“Josh wouldn’t it be a fantastic idea to start writing a maple autobiography”

“Why yes it would be quite nice to put all my memories onto the screen for others to read and maybe learn, but I wont finish it and it will just get lost in our pile of shit to do”

So I made a compromise with myself, I said that i would not do it in chronological order but in an as it comes to me fashion.

And so without anymore of my ranting I’ll begin.

My very first memory

My very first memory in maplestory would have to be how i picked my class – 6 years ago in mid September my little brother showed me a game he was playing called MapleStory – I had played this game while it was in BETA but it was now released with a new server called Bera – I had played a few classes in beta so i had a little understanding of how the game worked and so I created ThatWasMyKil in Bera I set out with the goal to make a mage, this was reaffirmed when I was killing green snails and a level 8 mage top dropped – it sealed my future from then on I would be a mage.

I Spent about three days on maple island – it was very different back then, Mages had a hard time getting to 8 due to A. not having any points on str and B. not having any beginner skills. There was not auto stat adding and thus to speed things up I put 5 points on Str and Dex making each 10(I would later change both to 4) but in the end I made it to level 8 and made my way to Victoria Island, but that’s for another day.

Feel free to leave comments and questions  if you want to hear a specific story next.

“What are they doing wrong then”, you ask. Well they are heading in the right direction but they are running before they can walk. The admin, Ryan has started a full frontal advertising campaign twitter/facebook and getting out there and networking. Now before i said they where running before walking, by that i mean the current forum scene for MapleStory is saturated. Every guild and there sisters best friend forever has a forum, and there is frankly no space for any more. People want to get something out of joining a forum, for example Southperry.net – has data extractions and a very intelligent community. Sleepywood has a massive member base although the administrators intentions could be questioned it is the mecca for all things Maplestory. Basilmarkets founder Mr.Curry has done a fantastic job at seamlessly putting in a forum ready to use no re-registration required, So why would members leave these forums to go to one that offers a lesser product then the ones above, well MapleNexus is offering a bit more then just forums, they also have blogs, user made quiz’s, groups and polls – like i said all well and good.

Now what are they doing wrong? all you need to do is look at there twitter stream. (found here) they are in essence spamming the community, wait scrap that they have made no effort to create the community they are just spamming. So i say dear maplenexus, engage your audience, get into conversations that lead back to your site, you run a forum, post interesting stories that have been posted on maple-news and get people talking, social media is a 2 way street, its not hey do this and make sure you like that, its “hey did you see this? we are talking about subject X over here have your say” and please stop tweeting about your damn video its not interesting in the slightest and too long to boot. im sorry if you feel as though im attacking you. please understand that its not personal, never take anything in business personally it will be your downfall.

So to everyone that is thinking about starting up a Maplestory site/forum/community please make sure you can tick the box on the following points.

1. Is there some one out there that does it better then you?
2. Contrary to popular belief, if you build it – they still might not come.
3. When using social media as an advertising medium remember its a two way street, there’s gotta be communication with the people you want to reach.
4. And last but by no means least, PLAN PLAN PLAN! plan where you want to be in 3, 6, 12 months and set goals to achieve within these time frames, it could be page hits, x amount of members ect.

In ending this post, i wish MapleNexus the best of luck with there forum/community site and hope to come across them one day in the future, remember to stick with it!.

Battle Mage:

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=27459

Wild Hunter:

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=27453

And that’s all i will be covering regarding this matter. maple news is such a pain to cover

Heres a video i made today when the server check was happening – its nothing amazing but just a peek at whats to come from this power house of a alliance.

View it on youtube in HD!

So yeah not a big post just wanted to express how happy i am with things at the moment, and i feel like i want to share that with you – also if you are in bera and would like to join/learn more about our alliance check out ironarrows site here

Now whats going on in the world of Maplestory? well there’s the new class even, was spadows birthday the other day- (happy birthday mate) i haven’t been training for the past couple of weeks, just alot of APQ trying to get my funds up been trying to sell my dimon wand….SOME ONE BUY MY DIMON WAND!!!!. I’m also pondering if i should reset 30 AP points from LUK to INT its going to cost $310 USD that’s two months of NX :/ and to top that all off my current NX just ran out…so i think this will be a project i will attempt over a few months..also a quick question does any one know if its better to put the points on INT before i level to 142 or level then put it on…?

Ok so i will finish this post now, as im about to watch zombie land! PEACE AND LOVE!

BlackBerry Curve

This is my calender, my phone, my on the go computer, and my map when i am lost.

2. Mac Book Laptop

MacBook

My personal computer and home entertainment system, has worked perfectly for over a year with out any virus/software fuck ups(and in my case 1 year is amazing.)

3. iPod Nano 8gb

iPod Nano

I listen to it mostly when i am on my bike going some place or walking to work, it helps pass the time.

4. My Bike

Orbea Bike

Its my mode of transport. petrol costs to much these days

5. ADSL +2

Router

Some of you may or may not know but here in Australia our internet is…well lets just say its shit. and ADSL +2(Australian digital subscriber line + 2! mind you) is the best you can get in the land of aus.

Now i want you to tell me 5 things you cant live without!

Hope you all enjoy it!

As for private servers you can check a current list of servers i have played and recommend here

SOOOoooo lets have a little recap on things all maple, so i come back and and see the people have not changed. maples like days of our lives or LOST you can stop watching for a few months and come back and know everything. That said i did have to do a bit of reading about 4th job and this new “Guild Hack”

Dear Maplers,

We have been receiving numerous reports regarding the guild hack that has been affecting guilds across all of our servers. It is unfortunate that this has happened. We are investigating and working on rectifying the situation. We will provide more information when we can. Please keep in mind that even though we do not address certain situations immediately, it does not mean we are not aware of what is going on. Information needs to be gathered before we can make a statement.

Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.

This is what nexon had to say about the guild hack, and wouldnt you know it today they had a server check to fix it!. YAY NEXON!. but oh snap it didnt work. well thats our nexon. but what ever on to the next topic.

4TH JOB!

Wow about bloody time, its been about a year..a year? meh about a year since we first read anything thing about it on the tubes and about a year since i first posted that 4th job video that got 400k views. i cant watch that thing its so wrong and was made in like a few minutes…Any whos 4th job is out most servers in Global have beaten horntail, Nice guys!. so thats about it for the minute, i know theres heaps more but im kinda getting the feeling that this is going to be a TLDR situation so imma end up here. Have a great week peeps!.

The patch will last for approximately 7 hours, and users will not be able to access the game during that time.

<MapleStory Patch>

- Server : All Game Servers

- Time : Tuesday, June 12th, 10:00 pm ~ 5:00 am PST

(Wednesday, June 13th, 5:00 am ~ 12:00 pm GMT)

The website will be available during the patch.

Thank you, and Happy Mapling!

-The MapleStory Staff-
i will update this with more info once i get it stay tuned!