Coordinator's Touch: Star Force

Coordinator's Touch: Star Force
KoreaSEA
Parts	2
Initial release	2014
Chronology
Previous	You & I
Next	MIB

Coordinator's Touch: Star Force (KR:조율자의 손길: 스타포스 romaja: Joyuljaui Songil: Seutaposeu), also known as Shining Star (GMS) is a MapleStory Update following You & I which adds the Star Force Enhancement system, Starstruck locations, Star Planet and several in-game changes.

Part 1: Star Force

Star Force Enhancement System

• The enhancement system is reorganized.
  • Star Force Enhancement, an alternative to Equipment Enhancement Scrolls, is introduced, and the system uses Mesos.
  • When enhancing an equipment, it may be upgraded by a star, remain at the same level, lose a level or destroyed.
  • If the equipment is destroyed, an Equipment Trace is provided and scroll and potential enhancements can be transferred to the same type of equipment with same name.

Star Force Areas

• Stars have struck in several maps around Maple World, including Minar Forest, Clocktower Bottom Floor, and Dead Mine!
  • The monsters there have been transformed into stronger versions of themselves.
  • A specific amount of enhancement stars on equipped items is required to effectively attack these monsters.

Maple Rewards System

• A new system called the Maple Rewards System (Mileage System in MapleSEA) is introduced.
• Players can now spend time in-game collecting Mileage and exchange them for items from the Mileage Shop in the Cash Shop.

Other Changes

• Several jobs are reorganized.
• The Evolution System and the Lion King's Castle are revamped.
• New equipment sets for level 120 (Eclectic armors, Briser weapons), 130 (Muspell armors, Jaihin weapons), and 140(Pensalir armors, Utgard weapons) are added.
  • Zakum and Hilla will drop new level 110 weapons and 120 armor respectively.
• Other functions are improved, including the Maple Guide, the Blacklist, bosses and elite monsters.
• SP Multi Windows is added to allow players to add in multiple skill points at once.
• The SP distribution has been updated.
  • Players will now be able to max out their 4th job skills by level 140.
  • The amount of SP gained after 4th job have been updated in conjunction with the distribution changes.
    • Evan and Zero are excluded from the changes.
• The level up animation has been updated to show the players if they have gained twice the SP or if they have unlocked a new Hyper Skill.

Part 2: Shining Star

• A new cross world area, Star Planet is added.
• Players can play a variety of mini-games such as Star Monsteropoly or Star Game of Yut to earn Star Points that improve their Star Grade.
• Players can earn Star Points to become a Shining Star!
  • This is done so by becoming a Top 5 of any of the Star Planet game ranking leaderboards or if players are in the Top 100 of the Star Planet rankings.
• Star Grade is used to attain certain benefits for the player while they are in the Star Planet.
  • Star Grade can be increased by earning Star Points from the mini-games.

Part 3: Black Heaven

• The first blockbuster in MapleStory, Black Heaven is added.

GlobalMS Star Force Difference

• GlobalMS implemented significant changes in the Star Force system, related to the maximum amount of Star Force for each item. The differences are listed here:

KMS/GMS differences

KMS	GMS
Lv. 95 or lower: 5 stars (Superior equipment: 3)	Lv. 95 or lower: 5 stars (Superior equipment: 3)
Lv. 95 ~ 109: 8 stars (Superior equipment: 5)	Lv. 95 ~ 109: 8 stars (Superior equipment: 5)
Lv. 110 ~ 119: 10 stars (Superior equipment: 8)	Lv. 110 ~ 119: 10 stars (Superior equipment: 8)
Lv. 120 ~ 129: 15 stars (Superior equipment: 10)	Lv. 120 ~ 129: 12 stars (Superior equipment: 10)
Lv. 130 ~ 139: 20 stars (Superior equipment: 12)	Lv. 130 ~ 139: 15 stars (Superior equipment: 12)
Lv. 140 and higher: 25 stars (Superior equipment: 15)	Lv. 140 and higher: 15 stars (Superior equipment: 15)

• These changes were reverted during ARK: Monad Update to match the maximum Star Force limit in KoreaMS.

Gallery

• 
  Shining Star promotional poster

Videos

[메이플스토리] 조율자의 손길: 스타포스 CF 영상

Coordinator's Touch Star Force CF video

Trivia

• The Coordinator refers to Tuner the cat, who is based on former KMS Director Sunyoung Hwang (황선영, Hwang Seon-yeong) (LinkedIn, Wikipedia (Korean), Namuwiki (Korean)) (2014 ~ 2015). Source
• Server Naming Difference:
  • KMS: 조율자의 손길: 스타포스 (Coordinator's Touch: Star Force)
  • GMS: Shining Star
  • MSEA: Star Force
• In GlobalMS, the rollout and content for Shining Star were modified as follows:
  • The update only consisted of the first two parts.
  • Black Heaven was not released and was postponed to a separate update, which was after the MapleStory X Attack on Titan update.
• In ChinaMS, the Star Force Enhancement System works differently from all other servers.

Availability

Availability of Coordinator's Touch: Star Force
Korea	Japan	China	Global	SEA	Taiwan
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	Title
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2011
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2012
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	Exclusive	Mark of Honor (July)
2013
	Cygnus Returns (January) RED (July) FLY (September) You & I (December)
	Exclusive	Season 2 (April) Spark (July) Gentleman (August)
2014
	Coordinator's Touch: Star Force (July) Maple Ice & Burn (December)
2015
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2016
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2017
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2021
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2022
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