what you prefer given the name is available.
Spoiler
-Hime- Wrote:Greeting Maplers,
As previously mentioned in the latest dev blog, Make Room, Make Room!, were introducing a new server alliance initiative whereby players from two servers will share one world to play in together. But before you pull out the pitchforks and torches, please know that weve given an incredible amount of consideration to ensure players from both Kradia and Yellonde have as comfortable an experience as possible. Read the details:
You will still log into both Kradia and Yellonde from the server select screen. Neither server is going away.
Once you log in, you will interact with players from both servers so that there will be more people to party up with.
Server channels are being expanded to 20 on each server to accommodate the expansion, so theres plenty of room to train by yourself as well.
Players on the new server alliance will have double the character slots (can create characters on both Kradia and Yellonde).
We strongly hope that these changes will allow players to participate in bigger community activities, but at the same time, allow plenty of room for those who wish to play the game by themselves. We know players have lots of questions, so below are some responses that we wrote based on comments to the dev blog. Well also continue to read your insights and try to answer as many as we can here.
Server Alliance FAQ
Q: Why are you doing this server alliance?
A: Weve got some servers with too many people, and some with not enough. This is the first step in our efforts to balance the populations so players on all servers can enjoy MapleStory as a massively multiplayer online game!
Q: How did you choose Kradia and Yellonde to form the first server alliance?
A: We chose Kradia and Yellonde because they have similar populations and economies, and so the impact should be minimal for the players involved.
Q: Im on Kradia/Yellonde. Whats going to happen to me in an alliance?
A: Not much. As a player on the alliance worlds, you will do everything you typically do to play. Your server remains the same, but what changes is youll be seeing a lot more new faces in the game.
Q: When will the alliance happen?
A: The alliance will happen during a server maintenance and it will be announced during the server maintenance notice.
If you have any additional questions regarding the Kradia-Yellonde server alliance we will be happy to answer them on the Nexon forums.
KinqStarfire:
do u know if Bera will b in an allaince?
There are no open plans at the moment for an alliance with Bera.
kerblasterz:
Since our char slots technically double, will the Blessing of the Fairy skill in Kradia still reach all the way to Yellonde?
No, blessing of the fairy cannot be shared across the two worlds. Character information still remains separate on both worlds.
ChaosC57:
Could you give us any hints towards what's going to happen to Scania?
The huge population in Scania is a different issue.
alltwo741:
Do they share storage?
Not between the two worlds.
iananderson2:
When you say "Players on the new server alliance will have double the character slots (can create characters on both Kradia and Yellonde)." Does that mean we have double what we currently in our main server? (Kradia in my instance). Right now I have 7 character slots thanks to the additional ones given when new classes came out, so I would have 14 after the alliance?
No, character slots on your main server, Kradia, will not double, but since Kradia and Yellonde will be forming an alliance, you can make characters on Yellonde, which will share the same playing field as Kradia (and vice versa).
andy56duky:
is it possible to merge scania with a very low population servers like the new servers u just released just recently
Scania is a very populated server. There are currently no plans to have a server alliance for Scania.
Kevin539:
I humbly request that Kradia ally with Demethos instead of Yellonde.
It's been decided Kradia and Yellonde will partake in the first alliance. It is because the two worlds share much more similarities than Demethos. (Sorry!)
akimi91:
What will happen in terms guilds. For example, in Kradia there is a guild called "Apples" and then there is another guild in Yellonde also named "Apples", would there be 2 guilds with the same name? or would one be deleted/renamed?
The guild who used the name first will return the guild name and the guild who used the name second will have their guild name changed. We will first change the second guild with the name to our preferences but we will take tickets to change the name to what you prefer given the name is available.
Cujo00:
Hime, do you have any information on how this has affected the storage system and the shared cash shop inventories for Explorers?
Kradia and Yellonde still remain separate despite sharing one Maple World so from what I know, storage nor cash shop between the worlds would be shared.
iDunKnow:
Hey Hime don't leave just yet, I have a question to ask you. Okay, so what if some of the say lvl 200 or 15x were moved into the 3 new worlds? Because in my opinion Nexon wasn't thinking when they made the 3 new servers.
Currently, you cannot transfer to and from the 3 newest worlds - Zenith, El Nido, and Arcania.
reyon321:
So, does the rankings stay the same or what? just curious.
Yes, that is correct.