devingg posted: (13th Jul 2011 09:38 pm)
I've kinda read the thread.
I can't decide whether I want to DL and play or not.
Pros/Cons?
Pros:
Fun/Interactive game with a lot of players and different types of things to experiment.
New Stats such as Ambition or Insight which if you level them up they help you in the future.
Not 100% Mall/Gear based as most popular games are.
Updates and Events almost once a month.
Party Quests/Expeditions. Makes you interact with others to accomplish a goal.
Channels. Helps regulate KS and Boss Spawns, although some people channel farm bosses.
Cons:
Market prices are extremly high for a new mapler, they get more reasonable after you progress.
Maintenances. A lot of unscheduled maintenances around updates to fix bugs, and most last 8+ hours.
Report a Player. You have to pay to report a player and you can report for hack once a day, or report for other once a week.
Mail system. They removed the mail system because of advertisers so now you can only Middleman or drop trade stuff to alternate accounts.
Party Loot. Simple enough as it says, anyone in your party can loot your kills. Would be much better with a, "X does more damage, X gets the loot" system.
Botters. Occasionally you see a Training Bot(Quite common in Edelstein area in Scania atm.) or a Gold Advertiser.
Lag. This is the biggest issue in MS, thats why I bolded it. The server tends to lag from time to time and sometimes your computer can even freeze up if there is too much spam in an area.
Overall I would give MS a 7.5/10 on the gaming list. They try to keep the game balanced for all players and they throw an event frequently to keep the game a little exciting. If they could resolve the bots and lag then the game would be much better.
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Former multi-server mapper.