
If you allow for channel wide or global wide chat and just fix the report system to be more streamlined, advertisers are easy enough to combat. Buying the channel wide megaphones for reward points for example.Įspecially on Reboot where reward points are almost useless after you buy cubes and maybe the water of life.Ĭommunities are good at finding solutions themselves if you give them tools for it anyway. It could be just less limited than it is now. We rarely saw any bots there and a few hundred people were active in chat on a server that only had a population of about 2k.Īs I said though, it doesn't have to be unlimited. (though it was much harder to bot in that game due to design) I've played a game in the past where you had to hit a certain level before global chat worked. You can easily gate them to legit players by only allowing certain players onto the chat. I guess I use the word "friend" in a more formal sense. I just fail to see how one could hit such numbers personally. As I said, it doesn't hurt anything to increase it. Reasoning behind increasing the friend list is solid I guess. 100 wasn't enough back when the game was more active, and it still isn't enough. There's a lot of inactive old friends that I don't have the heart to delete in case they come back (like most do), while still wanting to make new connections. There's also the concern of mesoselling bots flooding the global chats.Įdit: I could personally get behind having the slots increased to 200-300. They kinda sorta tried with the chat channels, which failed miserably because of spaghetti code, removed and then never spoken of again. I think there are people who can do it as guild masters have to be able to communicate with members and usually its 199 of them and 800 extra through the alliance guilds. discord helps but I feel increasing buddy list will be a great help. Even now 100's of people I knew prior to bera I still kinda communicate with when they run into threads and stuff or things with my name on it. and usually had to go to henesys to meet and talk to most. I think it is all about being a social butterfly and being able to have great communication skills. Lmao micheal jackson was able to do that and many do. If Nexon wants a community to exist in MapleStory they're going to have to stop locking it behind a paywall/RNG.

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I'd rather just see server wide messages become free or less limited in some way. Why can I not more easily sync up groups to make sure all members are actually friends with each other? Why am I constantly being flooded by half-conversations? (Which don't use the name either) Why am I allowed to nickname people if it doesn't use that name when notifying me?

If we're going to do anything with the friend list/system, I'd like to see the whole thing overhauled to be made less annoying. I don't think this is even possible with 100 people. I don't believe it's logically possible to consistently talk to 1000 people on a personal friendship level. I don't think to have 1000 friends mean you ignore the majority of them. Some times the people you hate or have bad feelings about can be solved by simple communication and taking time to get to know their persona, not the one you think it is but what it truly is.

Also yea you can barely know someone til you take time out your comfort zone to get to know them. I hate deleting people off my buddy list as it shows one is more important than the other and that's not great at all. I ran ursus raids in khroa and manage runs for about 20-30 different alliances, most to all of them I was able to communicate and make great runs with without issues or other stuff. With a buddy list expansion, you can span your community and make it bigger. Yea but not everyone wants to join your alliance or maybe there could be other reasons for it. It works out way better than surrounding myself with people I barely know. Personally I've held a group of around a dozen people close to me my whole life. But do we really need the ability to add everyone on the server to our friend list? It doesn't hurt anybody to have this expansion, sure. If you want bigger groups of people just make a guild/guild alliance. If you have that many "friends" then you're going to be forced to ignore the majority or not really even know them that well.
