'The party was AWESOME!..................We crashed the server..............................Twice...............'


xD

ah, rebundle, thats the word I was looking for! Thanks Gitano!

With that thread about floating objects and the Dev's stating that we should /bug any object we see like that, I'm hoping that Richland will get a rebundle sometime. Probably not any time soon tho'

Don't expect them to fix it.

They do not care about you.

Croesus wrote:

ArkDarker wrote:

Don't expect them to fix it.

They do not care about you.

Hardly a constructive post ArkDarker...

I was simply implying the truth, ma'am.

So please, forget about calling out wacky posts. For your and my sake.

9mmfu wrote:

Dr5mith wrote:

morrel s(meta cortex roof), furihata s and mura nw....

the mura nw Finally worked after 5 tries it finally spawned :*(

I tried all the ones you have mentioned on Live Dr. The all worked on the first try for me.

Remeber if you have a sequence currently running on you a second one wont spawn. So for example the Agent spawns or the Neighborhood zomebie spawns will prevent the pumpkin ones from appearing even though you activated it.

I am not saying this was your case but just an FYI.

Vinia wrote:

ShiXinFeng wrote:

*CENSORED* please! I KNOW you're not going to balk at giving up your precious shirt, when you just got access to an ability you didn't earn in one of the two ways it was originally offered.

What a *CENSORED* hypocrit!

Were your exact words... Highlighted is the word ability which I assumed was Mobius or HJ-B, if it was another ability he just got access to, please allow me to make my apologies. Otherwise, you brought up the issue of Mobius and HJ-B...

lawl, so, you're saying that by even talking about the ability is an invitation to you accosting me over an issue I'm not even directly talking about?

*CENSORED* please! I KNOW you're not going to balk at giving up your precious shirt, when you just got access to an ability you didn't earn in one of the two ways it was originally offered.

What a *CENSORED* hypocrit!

We still don't know where to find the new masks.  Will they be in the Zombie's loot or in the mysterious box or both?

2007 Halloween Masquerade: Oct. 30 through Nov. 8
It's time for The Matrix Online 2007 Halloween Masquerade! Find the jack-o-lanterns around the Mega City and activate them to spawn Exiles. Defeating a wave of Exiles leaves you with a special treat: A box only you can open that contains one of seven possible Halloween masks.

Suggesting they they come from the box rather than as loot.

Also, as I've said before there would be a lot more to it then simply flipping a switch, the patches need to be applied then tested and checked to make sure nothing has been compromised. Yeah they've done it before so they'd have a fairly good understanding of what to do so it should be quicker than previous times, but the new additions required checking for any flaws etc...

Vinia wrote:

I have no problems with people having special items that they've won or earned. It's what makes them special items but when said item starts getting handed out to other people for simply starting to play the game or that have played a game for long enough it loses it's specialness which is why Havo gave that comment. I'm sure quite a few 'Vets' said the same thing before the trials gave out their special abilities. This is why 'Vet' rewards should be something new and why the trial rewards should've been something special to trialees only.

Don't belittle the trial incentive program. It's the same as anything other product; "try new Suds dish detergent, and we'll give you our Sparkly rinse agent free!" They want to entice new customers, but if you're down to a skeleton crew of game developers, how do you create new things for people that will do that job? Why invent something new, when you already have something available that was used in the same way?

And don't confuse what we're discussing here with Veteran Rewards. That's a whole different animal. 

Vinia wrote:

ShiXinFeng wrote:

Wrong. I'm pissed because this guy wanted (and got) an 'exclusive' item he previously didn't have, but when it came to his own 'exclusive' item being given away, he said "hell no" for the very same reason that we gave as a reason not to give those 'vet' abilities away ("they didn't go to the fan faire, therefore they didn't deserve them"" width="15" height="15" />.

Your argument has nothing to do with this and is best left to the other thread.

