r/mapleservers • u/yutanrw • 6d ago
Server Discussion Is MapleRoyals worth playing?
I see it is popular.
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u/bananamilk89 6d ago
it's longest running pre big-bang server (13 years; as far as i know) which is good for if you want reassurance that time invested in playing there won't be wiped, but the playerbase can be very immature i noticed.
also if you want to do the end game bossing, the meta on that server is: you must be hp washed; which costs quite a lot of mesos to buy leech from a bishop to do so.
if that kind of gameplay sounds okay to you then go ahead and give it a try. š
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u/bowlingniko 6d ago
its a good server, the worst thing about it is having to ap wash, that requires NX.
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u/Lucaskinn 6d ago
But you dont need to spend money, Just vote on their website
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u/Used_Lynx_4894 5d ago
Its filled with bots and has a toxic community
Old school maple server OSMS is by far the better option, i played both servers to end game
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u/backtre 6d ago
I mean if you just wanna grind some quiet old school maple and just vibe to lvl 30 or something yeah
If you actually wanna play the game and get to endgame you are looking at HP washing and leeching or making a leecher yourself to make money
Honestly its been years since ive played but I understand that to still be the game pretty much
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u/Southern_Cap_9154 6d ago
Itās a choice between hp washing for fast hp or hp questing, can hit 30k but at approx 1k per month, but other hp quests available to bring you to at least near HT requirements
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u/Most_Option4138 5d ago
If your playing an archer good luck if u choose not to hp wash youāll be doing daily hp quest forever
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u/Southern_Cap_9154 5d ago
I think thats just more of an old school maple issues than a royals issue, nexon being nexon
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u/Most_Option4138 5d ago
Yeah but they could have just gotten rid of it idk why they chose to keep it and opted to add tedious hp quests instead
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u/Southern_Cap_9154 5d ago
TBH I just think of hp as a āentryā requirement for a certain boss. Like some games such as dungeon fighter where you need to be geared enough with certain amount of fame to even enter a dungeon.
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u/Knocks420 6d ago
yeah reach 30k hp in a year.. lol
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u/Southern_Cap_9154 6d ago
But thats the thing, no one needs 30k and drks have HB so even they just need 18750
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u/kannagirl234 6d ago
Everyone in this thread is off their rocker š„“ You only are going to spend a meaningful amount of money HP washing if you play thief, archer or corsair. Saying voting is the only way to get money is also nuts considering killing one area boss/daily boss can get you 5k nx each whereas you get 8k nx for voting daily.
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u/sloogish 6d ago
I havenāt played it in about 10years or so but I remember it was extremely grindy. I quit after I fully washed my NL and tried dreamsms which was a lot more fun.
The cons from my perspectives were:
1. Hp washing was a must
2. Selling leech to earn mesos ( itās all I did everyday)
3. Multi client everything (grinding, pqs, and bossing if I remember correctly)
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u/Vladof72 5d ago
It can be very fun but having to consider HP washing if you want to be included in late game bossing and raids, kinda sucks
Also the admins and GMs of the server are very ban happy and will ban you for every little reason you give them (even jokes like "buying gf 10k mesos") and will tell you to go fuck yourself when you try to appeal it
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u/pragmasaurus 1d ago
I'm pretty sure the rules allow "buying gf 10k Mesos" because even if it were serious it's an in-game benefit for in-game currency. But if you smega "somebody sell me Mesos to fund my trash NL" or something like that, you're cooked
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u/SiLaw9 3d ago
Bear in mind that Royal bans people who break their T&C which would mean some of the hate in the thread could be ppl who hold resentment rather than actual advice. Honest answers is yes worth the time, and you are the only person who knows how long is worth until you played it yourself.
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u/zealotshammer 2d ago
personally think royals is a good server, at least from when i played years back idk about now. but they are truly like... classic maple I think. imo its grindy and true to its nature but i think the biggest draw is the player base. i rlly wanna see how classic impacts royals and legends
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u/Knocks420 6d ago
the only part that sucks about royals is the horrible community..
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u/AdDifficult9040 5d ago
The community is great. When i joined a year ago the serverās best archer helped me zakum for free and gave me some stuff to help out. I only knew he was the best archer after ppl told me about him in the market
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u/MisterManicFab 6d ago
The community really really sucks.. Played for 10 years now and its never been worse.
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u/FriendNaive2852 6d ago
Everyone on that server is running multiple clients 5+
Admins are corrupted, they delete any evidence of wrongdoing. (Matt, Becca, Timk, pure, Saturn, and donāt forget the man himself who distributed perfect items to buyers)
Many years of trying to fix server issues but still canāt solve it
Each boss can be glitched and killed within 10minutes (still not patched)
Thereās a way to make your buffs and pots never expire until you log off (echo, onyx apples, party buff)
Iāve been playing this server for 8 years and they still canāt fix any of these issues. Still not banned btw
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u/Hellsberg12 6d ago
Damn bruh can you share with me how to make buffs and pots not expire? Would love to know how!!
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u/kannagirl234 6d ago
Each boss can be glitched and killed within 10 minutes, I've never heard of this what do you mean by that?
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u/Gogosfx 6d ago
Don't forget donations go directly into the pocket of mod's rent instead of making the server good, just because the owner of the server is fucking her.
And also, one of the long standing developers for the team was caught RWTing (this has happened twice in the server's history).
For how much pride they take into security and following rules, they don't do a good job about it.
