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Servers are scheduled to be restarted at 4:00 AM PDT on Thursday, July 31st. Servers should be back up within an hour or two of shutdown.

The Vector and Recursion servers will be down for database maintenance beginning at 4:30 am on Tuesday, July 29th. Maintenance is estimated to last until approximately 7:00 am, but may run longer.

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If you registered for Fan Faire 2008, you can now claim your Deep Blue Jeans item by sending a Private Message to Rarebit on the www.thematrixonline.com forums, *from the account that registered*, giving the exact name of the character *on that account* who should receive the item. Remember that the item cannot be traded!

Arachnis wrote:

Can we make all the hacker effects a toggleable thing, actually any effects? I would like to turn off all the colored bright effects like combat stats.
Message Edited by Arachnis on 12-16-2005 03:42 PM

Let's see, was this the last valid question? Anyway, looks like someone already answered it better than I could have. Sweet.

PBlade wrote:
Will you be considering the hotbar proposals put forward by the players? As there's some controversy over the current one for CR2.0

Look, if you guys are gonna get this upset over the hotbar, maybe we'll just remove it entirely! Now you got no combat UI, and no way to run macros, single-click use items--we just streamlined the game for you about 300%!

Seriously, though, we have no intention of reducing the number of non-combat hotbar buttons you have available during interlock. That screenshot did not show everything that will end up going in with the combat update, as far as my understanding goes.

shauntaylor88 wrote:

What software do you use to help make MxO is t like Visual Studio or 3DSMax or do you have your own special programs?

I don't know if I'm supposed to divulge the exact particulars or anything, so I'll just say that yeah, you're on the right track. A mix of expensive commercially available products, and tools developed in-house for stuff specific to this project.

Sasquashpane wrote:
Agent_Pace: According to our records, there are three helipads in Downtown.

Well According to my records, your records are Wrong!!!! I know that women and maps don't go that well together, but i'm willing to let this one go, simply because you are so **bleep** Hot

Actually, there is 5 Helipads in Downtown... 1 that is just outside our bounderies, unreachable.... and 4 downtown... Got the pics of them too if you need them for your records.... i can send them to you via PM ;P
Message Edited by Sasquashpane on 02-14-200606:51 AM

Very astute! Yes, I noticed both of those over the past week--one off the map to the east, I think it was, and one that I hadn't noticed before in Vauxton or South Vauxton or whatever. Heck, there are probably even a few more.

CooliceT wrote stuff

First I wanna know where you got that screenshot from. SMILEY

CooliceT wrote:

Rarebit wrote:

CooliceT wrote stuff

First I wanna know where you got that screenshot from.

firstly. well i would have loved to said i cracked the QA sever date base. and sneaked my level 50 in. took a screenshot. and wala... but. sadly i just stole it from here

now secondly... answer the question or the Rarebit gets it :smileymad:

i like that. hmmmm new sig...

Hoo-hah! My browser's ad-blocker blocked those images. Walrus is one sneaky dude.

So, to answer your question, the snowman is not a real one because it is in the Matrix, where nothing is real. Thought you'd get me with a trick question there, didn't you? Mmm-hmm. Nice try, nice try...

Servers are scheduled to go down for a restart, and the removal/deactivation of the Winter Holiday event, starting at 4:00 am Pacific time on Thursday, January 22nd. Servers should be back up within an hour or two of shutdown.

Arachnis wrote:

That's not a question!

Erace wrote:
can you post some pictures of snow balls?

Actually, no, because

a) I'm not in the office, so I don't have access to a server that has snowballs yet

b) I have to beg Walrus to upload all my pictures, and he is way too smart to show up at work on the weekend just for that

Arachnis wrote:

Can we get a server transfer pretty please? The Enigma Directive would like to go back to linenoise (syntax). It is where we started.

Message Edited by Arachnis on 12-17-2005 01:49 PM

I have little idea how those work, but I'm guessing that they require the time of a database administrator, and a DBA is about the most expensive guy you can find, so the answer is probably no. I have to beg and plead for months and months to get any DBA love myself for little design features I need (*nudges Walrus and hopes he remembers that request we put in about database tool for Live Event character name overrides* SMILEY

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Roukan wrote:
Rarebit, do you love me?

