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MetaLogic wrote:

aiolos wrote:
fizzle wrote:
mur02004 wrote:
What would have to happen for Mxo to be revived?

hmm, how about less posts like these and we carry on playing, the fact is yes...a lot of people have left, but....

there are so many new players out there that counter-act the legends of the game that have left. look at the live events for example, i swear i have never seen even half of the people who congregate at them (and i've been playing since November 2005 on and off), most are Zions of course, but when they hit lvl 50 they usually drift into other organisations, such is the way of the game..

don't give up hope, just work with what you have...

these new players you speak of are more than likely alts or people who play this game strictly b/c of station access. the only people left who play this game are hardcore Matrix fans (which I am), so essentially MxO has become a niche game.

As I said before in this thread, the only way this game can be revived (attracting new players) is more content, i.e. expansions and the like. Heck, scrapping this game and completely remaking a new one on a good engine with a decent combat system and content is more likely to get a sufficient player base. And personally, I hope for that to happen.

Yea, but I don't think Warner Brothers or the Wachowski Brothers are going to let anyone make MxO 2.0. Mainly because of the poor performance of this MxO. They'll have to basically be promised that MxO 2.0 would make more profit than this game currently is making.

Well, they sure as hell know what not to do the second time around, right? lol But yeah, I agree, I don't think they'll risk anymore $$$, especially on a hit/miss scheme that this franchise seems to be.

Archer88 wrote:

I wonder what a dev's thoughts on this would be. Especially if it was done in constructs.

I could probably tell you right now: "We are currently testing other developments at this time but we'll look into it." Heck, probably not even the latter, but you can bet he'll say just enough to keep you coughing up $$$. That's his job, after all.

More importantly, do people actually go to church in this game. I mean seriously, was the op actually intending to go to Mara C and get something out of it? I'm curious as to how that panned out and if the flamers there didn't turn him to a dark religion...

MetaLogic wrote:

aiolos wrote:
MetaLogic wrote:
I think this will work better if only the faction leader can do this, because if everyone did it, then we'd run out of mission area.

There is plenty of space available. Ever reach those areas on the outskirts of every district that you can't get into? There's your answer.

Also, I heard that the original programmers coded like 10 districts for MxO? I could be wrong.

They wanted to code 10 districts, to have MegaCity always evolving, but we all saw what happened with that.

Aye. I wonder if they ever finished them. Would be a cheap way for SoE to push out some expansions, right? lol

Well, we all know the gm's'll say "we gave you archive rewards for each organization", so I doubt they'll do anything like that anytime soon.

Though I always wondered why Agent Gray (or any org leader for that matter), in that Meet (Organization Leader) mission when you hit 16 rep, never gave you anything like the Operator says you did, or at least anything that I was aware of.

Other than that, don't expect anything, if they ever consent to such a thing, too drastic, such as something that you can just tell the moment you see it that it belongs to a specific organization and that isn't a rehash of some old item, i.e. a different texture on a coat or gun or beret.

GirlyGurl84 wrote:

ya in whatever way i think more of the movies shud be added to to the game, i would love to have a motorcycle

With each passing day the game strays further and further from the movies I'm afraid. And no, I'm not talking storyline (though we could've done without Anome).

AnXieTy wrote:

would be cool, but the problem you have with it is then whats the point in having the weapon maker ability, weapon red frags, and the weapon drops in 10 and 01 would be rather pointless. If anything, I would say something like this would be a good adition to the white halls, for RP purposes, non functional, just a white room with racks and racks of guns that could be attached to one of the doors in the white halls.

Simple solution: the only guns that show up are the ones you've already decomp'd in your library (which would still justify the Weapon Maker), and the guns in your inventory.

MetaLogic wrote:

I think this will work better if only the faction leader can do this, because if everyone did it, then we'd run out of mission area.

There is plenty of space available. Ever reach those areas on the outskirts of every district that you can't get into? There's your answer.

Also, I heard that the original programmers coded like 10 districts for MxO? I could be wrong.

This would be pretty cool, as it was always something I wished was in-game. Imagine doing something like Russian Roulette or other such gun tricks, i.e. Revolver Ocelot (esp. in MGS3).

I also imagine I won't see it in my lifetime, but that's what Photoshop's for SMILEY

Archer88 wrote:

Well thats exactly my point really. Give people something to fight over. Then you'd have a something to stay for.

If only SoE would input more funds into this game...

