TXturbo, thexfm etc etc

  Did they shut down?>

Ntrails wrote:

  Well, it is not broadcasting, there is no one in the chat room, the news is all out of date......

maybe they are just having trouble updating.

 LOFL - could well be it.

  Having spent some time on the x site..... I failed to check general discussion where there is a post by themselves!  Sorry guys.

  1. That they gave HJ Beta to free trial players, but that I cannot get it despite playing since english release.

  2. Not deciding on 1 tree as soon as CR2 came out, hence sticking with all my stats equal for ages. Bad decision

  3. See bullet point 1, and re-iterate.  It was (and is) obscene.

I think the direction of that sentence was missed, i was basically saying that if one rushes in leveling then they miss what content was there aimed at their previous levels.



If that makes sense =P

 It would, except neither contact nor storyline missions are truly much different from standard ones.  They nearly always take longer, are often harder, and don't seem to give significantly increased xp.  My alt won't bother doing them.  As for getting xp from hideouts - that is laughable.  To take on the number of mobs you have to - they MUST be blue, which means minimal xp.  Or take friends to help you - but you'd be better off grinding with said friends and none of the hideout drops are very good anymore.  Maybe the lancet as a sidearm.  Everything else - meh.

  The only valuable break is archives - and they will cost a fortune in health pills, tacs and consumables before you get the drop. SO you need someone who can code em.

WGAnubis1 wrote:

Joakim wrote:

Guys what about the shaitloades of info you can get?

There are so many easyer ways to make info, IE doing missions or heck just killing gangs in the neighbourhood. Data mining is a trinckle of XP and Info even in the most abundent area. There simply is not enough incentive to data mine and the ability to locate luggables only works if the person doesnt go into a place you simply cant follow.

Well what if you're sick of running missions or farming mobs for cash? Then you can use Data Miner.

 My God you would have to be bored.

  Running PB3 is significantly more profitable, as is farming bots in 01.  Never have I been bored enough to take three times as long doing something else instead of just continuing at the boring technique.

 Nope,

 Why?

 Every new player of MMO's will pretty much be brought in through WoW (or one of the new games) since they have publicity.  Good publicity.  Since the only way anyone will hear of the matrix will be word of mouth (which is far from certain to be positive) or reviews (rarely glowing) no one is gonna spend money trying it.  With buddy keys or station passes we might get new players - but frankly few will stay around in this bug infested, stifled and empty world.   Sorry.

 MxO is dead.  I just hope to play in the final event, they can use the end of beta trix again

 We asked for that file when CR2 was in Beta.

  Why it took so long to pass on?  Just to annoy folks I guess....

  Why did this not get done?

  40 minutes of updating and DN1 would have some actually decent shots on it!!  Grrr.....arrrg

/walrus slap

Wendigo wrote:

Um, you guys kinda missed the point.  I know the debuffs aren't there at level 50, but what about people under 50? 

Are you honestly telling me that Karate is only an end-game style?

I guess newbies that choose Karate as their main style are just SOL...

R0u is mainly karate. I have no problems.

 First off, consider the abilites that are available with early karate. Sky high, sidekick and a state special.  When compared to aikido which has two pointless abils and a state special until level 30.  Also remember that overhand smash uses karate so you get an acc bonus for using that compared to using aikido or fu with it.

  As a second point, the only style that anyone uses in yuki to solo tengu - karate...... that is at level 25

  Of the three styles, only karate and fu are usable at low levels much imho (yes aikido gets iron guard on style) so I shouldn't advise complaining about it.  And the debuffs shown are hardly game ending.

Just put a piece of clothing in your hotbar and hit its slot # on your keyboard once the final bar begins to code.

Oh yeah, I still don't think I made every neighborhood unrestricted.

 USELESS *CENSORED* BOARDS

 twice I have written here to have duplicate bull**** delete my post!

 FFS

  Glad you made it, did warn about the issues.

  I'm out of the game till summer, hope you're still here. Hope they've fixed the chuffing boards.

 HJ beta and mobius code for one character for everyone who didn't do the free trial.  Fair is fair....

