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Special Chapter: The Wolf of Maple Street
This chapter will be a special chapter without much economic analysis, but made in the view of a hacker. Hacking Maplestory is definitely...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 201913 min read
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Chapter 12: The rise of Maple Auction
In March 2018 we will be witnessing the closure of Maplestory’s free market, where the experience of manually changing rooms to browse...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20196 min read
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Chapter 11: Rectification
On the 20th of May, MapleSEA came out with a new patch, Star Force. The Star Force patch was a decent attempt in reducing the...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20196 min read
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Chapter 10: Downfall
A recent blog post (https://theophay.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/11-things-we-probably-miss-from-the-old-maplestory/) mentioned about the...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20198 min read
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Chapter 9: Market Structures
In year 5 of JC if you take economics, you will be going through a topic on market structure, which depicts the different types of market...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20196 min read
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Chapter 8: When Free Markets Fail (Literally)
Maplestory has changed a lot since the last chapter was published about 7 months ago, with the entry of a new world, Jynarvis. Jynarvis...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20198 min read
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Chapter 7: By the Margin
Marginally speaking, it probably cost more to write this chapter than if I would have during January Induction Program. In other words,...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20194 min read
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Chapter 6: Competitive Markets,opportunity costs, and the production possibility curve
In the economy of Maplestory, most items are not solely owned by a single person, in other words, even though monopolies can be seen at...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20196 min read
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Chapter 5: Stretchable Incomes
How does one without capital earn income in Maplestory? The most traditional and basic way would be to hunt monsters and loot the mesos...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20198 min read
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Chapter 4: Demand and Supply elasticity
What is elasticity? Elasticity is the tendency of solid materials to return to their original shape after being deformed. Solid objects...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20197 min read
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Chapter 3: Money, the most efficient worker
Just like many in our today's society, people in Maplestory are stuck in the rat race. When they find something profitable and risk-free...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20197 min read
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Chapter 2: A game of Monopoly
The fully liberal market of Maplestory allows many monopolies to rise, I myself was involved in one, and that was the second milestone of...
Samuel Sim
Feb 20, 20195 min read
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Prologue: Analysis of the Maplestory Economy
Written By Samuel Sim (RafflesCarte) Level 230 Phantom (D2J) Prologue The virtual economy is definitely a very interesting one, but what...
Samuel Sim
Feb 19, 20192 min read
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Chapter 1: Humble Beginnings
We all had humble beginnings; mine started off with killing snails and mushrooms, desperately attempting to salvage whatever mesos that...
Samuel Sim
Feb 19, 20193 min read
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