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KivoOnline wrote:
If QA is succesful would it be possible for it to stay up after QA goes live or even stay up for a group of dedicated testers...like beta?

As far as I'm aware, we haven't said that the QA server is temporary. It's my impression that it is here to stay as a mighty game-improving implement! But I could be mistaken.

Dissever wrote:
Would it be possible to get a roleplaying flag (/rp toggle) to indicate those players who are in character? Or, as this is an rpg (as far as I know), to indicate those who don't roleplay

Well, anything's possible, given enough broiled cheese.

I can see something like that being abused pretty quickly, though. Maybe it's just better to assume that everyone is RP-ing until they prove otherwise?

It's still possible to take down the level 100 org base Sentry guards in the Archives, right? In Zero One, anyway? How many players does it take to get one of them?

Excellent... ;)

Chuui wrote:
Well as the above wasn't a question and edited questions aren't allowed...

Just what sort of abuse do you see arising from an RP flag?

Well, if this has been done successfully in other MMOs, then I'm sure there's a way to do it right (which maybe should be discussed in a separate thread), but if it's just a flag toggle, my immediate thought was that any non-RP gankhead would toggle the flag on and go dance around other people who are actually trying to RP.

PBlade wrote:
QA test server - ETA! - What is it!

BAH!

Huh, no question marks here...must not be a question. I'll just wait for the next post, then.

...

Or, I could just say that I don't know what the ETA is. I believe the last one Walrus gave was the earliest time it might be available. If it's been delayed, then Walrus only knows what the new ETA is.

Tseng. wrote:
are the top used to creat the helpers avalible in game?

It you mean what the holiday hat vendors are wearing, then no. The outfits are just rentals, you know (Ookami looking to make some $i on the side, no doubt).

Siros7 wrote:
Will you get better soon?
Should we call 911?
Does seraph eat french fries?

Don't you worry, Frog will get better!

Tseng. wrote:

is exiting missions via the window instead of the door a realistic posability for the game engine?

Not at this point. Doors (or moving windows) are game objects that control a little sliver of what we call "NavMesh" (tm!) on the ground, covering the width of the door. Every area in the game that allows you to stand on it is covered with this invisible layer of NavMesh. If an area doesn't have NavMesh, you can't stand there. Simple as that. So the only thing that stops you from walking right through a wall, for instance, is that there's no NavMesh going through that wall.

So if you wanted to go out a window, that window would have to have NavMesh in it, connected to the ground on either side of the window. This would require new window/wall geometry for every room type in which you wanted one of these windows. You'd probably need a pretty good number of them to match even a small amount of our existing decor types. That would be a considerable art task.

Then you'd need to create a window game object to put in place of the existing windows, which would toggle the NavMesh on the window sill on and off, just like doors toggle the NavMesh in their doorway on and off. That would be relatively easy.

But then you'd need to go and place that window object, along with the new wall geometry, in our existing rooms. In our world design tool system, this would mean exploding each type of building into its component floors, exploding each floor type into its component rooms, exploding each room type into its component floor/wall/ceiling pieces, replacing the old window with the new window art and window game object, then rebundling the room (this does cool stuff like calculating the interior lighting and generating the NavMesh), rebundling the floor, and rebundling the building. Oh, and then you have to rebundle the entire world.

Not only would that take forever, but it would generate a patch so huge that it would crash the internet, ending civilization as we know it.

Before civilization ended, though, we might have to consider how to get players and NPC followers to play some kind of "I'm ducking and crawling through a window now" animation.

One slightly modified approach might be just to play that animation and 'port the user through the window, if it were unlocked, rather than using a NavMesh, but then we'd have to have the game object know how to handle that kind of teleportation, and we'd have to teach NPCs to know how to activate it.

It would be simpler, therefore, just to end civilization straight off the bat.

Message Edited by Rarebit on 12-21-2005 04:26 AM

shauntaylor88 wrote:
What do you think of NPC's doing what they want whenever they want?

i know agents can go wherever they want but srely this is over the top?

see http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=general&message.id=57673 to know what im on about

I think that's awesome! NPCs should express themselves more often. Power to the programs!

This might be related to a known bug where the AI sometimes decides to walk to the 0,0,0 coordinate of the world, though. Going back to their birthplace, perhaps? Or maybe they've been ordered to report for recycling, poor things.

My "Rarebit" character's name was inspired by Winsor McCay's "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend." I'm not sure where her punk-girl look and tendency to dance in the street by n00b hardlines while whispering vague profundities came from--my inner Cindi Lauper?