Mobius code and HJB were only available during the trial they dont come with acounts anymore and i doubt they ever will unless its part of an event or if we have another trial month

 I've probably had 4

 2 trials

 1 bought game copy (£10)

 My main account which was got at release through nefarious means)

  Only ever had one subbed at a time, technically only ever subbed one.... the others I just played on for free.

 Awesome vids - both of them!

how many weeks have we had these forums? FIX THEM ALREADY!

Ejaculator (i had to. I just had to)

BLAP

  Imagine, just for a moment, that PvP was purposeful in the constructs.

    Imagine that in the constructs when you killed an opponent you could loot/would recieve a token. No's of these tokens could be exchanged for goods.  Imagine if 50 kills in various sakura instances could be exchanged for bandanna equivolents - which of course would need to be untradeable.

 I am not saying the same loot as the bosses drop, but new loot, only achievable through PvP in the constructs.  Not only would this bring more people to the constructs, it would result in escalation - as more people died reinforcements would be called and there might even be large scale pointful PvP. 

 Just a thought.

Edit: Consideration see's that people between orgs could come up with deals to farm tokens by respectively allowing themselves to be killed. Perhaps only allow tokens from people without DE. *shrugs*  It was merely a starting point of an idea.

Liliane wrote:

Procurator wrote:

Spoon Boy - 850 days + 5100 posts
Transcendent - 850 days + 1700 posts
Clairvoyant - 850 days + 850 posts
Perceptive - 850 days

Corrupted Mainframe - 700 days + 4200 posts
Mainframe Invader - 700 days + 1400 posts
Data Cluster - 700 days + 700 posts
Data Node - 700 days

Resource Hog - 550 days + 3300 posts
Encrypted Mind - 550 days + 1100 posts
Virulent Mind - 550 days + 550 posts
Hidden Resource - 550 days

Damaged Mind - 400 days + 2400 posts
Matriculated Mind - 400 days + 800 posts
Enlightened Mind - 400 days + 400 posts
Free Mind - 400 days

Script Kiddie - 250 days + 1500 posts
Veteran Hacker - 250 days + 500 posts
Hacker - 250 days + 250 posts
Coder - 250 days

Bad Sector - 100 days + 600 posts
Veteran Operative - 100 days + 200 posts
Operative - 100 days + 100 posts
Awakened - 100 days

Failed Extraction - 600 posts
Redpill - 200 posts
Bluepill - 100 posts
Coppertop - starting ranK

I support this proposal,

As do I, though i still think the 'parallel ranks' of poster and lurker made it more interesting.

  Most importantly, it means that not everyone of the same play period will be the same colour and there is a lot of variety.  

  For everyone who says forum ranks encourage SPAM-Lite™ I say this:

  I have Spammed these boards as much as almost anyone but zippy.  Not for forum rank, NEVER for forum rank.  But because of the witty and amusing conversations that would occasionally spring up. I'll give an example; http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=10800043983 

Nobody Spams for rank, it is done for entertainment.  If you don't find it funny, go play the game and don't reply.  If you like seeing where things will go ==> Come post with me

Pretty amazing how ranks can cause this much discussion.

Roukan wrote:

Virrago wrote:

Garu wrote:

Havocide wrote:

What about those who have 5000+ posts already?

Spammer

Problem with that is if we make a rank for that we suddenly have a ton of people trying to spam 5000 posts... so not going to happen.

Not even with the highest day count requirement?

Data Spammer + 800 Days + 5000 posts ?

If you are talking about something like that? I'll consider it but don't get your hopes up.

Now, I've got to step away from the forums for a few hours to edit the first Operative Profile " />

They may not post for good rank, but I doubt they'll want a bad rank. " width="15" height="15" /> Of course, those ranks really would have to be bad... Insulting rank title, truly garish colour, and maybe get the account flagged for inspection by Virrago or a mod.

   What?  You think I would stop posting because of a crappy rank colour? Lol.   I post, as I said, for entertainment. Only way to get rid of my posts is by stopping these boards being entertaining.... you really want that?