Wait, was that a pig that just flew across my window?

Miggesch wrote:

There are a LOT of players who find their greatest MxO fun in PvP - and I believe if the devs do not act on this issue soon enough - they will FINALLY lose a great part of their player base because when even PvP starts to be boring - what else is there to do and to pay $15 / Month for.

I agree, although pvp in MxO has been boring since the Monolith days. The only way the devs can make the pvp somewhat meaningful is by making it live event based, i.e. Agent Gray wants all Machinists to rack up X amount of CQ points to quell Y's rebellion; Gray then gives FM-1500 or some such item to the most bloodthirsty player. Other than that, there was talk about org-specific abilities and pvp items and whatnot, but all that died with the exile of HCFrog.

Like you Miggs, I come back for pvp (and the story, but that's a different topic), and lately thought that by rolling on Vector I still had a reason to justify why I still play this game. But, I was re-introduced to why MxO is so hard to love, and that is its mission system. I can't bear another lv50 grind, no matter how much I want to gank lv16 noobs, so I'm currently trying to find another game that satisfies me on both story and gameplay aspects.

Like everything in the Matrix universe, balance needs to be prevalent, and here the story takes precedence over gameplay, which is why we don't have nearly the numbers WoW has.

Buhdai wrote:

If SoE gets more money they will have more money to invest in the Access games period. MxO is part of station access and Im sure it gets some revenue from the station accounts. I know it fun to think SoE is money grubbing whose focus is purely profit but that's not neccesarily in line with their business plan. I think there plan it more to levelage all station account games and to get people subscribed to the network. They have a couple of hot games in the works I will just have to buy the boxes and not put up a monthly sub for them.
Therefore, with each new Access game, the pass becomes more and more attractive. I imagine it's more attractive to the people who just play games to entertain themselves vs. trying to min/max one game at a time. MxO isn't neccesarily a game people go out to buy. I think new players are probably more likely on the pass and checking it out because they can. I have been really impressed by the game so far and am glad I got the pass just because of it. I like the other games too and find value in 30 bucks a month for EQ2, SWG, MXO and Vanguard. The offerings will only get better even if that's means price increases.

who seriously plays all those games on a regular basis to justify 30/month? And the games included on the station pass are hardly attractive. Everquest maybe, but that's one game for 30/month. I currently sub only to MxO for 15/month, so it makes more sense to sub to one game rather than a package of games you'll never play.

And tell me one corporation whose aim is not profit, and I'm talking big-time, the likes of which Sony can accurately be labelled a part of.

fizzle wrote:

mur02004 wrote:
What would have to happen for Mxo to be revived?

hmm, how about less posts like these and we carry on playing, the fact is yes...a lot of people have left, but....

there are so many new players out there that counter-act the legends of the game that have left. look at the live events for example, i swear i have never seen even half of the people who congregate at them (and i've been playing since November 2005 on and off), most are Zions of course, but when they hit lvl 50 they usually drift into other organisations, such is the way of the game..

don't give up hope, just work with what you have...

these new players you speak of are more than likely alts or people who play this game strictly b/c of station access. the only people left who play this game are hardcore Matrix fans (which I am), so essentially MxO has become a niche game.

As I said before in this thread, the only way this game can be revived (attracting new players) is more content, i.e. expansions and the like. Heck, scrapping this game and completely remaking a new one on a good engine with a decent combat system and content is more likely to get a sufficient player base. And personally, I hope for that to happen.

UnholyNixon69 wrote:

Croesus wrote:
There are two (2) weeks worth of anniversary fun, you have only seen one day of it....
How about complaining about it when it's finished?
You have no idea what's in store for the coming weeks...
You never know, the Dev's may be keeping something up their sleeves.... If they have them...

1) Thats always good.
2)How about i start complaining now.
3) nothing in store? Ive been in this game from the beggining , and let me tell you...im not expecting much. Maybe a dev MIGht actualy get on a character and name him Smith. Then go around killing people , making them him smithlings *like the movie* and then everyone will be flagged.
4)Again , i wont expect the devs to do anything.

If they do , then ive been proven wrong. But i have yet to be proven wrong when it comes to events like this.

