Winners:

Sugaree: 50mil

Dulux: Wireframe earpiece

Neoteny: Commando Jacket

Tranque: Accelerator Bit.

Please PM Me on the Data Archive with the username of the character on syntax that you want to recieve the prize.

To everyone that entered thank you very much they were all good entries.

I have posted a final sugestion on the Data Archive for the judges to review. if they agree then the prizes will be handed out.

Since i am unable to jack in for now I have already passed the prizes to Coroebus to hand out.

To all those that entered i am sorry it has taken so long to complete the judging but i put that down to the generaly excelent quality of character development in the MxO RP community

If I thought that was anything more than a joke i WOULD disqualify you!

I am unable to actually update the archive till i get home tonight but i wont be closing the doors to entries for 19hrs 47minutes

Then the judges will review the entries and come to an agreement.

Just 3 days left before the closing date!

I am have a few ideas for the other prizes, so far i have
1 accelerator Bit < Most Creative
Commando Jacket < Best use of language
Wireframe Earpiece < Funniest Summary

thanks mind.. you going to post your summary? he he

but to everyone interested you only have 12 days left!
tell your friends about the competition!

Thanks to all of you that have submitted profiles, there have been some rather good ones. but there is still time to submit or update your character summary.

I have got a few people who have agreed to help me judge and i am still thinking of things i can get as prizes for:

Best use of language
Most creative
Funniest Summary

If you have any ideas for prizes please let me know, remember the top prize is 50mil so dont post stuff like patchers headgear and remember i have to go get them so it cant be too hard to get.

Details are in the attached forums.

they are intended as a "Drop site" for information as i lack the coding prowess to make a webite that users can update themselves

I manually add each application as well as upgrade peoples access to more sections of the forums.The idea is it limits spammers to one section that regular users wont need to look at minimizing the anoyance of spammers.

As for the forum rank i would be happy to recieve it but im sure virrago will grant it if i qualify i dont need to bug him about that.

Ok as Christmas is comming soon (or whatever seasonal holiday you celebrate)
I have decided to run a competition.

The best Character Summary on the Archive will win $i50,000,000 on Syntax
Characters can be on any server.
And you can post more than one Character Summary.
To keep things easy and fair it will just be the Summary page itself that is judged.

I and maybe one or two of my close friends will be doing the judgeing and anyone who is part of deciding will not be eligable to compete.

For more details about Character summaries please read the post on the DATA ARCHIVE or join the IRC server at irc://data.doesntexist.com

Closing date for submissions will be December 25th. I will then review each Summary in the Archive to pick a winner.

In the event of a Tie there will be a tiebreaker question of:
Who is your favourite Character (NPC, LE or Player) and WHY?

If you need help writing a summary try posting in the public section of the Data Archive for help and ideas.
I will be looking for things such as:

Use of language,
Using a wide vocabulary to describe things without repeating yourself is an advantageous trait

Creativity
Anyone can choose to copy the all to often seen kung-fu master that got too good, or lone hacker in a dark room stories. it takes creativity to come up with something unique instead or at least to change it into something more than its base

Accuracy to the "official" story
by this i do not mean it has to have precedence in an official story plot, i just mean that it doesn't go against something that the official story has said. if you are smart how you describe things its easy to work around things like that.

I have probably spent the least time studying the oligarch story line but my impression is the BIP is a direct connection to the source.

The strange things that happened involving it are results of various items making contact with it.

the oracle said in Mx3 that Neo "touched the source" and that it should have killed him because his mind wasn't ready for it.

If we presume source is something like source code it then explains how the BIP can function in this way as using such code is how it could make a human into a program or turn a bluepill into a puddle

If this does give whoever manages to merge with it some kind of control over the source code then it would literally allow someone to control the machines and the matrix.

If we presume that Neo had it when he left the architect then it would explain what happened with the sentinels of the program interfaced with the source in order to self destruct the sentinels.

Causing Neo's unprepared mind to go a bit funny splitting Neo's body and mind allowing him to exist in the matrix (I'm guessing temporarily as Wright suggested) and if he had not been rescued would have faded away. (link does say how Neo was barely registering)

I think the reason people have been seeking the BIP are:

Halborn: as an oligarch has power over the machines but not direct control and as an outcast as he seemed to be was seeking to gain complete control over the machines and the matrix.

Carlyne: wanted to retrieve the BIP for the oligarchs who seem to be humans that are in charge to some extent.

Wright: with access to the BIP would likely be able to give Zion humans control of the matrix ie. Immunity from agents, ability to awaken humans that want to be and no longer fear the machines will destroy Zion/New Zion

Merovingian: doesn't seem aware of the programs true function so will study it to find its secrets as 3 of the most powerful human in recent matrix history have been after it.

