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*Crosses arms.*

You know, you need to get your transmitter array seen to. All your messages come in garbled. :-/

The Glitch Society is a faction that's been around a long time, and we're both active and growing all the time.

However, I'll be fair and point you somewhere you'll find lots of factions:
http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board?board.id=recruitingsyntax

Sphairo wrote:

Yay, my nomination got picked! GRATS PYR! ^.^

Same here. About flippin' time this one showed up! I've been waiting for it since the Profiles began. SMILEY

However, Pyraci fails because this is yet another Operative Profile without an RL photo. SMILEY

And you show greater trust in a species whose ancestors were less than fish. :-/

El_Lobo21 wrote:
The world was built for us. [...] The world belongs to us, not machines.

Could you explain your reasoning behind these statements please?

You also seem to have a profound lack of understanding as to how the Machines think. No emotions? Why do so many people believe that, I wonder. I take it you've all at least seen the movies?

Heh, good point.

So you have a problem with the extermination of terrorists, say? Given that the Machines do not have the resources to build a secondary Matrix as a sort of 'prison' for Exiles (read: redudant, yet sentient programs), their only option is to delete/kill them.

El_Lobo21 wrote:
Less than fish? Atleast we were actually alive. We've evolved. Become kings, warriors. The machines can't even bgin to comprehend what we are capable of. They will never have a history as grand as ours. You are tearing down your own species. Showing worship to those who probably worship the Energizer Bunny if anything. It's clear to me that you've lost yor humanity. You have become drunk with power, a power that isn't even real. You've become what the Machines were always hoping the human race would become. You are just as Articficial as the Matrix now.

I'm sorry, I-... what? What the hell are you babbling about? Power? What power do I have? I'm captain of a hovercraft, that's all. You're labouring under the misapprehension that I myself am reliant on the Matrix. I'm afraid I fail to see your reasoning behind this. I'm a Machinist, not a Merovingian supporter.

I do not 'worship' the Machines. I have nothing but contempt for any form of religion.

You have nothing to back up your beliefs that Machines are not capable of the things human are. (I realise that by saying this I am effectively admiting that they are capable of the same atrocities as humanity as well, but I find that less likely than anything else.) The Machines are just as 'alive' as we are - their function is analogous to ours. We too are 'programmed'. We have cells, they have circuits. We have 'minds' and the ability to evolve them, they have programming and the ability to evolve that. Both our and their emotions are nothing more than programming - just in different ways.

Message Edited by [TGS]Procurator on 10-05-2005 02:47 PM

El_Lobo21 wrote:
In doing some we are only helping the machines, and prolonging the Second War. There will be a time when the Machines will eventually betray the truce.

Please tell me you're joking. You won't believe how much effort is required for me not to laugh at you for the rest of time.

The War's over, that's the whole point of the Truce. Now let's just compare the mentalities of Machines and humans, shall we? Who's more likely to break the Truce: Machines or Zion? If you really think Machines are more treacherous than humans, you have my pity.

My current inability to jack in has denied me the chance to meet either DifferenceEngine or Turring as of yet. I do hope that DE can be cleansed effectively, and from reports I've heard I trust Turring will do an excellent job in his stead.

I'd like to thank Agent Pace for her handling of the situation, and those members of the Glitch Society who were present for their excellent conduct.

Neville wrote:
LOL. This Zionist can see right through that one. Sati the terrorist.

What else would you call the Exiles? They sap resources from the Matrix, endangering the lives of bluepills and (by extension) the Machines, not to mention the Truce and any hope for a co-existence between Man and Machine. Sounds like a form of terrorism to me. Sure, there are some like Sati who can't directly be blamed. Rama-Kandra and Kamala (sp?) should not have programmed her - they knew full well what the consequences would be. In a similar vain, you can't blame some of the terrorists out there today: they don't know any better.

El_Lobo21 wrote:
Try to fly your ship to machine city and see how far you get. Do you think they'll welcome us? Or do you think they'll blow us out of the sky? They trust us as much as we trust them.

I've flown to Zero-One several times. They welcome Machine operatives with open arms, as evidenced by the fact that on at least one server a Machinist crew transported Neurophyte to Zero-One. Of course they don't trust Zion: but they don't act on their distrust in the same way. Zion make pre-emptive strikes - the Machines react.