Lol, the exclusive items lost their exclusiveness with the trials. Beta clothing and the Verdigiris and Burning Eye Trench are still exclusive items and shouldn't be given out. You're having a go at him for having the same response as anyone would have with true exclusive items. Mobius and HJ-B aren't exclusive and hadn't been since they were given out with the new trials.

They were exclusive to those people who pre-ordered, were there during the DotD event, or decided to play the game on a trial.

How is that exclusivity any different than the exclusivity for items awarded to people who submitted the most bug reports, subscribed during Beta, or attended a special out-of-game function?

Face it, the only reason you are arguing with me on this is because you are on the receiving end of this deal.

Wrong. I'm pissed because this guy wanted (and got) an 'exclusive' item he previously didn't have, but when it came to his own 'exclusive' item being given away, he said "hell no" for the very same reason that we gave as a reason not to give those 'vet' abilities away ("they didn't go to the fan faire, therefore they didn't deserve them".

Your argument has nothing to do with this and is best left to the other thread.

Lol, the exclusive items lost their exclusiveness with the trials. Beta clothing and the Verdigiris and Burning Eye Trench are still exclusive items and shouldn't be given out. You're having a go at him for having the same response as anyone would have with true exclusive items. Mobius and HJ-B aren't exclusive and hadn't been since they were given out with the new trials.

That doesn't have the slightest thing to do with my calling him a hypocrit, and you know it.

Let me spell it all out, since it seems that, in this case, the irony of his hypocrisy was lost on you.

• One guy jokes that the first vet award will be some specific item that had to be earned through a specific requirement.
• Another guy, who owns the item referred to in the joke by doing what was necessary to get it, states that they shouldn't use it in the manner it was being joked about.
• The irony of this is, this same guy wanted (and got, I might add) veteran abilities that he didn't earn by doing what was originally necessary to get them.

I just felt it was my right to point this out. Your semantics of whether something is considered a veteran award or not has no place here. 

No, it does have everything to do with it. You're pissed off because 'Veteran' abilities or whatever are now being given out due to the fact that marketing gave them to new subscribers. Those caught unfairly in the middle were just in their complaints. The new players weren't 'Vets' or 'Beta' players, thus negating the status of the abilities.

Nowhere has it been said that the shirt Havocide has is being given away so his reaction would naturally be the same as 'Vet's had when their oh so special abilities started getting given out with new accounts. If it was and then he said 'I hope not' that would have made him a hypocrit.

The shirt is not being given away like Mobius or HJ-B, Beta clothing is not being given away like Mobius or HJ-B so his reaction is quite appropriately the same as anyone with Beta clothing if they were to become Veteran rewards.

With Neo dead and no longer a systemic need for a 'One' the system has no need to continue to maintain upgraded Agents when pre-upgraded versions will do just fine. The only problem I had whilst reading through some of the previous posts was, ok, mission agents can be a low enough level to fight against for a minute or so as you have one spawn per mission member still in the area (Although the game system does want you out of the room ASAP) but if you have lower level restricted area Agents they only spawn on each operative independantly even if they are in a mission group. Even a lvl 70-100(?) agent could get beaten by 6 decent operatives.

Agents are supposed to bring up an emotional response, one that tell you that if you do not run, you will die. If there was a way to confuse the Agent in IL long enough for you to withdraw and escape, then IL with one would be more viable.

On the other hand, I would like to see operatives last a couple of rounds longer, one on one, with an Agent.

Havocide wrote:

Neoteny wrote:

If we do get veteran rewards, I predict that the first one will be the Verdigiris shirt, effectively pissing off all five people that went to FanFaire and got one.

Haha.

Id bloody hope not.

*CENSORED* please! I KNOW you're not going to balk at giving up your precious shirt, when you just got access to an ability you didn't earn in one of the two ways it was originally offered.

What a *CENSORED* hypocrit!

I liked the idea about adding a chevron for every year you've subbed in total... but the problem is you'll get quite a few people running around as triple chevrons and sooner or later everyone will get them...

