Neoteny wrote:

I could see this being abused by players setting stats low (i.e. ballistics at 0) thereby making other players miss while keeping a normal chance to evade (i.e. ship configuration 4 hull, 2 shields) leaving them with stronger than normal ramming capabilities, low chance to be hit, so long as they succeed.

<.< >.> What? High Hull stats? What are you talking about *hides the stats of all EPN captains*...

Shinryu wrote:

Hyperviolent wrote:

Hey V, do all screenshots have to be eaxctly 1024x768, or will you allow lower resolution or black bars? I'd hate to see stretched 16:9 shots sized down without propper proportions.

Tseng. wrote:

whats the policy on useropts. i think it would be more intresting without them.

Meh. <_<

Yeah.. and I've got FRAPs framerate #s on my images.. editing the numbers out would be easy enough, but that would then make the images "edited" and thus unusable.  "Letterboxing" to a more widescreen type ratio would help that.  Oh well, I'll post what I've got and edit later if possible. 

As for user opts, I think it depends on just how much tweaking you plan to do (or plan not to do).  Trying to set some sort of limit on this might be difficult.

User opts shoud stay, as for FRAPS you can turn the framerate numbers off you know.
<<Screenshots>> uncheck "include frame rate overlay on screenshots."

Demedrian you are on, Catzi can we get another date for these? Preferably before the 24 when my sub runs out >_<?

I'll see if I cant whip out another hovercraft before I finish construction.

Ive been raped by homework so much this weekend, I havent made any progress. This weekend is partially devoted to making the most difficult and neccessary model (in my opinion). The Dock Worker. Baisically a human model, in full overalls and a welding mask. Im fail at human figures, and clothes as well. But I plan to put two whole days into it if I can.

Check in either Monday or Sunday night for updates.

Must remember to try this

K let me know when the next battle is, Ive got a good 7 days left on my sub XD
Ill be back though.

/ random 6 sounds good for the gun shield and ram rolls, but for energy thats going to make turns huge and would reduce the need for an extra energy point.

the ravinous bug-blatter-beast

Initiate Bell curve. Make it a different set of EXP than just 10 to rank up, and on top of that change the EXP system from
3 win
2 win die
1 die
to something more substantial like Fenshire said Exp per kill/per win because in the current system you can have people gaining EXP without fighting.
Maybe a

2 pt. Win
1 pt. Kill
-1 pt. die

Throw in a death penalty. No one fears a suicide runs in these fights, we're all basically Cyphs in this (XD).
Doing this with a Bell curve on ranking up would make it a longer drive for points and to initiate we'd have to reset the ship scores too. Just an Idea.

Codenut, quit being such a debby downer on people before I call Zippy in here to come hide you in a tree.

And Virrago we do appreciate the fun times with the parties and the such, do not stop. If you do I'll never have the chance to actually see one... T_T
My lack of constant income and time keep me from enjoying the little things.

Fen wrote:

I can't really say that I'm in favor of the 'temporary upgrade' idea.  Battles that high ranked captains actually get to participate in are few and far between.  I can only talk for the Zion side, but we've worked our asses off to get our ranks.  Despite people assuming that we only win because of our ranks, it should be noted that we earned every XP in a battle.  We've never gotten points for another team not showing up, and we fought our way to the top against others who were the same ranks as we were.  Good strategy, communication, and a bit of luck has been the key to our success.

Allowing rank 0 captains temporary upgrades kind of ruins the achievement of attaining ranks for your ship.  The way a rank 0 captain can contend with higher rank captains are participating in the regular battles that happen, and earning ranks for themselves.  There's the rules that prevent high ranked captains from engaging in battle with lower ranked captains already in place for the average battle.  Being able to participate in major battles should be something that lower ranked captains should look forward to participating in the future.  Kind of like how a level 10 guy looks forward to level 50 to pvp and participate in events.

That's just my input.

Lol and if you mean in the battle with my sportsman ship, if I didnt explain that enough ingame Ill do it again.
I talk trash for the mental fun of the game. We're playing a proverbial D&D for 15$ a month, I figure a little "Suck it down M2" is just good psychological warfare >_< If I in anyway offended anyone with anything Ive said, let me know and Ill be sure to send you a Hallmark appology and attempt to stop... but in the end Im just having fun.

What are you looking for in terms of Website design? I might beable to do some stuff for you free of charge but hosting will prolly be up to you. PM me with any details.

I bet all the subs go straight to Virrago, Dracomet, 9mmfu and anyone else still in our office. They're just sitting on piles of individually signed 15$ checks counting into the 200's in number (not cash value).

XD, but no, I can only imagine the amount of electricity  for the computers, and servers plus cooling systems, maintenence payments and just paying these 3 to five guys a decent amount must cost from those subs.

WE ARE NOT DEAD!
JOIN EPN TODAY AND RECIEVE A FREE GOLD "EPN" TAG! FREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

*Not to mention, be a minority and get all of those awesome college grants.*

Wow, I just read this whole thread, and I have to say is "Code-dude, are you friggin serious?"
Are you really trying to say :
A. we have complained since launch
B. have a lot to be thankful for in SOE, and
C. We are the cause of a lack of playerbase?!

