Message Edited by SuperJenius on 05.25.2006 10:06 PM

it's a great little..... cofig thingy altho I'm gonna have to rain on yer parade, for some reason the uber range textures thing don't work, I don't know if they changed it because I've tried it a million times and it don't work rly lookin forward to that aswell

This is quite a handy utility, and since it's hosted on theX.fm's server.. it's not goin' anywhere.

Then, we move on to the Anome/Unlimit storyline, with vials of code that appear to be, quite literally, cheat codes that grant the consumer unusual "powers".   I think I could've swallowed this concept a little more if there had been some sort of tie-in to Neo's evolution into the One, which granted him "superpowers".  Perhaps his RSI fragments couldv'e been a part of all that.

A lost opportunity.

Super_Jenius wrote:

An interesting thought.  During the Double Cross event, we learned that the the red-eyed agents continued to search for "potential Carriers", and they made their main base at Kalt Chemicals.  Were they searching for cheat codes?  Didn't Kalt create the codes?  Please catch me up if this conclusion has already been reached.

   Unless I'm mistaken, the false Agents' goal was to take out those who carried the killcode Neurophyte found, which was programmed to destroy them.

   And did Kalt actually create the vials?  They were Agent powers from an earlier version of the Matrix (in this live event, the Oracle says that this was before they brought her to the Matrix, so this most likely happened in a test Matrix).  They were sealed away in Kalt Chemicals because they were too overt and caused mass rejections of reality, and as I recall, that version had to be shut down due to this.   Seems to me that Kalt didn't create them, they were just placed there.  Unless Kalt is the Program that created them in the first place.

   Edit: Ah, I re-read the critical mission transcripts.  Kalt did create them.

Apart from the Sentinel, some blogs and maybe the one or other mission text (like Caboclo messages or Cryptos' propaganda), you don't see anything pure from Chadwick in the game, only Chadwick material worked up by developers.
The LET has come up with lots of stories during Monolith (I think only for live events, thougth) - of which most aren't concluded because they left and didn't share their plans for some reason. As far as I know, it's pretty pointless to blame the Neurophyte gap on Chadwick.

So please explain me (when you like, of course), how exactly you can judge about Chad's writing abilities from the storyline you see written and played by mission designers.
If anything, look up MxO Resource - the Sentinels there are at your mercy. They're written by Chadwick purely.

Edit: Oh, looks like I've forgotten the cinematics. But still...

Othinn1 wrote:

   Possibly, but Kalt says "If Gray wants a replacement key, or more of what’s in that case, he knows where to reach me".  Which suggests that she can make more codes.

It could aswell mean that she simply has more codes or vials in storage apart from those in the case.

This definitely isn't answered in any Sentinel or mission?

Unless the subscriber base really picks up, I don't expect this game to last much longer than the day that either Rarebit or Walrus move on to other things. I don't see SOE being bothered to hire new staff to replace any old ones that leave. And I expect that to be even more so once the DC games reaches a playable beta phase.

As far as being something initiated by player population goes, I think that's probably the case... My own (relatively technically ignorant) theory is that it has something to do with the fact that that area is the most resource-intensive in the game, due to the plethora of gigantic skyscrapers--that Kalt super-scraper in Park East, for instance, which is in The Lag Zone, is many times more massive, in terms of file size, than any other city block. Supposedly our servers have plenty of spare RAM for the load they're handling, but still, I don't think the resource-intensive nature of the problem area is likely to just be coincidence. I think something in the load-handling algorithm is getting overloaded or out of whack due to dealing with resource sizes that exceed its valid parameters, or something.

That's probably all wrong, but it makes me feel smart to assume that I'm right. =P Can't really test that, though, 'cause removing (and in theory later replacing) some of those skyscrapers would make for some nasty big patches, not to mention breaking the PB arcs and so forth.

Roukan wrote:

Do you guys have a guess of what the lag is?

*Tries to remember what Dracomet said...* It's the regionserver that controls that square section of the district trying to spawn a child server to handle what it thinks is a load problem, but it can't create the child server for some reason--it seems to be getting invalid coordinates. So it keeps trying to split over and over, which causes it to eat up all the CPU on that machine, so anything else, like messages about player/NPC actions, etc, can only be handled in a delayed, ie laggy, fashion.

Or that's one of the apparent manifestations, anyway--if I recall correctly. There may be some other real root issue behind it, but the servers currently don't report enough information to tell us why the bogus coordinates are coming up in the first place, and we can't find a way to reproduce the child spawning death spiral on our test servers. There's probably something in particular that kicks it off, but we haven't found what that is yet. It seems to be related to volume of player activity, because the cycle of lag starts up most frequently on more populous servers, even though our servers should be able to handle our normal daily player population just fine.

Me and Mobu were messing around in Downtown lookin' up really tall buildings, but we got distracted by the big lag wall and started following it all around. Thursday, when the server's reset, I'm gonna goof off in Downtown all day and try to record how the lag spreads. O_o who's with meh?

here it is 11 some odd months later, I return, what has changed?

there are archive missions, lots of bug fixes, events came and went, modification of the abiltiy trees