Ive been alpha and beta testing this game.  There were too many bugs when I was alpha testing so I had to set it aside until it was playable. I updated the install about 2 months ago and walked around in the barrens.  Intro was greatly improved upon since I had played in before. However, I havent played it enough to give it a fair opinion but I would say that at the moment, the graphics arent very good (dont know if they have plans to update them) and the quests you get are pretty boring, tedious, and repetative.  If you want, I can get on and post some screenshots.  The character customization is pretty decent.  Thongs for the ladies is a big improvement over the granny panties here lol

This was a fun project, its nice having the characters and animations to utilize.  I think its not too shabby for the first go around.  There wasnt much excitement in 11.3, but we wanted to keep it as true to the original as possible.  Good feedback, we will incorporate it into the next one.  Good work Kevin.

A sketch by Sputnik1220

Vector

Hydrazine EPN lvl 50
InsurgenceComnnander lvl 11 My Storage bin
RED3Y Merv lvl 33
FRED3Y Merv lvl 2
IHydra Zion - in Original Insurgence faction

MichaelAllemeier BA52 bluepill lvl 1
MarcusFloyd BA52 bluepill lvl 1
WalterKozlov BA52 bluepill lvl 1

Recursion

iHydrazine EPN 50
exivy Cyph 50
FR0ST3Y Cyph 9
WhateverMann First RSI

Syntax

lHydrazine EPN 22
T00DLES EPN No fly Zone Captain lvl 12

Follower2  Blood Requiem 'flag'
Target0101 Blood Requiem target
Krept a program for Blood Requiem

I am part of a faction thats been around since beta and I love to hear about the history of old factions.  Whats the history of your faction?

Name of your faction:

Original Leaders:

When it was formed:

Why the faction name was chosen:

Why the faction was in the organization (merv, machine, etc) it was:

Amount of crews in its prime:

Anything else you think might be interesting for us to know:

Since I wasnt playing when Insurgence was formed in beta, I am going to let Ath3na fill out the information about Insurgence's conception.

I am part of a faction thats been around since beta and I love to hear about the history of old factions.  If you are part of a faction thats lasted since Beta, please give us your history!

Name of your faction:

Original Leaders:

When it was formed:

Why the faction name was chosen:

Why the faction was in the organization (merv, machine, etc) it was:

Amount of crews in its prime:

Anything else you think might be interesting for us to know:

I came from Enumerator.   Vector is a bunny server compaired to what Enumerator was in it's prime.  You couldn't mission without running into reds a few times per hour.  Mission runs a lot of times turned into pvp battles.

MetaLogic wrote:

Maybe that's why SOE is shutting us down, we're not "Kid Friendly".

Free Realms, this new Kung Fu game, EQ I & II and yes, even SWG are kid friendly. 

The Matrix franchise....is not.

You forgot DC Comics...  I think you may be on to something here Meta

Entropi was great. I enjoyed interacting with her in secret and finding you sneeking around here and there.  You're stories were always above and beyond and on great scales with twists and turns.

I thought your stories were great but I couldn't be involved with them because they frustrated me too much.  I was pretty miffed to find out you go afk with a running macro while we stood around for hours trying to figure out just the right thing to say to get a response.  There was no one home! lol

I was there when the watchmaker was fixed and was taken out by the Agent and was impressed with the folks that helped you out because I knew it must've taken a lot of patience.

I interacted with the joker on vector a few times, he was completely insane and very suicidal lol

ahh, the innercircle.  I remember that "underground" group.  I had an insider forwarding all the emails that were passed between you guys.  Mighty big plans you guys had

Ra2za wrote:

deimoslvov wrote:

Ra2za wrote:

I am no expert just saw that walrus mentioned he had looked into it.

Link or it didn't happen.

 

Yes, as the producer, it does ultimately land on me when things go wrong for MxO. I won't argue that fact or point fingers in other directions. If I inject a bit of humor at this point, it's because I'm disappointed as well--both in the ending of MxO and in not finding ways to change the direction of the game.

Is there more I could have done? I'm sure there was. Hindsight can bring things into unfortunate and painful clarity at times. So I try to remember all the good things about this game and it's community and hope to learn from past mistakes so I can do better in the future. Too late for MxO, sadly. But not too late for any future projects I'm responsible for.