Ive seen people log on that i havent seen since cr1 Just to see the 2 year event.This could of been mxo big break through but i dont think sony saw that and didn't realy try.

boy were you right lmao actually, a lot of people guessed this, myself being one of them. I, like a lot of people, were hopeful at first, but it was a vague kind of hope, not really expecting much. When you don't have a lot of money and only one dev doing the live events, something as big as the smith virus was turned into random npc spawning events plus a rare lv100 smith virus. And, no surprise here, no good loot on any of the lv60 smithlings, just frags and info and, for the most part, lv40 gear. Yay.

When you take something as popular and widely regarded as story canon as the Smith Virus and downscale it to unbelievable levels, that's when you know a game has no future. New items are just re-textured recycles of old items, new static content is introduced wayyyyy to rarely, and the storyline is still something only a diehard could love. I don't know what kind of audience SoE is adhering too, but it's not one that's very lucrative. Like a lot of people have said, this could have been the one thing to finally get this game some attention, but sony, as usual, ignored it.

I wasn't able to pinpoint a specific article regarding this question via the search function, so I decided to try the next best thing: ask about it SMILEY

So, ever since the org constructs came out I've heard that the interrogation room was accessible in the Machine Stronghold, and that is what this post is all about. I've yet to see this room, and I've been wanting to base some RP there, but like I said, I've yet to access it. So this makes me wonder: does it in fact exist? Am I just chasing a false lead?

My Machine rep is at 110 (never could get it at 127) so I think I'm privileged enough to access pretty much anything regarding the Machines. I know there are as many as five different variations of the construct, but so far I've seen the same thing: just a bunch of holding cells. Is it just a matter of "keep trying," or is there something else involved?

Thanks for any information any of you can give SMILEY

What are the odds of getting an actual sniper rifle into the game, instead of just the ones that look like m16's? SMILEY

UnholyNixon69 wrote:

ugh....

Straight off the bat you can tell there was no work being done for the two year event. Only real cool thing was the downtown lag being fixed.
This is the winter event all over again , just different coding in the stream. Same lame Mission where your going toward a mission and either 3 (1 chevy) smith agents spawn ,2 (2 chevy) smith virus spawns or 1 (3 chevy) smith virus spawn. Only to talk to the oracle to give you Oracle brownies,Oracle dosint make brownies /lame. Also , T-shirts arent all that great , their just Security shirts with different letters. /lame.

Postives : 2min timer on the duration of your Archive rewards *2 thumbs up* And No more lag in downtown.

Negative : No work done . /copy ; /paste Winterevent2007

I agree man. The t-shirts were a MAJOR letdown. You would have figured that for something like THE RETURN OF AGENT SMITH would have warranted cooler reward items, but nay. But hey, you can't expect too much with this game, right? SMILEY

Fighting the Smiths was pretty cool, even if they look nothing like the actual character, just the lame disguise texture with a flame virus added to it. Oh well, me and my friends are still gonna have fun taking over the city.

-Ai

Also, make sure you do everything for the collectors up in Uriah in Richland. They give you a few quick levels and some decently buffed clothing and weapons.

what are the chances of more quests (ie pandora's box) being added/are any being worked on? sorry if this has been asked already

We might as well get rid of all that excess XP since we all know they won't be raising the level cap anytime soon SMILEY

One thing I always hated about this game was the total lack of individualism. If anyone remembers the old days of pre-CR2 then you'll remember how everyone looked the same. Everyone had the troll's hide, had the widow's moor lenses, the lionskin's, etc, but ever since CR2 came along something happened: variety. While there still isn't much variety (I still see clones of myself to this day), it certainly is better than before.

The downside to all this though is that all the buffs went to clothing you can get via loot from NPC's in missions and gangs and such, and while this is good, it takes away from the constructs and hideouts and collectors. In two years, the only thing that changed about the drops from the said three sources were the buffs, and, as the OP stated, the buffs are meaningless when compared to the items you can get from looting. Granted, the clothes from PB are some of the best in the game, but still, you see everyone walking around in the same gear.

What I've always admired was WoW's system of loot: they're seperated by tiers and class, so everything looks different, even if you have the same class wearing drops from the same boss. What I want is something akin to that system, something that looks *gasp* different. The NPCs and gangs get all the nice looking clothes, while the players are always getting shafted.

And about the lv50's warping low level players, that's always gonna happen. You can't penalize someone for that. If you want to fight it to the bottom, then you're free to do so. If you want to warp/be warped, then you're free to do that as well, you're gonna get the same thing in the end. Besides, those who fight it out get more stuff anyway, and are rewarded in the end.

