Community Announcements - ColonelPanic
Dear Maplers,
We are about to embark on our first update after launching Project New Leaf with the Fairwell Fairfight update. Through the links we provided here, we've listened carefully to your feedback on these topics and would like to share our conclusions.
We noticed that while the Fairfight adjustments were welcomed in general, there were more concerns around the Trader's Ribbon item and how it may make MapleStory 2 pay-to-win. This has been a concern of ours as well, that Trader's Ribbons could potentially make illicit meso selling a greater issue. Here's what we have in mind to combat that:
Legendary Gear Included
Trader's Ribbons can be applied to Legendary gear up to Lv. 50. With end-game gear being tradeable, we understand the concern that we are allowing players to pay to reach the end-game. However, we assure you that this will not be the case for the new end-game gear that we are planning to release this summer in our next major expansion update. We will discuss this further as the expansion draws closer, but our current plan is that Trader's Ribbons won't be applicable to the final tier of gear.
Additionally, in order to better manage the distribution of Traders Ribbons and reduce the impact of players with a large number of well-geared characters, all Traders Ribbons will be character-bound.
One of our (many) goals with Project New Leaf is to help more players reach an appropriate level and gear score in order for them to enjoy the content we're preparing for summer. We believe that allowing tradeable Lv. 50 Legendary gear will help achieve this along with other changes we will be making with Project New Leaf.
Meso Market and Purchase Limit
There still remains the concern of players buying large sums of mesos to bypass all gear progression. We will address this by setting a reasonably low limit on meso trading per account when we release the Meso Market in a future update. This trading limit will restrict how many mesos can be purchased over a set period of time, and be set so that it's quite helpful for low-level players, but not beyond what you can normally earn.
This means our version of the Meso Market will mostly be a place where low-level players can gain some extra mesos for progression, as well as a place where well-equipped players can get Merets for cosmetic purposes.
Illegal Meso Buyers
Finally there is the issue of illegal meso purchases. Even if the Meso Market functions as we expect, players who purchase mesos illegally through meso sellers may get additional unfair advantages. As such, we will be enforcing a permanent ban policy for meso buyers to ensure that this type of offense is handled promptly.
Effective immediately, any accounts with confirmed purchases from meso sellers will be suspended for 15 days and have all purchased material removed for their first offense. These accounts will be permanently banned for their second offense. We considered making the first offense a permanent ban, but we wanted to make sure that the player in question fully understands that this activity is not permitted. We will also be stepping up our efforts to identify instances of illegal meso buying, along with the new punishment measures.
Join the Forum Discussion: http://forums.maplestory2.nexon.net/discussion/45125
Join the Reddit Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapleStory2/comments/avjut0/project_new_leaf_fairfight_and_traders_ribbons/
We hope this helps answer your questions about Trader's Ribbons. We'll be sharing more detailed patch notes very soon, so please stay tuned. Thank you for listening, and thank you for being part of Project New Leaf!
Sincerely,
LAMBCOOK
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