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[thescentoflavender]

Hey Hey! I’m new to MLQL, I been playing for roughly 2-ish months, but have my current account for around 1 month. Can you explain to me the difference in servers since people are talking events that I don’t see or general things that a newbie should know? Thanks a lot and hope you are well when seeing this ✨💖

Hello and welcome to the MLQC fandom! I’m sorry I took a while to respond to this! I wanted to answer this in one sitting and it wasn’t easy to carve out a block of time from my schedule.  

Difference between servers

There are six servers in MLQC. The mainland Chinese server (let’s call this MLQC CN), the only one I play, is the most up to date one. The next most up to date is the Korean server (MLQC KR), and it’s only a few weeks behind the CN server. Then we have the Taiwan server (MLQC TW), which is about a year behind MLQC CN. I’m not sure why MLQC TW is lagging so much behind MLQC CN because they share the same language. The only significant difference is the VAs. The Japan and the EN servers are about a year and a half behind the CN server in terms of the main story. Last is the SEA server (MLDD), which was just released this year. As far as I know, all the servers except MLQC EN and MLDD are managed by Papergames. For MLQC EN and MLDD, Elex are in charge of translating and distributing the games, but Papergames produce the content. 

Each server has their own schedule for events. Sometimes there are events which are released in certain servers at the same time, even if those servers are behind MLQC CN for the main story, e.g. the Disney event earlier this year. These are quite rare though. 

I only post about events in MLQC CN on my blog, which possibly explains why you don’t see them in the server you play. 

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General tips for newbies

1. If you aren’t planning to spend huge amounts of money on this game, don’t waste resources on Evolving or Ascending SR or R karmas. This is especially important for newbies, because you won’t have much resources to work with. This will get better with time, though. 

More on which karmas to Level/Evolve/Ascend here: A (Non-Exhaustive) Guide to Karmas

2. Save up your Galaxy Wish Coupons and gems for SP karmas. 

More on SP karmas here: SP Karmas and Why You Should Get Them

3. Never enter an event if you cannot meet the guarantee. There’s a saying in Chinese, “赔了夫人又折兵” (literally “losing your wife and your men”). Less literally, it means losing everything without achieving the desired outcome. If you’re really unlucky, you might end up not getting a single SSR/SP in a Wish Tree event, in the process wasting all your gems and coupons. So it’s always good to ensure that you have at least 140 Galaxy Wish Coupons/enough gems to buy 140 Galaxy Wish Coupons before participating in a Wish Tree event to hit the guarantee. It’s far better to go all in for one event than spread your coupons out over many events. 

4. Don’t go crazy on levelling your experts or in the Sunrise Pool. This is a surefire way to deplete your gold quickly. Save your gold as much as possible. Only use it when you really need to, such as for levelling up/Evolving your karmas and for doing the Daily Missions. 

5. It’s up to you whether you want to stock up on stamina. I start stocking up on stamina when collection-type events are announced, but on normal days I don’t. I also leave doing the City Strolls to the weekend, in case there happens to be a x2 or x3 coin event that drops. 

More on stamina here: Should I stock up on stamina? 

6. Check the official social media page religiously for redemption codes. For MLQC EN and MLDD, this should be their FB page. (For MLQC CN, it’s Papergames’ Weibo channel.)

7. If you’re planning on spending on this game, get the VIP card! I like to buy months’ worth of VIP cards when a top-up SSR/SP is released. I find it more value for money that way. In terms of value, VIP card > weekly gem packs > 2 for 1 promotion the first time you top up on gems.

More on the VIP card here: Highlights of the VIP card

That’s all I can think of for now. I’m working on a more detailed textbook guide on karmas, so keep a look out for it if you’re interested. 

If you have more questions on what karmas you should Evolve/Ascend, you can drop me a message or use the Karma Consultations Box. Please read the guidelines before posting so that it’s easier for everyone! (You might have to use the desktop version of Tumblr to see the guidelines.)

[thescentoflavender]

I wonder why LovePro has a different server and VA with TW server? I meant, is there any different in the language or something?

Thanks!

Hello! 

The language is the same—Chinese—but the text in the TW server is in traditional Chinese while the CN one is in simplified Chinese. In the present age, Taiwanese (and Hongkongers too) use traditional Chinese, while mainland Chinese and diaspora in some SEA countries mainly use simplified Chinese. I’ll skip the details, but the general idea is that the movement to simplify the Chinese characters began sometime in the 1950s under the stewardship of then-Premier Zhou Enlai, to improve the literacy rate of the mainland Chinese population back then. 

The main difference between simplified and traditional Chinese is that some of the characters may appear different, and depending on which type you were educated in one could have difficulty in reading in the other type. As an example, the title for MLQC is written as “恋与制作人” in simplified Chinese, and “戀與製作人” in traditional Chinese. (Though according to one of my Taiwanese friends, they sometimes use simplified Chinese characters in their note-taking as well since it’s faster to write.) 

Also, even though all of us may speak Chinese, depending on where you’re from things may be called different names. For example, pineapple is known as “菠萝” in mainland China, “凤梨” in Taiwan, and “黄梨” in Singapore and Malaysia. That said, I’m not very sure if there’s localisation in MLQC TW, since I haven’t watched any video from there. 

As for the VAs, I can only assume that maybe Taiwanese like hearing their own VAs more...? The pronunciation of the characters remain the same. 

[thescentoflavender]

Hello! Do you have any idea what's the difference between Papergames and Joybomb? Thank you!

Hello! Well, they’re two different companies to start with. Papergames is an independent company based in Shanghai, while Joybomb is the Taiwanese subsidiary of Netmarble Corp. 

In the case of MLQC, Papergames is the sole company in charge of the CN server operations. On the other hand, the TW server is jointly operated by Papergames with Joybomb. 

Introduction to Netmarble Joybomb; source

Footer of MLQC TW’s homepage where both Papergames and Joybomb’s logos can be clearly seen; source