I wish we could keep at least one server open. The option was looked into, but it wasn't feasible. So we have to retire the game and that makes me immensely sad. I understand the anger completely.

Now we just need Keith01 to log on and say "I blame Walrus" to complete the circle. - walrus

 

 http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300028712     page 4

There are three servers, walrus just meant leaving one of them running and merging everyone, which would have been awesome.  A player run server is not possible unless WB and SOE give up the rights and hand over the server binary.

I don't know what SOE's turn around is for their servers but I would imagine they like to keep up to date hardware and MxO's servers aren't getting any younger.  Not cost effective to replace them with the revenue they make from the game.

Thanks Phrack for posting that from NT. 

If you don't know by now, I played the Cypherite Liaison, exivy. 

One day I got an email in-game from recursion.rarebit and I was like, ????  It said "You've got a certain "CONFIDENTIAL" forum PM from me.  If you could read that and get back to me via PM, that would be great.  And don't mention this to anyone else--you'll see why once you've read it. =P"

I checked it and couldn't believe what I was reading.

I was part of the new 2.0 but arrived about a week after everyone else.  I really wanted an EPN position because I knew I could play that role well, but they were all taken.  I only told Sputteh that I was in LESIG, because we live together.  She ended up in LESIG also, so it all worked out anyway!

I decided to be a Recursion Cypherite! the complete opposite of what I knew!  Viraconrida was still in the crew and gave me a few tips before she vanished and the other Recursion Cyph never made an appearance.  So, I had all the Cypherites to myself! woot!  Eventually, I was the only active liaison for the cyph's and machines on recursion so I tried to involve the machines in as much as I could so they could feel loved too.  Kerevola helped me out a lot, though, and I appreciate her very much. 

So, I got to enjoy NightTrace's thoughts on many many issues  and I tried to keep everyone from being bored at Camon Central.  NT and I actually got along very well.  He had a point of view many didn't understand but I could see it. 

I ended up getting some partners in crime - Rejex and Stanten, and they were great.  They passed me up in leveling and both hit 50 before me!  I think we are the only org on all 3 servers to have all 3 liaisons at 50, plus Kerevola was 50 too.  Stanten turned into the leader of our crew.  He had great ideas and the time and energy to put into his character, even farmed Rejex and I patcher's bandana.  He was like XIV's big brother.

I had decided to give exivy a french background and brushed up on some of the language and had a good chat with an actual frenchy while we were running missions. I think goligoth might remember that lol.  She was friendly to most but liked to slap faces too.  Fenshy (fenshire) and I had a weird relationship that started when he invited me to his bachelor party, which was all zion, and I got naidian to come and she was all stiff agent and I was being crazy, having fun. Ever since then, fenshy always asks me to rejoin zion  and we have good banter.  Something else I remember was that I named ChloeAnne's perpetual orb, sudapop. Rarebit had named the bad guy for that event, Suda, and I made fun of it all night in crew chat.  Then when Chloe got the perp, she wanted to name it and I threw out sudapop and it stuck! There was Ebola, who stayed Cyph through thick and thin, a real trooper and not just an alt that logged on for events.  Merchant was my missioning buddy and seemed to always be on when I was.  I appreciate his help very much, since we weren't suppose to ask for it.  Atlasts is a sweetheart and I could always count on her.  Maybe I shouldnt name names but I think I did pretty good not showing favoritism to anyone.  We were a small group so I knew the entire organization pretty well.  I interacted with anyone that wanted to interact with me.  I really was in it to give the players an enjoyable time because I remember how much I enjoyed interacting with Keterina.  Thanks ManicV for your job with Ket, you left too soon but gave us a good villian with Systematica.

I have many fond memories with XIV and I had a lot of fun helping you all have fun.  I hope that I did a decent job, I wish that I had had more time back then to develop her character more and come up with some good side stories.  Hindsight is always 20/20.  I wish it could last much longer, as we had more ideas and more fun times planned. But, in the words of Trucidos, "It is what it is."

Thank you for everything.  Its been a great ride and I doubt I will ever have the chance to do something like this again in a game.  It was a truly unique experience in which I am greatful.

~ XIV ~

Ya, spawn tools are sorta new (november 08 was it?) and they had to be requested in a thread with their intended purpose.

we also got this in Jan 09:

"The 9.2 update included a new AI spawn setting that lets me give an org alignment to NPCs I spawn during events.

