Didn't i pay enough already?

my fear that this threat would end up without one reply didn't came true...  thanks.

looks like my creditcard was already charged yesterday... so, the matrix has me for an other month

Not many of you will know me, and therefore not many of you will miss me...  but anyway I'd like to say thank you and goodbye. 
It's about four years ago when I subscribed to this game and today is my last. I've met allot of cool people and i've spend many interesting and thrilling hours in here. I remember the time, when this was all new and exiting to me.

My good old friend Jermy showed me how deep the rabbit hole goes. We spent so many hours fighting, grinding missions, exploring or just chatting. Thanks Jeremy, I will certainly miss all that. Also many thanks to all the plp from The Colony and Revelations. Although they're all gone by now, my last thanks go to the MxO - Devs. You created a great game.

This is where it ends for me.

Farewell,
- art

It's been a while since I last visited the forums, or played the game. I had no idea.... 

In all these years with never-ending patients and motivation, you did much more than anyone could expect. It's not just "a job" you did, you put your heart and soul into this, and that I really appreciate.

It's probably too late and you'll never read this, but I have to say it anyway: Thank you very much for everything Rarbit…

Where ever the journey goes, I wish you all the best.

-art

Are there plans to merge the current three servers?

Best Modern Alternative Rock Station: Radio Wazee

-art

art wrote:

Ok, I think I know what're looking for. Say hello to:
Chevelle

Theyr newest song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWLakr0I8w0

Some of they'r best songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDdxY3tXHt0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv0Hff4ziYc

No? Maybe SOAD?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdRd3k4CIAg

Those are my 2 cents.

-art

you might wanna get your refund on your 2 cents

don't like it? how long did you listen 5 seconds?  Nah, it's ok i don't want my Nickelback

You like it a bit harder eh? Ok, my last try (with the risk to list something that's been sugested before, but meh... )
Trivium
Killswitch Engage
Atreyu

-art

Ok, I think I know what're looking for. Say hello to:
Chevelle

Theyr newest song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWLakr0I8w0

Some of they'r best songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDdxY3tXHt0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv0Hff4ziYc

No? Maybe SOAD?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdRd3k4CIAg

Those are my 2 cents.

-art

Scolirk wrote:

I'm having an issue with my 8800 GTX. My graphics are good most of the time, but every now and again the models on weapons, characters or interactable items get buggy and look very bad. I cant quite explain what it looks like, sorta like dots.

Sounds like the texture issue on vista with the 8 series cards

Im beginning to wonder... Is vista worth the change?

On the MxO side, yes it is worth it. No more indoor lag... and you get used to the graphic glitches.

From all other perspectives... meh..

 -art

Symmetric is the man who knows how to do it!

I'm definitely looking forward to Halloween! It's always been the awesomeness!

Skeleton mask anyone? 

-art

art wrote:

art wrote:

FFQ:

Which vista issues are currently being worked on?

-art

Rarebit ftw!

None of them. The problem is finding someone to do it, since our team doesn't have any resident rendering engine experts, and hasn't since the guy who did MXO's renderer finished up his part of the project and left Monolith...I guess it must have been fairly shortly after the game launched. Anyway I gotta get back to bugging Walrus about hunting up some actual help for this now that I'm done with 8.3. We bothered certain people before but it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere.

Thanks for your answer Rarebit. I hope this gets high priority since more an more plp will convert to Vista. If you have an Invidia GF 8x you don't have much of a choice... 

FFQ:

Which vista issues are currently being worked on?

-art

   I did some testing using base36 and screenshots of two of the hackable computers in the Zion criticals.  It's decimal, which you have to convert to base36 to decode.

my good old friend Jermy made some screenies too:

Using the base 32 notation for those number the following conversion can be made:

1185544.17237.899540.483668.71798 | pers   | dat        | ja38   | ad78     | j1ee
8                                 | 8      |            |        |          |
54565250.51734109.43273886        | white  | usual      | price  |          |  
2016350948.21153695.600           | xcheck |  clean     | go     |          |
23.1657175.22.31886967253         | n      | zion       | m      | encoded  |
1398002.3112882819701219          | type   | unfamiliar |        |          |

The first line doesnt make much sence to me. "pers" could mean person, "dat" maybe "date", "ja" is german for yes and "j1ee" is the java enterprice engine v1. The other words are syntactically correct. Any ideas what they could mean?

edit: darn forum ate my table.... bah... html tables don't work!

FFQ:

Which vista issues are currently being worked on?

-art

Base 36

Alphadecimal is a neologism for Base 36.

That's what I'd guess too.  Did we recieve a undefinable decimal number somewhere? It may contain a message...

Here's a cool conversion tool for dec to base36 and other positional notations...

If I could fix any one thing, it would be this.

You talk about the face shadow bug, rarebit? That'd  be great because, for me this the most anoying vista bug.

edit:
Has anyone tried this windows vista patch yet? KB940105 
Maybe it solves the alt+tab problem, which messes up the whole world in my case. Some plp say this patch improves the FPS value. *shrug*

hey Zimm, it makes me sad to see you go.

it's been nice knowing you.

adieu!

edit: spelling

Thanks to you guys in Valencia. You gave us (the team Alinghi) a place to hold and win the America's Cup!  

p.s Awsome museum there Duckkerr

I have to post again? Bah.

