Honest Review of Servers I've Played
Who am i?
Just an avid gamer who likes the rush from incremental progression games, not looking for nostalgia. So i tend to frequent more servers that are closer to the MapleStory build of today.
Why am i making this review?
Just here to give out my honest opinions on servers that i have tried and maybe help out people trying to find the server they want to try. Seeing an unexpected score for a server does not mean its objectively bad, it just did not strike me well.
StarMS (KMS but with a MUCH faster progression pace)
https://discord.com/invite/maplestar
| Total Score - 39/50 |
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| Progression Pacing - 9/10 [ The grind here actually respects your time relative to vanilla Maple] |
| F2P Friendliness - 10/10 [Drops to a 6/10 once you get into eternals, you're not getting there within 1-2 months] |
| Community - 7/10 [Always populated, typical good and bad apples, not a higher score because doesn't have cooperation due to no instanced loot] |
| Game Stability - 6.5/10 [ No crashes but developers tend to bring the server down for maintenance, has been improving recently ] |
| Content - 6.5/10 [ Nothing special, its really just KMS but slight tweaks in progression and some custom systems ] |
Ranmelle (Botting/Macro Fest with Big Damage Numbers)
https://discord.com/invite/BENx4Ja22Y
| Total Score - 19.5/50 |
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| Progression Pacing - 4/10 [ Must be Botting / Macro-ing in order to progress when exiting early game ] |
| F2P Friendliness - 2/10 [ Swiping just 1 dollar can save you days of grinding ] |
| Community - 3.5/10 [ Has great and established player on-boarding and guides but some players itself tend to be super egotistical/sarcastic and treat you like a child, not it man ] |
| Game Stability - 6/10 [ No crashes but as a SEA player i have to spam npcs and runes in order to maybe interact with them ] |
| Content - 4/10 [ Main gameplay loop is just rebirthing and dungeons ] |
MasterMS (Maplestory built to be an idle game)
| Total Score - 36.5/50 |
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| Progression Pacing - 7/10 [ Its an idle game not much to say here ] |
| F2P Friendliness - 10/10 [ Server allows multi-clienting to fish for premium currency ] |
| Community - 8/10 [ Nicest people i've met on a server but the only issue is low player numbers unfortunately ] |
| Game Stability - 3.5/10 [ Sometimes can crash when multi-clienting, has a few bugs which may or may not get you jailed for 2 hours ] |
| Content - 8/10 [ Has pretty nice systems that work really well together for just an idle game, could be higher if the server updates more often ] |
Kaotic Maple ( MapleStory as a dungeon crawler )
| Total Score - 37.5/50 |
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| Progression Pacing - 6.5/10 [ Unique gameplay loop, its like doing monster park over and over on random maps instead of grinding in the same map ] |
| F2P Friendliness - 8/10 [ Have not progressed past tier 30 but so far the only thing i've seen that maybe i'm tempted to swipe on is for Pvac ] |
| Community - 6/10 [ Not much people, no collaborative content but the people are willing to answer questions and there is even a good guide that is in the works for beginners ] |
| Game Stability - 10/10 [ No crashes, no lag, no problems for me so far ] |
| Content - 7/10 [ Has really good systems eg. afk system / level washing, only thing i think needs work is the core gameplay loop, doing monster park over and over gets kind of boring especially when the maps can be quite huge ] |
PSA: I'm trying out RoyalStory, Remiel and Rien right now, probably will make a part 2. If anybody has any suggestions on servers i should i try and review, just drop a comment. Also if any devs want to get some more feedback in improving their servers, im also fine with that :)