Machines: because if the wrong person gets it they are up **** creek without a paddle!

Zion: Everyone else wants it so it must be worth nabbing!

These are my theories based on what i know so far and a bit of guess work.

PS. Rarebit.. if i am close can you give me some kind of a sign? i wont tell anyone im just interested to see how wrong i end up being.

I agree we need more space and/or a way to store singletons. I have about 7 or 8 singletons for the PB missions and other things. i cant do anything with them  so they tie up a chunk of inventory space.

I store most of my stuff in email and only keep one folder for clothes but i still run out of space often as the most i can free up is 3 folders.

It would be nice to get a larger code archive too as I have almost no room for code storage since i have all the abilities fully leveled

Email storage is ok in my opinion i have never had a problem but i do think emails to yourself should be free as if i want to email my comando gear to myself thats 600k if and with the high value of all the other items i store it adds up prety quick

As people can see by my sig I have now made an IRC server for use by the MxO community

It is serperated into 5 chanels

#general
For general conversation between everyone

#Trade
For buying and selling various items (SOE rules for the selling of ingame items for real world cash will be upheld)

#syntax
for syntax specific information

#recursion
see above

#vector
same again

If more are needed i can add them but unlike most servers you cant just make a channel at whim.

If anyone has any questions on how to join or any questions at all about the Data Archive i will be happy to answer them.

Delete me

shearman wrote:

My first order of business would probably make people post in the correct areas of the forum.

 

Development Roundtable
The Development Roundtable forum is where players can ask questions about ongoing development and post their own ideas for the game.

As i understand it this is a thread about what you would do if you were a dev not sugestions of what should be done

surely development roundtable is for people to post specific ideas for others to respond to

I cant say what i would do specificaly.

But i would probably...

1.)Find out all of the rules i would be bound by for any and all changes
2.)Research all resources available and then see what else i can scrape together using my charm skills...
3.)Formulate at least 10 different scenarios that would move the game into different directions of focus
3a)Solo Playability
3b) Team Playability
3c) Story Telling
3d) PvP (even though i hate it it is still a part many enjoy)
3e) player participation

4.)Call for a vote on the forums open for about 2 weeks asking players to vote for what they think the primary focus of MxO's direction should be. the vote should allow players to change their answer up untill the deadline.

5.) take the top two answers and use the strategy that best represents the primary and secondary focus as voted for by the players.

6.) Look at ways to advertise the game independent of SOE (If allowed in stage 1) such as:
6a)Player incentives for advertising in various locations posibly..(would need to check legality)
6b)Offer buddy keys to games magazines to allow their readers to try the game

X) Look into the "scary database" issue that i have heard about. if it is as much of a mess as it sounds i would likely copy the entire thing and in my own time work on reformatting it into something more useable. then beging the proccess of altering the engine to accept the new database format (probably the lesser part of the venture but judging by the size of MxO content i would imagine the reformating of the DB will take a long time.

X) Change the story format to be a bit more modular with a fortnightly LE the outcome of the LE altering the following module of the story but then the module after that would counter in a way to move things towards the intended goal for the chapter.

some story will be written and not used but in a way it is being used to give players a clear impact on the MxO story

X) look into the posibility of adding a spell checker to the chat box.

X) look into the posibility of adding a "mute" penalty to people that cause trouble at LE's or meetings preventing them from saying anything or performing emotes for several hours

X)look into complete deletion of deleted characters after 1 year of non use. rename of character on accounts that have not been subbed in the past 2 years

This will free up a lot of usernames that have been claimed by the original players that have not been around in a long time.

It can be VERY anoying being new to the game and trying to make a name that doesnt have numbers, mis-spelling or made up.

X) make 4 random unique items of clothing (using one of the standard models and pre selected buffs) and place 1 randomly in each district but not tell anyone where they are after each restart.

these would be decompilable (perhaps make it so the one that is found is decompilable but any you code are not... giving the player somthing unique to them that they can share with people.)

Rarebit wrote:

Oooh.. That looks like a fun program to play with... imagine the pics you could make!

1.) I Believe the reason for these guys having multiple cards is due to the level of the areas the cards belong to they have tried to balance it so to get the card for the area of your level you have to kill someone your level.

Perhaps for helping people find them clues can be given be certain "spy" npcs when you talk to them they say stuff like "Hey have you noticed the furies have been visiting Sai kung a lot recently?" and posibly even hint as to where the nodes are.