At tonight's Merv event on Vector, for instance, I spawned Merv-aligned Elite Commandos to fight the Machines, and Machine-aligned Machine Captains to fight the Mervs. NPCs spawned with an org alignment will attack any players except those in the org they're aligned with. They don't attack NPCs." -Rarebit

Phrack wrote:

My personal opinion on the subject, however dreary it may be?

Kiss it goodbye, boys and girls.  This was the last bastion of a franchise we've all come to know and love... and it died a slow, painful, degrading death.  The Wachowski Brothers don't care about this intellectual property anymore, or they'd have had a larger influence on it than they did...  no, Speed Racer and the Superman reboot is where their heads are now.

The closest we'll ever get to keeping this franchise alive, is by producing whatever fan material we can.  Fan websites, fan fiction, maybe even a fan-based RPG.

We're those abandoned kids that passed from one crappy foster home to another... and SOE was the last one we were going to get.

Whatever we do from here on out is on us.

I agree.  When Rarebit and Chadwick continuously tried to get an opinion from the brothers on reinsertion and never heard back, I knew that was a bad sign.

kayossss, sometimes eirik, event spammers, epsillon a few times... There arent any listed right now.

Been messing around with the auto_cfgs files.  Here is what i've found for female items:  i forget some of the names but you know what im talking about.

Glasses:
148 system shades
152 Commando glasses
154 Raeders glasses
142 awakened glasses

Hats
162 bluesky hat
174 zion berret
180 White bandana
181 White fedora
182 white Headgear
188 Commando berret
190 swat helmet
203 gas mask
207 jewelry
213 skull cap
214 full skull cap face and head
215 face
216 black headgear 

Misc
bodytype 100 is large female
headtypes are in number range of 120 - 138
hairstyles are in and around 116

beta coat = 235 and playercoat color 0 is for beta version and 1 is eyeball version

broin wrote:

I was under the impression that RB had an account he played on in non GM mode... Anyone care to share the name?

On syntax, he used rarebite from his house.  He said he had another rsi that no one knows about that is about level 11, unknown which server.  On Recursion he used rarebit, I dont know if that was his personal account or not.

Same haircut! Awesome!

Great job Jedi

Hail Brave!  Congrats Sepet!  Good read.

My sad attempt to compete with Saj

Raijinn wrote:

odj wrote:

nubious81 wrote:

but i would hold of maybe a few weeks or so as new imacs maybe shiping realitivly soon. Thats what ive been hearing on the mac rumor mill

the mac alternative is nice cause than if you dont want vista just pick up a OEM copy of Windows XP SP2  on ebay like what i did and that came to about 80 90 bucks after shiping

Agreed on the holding back for the new imacs, its what I've heard too.

Also, I wouldnt even pick up XP from ebay, just download it, M$ are so focused on vista they wont even notice you dont have a legit serial, plus the ones you pick up on ebay are probably pirate anyway.

It's always better to have a legal copy of a product, especially an operating system. If you want to go with free though you might want to try out Windows 7. The beta will last until August and you'll at least be able to have a brand new operating system with full support and updates for a while (long enough to save for a copy maybe?).

Microsoft ended downloads of Windows 7 Beta. You have to be a technet plus subscriber to get it now. 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...r/dd353205.aspx

If anyone knows a legit alternative location to download it, please let me know.

The above image is hosted at the following site owned by Rarebit.  There isn't much to the site yet but it has changed once over the last few weeks i've been watching it.  The sites below are ones that rarebit owns.  supermassiveblackholestar domain was claimed on dec 20, 2008. 

http://www.supermassiveblackholeastar.com/

http://smbhax.com Redirect to main site.

http://www.paleface.net Funny cowboy game made in 1999. "Come get bi*ched at by Paleface, powder-monkey! "

TERENTIUS wrote:

Here I am....enjoy

 

 

 

 

I kicked some kid's butt and stole his belt, check it out!

Fen wrote:

Hydrazine, everyone here is going to agree that all three movies were great.  For the most part, we're all Matrix fans which is why we're here.  I was talking about the average joe, not the fan that will buy the Ultimate Special Edition HD Blu-Ray Matrix Experience complete with Agent Shades and Neo action figure.

I know you were talking about average joe, I was talking about them too.  I think there are a lot of closet matrix fans. There has to be since the movies were so successful and WB is still pushing out box set items.