There are perhaps 4 possible things that can be used as vet rewards; Clothing (with or without buffs) Weapons (although I'd prefer Org based reward weapons for Zion, EPN, Merv and Cyph) Special FX's (Not one given out by archive award, something new. Not perma but an extended timer, say 5 mins or so...) or finally an ability like a perma Shadow pill (although not one of the current shadow moves)

Possibly the easiest two of these are;

Clothing, but unless you get new models then they'll just be reskinned clothes, and if buffed give higher buffs per year starting at 22 in all to keep in line with the current scaled shirts then the next year you get another shirt or something with 25 in all then the year after, another shirt with 28 etc... Perhaps different in looks too... /shrug

Special FX's, yeah Rarebit would have to design a new FX per each year (Sparkly Pink Aura FTW! ) but none of them stack with each other else you'll have someone like HT with like 6 FX's on at the same time  At least you can activate any of them you want for 5 mins or so.

Whatever you say. It always makes me wonder why, if Vector is 'FTW' that certain Vectorites have to keep saying it? Surely if it were that good, you wouldn't need to, let alone coming to a thread entitled Syntax + Recursion MERGE to say it. Overcompensating for something?

Ah right I see... server population. Seems that it's more like Vector FTL if you guys dream about merging both Recursion and Syntax to Vector. Well done on your 50 kill per day.

Looks more purple than pink to me.

If you want to try to kill Syntaxians and Recursionites, roll a Character on each. It's a lot simpler and less of a hassle then merging servers.

Vinia wrote:

Perhaps if it was a different colour, say pink... then it wouldn't *CENSORED* off those 5 people as they'd have the only green ones, and everyone else would be happy too " />

I wouldn't mind orange like this

Neoteny wrote:

If we do get veteran rewards, I predict that the first one will be the Verdigiris shirt, effectively pissing off all five people that went to FanFaire and got one.

Haha.

Id bloody hope not.

Darkhawk wrote:

Also Rarebit, next time try to give a little more attention and consideration to the design of the female sets.  There are a few girls who play this game you know.  Maybe we would appreciate a few new dresses or colors or something just as much as the guys get their new suits and colors all the time.

The ingame Rarebit is actually female if I am not mistaken, so I am sure he knows that some of it needs fixing, there is a thread here that rarebit himself started where he asked people to report the clothing.  Of the 60+ posts I would say about 3 or 4 of them were reporting female clothing.

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

I like the hat.

I didn't get a good look, but are there any friendly NPCs that point you to the Warehouse?

There is one just across the road from the Uriah SW Hardline.

On my first time I played the game, I headed down that road all the way to the enterance to the Mars industrial, but as there was no indecation to head in there a year ago, I jumped on to the road and followed it round and found myself in Mara C.  Others could also make ther way to Tabor W from there, I wonder if there are plans to add a few more 'pointers' to the tutorial run to complete it.

Vinia wrote:

*Sniff* No Euro love...

Unfortunately

I'd love to visit across the pond again

Reasons for Server Merge

• LE focus and quality will increase as there will be more Liaison Officers available to plan and help each other out playing secondary roles and such.
• Opens a server to be used as a test server for QA. This means that huge changes to the game (such as Org Abilities and possibly even new ability trees) could be revisted and tweaked so that they could be included in the game.

I am leaving out the "Increased population at Live Events" reason, because that cuts both ways, and cancels itself out. Some would prefer more people at LE's, some less.

• LE's focus and quality could increase as stated but that is by no means certain. It may mean that more liaisons will be happy to take some unannounced time off because there are some more liaisons to do their job while they are gone. This leaves a larger org to liaison percentage. Although it can be debated on whether this is actually a good or bad thing.
• A server merge doesn't guarantee that the extra server will be used for a test server at all, it may even be taken for use in another game.
• Increased population at live events isn't simply down to players preference of numbers, more people usually means a lot more lag, not to mention a lot more spammers and idiots trying to steal the limelight to deal with by Rarebit and ourselves.