2.) I dont think they can make an NPC that initiates a conversation with you so there would need to be a clear hint that you need to talk to them.

3.) Not sure how feasable this is. but it sounds like a good idea to me. although i think it would do better as an awakened ability possibly part of the Data mining branch

I think it would be cool if there was a way to use a device that whispers to you the direction of the nearest node eg.

nodetracker whispers>Weak Signal detected to the Southeast

Weak Signal more than 500mtrs
Signal 200-500mtrs
Strong Signal less than 200mtrs

But i would imagine that to be far to complicated to set up

The date today.

To all those that gave their lives, so that we may live ours.

11:00 11/11

I may be being blind but i cant see how people are meant to work out that that there is a collector in morrell

There is a very clear message about it in 11.3.3 but to access that message you need to already have an anti-Decelerator Bit

I found out about it by being told by someone. so i was wondering where the hint is?

Prior to the focus on the intruders, has there been ANY hint towards the oligarchs existence in any official source?

::EDIT:: and if so.. Where?

I'm not sure how feasible this is in terms of space in the database but i was thinking about this recently.

A lot of people are fed up of having to look like a colourblind idiot with no fashion sense when using their good clothes...
So why not offer a service for say... $5-$10 you can have an item made in the style you want.

However.

The buffs have to be ones found on an already existing item of clothing of the same type.
The buffs can not be frome collector items or any of the special items of clothing.

Same goes for the Models used.

After paying the money you will be given a single copy of your special item.
The item can not be traded, or sold to NPC's

It can be repaired but has a dificulty of 55

It has 3 dots of purity and degrades fairly slowly but when that item is recycled or finally breaks with no purity it is gone for good.
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this idea is intended to have 2 positive outcomes.

1.) People have an alternative to looking like an idiot while using the nicer items. I think there are many female characters that will be very happy to be able to dress in sensible clothes rather than having to look like "Ladies of ill repute" and still retain the buffs needed to keep their edge in combat.

2.) More money going into the MxO coffers can only be a good thing.. even if it all goes to SOE.. they will see MxO as less a burden and possibly as a potential money earner if they put in just a little bit more cash!

The only negatives i can see to this idea.

1. a Dev has to do the work of creating the item.
Could be the main reaon for rejecting the idea as the Dev team is overstretched already.

2. Players cant tell what buffs oponents have by looking at their clothes
Well this is a stupid reason to complain as

    a.) you should fight based on how your oponent fights not formulate a load around their weakest buffs because you  have memorised the stats of all the common gear people wear.

    b.)RSI captures are coming in so if people use them you wont see what they are wearing anyway!

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Please post any constructive critism or opinions on this idea.. not "they should let me make a completely custom item so i can pwn everyone else" or related

Anyone else noticed if you have a sim by a lantern the sim gets a spawn too?

you are then left with a box that cant be searched that after a few spawns of it really gets in the way due to their very long fade time.

Personaly i find area hax of most use buta few people i have fought with have used sims and this has gotten anoying pretty quick

I have had the oposite problem to most in cammon and mansdale...
I cant do ANYTHING there without being attacked repeatedly.

I was fighting nonstop for almost an hour in one spot before the spawns finaly stoped for about 5 mins.
I know i could have jumped away but where is the fun in that eh?

Um.. you probably have thought of this...

But dont mining spawns,  the wasteland corruptors, Sati bpxes, and the lvl 100 agents work off the same "spawn slot" so you cant have more than one at a time?

so does the 30 min "safe time" affect those others?

It will make spawn hunting in DT anoying if i have to wait 30 mins after getting an agent!

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But aside from that great update!

I'm going to try to keep this brief. I will have much more to say about the topics touched on here once this initial foray has been digested and thoroughly chewed over.

Starting with subchapter 11.3, the content that you will receive in our regular six-week updates will be changing.

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.

Other, related changes will be taking place as well:

- No more colored "EPN" or "CYPH" faction tags will be offered. Existing factions with those tags will keep them.

- Archive reward items, such as the War Sword and Seraphic Vision, will have their timer extended to five minutes, and can be reactivated thirty seconds afterwards.

- Completing a subchapter's worth of a single organization's archived critical missions (except for the very short subchapter 1.1) will reward an IS Booster item.

- Neighborhood street gang bosses will have a 10% chance of dropping a reusable "RSI Capture" tool that will allow the player to assume that NPC's appearance indefinitely.

- Organization "liaison officer" positions, played by LESIG members, will no longer exist. Some LESIG members will probably choose to keep their established characters, while others may recycle them for use in other events and activities.

- We'll be throwing a game-wide party in a low-level-friendly area on one server each update period, announced well in advance.