 Incidentally. You want to deal with spammers you need to do a post/time online calculation.  I could do 50 posts in 1 hour or in 1 week. I am a spammer in one of those cases, not the other.    As for high post counts resulting in inspection by mods/CS.... lol.  You think they have time to trawl through 4000+ posts?  Or gonna judge on the most recent 50?  That would be absurd.  If the forums were full of SPAm I would be far more inclined to care. SO far there is a lack! As for me, if they ban me from the forums I quit the game. Sure, that shouldn't stop them - cause liek WoW this game has millions of subscribers so 1 more is irrelevant. I would suggest that sony like all companies ruled by the bottom line they will be VERY careful before alienating paying customers. Pblade has a truly astonishing post count, maybe .25 of those could be represented as SPAM. You would ban him? Despite being a pillar of the community (at least until he left.).

  You want to deal with SPAM. Employ mods. That has been done. There are no further steps to take.  Making a pointless and uninvolving rank system will achieve nothing other than being pointless and uninvolving to ALL forumers.

Ntrails wrote:

 encrypted

 

ohhh I like that one.  oh wait... there is already a Encrypted Mind

Should it worry me that I have no idea who you are???  raijins replacement?

  Anyhow, the new rank was, I imagine, derived from the original that I had.  On the old boards I was teh only one ever to reach it (though zippy was on track) and it was one of the 'poster' ranks rather than lurker ranks.

 SO yeah.

1 := I demand my rank back (only been what.... a year and a bit....)

2:= Hello red person

3:= Low post count requirements ftl

4:= Other thoughts;

No waffle 
Teh Pwn
Guardian
Braindead
NECROMANCER -> black or purple
Antidisestablishmentarianist
hitman
Data Miner (more suiter to lurker)

5:TheTaxidermist
My mom thinks I'm cool :/

6:= Krytical (or at least someone... maybe 5k post count+)  deserves ===> 

Krytical
Psychodelic Ninja Pirate Space Monkey Hybrid

Some from here :-= http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=10400096273

They sound nice cut out the spam in the forums sound good to me "> when will these kick in?

 Cut out the spam in the forums?

  LOL!

  I mean jeez, I have seen practically no SPAM at all on vector - and that means about 2 active posts.  Worthless pointlessness ftw.  There used to be wars of people just chilling on the boards, 4-5 of us answering any and all posts just to have 6-7 seperate convo's.  Wow. Now there is no need for stickies on server forum cause nothing ever gets pushed off the front page.

  As for ranks - *CENSORED* is the point when just about every vet has the same rank.  Post count ranks should be hitting the 5000+ for high. I can only assume that the last boards posts are added to these cause no way did I hit 4k+ on these PoS boards.  So Pblade must be on millions by now....

 Anyhow, put simply,  Give me my rank from the old forums, The one only I ever had ===> encrypted

We can't calculate time online, but we can use time since registration. That's what my entire system is based on: a comparison of post count against time! And if you'd care to read my previous posts, you'd see I've already made suggestions for the cases where true contributors have a high post count.

Additionally, please define 'uninvolving'.

  The old boards DID have a function deciding time logged on/in to the forums. i.e. browsing them.  Mere time since registering has no relevance.  I could spend one in every 10 weeks spamming furiously and it would give the same post count since registary and a continually average poster. I was unaware that SoE had not retained this functionality. (to be fair I hate these boards and always have.)

 I could be registered for 2 years, making 1 post a week. Or I could be registered for two years, never post, and then throw 100 posts out in a a week.  Same post count. One is SPAM t'other is not.  Therefore the 'post count against time' system is clearly flawed.

 I will freely admit that I only read about 80% of the thread before posting - most of it scanning.  I put too little time in now to read religiously. But Pblade is merely the extreme example I use.  Many people will consider my posting Spam -> But there is a thread on vector forums by madbent (who I don't really know apart from by reputation,  and tbh has never been a big contributor to my posting world or in game world) saying 'thanks' for livening up the boards. With what?  Read 70% of the new stuff i put on there and it was just dross, designed to get the community posting and conversing again. Some of it is funny, some less so.  I felt a distinct amount of pride that anyone noticed my efforts for trying to breathe life into a dead dead board.  I am not a pillar of the community, though most of those who count do know me.  I know what community is based on though, communication.  Not all spam is for post count, or out of spite or even malicious.  I do it for interaction.