Bentonn wrote:
When the machines find a way to clear the skies, which I am sure they working on, do you believe they are going to keep us around? Do you believe, after we waged war against them and scorched the sky to destroy them, they will let us walk freely amongst them after they no longer need us? Let me remind you that they are still the enemy. When they find either a new power source or a way to clear the skies, those who have not already been freed will be slaughtered in their sleep.

*Sighs.*
There's no arguing with people like you. Please try to get over your dogmatic misrepresentation of the way Machines think. They have stated time and time again (or maybe you don't do Machine missions, or have any contact with them - in which case you're hardly qualified to make judgements) that their intention now is to work with humanity, as well as they possibly can. If they found a better power souce, do you really think they'd just shut off the Matrix, just like that? Please. If they have the resoruces, they will release the bluepills and ensure they find their way to whichever human settlements exist at the time. They probably won't help them beyond that, no, but they're not going to slaughter them just because it's easier.

El_Lobo21 wrote:
They didnt except the existence they believed was false. There were some among them too who just wanted to live in peace with humanity. But then there were some who knew that the humans would never trust them, and there'd never be a peace.

Dude, you're contradicting yourself. First you say the Machines fought back (which is true), then you say some of them decided to fight because they couldn't trust humanity? What's having a nuclear bomb dropped on one's capital city got to do with a 'false existence'?

Yes, very clever. Thank you for stating the obvious, oh hacker supreme. What are you trying to prove?

We don't watch films, we watch animations, run by the computer. Which is how our graphics options affect the way hte cinematics look the same way they affect the rest of the game world. SMILEY

The cinematics simply take place in small levels which cannot be accessed by us directly. They are on our computers though, so if someone programmed a utility to decompile and look at maps (whch I'm pretty sure is against the T&C), we could take a look at the altered Kalt courtyard, the barge, Merv's hotel room, etc.

I won't be there, but I'll certainly listen. SMILEY

El_Lobo21 wrote:
"I've flown to Zero-One several times. They welcome Machine operatives with open arms, as evidenced by the fact that on at least one server a Machinist crew transported Neurophyte to Zero-One. Of course they don't trust Zion: but they don't act on their distrust in the same way. Zion make pre-emptive strikes - the Machines react."

Yea ok man, I believe that totally....I bet you played a lttle Xbox with them too right? Now it's me that's laughing in your face.

Your arguments would be more credible if you actually read everything I wrote. Me going to Zero-One is RP: yes, made up by myself (though a great many people are agreed that Machinist crews are allowed in Zero-One).

However, what you obviously missed was my sentence about Neurophyte: '[...] as evidenced by the fact that on at least one server a Machinist crew transported Neurophyte to Zero-One.' That happened as part of an event, it is part of the official story. Machinists are allowed in Zero-One.

He enters the Matrix to save himself, not Sati.

Always a classic. SMILEY

Yeah, I noticed Proxy Master missing today and sent in a bug report. Glad others have noticed this. It looks like they're trying to make it like Utility Master (a passive buff plus one you need to click), as opposed to what Proxy Master does in CR1 (an actual ability that you click and buffs you occasionally, if memory serves).

Huh, more radicals, eh? I'm glad you're not blindly following the Zion Council, but ultimately you've diverted too far from your organisation to not be classed as terrorists. What is this - open season for fanatics? Cypherites and now this lot!

Well, Michael, don't expect any sympathy from myself or my fellow faction members. As many people have pointed out (and I'm truly thankful for the number of sensible people who have spoken out here), you are killing innocent people, not freeing them. You claim to follow the misguided beliefs that Neo supposedly had when he found you - not the true beliefs he came to realise towards the end of his journey. Co-existence and peace is the way forward, sunshine, and don't let anything persuade you otherwise.

Just hope you don't encounter us in person. We don't take kindly to arrogant young upstarts.

RL photo! Syntax! Win!

Oh yeah, and the interview was good too. SMILEY

Oh, you sly dog, you. SMILEY

Are you actually charging $i6,000 for normal code bits? Or do you mean green frags?

WakeUp wrote:
Instead of Peace we got this Truce. Which has not brought Peace it brought more War

Sorry to be a pain, but could you explain that statement? How can a truce (literally defined as a 'cessation of hostilities') possibly lead to more war? The War is on hold, that's the whole point.