All this seems to tell me is that the Machine's are smarter than your average human. You really think that under this fragile armistice that the Machines are going to do nothing? Each side is afraid of what the other is capable of, so they build up their respective powers and try to harvest intelligence, pursuing their own agendas. A classic Cold War scenario.

If anything, the event on Friday told me that Seraph was there to reveal what the Machines were up to. Now Seraph may not have been acting under Zion (he seems possessed if anything) but it does make one wonder what the Zion council and the Merv are up to. I doubt the Machines are the only ones utilizing misinformation around here. It is the Matrix after all.

And don't forget, the Machines aren't human, so the chances of them deliberately "violating the truce" are remote at best.

BloodWork wrote:

9mmfu wrote:

This is a known issue as is probably the main issue for all the "missing npc" from missions we hear about. However a fix is being looked into.
It's almost been a year, has this "fix" been looked into?

exactly what I was about to say lol

This has happened to me in Westview and especially in the Creston Heights Museum. The Ravenous from the first level opened the elevator doors and attacked me, followed me up through the lobby before dissapearing lol

In Westview, a certain gang (they wear red shirts and gray beanies, can't remember their name atm) will follow me through the elevator and into the mission area.

In International, two mission NPCs casually walk out of the mission area and stroll on outside. Thankfully, I didn't need to do anything with them so I let them go, but it was the most mind-blowing thing I've seen, and I've been playing a game based on the Matrix for near two years lol

The most annoying thing of all though is still that *CENSORED* Creston Heights bug. I can't begin to tell you how many times those NPCs have screwed me over on my way down to reach the Pandora collector.

Please devs, for the love of god, fix this bug. While it is ammusing, it is kinda getting ridiculous lol

Rarebit, don't know if this was asked before (if so, I apologize) but are there any more quests planned to be released in the near future (ie Pandora's Box)?

Dude, this question has been asked for as long as I can remember, and I've been here since the beginning.

The thing is, like straticfire pointed out, when SOE took over, a lot of things changed. For one, back with Monolith, MxO had an expansive live event team. You didn't have these small affairs like we do today, nor did we have just one person doing all the live events. SOE fired half the development team so off the bat, there went the opportunity for expansion packs or an endless supply of endgame comment (a la WoW). The reason why we don't have much endgame is because Monolith decided to focus more time and money on the live events instead of perma-content, and while that was enough to keep people like me around, the live events only lasted two months and so the game failed to draw any new players. Heck, the game was struggling to hold on to even 20,000 or so players in the first trial month (main reason people left back then was because of the lag-tastic events; while they were good, they were too epic) and since then has been steadily declining (think we're somewhere below 10,000 players).

The truth is man, SOE never had any intention of carrying MxO, they only got it as a package deal off of WB, and anyone who tells you different is lieing. To the devs' credit though, they've been trying their damnedest to get new content out there (pandora's box, MxO's only attempt at a quest, was added a year and half ago; they added the white hallway constructs for each organization; and gave a new drop in 01), but the problem is, it comes out at such a slow pace that by the time new content does come out the people that would have stayed for it are already gone. One thing I forgot to mention, CR2, took more than six months to go through testing and to be released on live servers. Just a small indication.

So yeah man, unless more devs are hired, don't expect a whole lot of content to be released in the near future; hell, the game'll probably be shut down by that time. The devs' priority is the story and bugs (the game, as you've already found out, is buggy as all hell), and content comes later. It's a shame with what happened to this game, and all that gets people interested is an exciting plotline (I already know of more than 20 people coming back to check out the Smith virus event). And pretty soon, that's all that I'll be coming back for as well. World of Warcraft is looking more and more interesting the more I look into it and hear about it.

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty to keep you going for a year or so, like contact missions, the archives, constructs, the occassional event, hideouts, pvp, (I'm actually back from a four month hiatus, and that's been keeping me going) but like so many, the lack of content begins to wear on you (and it probably will on me, which is why I'm looking into WoW).

Other than that, what server are you on? If you're on Vector, then yeah, there aren't a lot of people there (don't know why, I love pvp), but the other two servers have pretty healthy populations. If you are on Recursion though, look me up ingame and I'll show you around the city.

-Ai

XRontix wrote:

that'd be pretty cool, but they sure need to hire more devs though

I wouldn't count on that..

So is max perception and belief good or bad against thrown attack users? With the clothes I currently have I can get at or over 200 points of resistance in melee, ballistics, and viral, my weakness obviously being thrown at 104 lol If it is good against MKT's then that'd hopefully balance things out a bit.

