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Do what you do in real life to get friends. Spend $20 on cosmetics. I mean, no one wants ugly friends

@dorks: my dream

i will b ur friend but we will afk together s that ok?

Yeah I feel ya, still pretty hard cuz usually people have their cliques by now so your best bet is joining a guild or something. Just walking up to people and saying hi rarely cuts it anymore.

everyone is nice except Bawz. he sux
but Prize is nice guild we will luv u
except for Bawz

ill be your friend
first you fite and then you talk
ok
jk, idk

LISTEN TO THE 'O GREAT @ERICMART

Come to Scania... I'll be your friend XD Best way to make friends... Is just keep talking... not like spamming, but talking. Soon you'll find someone who talks back... nicely... and isn't a Nx H0e looking for attention. (p.s. they spent way more than 20k nx on cosmetics...) XD But, I haven't been in Bera before... so could be different than Scania.

:/ no idea people still cared about that kinda stuff

@terrorface:

Wish I knew. When I started Maple, I picked to become a Page. Didn't make any friends for the years I played. lol

Now I'm in a nice guild on Reboot. Maybe join a guild?

Come to Windia and be friends with me!

@repentant: "To this day I hoard random equips and carry extra potions in hopes that I can give it to them in case they come back. "

That makes me want to cry. ;-;

@repentant: Oh I've seen your stuff. If I made a hayato could you become my sensei? o-o

@lazerdragonz: Take your time, haha. I can spell trace you a new set if you end up switching classes.

@ohjoseph: Biggest lie I've ever heard in my life. It's the internet, nobody is themselves.

be yourself

@repentant: Sure thing. Just give me time please. Wondering if I should just make a perma beginner since I'm not really into this game anymore.

@lazerdragonz: Sure, why not. Tell me what class you're going to play and I'll spell trace you some Lith Harbor equips.

@repentant: If I move to Bera can I get some of those equips? Call me your friend.

Find people.
• Boss queues take people to the same place, so it's likely you'll find people that way.
• Buy or sell stuff in the FM and talk to whoever is interested in trading with you.
• Go to popular training maps- DI, PQ entrance, Gold Beach, etc.
• Make friends with your friends' friends.

After you find people to possibly befriend, what happens next is all up to you. Talk to 'em, and determine for yourself whether they are worth befriending or not.

@lazerdragonz: I doubt I'll be making mad bank on star-forced noob equips any time soon, but thanks for the suggestion <3

@repentant: What a loser. Sell that stuff for $$$

I met my friends in Henesys. They were just random strangers who asked me for help and I would befriend them. They're cool and fun to talk to, but they always quit after a few months.

To this day I hoard random equips and carry extra potions in hopes that I can give it to them in case they come back.

Don't get worked up when people don't like you.

I think most instances where people are dismissed as unlikable generally boil down to them having a bad attitude about this, that, or any other thing and/or combination.

Basically - my beginners guide to starting Maplestory is thus:

1. Never ask for help. Never. Not even if you need it. Sure people will be glad to help you - but you'll also always be in some form of debt, even if that is simply 'a first impression' that you made.

2. Never whine. If fate is an asshole to you and you perpetually find yourself being shortchanged, treated like crap, all the way on up to luck itself...deal with it. If you don't want to deal with it, what on earth makes you think anyone else wants to deal with it?? They don't. It may sound nice on paper - but life sucks a lot more than people know. You're better off taking solace that at the very least you're not being murdered. Being murdered isn't productive insofar as the victim is concerned. It sucks.

No one has ever been faulted for being self reliant and not being an emotional/financial burden on others. Pity is tiring. I don't want to keep saying sorry to you that life sucks. Mine sucked too. So it did with most of us. Smile and keep a stiff upper lip. If that doesn't work - drink alcohol.

3. Don't suck up to people. Don't be too nice. Don't help people in a way that would strike you as noteworthy should it happen to you. These things may sound like they're relatively harmless - but they're not. They're lots of harm. Harm'ful', if you know what I mean. Mostly - you want to come across as a gamer that is holding up their end of the bargain, someone who isn't a collection of tedium, someone that is more inclined to need help than to give help.

And yes. I do mean that as roughly '50%' likely to need help, just as it means 50% likely to give help. Again - don't be the nice guy. No one respects the nice guy. This is likely an inborn psychological form of Darwinism. However nice it may be to help people - it's normally not paying the bills and for every ounce of help you give, you're also similarly put at a disadvantage. People know this and they know that this is a person whose needs might possibly run counter to their own. Therefore these people are treated with some degree of caution, even if that person is unaware of it themselves. They likely can't explain it themselves...nor will they be able to 'defend' their stance/degree of caution whatsoever. This means that they may disagree that it's sad and that it is wrong - but it'll still be what it is.

To sum it up - be self sufficient, be self contained, be quiet insofar as anything that has any implications with regards to asking for any assistance of any kind. If you're confused whatsoever - ask yourself if your presence in any way pressures ANYONE to provide help of ANY kind. If it does - refuse that help, leave the scene and go sort out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Goodluck not annoying people.

Note: These points apply most stringently to new players. You'll know when that isn't you. When it's not you - do what you want. Take what you want. Fate is a cruel mistress - so don't ask her permission, don't accept 'no' and utilize violence when it seems right.

These points no longer apply to me. I ask for help all of the time. I don't help in return. If someone complains - I tell on them to their guild leader and complain on Basilmarket. We are who we stepped over.

Step 1: Be attractive

:^)

I just found myself a guild of fairly active bossers, and never left.

make friends w people at elites bc elites are like the new PQing

@juxos it's ok we'll be good friends

the only solution is to buy more nx

make a phantom, bishop or kanna
many people will befriend you!

edit: oh you are a phantom already. well then load those party buffs up, more importantly HS.

@ericmart: Yeah all of these are good. The people in hene are losers.

LMAO FIRST THING IS FIRST. Hene is not the place to find friends in BERA.

Training/ bossing/ or finding a guild!

and I highly suggest star planet

Bera has a lot of nice people if you get to know them. I met @helpingly there once. Looks like a henehoe but he's actually pretty cool.

Try Star Planet when there's a lot of people. I've made some friends on there.

It's because they are dead inside

B-but it's been that way since 2005...

The community was always stupid.

I feel you man, happened to me b4 when I trained my dual blade . people ignored me cus I wasn't looking good enough for them. -sadface-