Zionites and Machinists alike have to fight the Merovingian and other cheeky nogoodnicks, certainly, but not each other. It's not the Truce that's causing an increased amount of fighting, but these other organisations. Okay, yes: the Truce means it's possible for groups like the Cypherites to make an appearance and start causing problems, but what's the alternative? The only way to stop people like that from coming out in the first place is to keep the War going. Would you rather that were the case?

Peace is a gradual process, my friend. It has to start with a Truce. To be honest, I think we're lucky to get even that. The Machines know humanity cannot be trusted outright, and humanity in its own way feels it cannot trust the Machines, so total peace (as in, a promise never to wage war again) is out of the question for now. We're working towards peace, slowly, gradually, starting with this Truce. I'm not sure what you're after, to be honest.

Message Edited by [TGS] Procurator on 03-03-200610:49 AM

Aquatium. wrote:

The back catalogue of issues will also be made avaliable for pdf download in due time.

Excellent! SMILEY

The magic of competitive (and non-monopolistic) business. SMILEY

H'mm, I did wonder what was going on the last couple of nights. Glad it's sorted. SMILEY

I shall let the rest of TGS know of your offer!

(( Don't forget that due to the Truce, there was an exchange of information between Zion and the Machines, which allowed for such technologies like the emergency jack-out procedure to be developed. (This is mentioned in the game manual somewhere.)

We don't know exactly what was discussed, but I'm pretty sure the Architect's existence would have been disclosed at the very least. And maybe the Oracle met with someone at some point and happened to mention the cycle and the five previous Ones.

Though we don't know everything that happened in the films, I'm quite certain that we know a lot of the background from other sources. ))

So, Niobe went to the barge by herself and got herself shot? Stupid woman. I hate her even more now.

You're a legend, dude. I can't play MxO for a while, so this is just what I need. SMILEY

RockyB wrote:
Horns rocks, /backflop is cool, but /leanwallloop takes the biscuit. I LOVE IT

So I take it that /leanwallloop has you leaning against a wall... indefinitely? I need a /mimeelbowloop now!

That deadline's been pushed back a ittle further.

1115 PDT
1815 GMT
1915 BST (UK time)

The 'him' in that cinematic is Ghost, hanging outside the window behind Merv.

It won't survive without PvP, no, but that's not the problem. The issue is that we're going to havea bucketload of people just PvPing 'for the good of the server'. *retches at the thought of patriotism* I guarantee you there will be far less /bugs and the like from these people, compared to those who are willing to test for the good of the game.

I'm afraid I can't remember everything that was done in the Machine criticals; certainly not which missions did what. Here's what I remember, though:

Agent Gray told us to put our investigations into the Assassin on hold for a moment to deal with another matter. Zion were not just awakening bluepills who wanted to be awoken, but also extracting bluepills who didn't, people who didn't have a clue what the Matrix was, who didn't know what was going on. In order to counter this, we were ordered to replace a prototype for some sort of medicine with a Red Pill, which would then get mass produced and bought by a number of Matrix denizens, thus bolstering the number of Machinist operatives.

(As a side note, this would seem to indicate that a lot of NPC redpills are recruited by the Machines immediately upon extraction, whereas everyone who plays this game starts out with Zion.)

Before that, though, we had to investigate how Zion were orchestrating all these mass awakenings. Turns out they were sending out spam e-mails! When we got to the place from whence they were being sent, we encountered a bunch of Commandos (the General's men) investigating the issue themselves. They claimed to be on our side, or were at least interested in helping us.

In a later mission we had to escort one of the Commandos to a safe house where he would be questioned by Agents. When he got there, though, he somehow committed suicide.

Oh yeah, and it turns out the Commandos were interested in jacking-in technology (or something to do with the interface between human and Matrix). We planted false information for them to find.

Message Edited by [TGS]Procurator on 10-06-2005 09:14 PM

Bump because Mr Frog seems to be reading the forums at the moment. SMILEY

Nice. Cheers, dude! SMILEY

Firemouse wrote:
erm, you're a little off. we replaced the drug with a BLUE pill. This was to counter the spaming of random people trying to awaken them (reeks of the code bombs).

the rest of it is pretty accurate though. I have screens of the stuff you had wrong if you need a memory refresh.