I'm currently loaded with duelist and smg's, going down to Full Auto Redux, so I can deal a fair amount of damage, I just have problems getting the rolls.

d00mninja wrote:

Oh dude, remake your character. You have 11 points in Reason...

For guns I've always put 30 points in Focus, 30 points in Perception and dumped the rest in Belief.
Vitality is a semi-useless attribute in my opinion. The only time I'll ever put points in Vitality is for a tournament where I'm only fighting one type of build, or if I'm going dedicated patcher. 900+ point Bolster Health 3.0's FTW.

lol That attribute setting was what I got under a CR2 stats guide somewhere on these forums. I'll admit, I'm not the most technical guy on here, but I do respect the opinion of those who have a lot of knowledge in that regard.

How do you do concerning pvp with 30 focus and perception? You able to get through and dish out some punishment? And how is your defense?

I'm a gunman, so of course I specifically need any clothing that gives good buffs to ballistic damage and resistance. If you have a full outfit that'd be great.

Send /t ingame to Aiolos

I see. I'll submit inquiries on the marketplace for clothes with a diverse amount of ballistic damage and resistance. Thank you both for the help on that issue.

What I want to know now is what are good gunmen stats? What amount of points/percentage of CT, resistance, damage, and other such bonuses seperate the good from the great? I want to win the most rolls and do the most damage I possibly can. I'll get ingame in a bit here and post my current bonuses, and you can let me know if they're up to par or not SMILEY

Also, since I have it handy, here are my current attributes:

Belief- 8
Perception- 20
Reason-11
Focus- 30
Vitality- 20

This is probably the most engrossing event I've seen in a long time. Very dramatic, and I love the way things are panning out. All out war is something I crave, and to do battle with the General and his Commandos would be a worthy fight.

I'll follow Davo's example but I'll go one further: an entire return of the original Legion Machine alliance. That entails all its factions and players.

In terms of specific people, here are my 5:

Masterkiller
Krighton
Mecho
Hollah
FistsofFury

Miss my old faction mates

"Their operator has been warned."

Funny stuff. I can't wait till we eventually shut down their access points. I believe Agent Gray said that once we do, the General will be forced into "open-field" warfare, and if you're a vet like me, you'll know what that means: return of the epic live event. Lag aside, I miss those style of events. Always felt, well, epic SMILEY

And here's to hoping that the chapter 7 archive reward item will be a stealth suit SMILEY

Does accuracy affect damage? I've noticed that while using my doc loadout (which utilizes the weapons upgrade ability under corpsman) and equipping the shotgun from creston heights (cant remember the name atm lol), I can do up to 336 dmg using the power tactic.

I've already stocked up on accuracy buffing clothes under this assumption but haven't tested the affects yet on my gunman loadout (just been support the past couple days).

Other than that, I use the firearms skill as well, which gives me another boost in damage. My main concern at this point is just getting through my opponents' resistances and doing as much damage as I can.

What clothes do you wear for pvp that gives you optimal damage and resistance in ballistics? Where can I find these items? And any tips on how to achieve maximum damage on an opponent?

Thanks in advance.

Here are mine:

Before

and

After

After staring at the same hairstyle for two years, I'm still just blown away by the difference between the two. So amazing. And I feel that old MxO excitement again over something so new yet so subtle. Thanks devs SMILEY

Three months...much has transpired in the time that has lapsed between then and now. Holiday vacation was a long one for me, and couple that with the fact that I needed to get reaquainted with MxO (again) spelled a long hiatus.

But alas, I have returned, and I come with the next episode of my story (it ends, I promise lol).

For those of you who have stuck around, I thank you. For the others, I don't blame you. Above all, keep reading SMILEY

I have a question regarding Windows XP on my laptop.

Apparently an important file got corrupted and now Windows refuses to start because of it. Here's the exact message:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair.

The problem is, I lost the setup cd, so I have no way of repairing it, so I was wondering if there was any way around it or if there's a place I could get a new copy for cheap or a site online might have it available for download.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks SMILEY

oh thank you so much. let me know if you do SMILEY

so apparently i missed out on these two during the holiday event. i've been on vacation so i didn't get a chance to get these.

if anybody has either of them, i'm willing to pay a reasonable sum of money for them.

send a /tell ingame to Aiolos. Thanks SMILEY