Definitely agreed.
Some days my doll bags will move to pick up gold like clockwork, each of the three picking up a pile of gold and moving swiftly to the next ones.. other days, well.. they go after the same dang pile of gold and then move back to where I am, think about if they wanna keep picking up items for a century or two, and then they go pick up something else.
It's hit or miss with their stupid AI..
Also agreed, the monkey is completely useless. It picks up crap I don't want and when I actually want them to pick up something, they just 'Hmmph!'
They are the bane of my existence.
Especially with this log in event which gave me two of them so far, not even counting the one red monkey we got long ago for.. I don't even remember..
The best way I could see them shifting Mabinogis player base to a second mabinogi is this:
Either do a ground up rehaul of mabinogi 1. The full thing. Update all textures. Essentially remake it, preferabley in a better engine. This would be the best thing for mabinogi, because
1. You would have the opportunity to remake and recode alot of infrastructure that is SEVERELY outdated, or in bad need of changes.
2. Youre keeping the current playerbase happy. (You know, the players who have thrown away 10+ years of their life to follow this game to its death.)
3. You can make the game feel fresh, and updated without having to give up whats made mabinogi great.
Alternatively, you can create a whole new game. But this will piss off long time mabi 1 players if you shut it down for a new one. So if they explored this route, theyd either have to give mabi 1 players incentives to cross over, (This could range from a huge gold head start based on account value, or my personal favorite, cross over the server databases and let mabi 2 players keep all their mabi 1 gear.) Either way, I dont think the mobile market is where nexon should be going. Thats like creating a donut shop and selling your customers custom house made mayonaise.
They keep inventing marginally better reforges.
I wonder if they'll eventually just make a reforge that auto-ranks and outright guarantees high rolls, one day.