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Guild chat isnt always visible to all guild members Whenever one of my characters doesn't type in guild chat for a certain length of time, he seems to enter some kind of standby mode in which he cannot see anything that anyone else types into guild chat. He can end this standby by typing something into guild chat (relogging may work as well). The only reason I noticed this at all is because I often run multiple maplestorys; if someone running a single maplestory were having this issue then they may conclude that their guild is being quiet. Am I the only one having this issue or do you some of you suspect that you're experiencing this as well?

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Compensation for Connection issues over holiday Artasi has comfirmed that we will be receiving compensation for the spotty connectivity over the holiday break. There is currently a poll on the Nexon forums as to what we will receive. The thread is located [url=http://maplestory.nexon.net/community/#%2Fshowthread.php%3F1356405%26p%3D11313144%26viewfull%3D1%23post11313144]here[/url]. If you highly prefer one package over the others, please take the time to log onto the forums to vote. The options are as follows: Option 1: (1-Day 2x EXP Special Coupon, 7 Day Granny's Food Stand, 7 Day Store Remote Controller, 30 Day Maple Teleport Rock, 30 Day Traveling Merchant, 30 Day Portable Storage) Option 2: (1-Day 2x EXP Special Coupon, 1-Day 2x Drop Sp

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Is Mighty Shikigami Haunting working correctly? The skill description states that the buff should add 150% damage + knockback to shinikami haunting along with 95% damage passively. I'm assuming 210% passive damage is supposed to come from the passive damage buffs from all shikigami haunting buffs (25% from burning, 80% from frozen, 95% from mighty, =200% total). It doesn't seem like the 150% damage from the buff itself is being applied at all. I don't notice a large difference in my damage after applying the buff; my range is high enough that I should be able to see the improvement. Burning : 25% passive Frozen: 80% passive Mighty: 95% passive Mighty Buff: 150% Where is the 210% coming from? Is the damage buff being applied at all?

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Farming Guild Points Getting your Guild to Level 25 Large and popular guilds may have little trouble reaching high levels, but slow guilds may find the process to be slow and tedious. However, by using this one weird trick (yes, large guilds hate me) you can speed up the leveling process immensely while simultaneously creating a bonding experience for your guild members. You need to know which bosses give contribution. From my own experience and information gathered by ultimax21 of southperry, I've put together the table below. Note that one can get a maximum of 5k contribution each day. [url=http://i.imgur.com/CPGQGlM.png]Table[/url] *Pierre being absent is not a mistake; Pierre doesn't give much contribution **Private Channels will be ela

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Cant log onto maple? Here are solutions found so far This obviously should go in the tech section but it's much more visible here. 1) [quote=Omniskye2000]I FIXED IT! :D least for me. First try going to the Nexon site and downloading BlackCipher manual patch (put all of the files into the BlackCipher folder in C:>Nexon>MapleStory>BlackCipher replace all conflicting files) if maple still doesn't work check your NexonGuard folder to see if you have NGGate.bin NGCore.bin and NGPatcher.bin for whatever reason when I reinstalled maple I was missing a few files from my NexonGuard folder and I had to steal them from my working maple on windows 8. I'm not sure how anyone else will get them since downloading stuff random people post is a bad

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Was the unban of perma banned exploiters planned? I was perma banned for the exploit. Three weeks after being banned I noticed that I wasn't on any of the perma ban lists since the ban, which I thought was kinda weird. I decided to start pestering Nexon to demand that they add one of my characters to one of the weekly lists. After three tickets I got [url=http://i.imgur.com/K4yZJZD.png]this response[/url]. This response doesn't sit right with me. Why would the perma ban lists be reserved for non-exploiters only? Doesn't excluding some people who are permanently banned defeat the purpose of having lists of permanently banned people? Could I have been fed a fake answer because they didn't intend to permanently ban me from the start? Do you th

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Quick training method for funded lvl 160-200 I believe this is the training method used by the shade who reached 200 in 5 hours. It's possible to enter chaos horntail an unlimited number of times if you switch the expedition leader for each run (the character just has to be different from the character that previously led; you can alternate between 2 leaders). You don't even have to kill the exped like you have to with regular horntail; all that you need to do is pass the expedition leadership to another character and have that character enter chaos horntail. For the best results, this should be done with an hs mule and with a character that is able to kill chaos horntail in under 5 minutes (there's no benefit to being faster than this). Yo

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No compensation for cube issue, wtf Nexon? When I logged on today I expected compensation for the bounty cube downgrading my equip, but I received none. As someone who played since '06 who's pretending that this issue affected me so that I can exploit Nexon's generosity, this is an outrage. I suggest anyone in a similar situation make an angry thread on the maple forums and log a ticket. We don't deserve to be treated this way! EDIT: changed "...8-year mapler..." to "...played since '06..."

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When is it worth purchasing a hired merchant? I am not able to kill most of the end-game bosses that drop valuable equips (although I will be going with my guild soon). I have summer permits on 2 accounts. As of now I have plenty of fairly valuable items to fill both stores, so I haven't had the need to merchant. While permits are very cost effective compared to hired merchants, there are some obvious disadvantages. I can't sell items when I want to play the game, and once I choose to start playing I lose my spot. I don't like leaving my computers on all day/night; the fans spin like crazy and I'm sure it reduces the lifetime of my computers. A hired merchant would be much more preferable to a permit, but they cost 20k for 30 days as oppose

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Hot Day Storage expansion didnt work for me Has anyone else experienced this issue? I think I may have hit 'esc' when the popups came up. I'm going to investigate this issue a bit more with my mule accounts. EDIT: I failed with 2 accounts. With both accounts I received the box on a kanna. I don't know whether this is a coincidence or not. I don't think it's related to hitting esc. EDIT2: The second account's storage expanded after it was offline for a few minutes. I'm gonna try to do the same with the first account. Both accounts are well above lvl 30. I actually succeeded on 2 level 31 acc's in addition to failing on my main accs. EDIT3: My main account had its storage expanded. I don't know why it wasn't instantaneous but I did get the sl

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Transposing and recoverable slots Empress weps have 10 slots after hammers while SW equips have 9. Let's say I get +9 on an empress wep with no slots left and transpose that wep onto a SW equip. Would I be able to recover the lost slot since the material weapon had 10 slots, or is that slot lost because the SW weapon has 9 slots? If anyone has denaro to spare maybe you could test this with a 2-handed axe. The SW 2h axe, empress 2h axe, 100%s, and 15% trace shouldn't cost more than 35 or 40m.

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