Rarebit wrote:
For most of this year, updates have consisted of three main items: 1) weekly critical missions, 2) a replayable "quest," and 3) daily live events.
This is going to change to: 1) a new cinematic, 2) quests with missions, activities, and rewards for each organization, based on the latest advancement of the story seen in the cinematic, and 3) an organization-wide meeting announced well in advance so that as many members as possible will be able to attend.
1) cinematic performs the job it is intended to do but in no way replaces the live events we used to have.
2) quests with missions are very good and encourage players to inhabit other areas of the city other than the usual 4-5 hardlines.
3) the first round of meetings were a disgrace to be honest and with no meetings announced as of yet for this patch it would appear these arnt going to be the monthly meetings we were led to believe. Considering this is a direct relacement for the live events extra work should have been put into these meetings in order to make them enjoyable for all instead of just what is basically a Q and A session with the org representive who for the case of zion didnt actually know anything that was going on in the matrix, now although this was due to Role Play reasons because of the fact that niobe had not been jacked in you would think that as a Captain and also our direct contact with zion from the matrix she would have been kept aware of bothe her crews and others of zions actions and be able to share with us some findings or glints of knowledge it would of been better if the kid had shown up to provide us with technical specs and knowledge he learnt about the oligarchs in the real.
Then we have the Party's while i respect that some people do like attending parties in the matrix i for one get no enjoyment at all for standing around doing nothing in /dance(random number) emote. In order for the parties to be more enjoyable for both those people who like to attend or those who like me cant be bothered to just stand around how about having something along the lines of the brewko quizies in order to give everyone something to do while they /dance. I think the only party ive enjoyed was the one when effy popped a pink box on each server and that was only because recursion finished it first.
If we are only going to have limited interaction with Live Event characters i would hope these would be quality sessions with either detailed conversations about current events with feedback coming and going both ways or some sort of task such as the ones used in the 01mainframe puzzle giveaways where by a character comes on for instance, the one i remember clearly was the sous chef and we were given a list of items to collect the first team back recieved a part of the puzzle. This could be done in place of the meetings on some updates when meetings arnt required and would require very little work from Rarebit. All it would take is for Rarebit to set a unique mob spawn somewhere like he did for the neo agents and overide node spawns in the past and have these drop a series of unique collector items any players that return with all the items on a list given by the Live Event character within a set time limit recieve a reward, kind of like the old perp FX rewards but not as special. For instance you could recieve a stack of 20 overide bits (the ones that spawn npcs) or something to that effect.
In summary a new approach was needed and parts of the format in action at the moment work where as other ideas do not it would be nice to see if rarebit plays with the format a little more and maybe we can get more small scale live events like the ghost one we had on recursion.
Oh and another point I almost forgot about where is the new sentinal we were told previously it would be coming out more frequently this could be used to advetise more private live events like we used to have where by those willing to decode hidden messages could find out the time for the event. I remember everytime a new sentinal was released i would spend hours scouring over it decrypting messages and such and provided me with out of game content. This should be produced more often maybe at least a new copy released every 2 updates. Which also brings me round to scanline on the 5/8/08 it was posted that BA52 was coming soon now its been 5 months since then and nothing when are we going to hear about it or will this be left as another plot hole like the sarah edmonton story and the other many storylines that have just been abondoned.