Currently live in Hampshire, England. But I was born in Nottingham and lived most of my childhood in Switzerland.

Speaking of Switzerland, that's where I'm from. I'm teh original Ricola Swiss army knife men!  j/k

Where exactly did you live Procurator? That's my home: ->Solothurn<-.

-art

Welcome Back Shaun! This only counts if you are Shaun55555

See ya on the other side

-art

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth....

Thats how his epic work of fantasy starts. Thank you Robert Jordan for the incredible journey you took us all on.

For those of you who knew him: (takes a while to load)
http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJo.../?p=90#comments

-art

After installing Vista I totally got rid of indoor lag. Though, as was expected, I have the following Vista bugs now:

• Face Details (even with shadow turned off)
• Texture issues with multiple weapons, NPC's and fem cloth items
• everything gets messed up when I alt+tab

But hey, at least im able to run missions! From now on I will post in the Vista Issue thread.

-art

I made a before-and-after test. After installing the driver I went to the same district, the same house, the same door and...
--> not the slightest improvement <--  bloody NVIDIA!

I try Vista now.

Adios compadres... saludos...

Thanks for the intel Croesus.

I'm kinda disappointed, that 5 months after first appearance of this issue, nothing has happened. Lets say they have tracked down the effect or routine which causes the indoor lag (I'm sure they know by now). They should either put the screw on Nvidia or solve the problem in the game engine.

For Nvidia this issue must arouse interests. They need their products fully supported by all SOE games. And SOE could interpose their authority in this matter.

Maybe we get intel from an official??

oh nooooo! no prizes for guessing, what card did I buy a few days ago?

i just spent 2000 buks on new hardware (LCD's, triplehead2go and GF8800GTS) and now i cant play my fav game???

Thats how I play MxO:

here some youtube action (very poor quality though, recorded with my mobile phone)

The indoor lag issue makes it more or less impossible to play. If I play with 1280x1024 or 3840x1024 resolution doesn't really matter, it both lags like hell. Only while indoors of course.  Pleas don't question my hardware, I play other games in full resolution without the smallest ocurrence of lag.

I'm aware, this is mainly an NVIDIA driver issue and they're supposed to fix this, but hey, nothing happens! It's been nearly half a year now since this thread was opened. I work in software business myself; There's always a workaround...

Since prizes for the NGF 8XXX series are dropping more players will want to use these cards and they won't be happy customers with this issue unsolved.

The only thing i can do is to install Vista, which brings me 10 other issues... 

What did you guys all do?

cheers
-art

Dude, i could really use one or two of those keys...

So, if you don't need them, send one to me, yeah?

Cheers
-art

Althoug I'm subscribed to the MxO newsletter I didnt get any...  
Could anyone PM me one or two keys pls?

cheers.

You will also need a less dramatic name, "project save MxO" kills MxO straight away; people like a less negative name.

Huslah wrote

I'd be willing to conduct an experiment with anyone who doesn't believe that automobile emissions are more harmful.  The skeptic can burn two gallons of gasoline in a closed garage, and I'll burn two packs of smokes in an identical closed environment.   The person still alive at the end wins, gasoline gets to go first.

Hmm. You have a point there. How about we all stop inhaling both though?

It's Sick.

What is the number one cause of preventable death in America, killing more people than auto accidents, homicide, AIDS, drugs and fires combined?
Tobacco.

400.000 death people every year only in America and it's even worse over here in Europe. Almost a third of the population smokes here. They say its over 3 million death worldwide every year. This number DOESN'T include secondhand smokers! I wonder how high this number would be...

Both of my grandpas died due to smoking and it didn't keep me from smoking. I smoked for 15 years and just quit 2 months ago.

You can tell a smoker 100.000 times that it will kill him, he wont listen, he doesn't care. Smokers are profoundly convinced that smoking is something valuable and enjoyable for them. They're willing to take the risk. I myself was willing to pay the prize. If people only knew how easy it is to quit. 
Smoking is a huge lie. You are promised so much and the only thing you are given, is an addiction that keeps you smoking and killing yourself (and the people around you). 

Anyway, do smokers have rights? They have the same rights as everyone. They're allowed to non-smoke where ever they like to .

 -art

or me!

-> artsefart

It's awsome Twaggy! 9,9/10
How's mine?
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Ok, I was quite surprised that Anome got killed in that cinematic today, without an event .... and stuff...

However, let's remind when Niobe got freed. It was a "normal" event, held on one specific server, during US office times when we European player couldn't participate. No cinematic, no critical mission, nothing.

As long as they don't carry out a global event, where everybody is able to take part in, I personally prefer mayor storyline changes as this one, being realized in a cinematic or a critical mission.

Anyhow Anubis, I know what u mean. This is maybe a bit too simple end to this subchapter.
Meh, we'll get over it. Neo's remains got presented to me today, ther's nothing that can disgust me today.

talking about debir curt, has this little house always been there?

take a close look at the vista logo, left to the "Don't wait."
Isn't there something wrong?

http://www.microsoft.com/