Not sure this is an MXO question... /blush... /scratchhead... /lookaround... /shrug...

As much as love can exist between an anime girl and broiled cheese on toast.

By the way, some other recent posts here have just inspired me to make up a new rule (see the first post in this thread if you don't know what I'm talking about):

10) Questions that have been edited when I see them are automatically disqualified!

PhanthomZtryker wrote:
What is the merovingian doing when no one sees him?

Now how am I supposed to know that? Are you implying that I'm nobody? I mean, it may be true, but you didn't have to *say* it in front of everybody like this... /cry

Roukan wrote:
Rarebit, are the devs gonna have a GM fight night like in beta in the QA?

Don't know! That might be up to the GMs.

PhanthomZtryker wrote:
Do it!:p

Oh and Rarebit.

I'm very sorry I didn't mean it like that.

By the way... This thread seems similar too.. you know.. Agent Jeeves.. Sorry about the Advertising my own thread bla bla bla.

Should I take this as flattery or a sign of... unwantedness... if that's a word

I realize that in this thread you actually answer questions about the game and so forth, in a way that everyone can understand and most of all.. It's true:p

If you don't want to answer that... Atleast answer this.

Why have I never seen you offline?!

You wouldn't be "monitoring" us would you?:smileywink:

You know, I realized that after I made this thread and had answered a few questions, I was kind of channelling Agent Jeeves. I can't seem to help myself. I think there's a virus...

bonopi wrote:
can someone ask if they will fix the lag issue?

I could ask, I'm pretty used to QA and Engineering laughing at me. Shoot me a PM about it so I don't forget.

Faithlessness wrote:
*eyes Boucher Coat question*
So... does it exist any Black Kell Shiny Jacket/Pants that players can wear? (like the jackets the Guillotines wear in Southard ...and there is something interesting going on with their ninja masks)

I don't really know. If you guys don't know of any, then probably not.

Chuui wrote:
Any reason why some non-enhanced clothing actually has a harder coding difficulty than their enhanced counterparts?

If it's the same kind of clothing, then no, probably a bug.

I can't remember, exactly. It wouldn't have been a surprise, because most of the people I had worked with on AVP2 as QA Lead had already moved over to MXO. As far as I can recall, it was mostly a feeling of relief that I wouldn't have to worry about shipping a Gold Master for at least a few years, mixed with a lurking dread that finishing up the game could very well be the most crushing crunch time ever.

Romav wrote:
I think Rarebit is off for the night, so I'm going to post this in here now before I forget. Hopefully someone else (if interested) can ask it again for me once Rarebit comes back, but either way I'll try to do it too. Sorry if it's a repeat question.

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Is there a chance we can get a new board on this forum where only developers such as yourself can create threads, and those threads would include screenshots and chatlogs from all the important live character interaction occurring across all the servers? For example. Threads could look like this:

Syntax – Niobe requests operatives to train commandos
Vector-hostile – General’s commandos gatecrash Merovingian’s Party
Recursion - Masked men attack Mara C

And so on...
It would make it easier for players to be able to check one forum and see all the important happenings within the game rather than searching each private board.

It could be set up like the Broadcast Depth forum, where only team members can actually create the threads but anyone can reply to them.

Oh man, and here I just spent time typing out a reply to your IM. Oh wait, I can just copy and paste that here:

Ooh, but that puts pressure on me to keep producing logs and screenshots all the time!

Hrmmm. Maybe I'll see what Walrus thinks.

ZaneZavin wrote:
Do you think historical missions will make the next patch?

I can't really comment on that stuff aside from what appears in the patch notes Walrus posts.

Megaritz wrote:
Why's the sound looping bug still around?

'Cause it hasn't got fixed yet.

I did find something funky with the configuration of the hyperjump sound fx though. If this configuration issue is the cause of the looping bug, then it is, at least, fixable on a case-by-case basis. We need to get some resources replaced and do some testing.

By the way, Anome's name is pronounced like "A gnome." That's "A" as in "capital A."

Megaritz wrote:
You said the Twins had character models. Does this mean they're alive, or is is a flashback cinematic or somethign?

That's a future story thing, and mum's the word!

Vaico wrote:
Are we getting the patch today?

According to Walrus' post made this morning, "We will instead be installing Update 40 tomorrow morning."

