So it's Thursday, server restart day ok. But why don't we even get a message about it in "News and Announcements"? Is even a small announcement too much effort from our administration? Honestly, that suprises me.

So I noticed that the Neighborhood Contact's missions have little-side quests sometimes. I.e. in one of Operetta's missions there is a bluepill that asks you to plant a bug in the desk of another character. Those side-quests are never mentioned in the mission objectives, and they don't seem to be really relevant either. If you complete them, it doesn't increase the XP or grant you a particular reward. So is there any reason for them to exist or are they there just for the sake of fun?

While waiting for a letter from Walrus, I pretty accidentally found his letter from 2007. The following lines sounded pretty ironic from the today's perspective:

"...And since the guys on MxO are pros at keeping the game going, I don't feel the need to constantly oversee what they're doing. However, I'm way overdue for sending out an update from my perspective.

Most of what "keeping the game going" means is moving the storyline along. This has always been the most important post-launch element for The Matrix Online and continues to be the case..."

Like someone once said, some things never change, while others do. I wonder what we'll read in the upcoming message from our Producer (assuming that it really is upcoming).

I wasn't quite sure whether I should put it in "Support Forums", so I told myself it'd be ok to post my qestion here as well.

The matter is that I reinstall my Windows pretty often due to various reasons, and so obviously I'd be expected to reinstall the MxO too. But a while back I just tried and saw the game was working as it was, without any re-installation, and I wasn't experiencing any apparent troubles. That's why I thought: well, if I don't have to re-download all the patches, I'm more than fine with it.

But now I'd like to know now if there actually is any reason to re-install the game. Most of the other games I had worked quite bad without it, if at all.

Thank you in advance for your answers.

I realise it would be good for all of us to take a litlle time to calm down after the news we just learned, but I also realise that we can't stop wondering what's coming next for MxO.

I, for one, want to stress: I think this game needs an official storyteller. The "storyteller tools" would be nice, a Fanimatrix is not a bad idea either, LESIG is nice, but all of this is secondary. We need a primary official storyline, handled not by the players, but by a SOE-hired person.

To me it seems the only way to really keep the story going and not turning into something low-leveled and chaotic. Now that the king is dead we need a new one. I hope SOE realises that and will take care of this issue as fast as possible.  

I know a lot of people are complaining about the "New Approach" because "there are no Live Events". Actually there are, and they are quite a few - all it takes to find out about them is a bit of devotion:

1. The new Scanline event: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300027206

2. The Data Retrieval event: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300027008

3. The Ishtar II - Novalis II events: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300027240

4. The "Eyes Open" of HvCft Lost Sojourn plus the fragmented map events - an "Eyes Open" member recently reappeared on Syntax.

5. The Courier delivery events: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300025639 - these are connected with the bluepill recruitement events that those who participated in the deliveries know about.

All these are telling a particular continuing sidestory and most of them are more than just a little fun. There is a big amount of things to do, and LESIG deserves a huge credit for holding them.

So I have to state once again that I can see no reason for all the complaining I constantly see on these boards. 

It's been nearly one year that I'm playing MxO, but I've never seen this before:

That's one of the hostiles I found in the mission area of a Merv courier mission. So my question is: is it something usual?

I'd like to invite everyone to repeat the same thing we did for the Chapter 11.3: post here the logs, summaries and/or screenshots (if necessary) of the new missions, so that we can gather the whole story. The Zion part is coming soon by me, and in the meanwhile I suggest that the Merovingian and Machine operatives do their part of the job.

I just discovered it today: http://thematrixonline.station.sony.com/sentinel

While I am happy because it finally appeared, I am also slightly disappointed about the fact that the hidden messages don't add anything to the storyline and seem just out-dated. In the times of "A New Approach", it seems to me, the Sentinel could be one of important ways to advance the story while waiting for a new update...

This would obviously require one paper every month and a content, that brings something new to the story...

As we seem to no longer have the weekly "Story Summary", no frequent Live Events and we're not sure to ever have 11.3 subchapter missions for all orgs archived the way the previous crits were, I'm suggesting to share here the storyline of those quests (pretty much the way we did for Valkyrja quests, but extendended to all the story content). This goes to all the Machine, Merv and Zion operatives, willing to participate.

I have already completed Zion missions 11.3.1 and 11.3.2 and taken all the necessary sceenshots, so I'll post the logs soon. In the meantime, I invite the other org's players to do the same.

Today I ran across three dead agents in Stratford Campus, and, not visiting this place too often, I wonder: is it just a part of the local decoration or is it something really unusual?

We've got a new Sentinel about two moths ago. Since then, the newspaper has not been updated, so my question is: when? When it came to giving up the cinematics, I thought we would get a new Sent every month, but now I come to realise that this is not going to happen. Hope we aren't gonna wait for a new paper one year again...

I suppose this question goes especially to Rarebit or Virrago, so it's their answer I'm expecting the most.