I didnt know about the interlock and free fire on the hotbar.  I would always right click to interlock and I put my gun up on the hotbar

I didn't know you had to activate your upgrade, thought it was passive.  Didnt know for a while that different tactics caused different states, thought it was random.  Was Hacker so states didnt matter much anyway.

From the meet the merv info i read, I thought that if I joined merv I would get extra special abilities/powers like it described.

Thought rarebit was rabbit.

Raij is with Vaguard, a very good game.  When you play Vanguard you see just how little content MxO has   sad to say.

The 2nd and 3rd movies that people bash were verysuccessful films, which is very contradictory to people's opinions about them.  And if they were so bad then why would WB continue to push out HD and then blueray box sets of it?  Just for Japan?

I think WB didn't want to hand everything over to SOE.  They said, "You can have all the rights to DC but not to The Matrix. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Now give us our info or we're calling Brewko."

LOL Phrack, that was too funny.  It's funny because its true.  It's also quite sad /sadface

Zeac wrote:

I'm going to try and organize to do a box today(this afternoon), no paci zone but hopefully I'll get some people to come. ALready got a few :]

i'll post a time after i get back from the dentist!

got some teeth knocked out from kung fu fighting Kunoichi?

It's just the title sony slapped on him.   He probably wouldn't have given himself that title.  His game development was more on the storyline progression than anything else.  Thats where the majority of his work went into.  All the text of everything you've seen within the last 2 years or so was written just by him.

He has some type of English degree.

You haven't been around that long, have you?  I think you assume that Rarebit was a professional artist/animator/designer.  Rarebit was thrown into this position and he said upfront he didn't have much knowledge about creating brand new items or animations, etc.  He just worked with what he had and that ended up being recoloring old items and adding new buffs to them, etc.  SOE didn't get a new artist or animator, they let a ton of people go and promoted Rarebit to do everything.  Rarebit has impressed us from time to time in the past with what he has pulled out of his something and we can't really expect a whole lot from SOE on a game that isn't it's money maker.

Grizzley Adams DID have a beard!

Fen wrote:

Hydrazine wrote:

He should have let the Area K and Headgear be the secret items, then everyone would be pretty happy right now like we were when we first found out about them.  He spent his last few weeks here working on the Vista fixes and that took up the majority of his time.  IMO Vista bugs are more important to fix than giving us yet another new clothing item.

The Omega means The End.  This is the last Collector, the last patch, the last last of the last.  The End.  Also, he looks to me like an Oligarch in an Agent Suit.

Anyway, Rarebit could have easily had a big ego since he could do anything he wanted with this game, but he didn't.  He had to put up with a lot of bs and was pretty cranky for the last year and thats probably part of why he left.  I can promise you he didn't name that collector in reference to himself.  He is a good person and wouldn't promote himself up like that.  Anyone that met him at fanfaire would agree with me.

What people are in person and what they are on the internet are two very different things.

I can agree with that statement but it doesn't apply to Rarebit.

He should have let the Area K and Headgear be the secret items, then everyone would be pretty happy right now like we were when we first found out about them.  He spent his last few weeks here working on the Vista fixes and that took up the majority of his time.  IMO Vista bugs are more important to fix than giving us yet another new clothing item.

The Omega means The End.  This is the last Collector, the last patch, the last last of the last.  The End.  Also, he looks to me like an Oligarch in an Agent Suit.

Anyway, Rarebit could have easily had a big ego since he could do anything he wanted with this game, but he didn't.  He had to put up with a lot of bs and was pretty cranky for the last year and thats probably part of why he left.  I can promise you he didn't name that collector in reference to himself.  He is a good person and wouldn't promote himself up like that.  Anyone that met him at fanfaire would agree with me.

Only prob with vegas is everything is 21+ and 1/2 of us were 21-

Even though the lounge was alright, it would have been nice to explore other venues.

I'm in favor of east coast NY or nice Beach Miami.

Thanks everyone for coming out, it was fun and successful.  We will be doing this again after the patch comes out on a regular basis, so stay tuned...

This is not good news about the patch being delayed.  I will talk with Virrago to see if maybe we can get a redo after the patch.

The party is still scheduled as planned for tomorrow.

PR20 has never left...

Deez Nutz - I lol'd

I saw Brembo too from recursion, I think he is back.