My other character was inspired by Bubba Smith's officer Moses Hightower in the "Police Academy" movie series, and by cheesy '80s crime movies in general.

Tseng. wrote:
is the merovinginas restarant/cheatau in game?

You know, one of our mission designers typo'd the Merovingian's name like that once, and we never let him live it down. SMILEY

Anyway yes, the restaurant and the chateau are in the game, and we devs go there and drink wine and eat cake with Persephone every day! It's pretty sweet!

But if I were going to reply seriously, I would have to say that no, they are not in the game.

Ntrails wrote:

What is the capital of papua new guinea?

w00t first post!

OK, mXo question. What is the capital of papua new guinea in the matrix artificial reality files.

Message Edited by Ntrails on 12-21-2005 04:43 PM

Serious one. Any vague guesses on the test server?
Message Edited by Ntrails on 12-21-2005 04:45 PM

Let's see here... First question: not an MXO question. Second question: not only did I already respond to this question before, but it's also a future release question. So you see, monsieur, that the deck is stacked against you.

EDIT: Ooh, and you also edited your question, which is another rule broken! My poor rules!

Message Edited by Rarebit on 12-21-2005 04:51 PM

KivoOnline wrote:

Hmm ok well I cant think of any more MxO stuff since its 3:20 AM...so, how was your day today?

My day was pretty good, but not really MXO questiony. :p

Log and screenshots taken by the Merovingian's bodyguard at the event have been posted here.

Seymour asked a while back for a list of old abilities that were removed in CR2.0. Thanks Dracomet and NoRepro for putting this together. The following old abilities were disabled under CR2.0:

Balance
Detect Traps
DetectVulnerability
Disarm Traps
Energized Attacks
Hyper Strength
Ignore Pain
Impart Invisibility
Power Shot
Precise Blow
PunishingBlows
Purity
SpinningFlower
SweepTheFloor
Technique
ZenMaster

Some of those are Zen Master abilities, for which we'll have a refund sell-back thingy, as Walrus has announced previously.

Message Edited by Rarebit on 04-05-200611:05 AM

>revolt_ wrote:
How would YOU /pointforward improve the currently pretty useless dataminer tree?

(even killing grey mobs gives you more info in quicker time...)

>revolt_

For starters I would probably just boost the amount of $i it rewarded. Like, x2 or something, but I'd have to do some playing with the numbers to get an exact figure.

Othinn1 wrote:

One question that's been on a lot of players' minds for a long time now is this: where do the Machine and Merovingian redpills go when they're not jacked in and not on their hovercrafts? It's doubtful that they're all living in Zion. Many of us have assumed that they have bases somewhere in the real world.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was more of a question for Paul Chadwick. ^^;;

We asked Paul about that a while back, and he hadn't fleshed that aspect of the story out yet, but he definitely agreed that they wouldn't be in Zion. It isn't clear if they have large, established bases on the scale of Zion, of if they're scattered around in smaller waystations.

gothique wrote:
Who is your favorite LE char rarebit?

I think I sorta answered that before, but so far probably the Oracle, since she can really mess with people's heads, and then make up for it by giving them a cookie. The Merovingian is fun for parties and practicing bad French (not that his is bad, but mine is) and pick-up lines.

Hm, then again, just killing people as the Assassin was pretty fun, too. SMILEY

Eclipses%60 wrote:
What are your future goals for MxO Rarebit?

Mostly that I want you guys to have enough fun with it that you start telling your friends about it.

Collbard wrote:
Is getting revenue by selling ad-space in the game neccessary to the games survival (as in are you guys almost broke) or was it to provide funds for more specific aspects of the game...Or you could just tell us exactly why.

I don't know; that would be a question for the bean-counters. I believe that SOE is adding this in-game ad system to most of their MMOs.

mercurius420 wrote:
Do you have something against redpills being allowed to wear baseball hats?

Well, you give 'em baseball hats, and next they'll want bats, and chewing gum, and trading cards, and all that stuff.

Otherwise, no; who doesn't like baseball caps?

I think this is already fixed, actually.

eroz wrote:
Do the NPC mission contacts ever get updates, or if they don't will they? (NPC mission contact = people like Egg, Indigo, Mr. Black, Dame White, etc.)