OMG! HAHAHAHA You are one funny guy. I mean really, to say that we have complained since launch is ridiculous. I was here in beta and then in and out until present... And never in the forums have I seen the complaints you swear your alligence by. I want you to go through these forums and find a single (non-player caused) complaint that was not justified by an action taken by SOE; what do we have Monolith leaving,  "Server Merge" complaints from the beginning, "Killing Morpheus", "Bringing back Morpheus", Walrus leaving, LESIG Team removal, Cinematic removal, event removal, mission removal, Rarebit leaving, and now losing more advertizement. So we really aren't justified in our complaints? In some low hope of SOE hearing, we are not allowed to mourn the loss of these things in our game? Hell Id like to see if you didnt complain in SWG or Everquest if the same happened.

And thanking SOE? Really?
Monolith: Made MxO, made the LETeam, laid down the basics of the game we have today.
SOE: Offered more money than Monolith had for the licience to this game so they could get DCU... REMOVED LET, and added nothing to the game, other than... oh wait the lowered the amount of servers we used.
Wow, Thank you SOE.

Where is your source for why New players leave? What was the last Trial player you saw on the forums, other than one complaining about the lack of players. PEOPLE LEAVE BECAUSE THERE ARE NO PEOPLE. We dont get new players BECAUSE there are no veterens. Old players left because the game died, new players leave because they see that its dead. Most gamers arent very willing to pay 15$ to be technical Necrophiliacs dude.

There is no harm in voicing your opinion, unless your opinion is wrong. "The Earth is FLAT, believe me or die" mentality is not worth listening to Code... Now "The Earth is ROUND, believe me or die." Is understandable.

If you can prove your idea of SOE being the next generation of gaming greatness for MxO then by all means demean us and show us the light oh holy one! But until then, Shut the -blank- up, and deal with the QQ Player base.

Later, pancakes became

Well like I said, drones have no fighting ability. They have no ballistics et cetera, while we have full stats with upgrades. So when we shoot with a +2 on Ballistics and you defend with a +1 on shields we win more often then not, then when the crappy drone ships attack they have a +0, and we defend with a +1 or more. We simply out stat the Drones.

Tis all about tactics and well, we had them seeing as how the bottle neck + wall tactic owns drones.

"when it did go down nothing you did would be able to win the scenario --- seriously--- don't waste my 2 am to 4 am GMT sleep another time, thank you."

In the EPN colony Event, we took 6 drones through Mech and Cyph ships with full stats. we had no guns and barely anything but energy. You could have won, we did in our scenario and we had the same rules "Fly these crappy ships past these epic ones and reach the wall without dying" except we had to get 4 out, you guys only needed two. And that 2AM crap was nothing like the Locke Battle XD friggin 5 AM Eastern Time WOO!

Ok well it isn't finished, and needs another 9 hours of work at least... BUT here is about 5 hours of work on my project for a look at a Hovercraft assembly hanger, as I would see it... Feel free to critique, ignore, or praise what you see

*In order of creation*

More to come in the future.

Meh, its not like it wasn't expected. EPN is the only group who can do well with crappy drone ships.

sounds good

The reason we've never had an email system in place, was because of the activity on the forums. MxO has been a massive forum family since even before Beta, and all news goes here ten seconds later. There's really no point to an email with info we already know.

I'm in.

Hail gunslingers TO ME!

Woot!

/cheer

I just think theyd be a nice image to add to the game, based on the amount they were in the movies... Vehicles.

No matter what people seem to think, Vehicles would be an easy add-in. We see it in the Party events all the time where they make our models into vehicles in the game. Just make it a mask and increase movement speed and youve got a working car. Helicopter is another story, youd need infinite Z movement like a HJ on steroids, which makes these only useful in evading combat better XD.

The main problem is the effect it would have on running away from a fight or attack, and they would prolly kill the Spy tree when the person is on the run. But make them unusable in combat and I think this can be fixed.

Just an idea that Ive been throwing around since Beta... still prolly gonna get the "Why" and "No" responses... but Im still hoping atleast.

find the forty-second

/raisehand

Im alive and wish to explode plz?

<-- Still alive ya know XD

Any news on this picature?

As gerik said, its pretty much just the two of us. Ive tried recruiting, but with no one around, they just dont want to be apart of nothing. I can get them in but they dont stay.

On top of that, most players jsut go off to WoW now, or other SOE games. They like more population, and content. Even I personally dont like to have to Farm to get a mission, so ive been spending my 15 bucks on Combat Arms and free games... Sub ends the 6th, and Ill be back as soon as money comes in. But again Ill just be off on the side lines... with even less of a reason to grind those last 5 levels to fifty.

Mindsweep's
Very nice pose, thought that was pretty epic there.

Zippy's
Had me lawling in my bed for at least 25 minutes there, even my anti-gamer GF laughed.

RedLeopard
Lookin' smexy in that red suit as usual, nice job Dark =P

Still waiting on mine however >_> cant wait to see what you do with that Green Suit of mine.

Am I getting this right?

The BIP was a program made by the machines to monitor redpills who were a part of the 1% of humans that rejected the system, which was agreed upon between the Machines and Oligarchs.

So then, Humans were not enslaved by the machines, only they reached an agreement, allowing the machines to hold cloned humans in the system in order to create an alternate energy source. Meaning that in the end the humans in the Matrix are simply a barganing chip for the Oligarchs end of the deal, and Humans still live freely on the surface.
That or Im overthinking it...

I believe it is the latter..

I give it 5 smilies:

woot

Woot

WOOT

WOOT!!

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