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I would like to point out that there seems to be a slight but distinct improvement in performance in the game. I didn't see this thread until today, but it was clear to me yesterday that you guys had changed the region servers due to this, and the altered /who ranges I was getting since the server restarted.

Interactions (opening a door, for example) seem to have sped up slightly. The same can be said for hardline travel and other teleportation methods. And the code vision seems to clear up faster for me. I'll admit that these apparent speed increases may just be in my head. But this is coming from someone who has been playing MxO since October of '04 and never left once.

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

And why does it look like it's twice as big as the old one? O_o

Probably because a lot of the new region servers are utterly huge, judging from current /who ranges.

I mean Apollyon, Camon Heights, and Kedemoth have the same /who range? That's massive.

Is it possible for Dracomet to stuff the lag into some place under the city? Like an ancient evil sealed away until it breaks loose and our decendants have to battle it?

Rarebit wrote:

Othinn1 wrote:

Is it possible for Dracomet to stuff the lag into some place under the city? Like an ancient evil sealed away until it breaks loose and our decendants have to battle it?
Maybe he can dump it in the Aqueduct! =D

When I said "our descendants have to battle it", I was implying that they'd win, not die horribly. SMILEY

But in all seriousness, is it possible to tuck it away in a place where players don't go, like the Aqueduct?

Rarebit wrote:

Yeah, Downtown is pretty boned right now.

Except on Syntax, where Dracomet stuffed all the lag into Pillsen.

So he made Pillsen into a kind of lag pizza roll?

Rarebit wrote:

Pillsen gets no respect.

Maybe because its name sounds like "Pillsbury"?

Pillsen lag pizza rolls. And their dough boy doesn't giggle until ten minutes after its poked in the belly.

Since you guys are going to add code to get information on the Downtown lag in the next patch, is there anything specific we can do to help? Or should we just do things normally? Or maybe both just in case?

I'm glad to hear that the information regarding the threat that the General poses is spreading. Hopefully we can resolve this peacefully. He should not be trusted.

No apparent reason for being there, and nothing to indicate a winner. Some event.

I still wish we had that Seraph game they were planning, instead of Path of Neo. We'd certainly know more.

None, really. I prefer to not stay in one discipline for too long if I can help it.

The Merovingian isn't even French. He's a Program who, after trying out every language, found French to be his favorite.

TheTomoBelieves wrote:
The PvP weren't the event ffs!!!!

What was the, then? Most people seem interested in taking event pictures with no dialogue in them. All we see is a big PvP battle.

But you can't kill any redpills without a killcode or sabotaging their cranial jacks. SMILEY

Unless you want her to kill some Exiles or bluepills.

ZaneZavin wrote:
It required 3 seperate viruses, and yes Union Hill.

There was a brief reference to that in the Zion missions.

Now this, I appreciate. Dialogue and an explanation.

http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=live_events&message.id=3645#M3645

Fenshire wrote:

I don't think it's the actors, I think it's the fact that they don't have the legal rights to display the actors' likenesses.

Actually, now that I think about it... Morpheus is in both Path of Neo (owned by Shiny) and in MxO (owned by SoE), but yet Niobe and Ghost can't be displayed in MxO because Shiny has the right to their likenesses. So then... how can Morpheus be in two games?

You can also add the Merovingian and Seraph to that. They've appeared in both EtM and PoN as video game character models. Oh, Morpheus also appeared in EtM as a character model.

But do we know that MxO can't use Jada Pinkett Smith's and Anthony Wong's likenesses because of Shiny? It seems more likely that they didn't sign up for MxO. An old article stated that Clayton Watson didn't sign up, thus Kid's character model and voice are different in MxO.

Note that everyone who retains their likenesses in MxO also retains their voice.

Actually, it looks to me like the original poster attacked one of the level 65 Cryptos simulacra in the Zion missions.

Message Edited by Othinn1 on 12-21-2005 05:47 AM

1carus wrote:

Check out what the operator says if you kill all three of the Cryptos Sims:

Message Edited by 1carus on 12-21-2005 09:23 AM

*laughs* That's great! My character is level 31, so I had no chance against him. XD

Apparently in the Merovingian missions, they introduced a virus into that particular box. The message in the Zion mission is a reference to this.

And there is a problem with the box. It starts at the same time as the one in Bathary Row, instead of starting five minutes after it.

mercurius420 wrote:

This item will be placed in your code storage if you upload at a hardline, and probably be deleted if you die while it is in your inventory.

I'm sure they will be deleted if you die. That's how I lost the recording where the Merovingian and Persephone talk to the Assassin. -_-

In the "Race to Find The One" event, why were the Neo Agents' tags spelt "N30 AG3NT"? Some people think it might be a reference to room 303, or that it reflects their newly corrupted nature.