That's pretty much a future content question that I can't answer, but they *can* be updated, and we would certainly like to take the time to update that aspect of the game content. Although we would like to figure out a way to do it that will tie them together both with the other neighborhood contacts, and with the story of the Matrix as a whole.

PS: Zachar1as, your message was edited, which disqualifies it according to t3h rulez.

Zachar1as wrote:
Can you ecplain me the installation of the qa server

Not really. I only know what Walrus has said on these forums. I seem to recall that it will involve making a copy of your current install of the game. But I'm pretty sure the final details won't be announced until the server is ready to go.

Zachar1as wrote:
Rmpf, is there anywhere the old news online?

Uh... If you're asking about old MXO news updates, then I believe a certain superlative fan site has them archived.

Viscidos wrote:
Pie?

Don't mind if I do!

But if you're asking if we're going to get pie in the Matrix, then that's a forbidden future release type of question!

Now you've got me thinking about X-Mas dinner, though. :d

Zachar1as wrote:
How many players has mxo actually?

We have a ton of awesome players!

But exactly how many, we're not allowed to say. It is SOE policy not to divulge subscriber numbers.

Viscidos wrote:
Digital or Analog?

Digital all the way, baby!

PS: Cesspool, I'm glad you liked those. Dope sig, by the way.

Update 59 made the area containing the NE building a level 40 area.

Abigor666 wrote:
Is there any specific reason vector is given slightly less interaction than the non hostile servers? I know it’s a pvp server but there is still a pretty descent sized RP community that kind of feels left out compared to recursion and syntax.

Vector's PVP nature complicates Live Event plans a bit, but we certainly don't intend to give it less attention than the other servers.

While we no longer have the staff to run every event on every server, this carries the side benefit of allowing us to tailor each event to the strengths of the server on which it appears. So Vector will sometimes be getting different types of events than you'll see on the other servers.

Konvertor wrote:
So is misplaced NavMesh what caused the invisible wall issues early in the release?

Yep! It's tricky stuff.

Tseng. wrote:
is there and hope of a highlander styley churches. ie no fighting on holyground

*chops victim's head off, is zapped by mystic lighting*

RRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHH!

Uh, I doubt it.

bonopi wrote:
I figured I'd get back into posting questions...hehe

How has events changed since SOE took over in terms of the rewriting of the storyline with Paul Chadwick approach...

Well, Paul's always been our storyline writer, so there hasn't been any change there.

The main difference is that we no longer have a Live Events Team, so we're limited in the number and scope of story character live events we can run. We're working on ways to make these more effective, and to have them tie them in directly with Paul's story--and in that respect I think there's room for us to improve on what the old LET was doing, as they were less familiar with the main storyline than our remaining designers are.

We're also working on coordinating with a group of players, LESIG, to get players directly involved in bringing the storyline to the community, both by allowing them to assist story characters in Live Events, and by helping them organize their own player-run events.

bonopi wrote:
this is for QforQ:
Did you ever play a character in one of the promo vids/ads/Matrix Revolutions Extra?

btw...it makes it really hard to manage a faction knowing that people are listening into your conversations all the time. Really the faction leader should be able to know how many people are actually in their faction...

but even if you could know who's in your faction doesn't restrict people from joining as a spy...if they are a good spy...

Message Edited by bonopi on 12-22-2005 01:59 AM

Man, it's too bad that I can't answer edited posts, according to my own rules and all.

Chuui wrote:
Did you ever play a character in one of the promo vids/ads/Matrix Revolutions Extra?

I don't think so, although I remember watching some of the other members of the team working on them.

But I was one of the remote demo-ers for our last E3 appearance, involved in those big PVP brawls around Mara Central. I even had some kind of studly name...uh...I think maybe I was "Apollo"? Something like that, anyway. It wasn't really as fun once they told us to stop pwning the less experienced team members, though. =p

I'm not seeing any actual non-disqualified questions here, gentlemen! Don't let Pace's RSI distract you from your mission! It's all a Machine plot!

Braids-Omega wrote:
hey rarebit whats up wwith that release of hacker style? a early christmas gift or an honest goof?

I'm not on the part of the team doing the combat revision, but I'm pretty sure that if we aren't up here taking credit for it and saying how cool we are, then it was probably an accident.

Braids-Omega wrote:
Ok another ...... cake, pie, or ice-cream, or ..... drum roll please ................ CRANBERRY SAUCE?!

Hm... Are those Tastee Wheat flavors?

Porphy wrote:
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Dude! The Machines are onto you. Better jack out.