Aw hell, you're right. My mistake. SMILEY

I always find that it takes a while to get a new critical if I drop it the first time I try it (only really if I don't manage to get the mission map). To get it back I choose missions and immediately abort them a few times, and also change districts. It can take a while, but it works.

Flare was sat in front of the broadcast bay console with her head in her arms on the desk. The scrolling code on the screens around her tinted the whole area and made her usual silver hair look bright green. She’d fallen asleep at the console for the tenth night running.

‘You’re not doing yourself any favours,’ Campusanis would say every morning after he’d found her slumped in her chair, snoring at the ceiling and about to fall over the armrest onto the floor.

Indeed, she had very rarely left her station since starting the search for Procurator all those weeks ago. After the Aggregator had evaded the hostile Merovingian hovercraft and returned to Zero-One, Flare wasted no time in running a search. Her fellow crew members had their misgivings, of course: why would his captors allow Procurator to jack into the Matrix at all? They had in turn started investigating other avenues, with Doomicon following leads in the Real through The Glitch Society’s amassed contacts, and Campusanis and Frotee delving into the Matrix’s myriad of rumours and gossip, searching for anything they could.

Through all this, Agent Gray was still tasking the crew and the rest of the faction with the usual missions to kill Exiles and retrieve seemingly unimportant data. In fact, a number of people had remarked on how little the Machines seemed to care about the disappearance of a captain of one of their most dedicated factions. Not that the Machines would show any emotional concern anyway, but under normal circumstances surely they would have given the crew more time to look for him? d4sh and RockyB had agreed to transfer new recruit Gookin over to the Aggregator to help, but even with his efforts the search proceeded distressingly slowly.

There were murmurs among the faction of officially naming Campusanis the new captain, but Flare would never allow it. The first mate himself had doubts over the idea, and said he’d much rather wait a while longer before giving up all hope. It was never discovered who did it, but someone must actually have recommended his promotion to the Machines, as one morning a message arrived in the faction leader’s inbox ordering him not to permit such an action. A message of reassurance from their masters, or another display of their oftentimes bizarre logic?

The broadcast bay was cast in a red light, and began alternating between red and white illumination. Flare shifted slightly in her seat and moaned, lifting her head up slightly to see what the problem was. Suddenly she snapped upright and started typing furiously at the keyboard. One of the screens had the words ‘Partial Match’ flashing across it, with a small table of co-ordinates listed underneath.

Not daring to think what it meant by ‘partial’, Flare narrowed the code windows down to examine the area the search had specified. She recognised the place at once. A series of large steps rising from the ground, metres high, topped by a lone door leading to nowhere: the Ascension Monument in Westview. She looked from one screen to another, staring at the code, trying to find just a tiny sequence of familiar characters. There seemed to be a very few disparate fragments that looked like they could be part of Procurator’s RSI, but they were scattered all over, almost like a cloud of code over the monument, interspersed with totally unrecognisable code that Flare couldn’t make any sense of.

She was squinting so closely at the screens now that it took her a while to register that there were a number of people standing at the base of the giant steps. She looked at them in turn, the descending code becoming shapes and colours in her mind, coalescing into distinct forms. There was one man standing apart from the others. For a brief moment, the operator was sure she had found Procurator, but almost as soon as she thought it, she realised she was wrong. He didn’t look that much like him, and none of the underlying code was anything resembling his. No. No, it couldn’t be him: her captain never wore red.

Turning her attention away from the lone man, she tried to work out who the other people were. They were standing around him, some pointing at him, talking to him, though Flare couldn’t make out what they were saying. Their posture was obviously aggressive – the man was in trouble, whoever he was. Examining the faces of the aggressors, she was suddenly struck by the fact that they were all wearing masks.

(( Rocky, my respect for you just doubled (though that's not saying much). I thought I was the only one to enforce the correct use of ellipses! ))

This server is the result of a merge between three older servers; one of them was dedicated to EU players. So you're probably gonna find a higher percentage of Euro players here than anywhere else (except Vector, but that's a Hostile server). SMILEY

You don't include RockyB in that statement, of course. SMILEY