In the "Race to Find The One" event, why were the Neo Agents' tags
spelt "N30 AG3NT"? Some people think it might be a reference to room
303, or that it reflects their newly corrupted nature.

Woreku wrote:
Will the aquaduct from Enter the Matrix and The Metrix Reloaded ever be implemented into The MxO?

That actually sounds more like the sewers. An aquaduct (it's actually spelled "aqueduct", I should probably /ccr that) is a channel built to convey water from one location to another.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueduct

The aqueduct on the map refers to the large body of water that bisects the city. We can already see it in the game.

Here I go again with the William Westwater quote. I copy and paste this so many times I'm afraid someone's going to write it on my tombstone. SMILEY

"As we saw in the movies, operators in the hovercraft can download programs directly into the Matrix. After the Smith incident (in The Matrix Revolutions), Zion developed more direct transmitters that allow operatives to access the hovercraft remotely. This led to experiments in more directed attacks on the simulation itself--viruses that target the stability and coherence of the Residual Self-Image (RSI), the manifestation of self and other within the system.

In other words, hackers do have the ability to attack their opponents at a distance by targeting them with a virus."

Here's the article where this is mentioned.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/08/20/news_6105301.html

There were a few other pre-release articles that described what the Hacker/Coder abilities (again, why do people single out Hacker abilities? Nobody formed simulacra within the Matrix, and Static Barrage has more "lightning bolts" that any Hacker ability SMILEY ) are and how they work. Unfortunately I can't find those articles (if anyone can find them I'd appreciate it).

But what they basically said was that the characters access programs on their hovercrafts and direct them towards other characters. It's based off two concepts we saw in the trilogy: the ability to transmit in and out of the Matrix, and the virtual controls seen in the Zion Control construct towards the beginning of Reloaded.

Though you don't have to accept this if you don't want to.

Woreku wrote:

Yeah sorry for the mistake. I ment the sewers from Enter the Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded. Will they ever be implemented into The MxO?

No apologies necessary. There are a few people who seem to have made the same mistake.

I agree that the sewers were be a cool addition. But this is most likely a future release question. -_-

As usual, I appreciate the fact that you've documented and posted the Machine critical missions, Pigeon. ^_^

Insertion wrote:
I dont mean to sound rude or anything, but why do you post the critical mission outlines?

I mean, from my perspective, if a player wants to know what is going on in another org, they should have to make an effort to look into it by asking other players from opposing organizations or running the missions themselves. This just seems like its too easy for orgs to know about one another.

Asking other players about the criticals usually results in two responses ...

1. Silence, or some form of "loose lips sink ships" attitude.

2. A vague description.

My question is this: why is it bad to let the other organizations easily know about what happens in critical missions? We're interested in the story, and criticals are part of the story. Hiding the criticals is like hiding the Matrix movies, games, etc. from people who are interest in them.

Critical missions were barely documented until recently. Many of us are glad the historical missions are coming, because we know nothing about what happened in the early criticals. Even those of us who have been here since the beginning (myself included) know nothing about what happened in the other organizations' early critical missions.

Rexxhavukk wrote:

Somewhere I remember seeing/hearing something about the mask wearers being commandos. Does anyone else remember this.

I don't remember seeing this. The only time I've ever seen anyone claim that the Cypherites were anything more than humans was a time when a mission NPC had this wild theory about the Cypherites being rogue Agents that hated redpills and defied the Machines. He claimed that they were less powerful because their power was cut off when they went AWOL.

You may be thinking about the false Agents and the commandos.

Heh. This reminds me of a time during beta when I was under the impression that the Cypherites were behind the false Agents. I was proven wrong are the time of the "Hunt for Morpheus" event.

Message Edited by Othinn1 on 12-23-2005 01:54 PM

TetraCleric wrote:
I dont think thats right Megaritz...

Last I saw, Enmascarado was desmasked at Achan North, and was taken captive. I think he may have been broken out with Veil though...

Are you sure? Because that sounds more like the various LET controlled Cypherite characters that appeared during the Choice and Consequence event. Their names were Ocultado, Velare, Espectro, Kamenotoko, Secreto, and Verborgen. They went around killing random players.

Eventually they were tracked down (with some help from the mission controllers, and some hindrance from false Operators and various other Cypherite transmissions that would mislead the players) and unmasked. Then they were jacked out by whatever crew the Cypherites belonged to, who then sent the traitors to Zion for questioning.

The last I ever heard of Enmascarado was shortly after Vashuo died. He lured the Assassin and Niobe to the same location using code bombs. The Assassin and Niobe fought, all while Enmascarado taunted Niobe and cheered the Assassin on.

Unfortunately for Enmascarado, the Assassin turned on him, and apparent killed him. But before he died, he said that his RSI was rigged with a "surprise" that would activate upon his death. This surprise was the Flame Virus, the same virus many of us remember from the end of beta event.