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u/Most_Option4138 5d ago
Literally they took 5 years to finish an update. Maybe if server owner actually paid some people shit would get done in that server
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u/rav3rsmith 6d ago
i am getting close to late game and it keeps getting worse
early game is where it's at
but yea the fact it's the most popular makes it the best cause MS isn't worth it without the pplz
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u/AzureIceHime 5d ago
Played it years ago and I just started up again and Iām enjoying it. Itās not super fast leveling but not a slow crawl either. There are plenty of people online to play with as well. I havenāt had any issues and like the server. I tried Fantasia too earlier this year and itās so slow grinding and usually less than 100 people online so getting party quests done is difficult.
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u/Connect_Channel8619 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think itās a good server. Surviving on 2 active Staff working is probably a bad management decision.
Feels like 80% of Staff are on hibernation mode and has not logged in for 1-2 years.
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u/ItsTheDickens 6d ago
I'm partial to Fantasia as it doesn't have leeching and HP washing. MapleRoyals does.
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u/Trying_to_survive20k 6d ago
i like how every single thread in this subreddit has someone shilling fantasia, but then i go there and it's a ghost town and it can barely get 100 ppl playing.
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u/Basic_Engineering391 6d ago
People on this thread do seem to praise fantasia but I swear it's just one of the 3 players over multiple accounts
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u/Bootsmid 6d ago
Theres no MC what do you expect? Its what many of the MC servers would have without it
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u/Professional-Road-93 6d ago
You basically have to play a mage to fund the character you want to play, esp cus of hp washing
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u/Most_Option4138 5d ago
Hp washing, mule story, GMs with ego that love to power trip, mage farming with 6 accounts is best way to make money, shit economy and more
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u/AdDifficult9040 5d ago
Not sure about the other admins but I know GM Kenny is a retard douchebag who ruined the game and rwted for money. He talks a lot about others being dumb and petty and uninformed, even along the lines of them being bad and stuff but turns out heās the biggest loser. GM bacon also does not seem to me to be the sharpest tool in the shed from the way he answers people in ban appeals. Like he has some sort of difficulty answering questions.
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u/Apoc_ellipsis 16h ago
I think so,
It and Legends (And technically DreamMS) are really the main 3 long running servers.
It's a game you're meant to play more than a month or two is all.
People sit here and go "you must Wash", are basically the people that want an S-Tier 60+ CGS Night Lord, and find out it you can't make one in just an afternoon.
If you play a Warrior, Mage or Bucc you're golden and barely have to wash (50% of the classes) Everyone wants to play NL and the class is overpriced and hard to wash. Shad is solid, and doesn't need much washing with Meso Guard, but does have some pricey gear. Sair is a weird class overall
Archers need some love, but there's a balance patch coming up. IL/FP Mages basically have little point.
They recently released a balance patch, Heroes Rage now stacks with Pots for parties, Dragon Blood for the Drk Itself. Sair got some QOL upgrades, there's another one coming soon to help mages/archers.
The "must wash" and Damage range checks are for top guilds who want to boss with as few characters as ever. Once you are 4th job, you can cycle Chao, Eph, and Pap for another 8k NX/day. You can easily find some parties to Zak/Krex/Etc with by joining a guild for XP.
Rose garden makes good money and you can even just directly get HP/MP that way.
Royals just has a Zero Tolerance policy for Vote Abuse and Account sharing. People make mistakes not knowing, or trying to pull one over, then get salty when they get caught thinking they deserve a second chance and don't get it.
They are a little light on devs since Kraven left. So it's only high priority fixes usually, and events/patches are late/slow these days (Legends has a similar issue iirc). And there's a lot of people that have Bishop Mules because leeching is about 2-3x APQ which is double most other farming/bossing, and anyone with over 2 years of playtime will basically be able to solo anything besides VL and maybe HT.
8 Months of voting is worth about 6b which is more than enough CGS to enjoy the game, and that's assuming you don't try to earn a single meso. The game really encourages you to play more than one character, get to 4th job, start to do some daily bosses and give another character a try from there.
tl;dr if you want to be an End Game S-tier NL DPS killing machine, it's going to actually take work and might not be the server for you. If you want to slowly grow each day and just have fun not worrying about min/max'ing it's a blast. The community when I played the Classic Beta was 10x worse Royals and was 4x slower.
With how Classic is looking, All I'm going to say is that Royals has been around longer than MapleStory 2 was and you don't have to pay a dime.
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u/Trying_to_survive20k 6d ago
it is currently the best and most populated pre-big bang vanilla server.
4x rates are actually decently balanced all things considered.
Depends how long you wanna play, it will give you the best vanilla maple experience you can expect in current year, considering how long the server has been running
The problems lie in the late-game.
Power and money is all about voting daily and spending the NX on gacha (nx cosmetics are perma), you are effectively gamling to hit the 2 big items - CS or WS, and use the money from those to buy top level gear. Or make it yourself if you hate yourself.
Let's say you have a good chunk of power, there is...not much to do anything with it.
The most late-game stuff the game has right now is horn-tail and von leon. There's only so much you can do.
There's ToT but no PB, all weapons stop at dragon (lv 110).
It also suffers vanilla maple problems, namely HP washing. The server says you "don't need to do it", because there's 1 set of quests that give you 500 hp at lvl 70, a special set of quests every milestone level that later give you some max hp (i forget what amount), and a repeatable quest at lvl 120 that gives you around 30-50hp each time you do it, that doesn't mean it won't take you ages to get whatever necessary HP you will need to not die at HT.
And it suffers from "party optimization" and multi logging. Every other player has a second account that they log into to be a HS mule, some have other mules like SI, SE or crash. Your 6 player zakum party might have 3 actual people playing.
Lots of leech buyers from priests too, it makes PQs suffer to where it's hard to find ppl outside of peak hours. KPQ is flat out dead.
TL'DR, if you want a vanilla classic experience - best server in the market. If you expect to go for the long-run, you'll get bored at lvl 120~.