PBlade wrote:
Is there a limit to how much you can take from a single player LE wise?

I mean if they ask reasonable, non spam questions or talk to storyline characters on a daily basis about things that aren't annoying spam, can you only take so much?

*That's for my own self preservation *

Don't worry about it. We're pretty good at ignoring spam, even Mara Central style. If we have a problem with your messages, the Live character will either let you know by RP, or by putting your tells on /ignore. If it's real disruptive spam for others during a live event, we can admin silence you temporarily. But until one of those things happens to you, as far as you should be concerned, you're in the clear.

Roukan wrote:
Rarebit will you gimme my 12 mil back?

I don't have direct control over that kind of thing. But 12 mil from what?

Symmetric wrote:
Rarebit, can I send you a gift basket for being such a cool guy through all this?

Actually I was pretty traumatized yesterday, so I don't think I deserve a cool guy basket. Thanks for the thought, though. SMILEY

*cough*

Please refer to this article on Broadcast Depth for important details regarding Cryptos' call (hint: Cypherite faction name tags).

Message Edited by Rarebit on 02-23-200605:56 PM

The_Odinn wrote:

The_Odinn wrote:
somebody please ask this for me, i really wanna know if melee damage/accuracy covers stealth damage/combat tactics from pre cu2.0 i know this may seem like a future release question but consider that im talking bout the Q&A server and u will see it's not. i made a new rsi just so i wouldn't loose out on 3 points of belief for my character and before i grind him all the way to 50 i'd like to know that he's actually gonna be good at what i want him to be good at.

please!!! i must know, grinding to 50 is hard work!!!
EDIT: btw im referring specifically to assassain abilities and not knife thrower.
Message Edited by The_Odinn on 01-19-200602:10 PM

The new Stealth system is still in design, and it isn't yet finalized what attributes or stats or whatever will affect it. We'll fill you guys in as soon as we have that worked out. And when the combat update moves into Live, everyone will be given the chance to reassign their attribute points however they like.

EDIT: Aw nuts, got me on an edit.

Message Edited by Rarebit on 01-19-200611:36 PM

Tseng. wrote:
how come there arnt any npcs that use assassin?

Actually, Frog recently switched Ookami over to Assassin. Veil, in theory, is also an Assassin, or something close to it.

If you're talking about computer-controlled NPCs, then the answer has to do with what abilities we're able to teach them to use effectively. They can do knife throw attacks (the Dire Lupines do these at higher level), but our AI aren't able to do complicated things like sneak attacks and so forth.

Symmetric wrote:
So when will they make clothing not look like it's made out of cardboard?

Psst... Symm... When you buy new clothes, you take the cardboard part out. That's just there so it folds nice on the shelf.

Oh wait, was this a Matrix question?

Hmm... But what if the cardboard is kind of nice and shiny?

Oh wait, is this a future release question? Oh noe- /jackout

Roukan wrote:
Rarebit will you make a level 45 in the QA and duel me?

Dude. Come on now. I ain't no small-time gangsta.

~giveexperience 999999999999999999999

Bring it.

Roukan wrote:
Bring it nub! No specials nobuffs?

Of course not...

/target Roukan
/meatwad
/lookaround

Hey, where did Roukan go? I thought he wanted to duel?

Roukan wrote:
Can the devs consider Player-LET for free if they volunteer?

Wait... I've seen this... This is it, this is the end. Yes... You're laying right there, just like that. And I... I... I stand here, right here. I'm supposed to say something... I say... LESIG. What? What did I just say?

Sykin wrote:
What exactly is wrong with the /emote command? Many players are hoping this will be fixed in light of better roleplay.

/shakehead Oh man, I remember trying to test that when it was first done. I think there must have been some miscommunication between whoever requested it and whoever implemented it. It still goes something like this, right?

Rarebit>/emote answers Sykin
Rarebit trips cow answers Sykin mad

Steege wrote:
(Ok, I think I'm ready. Hehe...)

Do you believe that with CR2.0, we will begin to see more people dress for style, and not just for buffs?

I hadn't really thought about it (CR2.0 is being run covertly by Archon, Justice, and Oar. They get together and whisper a lot). But that does seem like a likely result, doesn't it? Archon is a clever son of a gun.