Hello Creators,

We would like to inform you that on Tuesday, July 1 PDT, AccountTrustLevel's conditions will be changed to enhance the security level (authentication level of user account) and conditions of global accounts.

Please refer to the updated table below to determine the user account authentication level of a global account.

AccountTrustLevel

Authentication Level	Before	After
Level 0	If this is a Korean account, this account has not completed e-mail authentication. If this is a global account, this account has not completed either SMS or Google Authenticator authentication.	For Korean accounts, the account has not completed e-mail authentication. For global accounts, the account has not activated either SMS or Google Authenticator authentication via the account settings.
Level 1	For Korean accounts, the account has completed e-mail verification. For global accounts, the account has completed either SMS or Google Authenticator authentication. Currently, the function to distinguish between Level0 and Level1 has not been implemented, so the UserAccountTrustLevel value of Level1 is also returned as 0. The function to distinguish between Level0 and Level1 will be updated in the future.	For Korean accounts, the account has completed e-mail verification. For global accounts, the account has activated either SMS or Google Authenticator or phone number has not been registered. Currently, the function to distinguish between Level0 and Level1 has not been implemented, so the UserAccountTrustLevel value of Level1 is also returned as 0. The function to distinguish between Level0 and Level1 will be updated in the future.
Level 2	For Korean accounts, the account has completed e-mail authentication and identity verification. For global accounts, the account has completed both SMS and Google Authenticator authentication.	For Korean accounts, the account has completed e-mail authentication and identity verification. For global accounts, the account has activated both SMS and Google Authenticator authentication, and has a registered phone number.

Please refer to the API Reference for more details:

AccountTrustLevel

Please note that after Tuesday, July 1 at 18:00 PDT, the additional account security measures will be applied immediately without reconnecting. The changes to account authentication level requirements will be applied without requiring Players to re-login or relaunch the World.

For the Players news post, please visit this link.

Thank you,

- The MapleStory Worlds Team