I never actually contributed to the game in any way, but I did follow along by checking the websites and reading the posts at unfiction.com and various Matrix forums. It was great in my opinion.

One good Metacortex ARG fan site that I know of is www.metaurchins.org. There's also http://metacortex.netninja.com.

Edit: oh, you can also find mirrors of the Metacortex ARG sites at http://www.argn.com/graveyard.php.

Message Edited by Othinn1 on 12-31-2005 01:40 AM

It should be in your code archive.

Yay! The Deathfangs in Widow's Moor are actually fighting now, and not constantly rolling out of Interlock only to jump back in. ^-^

"Cypher, at the beginning of this scene, is setting up an
automated system to allow him to go meet with Agent Smith."

That's straight from the late '99 online chat with the Wachowskis.

ThePigeonKing wrote:

Megaritz wrote:

I didn't know Enmascarado said that. Cryptos said that he would have joined them as well...But I'm sure they're just trying to mess with our heads, as Morpheus would never join them, he's practically their opposite.

Actually, Cryptos wasn't talking about Morpheus as the Giver Of Sleep. Sleep in this case was becoming and staying a bluepill. He's talking about Cypher. In the same context, he talked about how this same person would "raise a glass of wine" and "eat red meat with us." That was Cypher.

"I knew the giver of sleep. He kept his eye on his dream, and achieved it, in a way. But now I wonder if he would approve of this strange amorphous state. I think he would join us. I think he would throw his reds in the river and sing the blues with us. We can never know, may he rest in peace, but this is what I believe."

If he's referring to Cypher, then why does he say that we'll never know if he'd join the Cypherites or not?

Plus, the speech with the "raise a glass of wine" line is a different speech than the one above.

stuporfluous wrote:

i never quite understood how madame t was a redpill. where does she jack in from? whose resources is she using? she didn't appear to be tied to any of the orgs in any way. a pirated jack in system on the wasted planet's surface? :robotsurprised:

"Some have claimed that there are also permanent broadcast stations being built in tunnels near the surface, where Zionites can enter the equivalent of the Machines' pods for long-duration operations in the Matrix. Such claims are no more than rumors at this point, though."

This is from the instruction booklet, and from the old "Question of the Week" section at mxovault.ign.com.

According to the old "Tyndall's City Guide" series of articles, Naomi Tarasova (better known as "Madame T.") is one of the few redpills that takes up full time residence in the Matrix. Grace (the neighborhood contact in Furihata) is another one. They're most likely using the method described above.

WGAnubis wrote:

In regards to that Rarebit, has the dev team just considered making Metacortex the acception? In other words, just make the interior, dont put the vis blockers in and just let it be. How much of a FPS hit would something like that actually do considering that Metacortex is rather isolated from the rest of the city (no building right next to it).

Interesting idea.

Cadsuane's log of the "Neverland" player event is the 1,000th log on the site! ^-^

ThePigeonKing wrote:

Romav wrote:

ReguIus wrote:
Tyndall's RSI was damaged and can't possibly re-jacked into the matrix.

case closed.

Actually I believe I've seen screenshots quite a long time a go where a selected group of players got the chance to meet Tyndall.

Not possible. In her bio, it said she couldn't jack in or something really bad could happen.

I'd like to add that those screenshots of players "meeting Tyndall" were most likely made back in early live when Lotus (the neighborhood contact of Jurong) was glitched. Back then, she had Tyndall's character model, and her tag said "The Chessman".

The only way she can jack in is if it's a small, controlled environment, like the Construct. As far as I know, she's never actually appeared in-game.

Yasamuu wrote:

Othinn1 wrote:
Yasamuu wrote:
Othinn1 wrote:
Yasamuu wrote:
Good work Othinn and anyone who has contributed logs to the site!

   Isn't there a few you've made that I haven't received yet? Or was that Zudrag? Either way, take your time. I'm in no hurry. ^-^

Probably both of us, I normally just leave my chat log running from when I log in to when I log out. So there's a fair amount of stuff I've got, I just need to sort through about 100mb of chat log ~_~

   Heh, I know what you mean. But I usually let mine run, then after a week or two I move the chat log file to a different place on my computer. I put a bunch of numbers and/or letters after the file's name so it doesn't accidentally copy over another chat log file. When I start the game again, a new chat log file is created. I do this so I don't get one giant chat log.

   But that still means I've got a lot to go through. Note that I've only got up to chapter 9.1 up on the site. -_-
Yeah, I made the mistake of not making a new chat log for months on end. It got to the stage where it would take about a minute to load the text file if I needed to access it.
I shall get my teeth into it eventually. >_>

That's cool. Take your time. To me, it's not a matter of when I get a log, but if I get one.