Ntrails
Heuristic-Hostile

Ntrails
Heuristic-Hostile

Ntrails wrote:

By uninnvolving I mean a system that will have almost no impact or interest.  I do not, i repeat NOT, want people posting for the sake of forum rank.  But I do recall joy and amusement at suddenly and perhaps unexpectedly gaining a new rank.  When raijinn gave us ranks he did so with no explanation and suddenly the community got together and tried to puzzle out the system. I have little time for 'joel thunderguard raijinn', but I do believe - especially in hindsight - that his was a very good course.

So your ideal rank system would be one where the community has to 'get together' and work out how it's structured? Doesn't sound like a particularly grand aim to me.  My proposed system doesn't take that away - the new rank system is clearly defined as it stands, so we've already lost what modicum of 'involvement' the previous system offered. 

Ntrails wrote:

The old boards DID have a function deciding time logged on/in to the forums. i.e. browsing them.  Mere time since registering has no relevance.  I could spend one in every 10 weeks spamming furiously and it would give the same post count since registary and a continually average poster. I was unaware that SoE had not retained this functionality. (to be fair I hate these boards and always have.)

I know what the old boards could do. There was a considerable number of different statistics they could use when defining ranks. Of course I want the old boards back (these poorly hacked versions of JForum are a disgrace to professional web development). But we don't have the old boards, so we have to make do with the few statistics at our disposal.

Ntrails wrote:

I could be registered for 2 years, making 1 post a week. Or I could be registered for two years, never post, and then throw 100 posts out in a a week.  Same post count. One is SPAM t'other is not.  Therefore the 'post count against time' system is clearly flawed.

Every ranking system will be flawed. But mine is less flawed than a system that only relies on time. The goal is (or should be) to make the ranking system apply superior ranks to as many worthy people as possible, with as few false positives as possible. My system has a higher chance of achieving that.

Ntrails wrote:

I will freely admit that I only read about 80% of the thread before posting - most of it scanning.  I put too little time in now to read religiously. But Pblade is merely the extreme example I use.  Many people will consider my posting Spam -> But there is a thread on vector forums by madbent (who I don't really know apart from by reputation,  and tbh has never been a big contributor to my posting world or in game world) saying 'thanks' for livening up the boards. With what?  Read 70% of the new stuff i put on there and it was just dross, designed to get the community posting and conversing again. Some of it is funny, some less so.  I felt a distinct amount of pride that anyone noticed my efforts for trying to breathe life into a dead dead board.  I am not a pillar of the community, though most of those who count do know me.  I know what community is based on though, communication.  Not all spam is for post count, or out of spite or even malicious.  I do it for interaction.

If 'spam' has some sort of purpose and manages to improve the community in some way, it isn't spam. It is the moderators' job to manage spam as best they can, so a ranking system should be able to just work without having to take spammers into consideration. We know that isn't the case, though; we know that the moderators aren't infallable, so my system does take spammers into account and tries its best to handle them. And so far it's the only system (if memory serves) that has attempted this.

Solution = No ranks!!!

Everyone loses!

  Solution := A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances. A solution may exist in any phase.

   Take all the spoons away ^_^

edit: awww crap, this is in my favourites.  This was probably a necro. >_>

 If everyone with over 1 years sub time was given access for this last month?

 And all forum bans were overturned.

 God I'd be so happy.

/dream of a Lusid skoalmint forum battle.

  Plus, you know, there'd be people in game. Enough to blow the mo fo server. They should DO IT.

 You guys know this is all a big hoax, right?

 Actaully they are re-writing the game from ground up, to be re released in 2011. Our chars will all be reset, but names will be saved, and we get priority for beta testing.

 Gonna be awesome. 

 CQ's useful

 Swords

 Cars and bikes.

 What else?